16 November 2024
Jürgen Hardt, a member of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) opposition bloc in Germany, has criticised Chancellor Olaf Scholz for calling Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
Source: Tagesschau, citing Hardt, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Hardt believes that Putin will perceive Scholz’s move “as a sign of weakness, not strength”.
He accused the chancellor of enabling Putin to achieve a “propaganda victory”.
Hardt said that Scholz seemingly “did not present any new concrete proposals or even issue, so to speak, an ultimatum”.
However, Putin “only responds to signals of strength”, such as the threat of significantly increasing military aid to Ukraine, the CDU/CSU representative emphasised.
He suggested that Scholz’s primary goal is “to signal domestically within Germany that he is the one advocating for negotiations and dialogue,” he added.
Background:
- On 15 November, it was revealed that Olaf Scholz had spoken with the Kremlin leader for the first time in two years.
- Media reports indicate that the call was initiated by Scholz, with weeks of preparation carried out in close coordination with G7 countries.
- Commenting on the conversation, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that it does not aid the pursuit of peace and merely gives the Russian president hope for a reduction in isolation.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Scholz’s call with Putin as a “Pandora’s box”.
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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/16/7484829
Actually, even his coalition partners, the Greens, criticized Scholz for this display of utter weakness. After two years, this fool did it again, sitting at the war criminal’s bowling lane turned table to waste his time and to hand the runt a small victory. It’s such things that makes Scholz so unpopular in Germany. I’m glad his last days as chancellor are near.
Boris has responded to Scholz:
“😡This is a disgraceful treason.”
Boris Johnson commented on the call of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Putin.
⚡️“We risk returning to the terrible Franco-German-Norman format, which viewed Russia and Ukraine as equal interlocutors in internal strife,” Johnson wrote on the X network.”
Fortunately, Scholz’s time as chancellor is quite limited, Scradge. Early elections in Germany will come towards the end of February. Scholz has an ice-cube’s chance in hell to win again. There are only two possible winners; Friedrich Merz for the CDU, or Boris Pistorius for the SPD. Both are pro-Ukraine.