Prigozhin dead – Schallenberg “not surprised” by jet explosion

“It is not surprising that what happened today happened,” the top diplomat opened the conversation with ORF moderator Armin Wolf, who immediately asked him for an estimate of the plane explosion over Russia.

The main problem is how, after all that has happened in recent times, can you ever trust a president of the Russian Federation again, Schallenberg said. After all, we should live in a world where rules based on international law are observed because they provide a kind of protective cloak. “I don’t want jungle rights, I don’t want to live in a world where the law of the strongest prevails,” the politician complained about the Russian pace.

No clan liability for Russians
However, Schallenberg does not want to know anything about clan liability for the Russians. Instead, one must distinguish between Putin’s system and the history of the largest country in the world, in terms of area and population. He also did not want to accept the opinion heard from some quarters that the Alpine Republic was too pro-Russian. According to the minister, the Alpine Republic has been on a very clear course since February 24, 2022. And it cannot be the case that a state believes that “our basic principles can be violated,” continued the ÖVP politician.

Don’t go to the dogs
So far not everything is perfect, the minister admitted. But efforts are being made to gradually reduce dependence on Moscow. As a landlocked country, this is not easy. “Yes, we want to break with that (with the dependence on Russia, mind you), but we don’t want Austria’s industrial state to go down,” Schallenberg bluntly continued his rhetoric. The world just isn’t black and white. There are many more than a hundred thousand shades of gray.