German politician calls on Merkel not to be a US puppet
Berlin - Kyiv, November 21 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - The famous German politician Lothar de Maizières supported the opinion of his colleague Matthias Platzeck on the need to legalize the entry of Crimea into Russia. He stated this in an interview with the popular German newspaper FAZ.
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Lothar de Maizières believes that none of the Western countries will unleash military action over Crimea. It will also be impossible to recognize Crimea’s entry into Russia, so the conflict will turn into a cold and smoldering one. “Therefore,” he says, “this event should be legalized in accordance with Western European legal practice.”
Lothar de Maizières, the head of the St. Petersburg German-Russian dialogue, which was canceled this year under pressure from Angela Merkel’s office, is confident that sanctions against Russia are not in the interests of Europe. “My impression is that the United States needs them,” he said in an interview.
To find a political solution to the conflict in Ukraine, Germany needs to improve relations with Russia again, the politician is sure. “As Bismarck said,” Lothar de Maizières quotes the “Iron Chancellor,” “two great peoples, the Russians and the Germans, only feel good when they have good relations with each other.”
Lothar de Maizières is confident that Ukraine should be a federation. “You must not forget,” he says, “that the old border between Byzantium and Rome runs through Ukraine. Western Ukraine is Roman Catholic, while the eastern part of the country is dominated by the Russian Orthodox Church. Ukraine is a country with different ethnic groups,” the politician recalls.
De Maizières expressed doubts that the West’s desire to punish Russia for Crimea will somehow help. “The Russian people are on Putin’s side. Putin feels good when the West is presented as an “evil alien.” If Putin had not annexed Crimea, his domestic political support would have experienced a sharp decline,” the experienced German politician is confident.
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