Re: Krieg in der Ukraine
Verfasst: Fr 24. Okt 2025, 21:49
Forum für Österreichs Militärgeschichte
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theoderich hat geschrieben: ↑Mi 6. Nov 2024, 22:44In one part not made public, Mr. Zelensky proposed a “nonnuclear deterrence package” in which Ukraine would get Tomahawk missiles, a totally unfeasible request, a senior U.S. official said. A Tomahawk has a range of 1,500 miles, more than seven times the range of the long-range missile systems called ATACMS that Ukraine got this year. And the United States sent only a limited number of those, senior U.S. officials said.
Ukraine also hadn’t made a convincing case to Washington on how it would use the long-range weapons, the U.S. officials said. The target list inside Russia far exceeded the number of missiles that the United States or any other ally could supply without jeopardizing missiles earmarked for potential problems in the Middle East and Asia, they added.
Pentagon cleared giving Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles, leaving final decision to Trumptheoderich hat geschrieben: ↑Fr 17. Okt 2025, 22:39 Tomahawk-Marschflugkörper: Was die Waffe so gefährlich macht
https://www.diepresse.com/20217234/toma ... lich-macht(APA/dpa)
Chapter 31 - Foreign, security and defence policy
Member States must be able to conduct political dialogue under EU foreign, security and defence policy, align with EU statements, take part in EU actions, and apply agreed sanctions and restrictive measures.
Ukraine continued intense political dialogue on foreign and security policy with the EU, confirming the alignment of Ukraine’s long-term strategic interests with those of the EU. Ukraine hosted an EU-Ukraine Foreign Ministers meeting in May 2025. The EU and Ukraine last held a security and defence dialogue on 18 February 2025. The 10th EU-Ukraine Human Rights Dialogue took place in June 2025.
The EU-Ukraine joint security commitments signed in 2024 continue to be the guiding document for the EU and Member States’ support to Ukraine, complementary to Member States bilateral commitments towards Ukraine.
The institutional framework enabling Ukraine’s participation in common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and common security and defence policy (CSDP) is in place.
In 2024, Ukraine’s alignment with statements by the High Representative on behalf of the EU and Council decisions on sanctions was at 95%. As of 24 October2025, its alignment rate was 99%.
As regards non-proliferation and disarmament Ukraine has aligned with the EU in most international fora dealing with non-proliferation over the reporting period. Ukraine complies with its international obligations under international export control regimes. Ukraine is encouraged to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty to align its legal framework of arms control with the Common Position 2008/944/CFSP and to finalise and adopt its national strategy for countering and preventing illegal trafficking of small arms and light weapons. On 17 July 2025 Ukraine has informed the UN Secretary General of its decision to suspend the operation of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.
On the common security and defence policy (CSDP), cooperation on security and defence matters between Ukraine and the EU and its Member States was significantly increased, in particular within the framework of the European Peace Facility (EPF). Ukraine closely cooperated with EU CSDP missions and benefitted from training provided by EUMAM, as well as advisory support of EUAM.
Ukraine continued to cooperate with the EU in the area of countering hybrid threats (including foreign information manipulation and interference) based on the bilateral security agreement of June 2024. Ukraine has aligned with the July 2025 Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the EU condemning Russia’s persistent hybrid campaigns against the EU, its Member States and partners. The fight against FIMI and disinformation is especially crucial in rural and less developed regions that tend to be less resistant to such hybrid attacks.
https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/ukraine-report-2025_enGiven the context, military and security cooperation between Ukraine and the EU and its Member States was significantly increased, in particular within the framework of the EPF and through the EU Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine (EUMAM Ukraine) and the EU Advisory Mission for Civilian Security Sector Reform in Ukraine (EUAM Ukraine). In line with the EU-Ukraine joint security commitments, EUMAM Ukraine has completed the training of close to 80 000 Ukrainian soldiers on the territory of EU Member States, covering land, maritime and air domains. EUAM Ukraine continued providing support to its Ukrainian partners in reforming the civilian security sector as well as strengthening their capacity to address war related challenges, such as support to accountability efforts and re-establishment of the rule of law in the liberated and adjacent territories.
The United States is by every measure the most generous nation in history—yet we cannot afford to be equally attentive to every region and every problem in the world.
The United States must reconsider our military presence in the Western Hemisphere. This means four obvious things:[...]
- A readjustment of our global military presence to address urgent threats in our Hemisphere, especially the missions identified in this strategy, and away from theaters whose relative import to American national security has declined in recent decades or years;
- Establishing or expanding access in strategically important locations.
C. Promoting European Greatness
American officials have become used to thinking about European problems in terms of insufficient military spending and economic stagnation. There is truth to this, but Europe’s real problems are even deeper.
Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP—down from 25 percent in 1990 to 14 percent today—partly owing to national and transnational regulations that undermine creativity and industriousness.
But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.
Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path.
This lack of self-confidence is most evident in Europe’s relationship with Russia. European allies enjoy a significant hard power advantage over Russia by almost every measure, save nuclear weapons. As a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine, European relations with Russia are now deeply attenuated, and many Europeans regard Russia as an existential threat. Managing European relations with Russia will require significant U.S. diplomatic engagement, both to reestablish conditions of strategic stability across the Eurasian landmass, and to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states.
It is a core interest of the United States to negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, in order to stabilize European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war, and reestablish strategic stability with Russia, as well as to enable the post-hostilities reconstruction of Ukraine to enable its survival as a viable state.
The Ukraine War has had the perverse effect of increasing Europe’s, especially Germany’s, external dependencies. Today, German chemical companies are building some of the world’s largest processing plants in China, using Russian gas that they cannot obtain at home. The Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition. A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments’ subversion of democratic processes. This is strategically important to the United States precisely because European states cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political crisis.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u ... rategy.pdfOver the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.
Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize:[...]
- Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia;
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- Opening European markets to U.S. goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of U.S. workers and businesses;
- Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance; and


