I was mistaken back then. I thought it was a threat of a kind.” She told the ZDF’s “Heute-Journal” on Wednesday that she had relied on the BND’s assessment, which was that there was a threat, and that the Bundestag had been informed about it. Wagenknecht also emphasized that she had warned that Western influence in Ukraine would greatly increase the war risk.
She concludes: “Many things were indeed predictable, and this war could certainly have been avoided if one had paid more attention to not crossing the red lines of the Russians.”
The Left had presented its election program for the Bundestag election on Wednesday and positioned itself as a “peace party” once again. Critics accuse Wagenknecht of either being too close to Putin or being overly naive in her stance on Russia.