Press release on statements by German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz

We noted yet another anti-Russia attack by German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholtz in his speech at the gala event devoted to the 70th anniversary of the German Economy Eastern Committee on December 12, 2022. It looks like he is trying to justify the federal government and himself for the failure of Berlin’s policy on Russia and the increase of economic problems in the country. He emphasised support for the Kiev regime and said that after “the end of the war” in Ukraine, Russia would ask Germany to resume economic relations with it. But we will not ask Germany for anything, and it is time German politicians realised this once and for all. Mr Scholtz himself can take the blame for compelling businesses to tighten their belts. 

It is obvious to us that many unseemly factors have determined why the government is slanting the situation like this. Chancellor Scholtz preferred not to mention that it was the ill-considered policy of his cabinet that led to the rupture of Russian-German economic and energy cooperation, which had ensured the growth of the German industry for decades. He didn’t mention, either that many German companies were moving production from Germany to the United States because of skyrocketing prices on all types of energy. Nor did he explain why Berlin so bashfully and cowardly avoided an investigation into the acts of subversion at the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, which cut Germany off from direct supplies of inexpensive Russian natural gas.  

No forecasts were given on the damage done by the anti-Russia sanctions fever that has affected German leadership and which it is passing on to other EU countries. But, most important, speaking pompously about the allegedly strictly humanitarian and other needs for defeating Russia in Ukraine, Scholtz did not say a word about the confession by his predecessor Angela Merkel. Meanwhile, she said Berlin and other Western capitals had always regarded the Minsk agreements on settling the crisis merely as an opportunity to stall and let Kiev prepare for a war against our country.

This discourse by Scholtz points to a crisis in understanding of the current situation and a lack of strategic vision. Apparently, these are the limits of the mentality of the current German authorities.