German women’s rights activist, journalist and publicist Alice Schwarzer has defended the Russia policy of former Chancellor Angela Merkel and current Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. “What is the purpose of the Steinmeier and Merkel retrospective?” she asked in a response published on Thursday on the website of her magazine “Emma”.
“During the tenure of the ex-foreign minister and ex-chancellor, there was no war, but peace.” By negotiating the 2014 Minsk accord, Merkel “may have prevented a world war,” Schwarzer said.
Steinmeier’s invitation “unheard of”
She described the unloading of Steinmeier by the Ukraine as “outrageous”. “The invitation from the German Chancellor that followed a few hours later crowns the whole thing. Is the Ukrainian president now making German politics by playing our Federal President and our Chancellor against each other?”
Steinmeier had wanted to go to Kiev with the presidents of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. However, the Ukrainian government refused Steinmeier’s visit and invited German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) instead.
Against “demonization” of Putin
Schwarzer called for immediate negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Demonizing the leader of the second strongest nuclear power does not help much. “We continued to talk to the US president in 2003, even though Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction were a transparent lie from the start, the war in Iraq was just as criminal as the war in Ukraine and the civilian casualties were no less,” he wrote. . Schwarzer.
“President George W. Bush was never prosecuted for this, nobody wanted to bring him before the International Criminal Court in The Hague – which, incidentally, would not have been possible, because the US never joined the International Court of Justice and therefore cannot be prosecuted there. “, argues the women’s rights activist on the “Emma” website.
Criticism of Heavy Weapons Delivery
The 79-year-old journalist sharply criticized the demand for the delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine: “At the same time, research, so-called critical journalists do not stop demanding from the politicians: More weapons for Ukraine! And immediate stop of gas deliveries! Fortunately for us, the Chancellor remains stoically calm. Until now. Don’t critics even suspect that we could end up in a Third World War? Don’t they want to understand that we better stick to maximum human aid, both to Ukraine and to the refugees?”
Source: Krone
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