Steinmeier: “Putin is destroying the foundations of the European peace order.”
Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier confirmed today that Russia’s offensive and invasive war against Ukraine represents the “break of an era” and acknowledged that the project of a common European home has been frustrated, on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and the capitulation of Nazi Germany. Until now, the anniversary of May 8 has not only been a day of remembrance and warning, for “a long time” it has also been “a day of hope,” said Steinmeier, emphasizing that “today, on May 8, the dream of a common European home has failed and instead we are living a nightmare’.
“We are all shocked and irritated by the offensive and brutal war, in violation of international law, which has been waged for more than two months by a major nuclear power against a sovereign and democratic country in Europe,” the German president said in an intervention. . on the occasion of the opening of the Federal Congress of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB). The war in Ukraine presupposes “a break with much of what seemed natural to us. It’s the rupture of an era,” noted Steinmeier, stressing that the war threatens Ukraine’s survival as Russian President Vladimir Putin “definitely destroys the foundations of the European peace order we had built after World War II.” and the end of the Cold War.
The federal president again admitted that he made a mistake in assessing Putin and Russian politics. “This war forces us to accept painful realities. We were all too sure that peace, freedom and well-being are natural,” said Steinmeier, who went on to emphasize that “he did not think it possible that the Russian president, in his imperialist madness, could ultimately bring about the political, economic and moral demise of his own country”. He recalled that the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, is one of the founders of the concept of the “common European home”, but confirmed that, due to the failure of that approach, this anniversary of May 8 unfortunately “a day of war is”. “.
Germany is now “on the side of Ukraine, wholeheartedly and wholeheartedly, along with our European neighbours,” said the German head of state, for whom it is important that “we Europeans are not redistributed by aggressive nationalism and racial hatred. He also stressed that for this reason Putin’s statements to justify his aggression and the comparison of the struggle against National Socialism with “his brutal offensive war against Ukraine in violation of international law” “peep into German ears”. President of Germany, Putin’s statements are “an insidious and cynical manipulation of history”.
Source: La Verdad
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