Alice Schwarzer: Merkel “maybe prevented a world war”
Alice Schwarzer defended the Russia policy of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and current German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. "What is the purpose of the retrospective scolding for Steinmeier and Merkel?" Schwarzer asked in a comment published on Thursday on the website of her feminist magazine Emma. "During the tenure of the ex-foreign minister and ex-chancellor, there was no war, but peace." By negotiating the Minsk Agreement of 2014, Merkel "perhaps prevented a world war," said Schwarzer.
She described Steinmeier's unloading by the Ukraine as "outrageous". “The invitation from the German Federal Chancellor that followed a few hours later crowned the whole thing. Is the Ukrainian President now making German politics by playing our Federal President and our Federal Chancellor off against each other?” Steinmeier had wanted to go to Kyiv with the Presidents of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. However, the Ukrainian government refused Steinmeier's visit and instead invited the Federal Chancellor.
Schwarzer criticizes delivery of heavy weapons
Schwarzer called for immediate negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A demonization of the leader of the second strongest nuclear power is not very helpful. "We continued to talk to the American President in 2003, even though Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction were a transparent lie from the start, the Iraq war was just as criminal as the Ukraine war and the civilian casualties were no less," 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, by the way, would not have been possible at all, because the USA has never joined the International Court of Justice, so it cannot be there either be prosecuted."
The 79-year-old 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. So far. Don't his critics even suspect that we could stumble into a 3rd World War? Don't they want to understand that we should better stop there and just provide maximum human assistance, both for Ukraine and for the refugees?”
Source: Berliner Zeitung
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