Sharp criticism of German chancellor for speaking to the enemy

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German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz has come under the harshest criticism in his country and in the European Union for daring to speak on the phone with French President Emmanuel Macron and the Kremlin autocrat.

According to the German media, quoting the Estonian prime minister, there was a heated debate at the last EU summit about the opportunity for these negotiations against the aggressor, which is supposed to disrupt the European union.

Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, is one of the fiercest critics of any diplomatic initiative that goes to the point of asking the Germans rhetorically to “negotiate with Stalin or Hitler”, the two invading dictators.

Few remember that in the worst moments of the Cold War, like the Soviet invasion of Hungary or Czechoslovakia, or the missile crisis with Cuba, there was always an open channel of communication.

The special hostility, let alone hatred, provoked by Russia in some Eastern European countries, such as Poland or the Baltics, where significant Russian minorities face discriminatory treatment is understandable.

But according to this columnist, there is nothing more dangerous than Russophobia becoming the official doctrine in Brussels, even though it is understandable to many due to the brutal invasion of Ukraine by the neighboring country.

Recently, the logic of war has been imposed on diplomacy that feels humiliated but does not fully reassure itself when faced with a force with a powerful nuclear arsenal.

A country that the late Republican senator and White House candidate John McCain dismissed in his day as a gas station with an atomic weapon was something Josep Borrell, the high representative of the EU’s foreign policy and security, would do. then repeat.

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian Secretary-General of NATO, seem increasingly to be the “voice of her master”, saying that Russia’s military victory over Russia is possible. doesn’t seem to help find a solution.

Any resolution to the conflict that could be interpreted as a defeat in Russia would only lead to an increasingly dangerous escalation unless, as many would like, there is a revolt against Putin within the Kremlin, but it seems unlikely.

Feeling like the new Joan of Arc, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is demanding more and more weapons from NATO countries for his country’s defense, and everyone seems to be following him along the way.

The US president, who is the leading voice of the West in this war, wrote in The New York Times that any negotiation with Ukraine will reflect the situation on the battlefield.

This means that although some, such as the Federal Chancellor of Germany or the President of France, continue to desperately and so far unsuccessfully defend dialogue, Ukraine will continue to be militarily supported until Putin finally realizes that he has no choice but to give up.

Scholz himself has not only coalition partners specifically warring against Putin, such as the Greens and liberals whose eco-pacifism is obsolete, but also a Christian Democratic opposition that calls for war.

As demanded by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is a liar and a hawk where they are and is in perfect harmony with Washington.

It remains to be seen what leaders of previous generations of Germans who had to face Soviet communism, such as Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl or Angela Merkel, have to say about all this, which has recently taken refuge in silence.

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