Federal Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz is totally in line with Washington against Vladimir Putin’s Russia In an article published in the US magazine Foreign Affairs, which is thought to be close to the US Department of State.
Scholz reaffirmed in it his thesis on what he called German. “Zeitenwende” is a complete change of era brought about by Russia’s illegal occupation of Ukraine, he said. blamed only the Kremlin leader for this.
Scholz accused the Russian president of violating the principles of coexistence established by the UN Charter with this war, without accepting minimal responsibility for the continued expansion of the Atlantic Alliance in what is happening in his country. Volodymyr Zelensky.
In his article, the German Social Democratic leader fully accepted the framework imposed by Washington, which is part of a radical opposition between democracies and autocracies compared to those who advocate the existence of a very pluralistic world.
The autocracies, it should be noted, are not allies of the West, provided they are not allies of the West, as for example in the Middle East, energy sources that our governments, including the Berlin government, are always ready to tolerate: to compel.
However, the Scholz government Problems with this framework in the case of communist China As evidenced by the fact that Scholz recently traveled to the Asian country at the head of an important economic delegation.
The accelerated industrialization process in this country in the 1980s and 1990s owes a lot to both German companies and German investments in this sector; this is something that Berlin does not seem willing to cast aside.
This alliance of the German chancellor with Washington drew sharp criticism from Oskar Lafontaine, then head of the Social Democratic Party and finance minister to Gerhard Schroeder, who he disagreed with over what he saw as neoliberal.
In recent statements to a television network, Lafontaine went so far as to directly accuse the United States of being behind the mysterious sabotage. Against two German-Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic that remain obscure, but which he describes as a “direct blow” to the German economy.
For Lafontaine, today a member of the “Die Linke” (Left) party, NATO has ceased to be a defensive alliance as it was during the Cold War, and is today a tool that allows Washington to strengthen its pretensions to survival. the only power in a world that wants to be unipolar.
Lafontaine concedes that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an “inexcusable violation” of international law, but those who did nothing for an immediate ceasefire in Moscow, Kiev or Washington would bear “tremendous guilt” for the destruction of Ukraine. It adds that it has been uploaded. country and thousands of deaths in that war.
Lafontaine, on the other hand, Western sanctions against Russia showed themselves as a boomerang It hurts Europeans more than Russia itself and will lead to deindustrialization and more poverty across the continent.
He adds that a European initiative is needed, which should start from Paris and Berlin, because if an agreement with Moscow on raw materials and energy imports is not reached soon, The European economy, and more specifically the German economy, is in danger To leave