After the shameless actions of Putin and Lukashenko, a public letter in Germany: the limits of decency have been exceeded

The crash landing of an airliner flying from one European Union country to another in Minsk to stop criticism of the regime and its friend is described by German politicians as “an act of state terrorism unprecedented in Europe.”

Here he also refers to another event last week that increased tensions in Europe, the banning of three German organizations involved in the German-Russian dialogue in Russia. According to Merzo, this decision “destroyed the last platform for a permanent political exchange of opinions.”

This is incomprehensible: Russia is spreading disinformation from Germany itself

The presidents of the Russian Federation and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, “are increasingly recklessly repressing freedom in their countries and increasing the threat to peace in Europe every week. The two autocratic presidents have become two despots who remain in power only through electoral fraud and the violence of the security apparatus and mass arrests. “

German politicians no longer have any illusions about Putin and Lukashenko. It only raises the question of how the West, and in particular the members of the European Union, “should deal with regimes like responding adequately to the events we witnessed last week.”

Countries that adhere to democratic and legal principles have a much smaller arsenal of measures, Merz thinks. But the same arsenal is not exhausted, let’s say Russia is allowed to propagandize in Germany without hindrance.

The author of the letter does not understand or accept the situation “in which the misinformation directed is widely disseminated from the German state itself, through the Russian state television branch Russia Today, now located in Berlin.”

Listing the possible EU sanctions on Russian and Belarusian oligarchs, from freezing accounts to banning entry, mentioning the economic sanctions that German industry and commerce, which are now timidly silent, should face, Merz took a look. criticism of the country’s former foreign minister. The social democrat G. Schröder.

The former German chancellor should also feel the limits of decency

“The events of the last days should finally encourage Gerhard Schröder to put an end to his professional career in Russia. And the former federal chancellor has limits to decency, which he must not exceed,” F. Merz appealed to the conscience of the chancellor, who was employed in the Kremlin shelter.

The name of the former German Chancellor, the Social Democrat G. Schröder, was also declined last week on the television talk show “Markus Lanz”, to which former Social Democrat leader Sigmar Gabriel was invited.

The politician, who served as Angela Merkel’s government and later as Foreign Minister, seemed to largely support the EU’s sanctions policy, but did not hide her skepticism: “The case of Russia is obvious: it is a country that is affected. “

He also expressed doubts about the EU’s crisis management strategy. “The EU experience has not been very successful in attempts to interfere in internal conflicts. Democratization from the outside does not work very well,” summarized former Vice Chancellor S. Gabriel.

“Call him Gerhard Schröder!” And although Gabriel pretended not to understand the hint, it was clear what was meant here: the former German chancellor belonged to the inner circle of friends of the Russian president, and through him it was possible to influence not from outside but from within.

As a final comment to Mr. Schröder’s speech, the presenter, like Mr. Merz in the letter quoted above, spoke of political decency:

The Social Democrats are trying not only not to raise this question, but also not to listen to it.