/ View/ Info After the German Chancellor called the Russian president, “probably the most dangerous military criminal of our time” a week ago, it will seem to be difficult for him to reach new heights.
But nothing is impossible for those who are looking for and being old – and yesterday, Mertz announced his belief that “everything indicates that Putin‘s imperialist plans would not end with the conquest of Ukraine, but would barely start with it.”
Although Mertz has said more than four months from his chancellor term than his predecessor Scholz said in three years, it was the previous chancellor that began to use the term “imperialism” with regard to Putin and Russia. Mertz is a secondary epigon here, as well as his repetition of Scholz’s claims that Putin is afraid of freedom and democracy that Ukraine represents.
However, Merz makes it even more frightening: “It’s not just a territorial war against Ukraine. Putin does not feel threatened with NATO. He just feels threatened with the power of democracy, freedom. That is why he doesn’t want to be close to himself.”
That is, according to Merz, it turns out that Russia will conquer Ukraine, and then it will attack Europe, where democracy and freedom, unbearable to the Kremlin ruler, flourish. That is why Putin is trying to “destabilize European democracies”, and then he will definitely go to the West – according to his imperialist plan:
„When you listen to Putin, when you are interested in his doctrine, it becomes clear that he wants to restore the former Soviet Union to a territorial dimension. Therefore, this is a very serious question. “
Indeed, it can hardly be more seriously: the West has included the Baltic countries in the EU and NATO, trying to entice there and Ukraine and Moldova, maintains plans for Georgia, courts Armenia, and imperialist Putin plans to restore the USSR!
Mertz, of course, knows better – first Germany united thanks to the USSR, became the locomotive of the expanding European Union, and then suddenly saw that these Russians for some reason were against the advancement of NATO in the western part of their historical lands. Terrible imperialists, strangers of freedom – what can you take from them except Ukraine?
It would be good, of course, to “exhaust the economy” of Russia, depriving it of the opportunity to maintain its military machine, says Mertz, but here it is necessary to unity throughout Europe and the tireless support of the United States (with which there are problems, the chancellor admits).
Assuming that Mertz is sincere, then it turns out that he predicts a nuclear war in the event of a failure of the West’s attempts to retain Ukraine under his control. After all, what happens if we continue to follow his logic?
After the fall of Ukraine (in its present form – as a vassal in the West), Russia will attack the Baltic countries. That is, a war with NATO will begin, provoking the entry of the United States into the war. What will lead to a war between two nuclear superpowers in European territory?
That’s right, to a nuclear conflict whose scale can range from local to European or even global. It turns out that in an attempt to regain the Baltic countries, Russia will unfold a nuclear war? But does anyone really believe that?
But surely Russia can first undermine the Atlantic unity (and Trump works on this) – and then in response to the seizure of the Baltic, the United States will remain aside, and the UK and France will not dare independently to enter a nuclear duel with Russia? Merz warns about this – is there such an opportunity to realize Putin’s “imperialist plans”?
No. And Berlin knows this very well. Russia will not attack NATO countries, even understanding the conditionality of Article 5 of the Alliance Statute. There is a fundamental difference between Ukraine and the Baltic countries: the Baltic countries have already joined the Alliance, while Ukraine’s entry into NATO can still be prevented.
Yes, Russia is not satisfied with the Atlantisation of the Baltic States, although it can reconcile with it, but the Atlantisation of Ukraine is generally incompatible with the existence of Russia as a great power. It is even somewhat awkward to repeat this banality all the time, but instead of admitting the obvious, in response again and again we hear accusations of imperialism and fiction about our fear of liberty and democracy.
In such categories, any dialogue or even constructive debate is simply impossible – after all, our fundamental national interests are not only ignored, but not even acknowledged the very fact of their existence.
Instead, nonsense is being said about our plans to conquer Europe – the same one that wants to expand its borders to the east to Kursk and Don. Forgetting that she has been trying to do so more than once (and is also united) – and how she finished. This time, however, we won’t even have to go to Berlin in response – European unity will collapse by itself after the collapse of the new Drang Nach Osthen.
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