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Röttgen calls for immediate Russia sanctions on "Hard but fair" - Putin with "war speech"

2022-02-22T09:16:24.293Z


Röttgen calls for immediate Russia sanctions on "Hard but fair" - Putin with "war speech" Created: 02/22/2022, 10:02 am The talk show at "Hart aber fair" (ARD). © WDR/Dirk Borm Events in Ukraine are overturning. In "Hart aber fair" Norbert Röttgen pleads for immediate and tough sanctions against Russia.  Berlin – CDU foreign politician Norbert Röttgen is considered to be someone who chooses hi


Röttgen calls for immediate Russia sanctions on "Hard but fair" - Putin with "war speech"

Created: 02/22/2022, 10:02 am

The talk show at "Hart aber fair" (ARD).

© WDR/Dirk Borm

Events in Ukraine are overturning.

In "Hart aber fair" Norbert Röttgen pleads for immediate and tough sanctions against Russia. 

Berlin – CDU foreign politician Norbert Röttgen is considered to be someone who chooses his words very consciously, but when it comes to “Hard but fair”* in the first, Röntgen also does not mince his words in view of the dramatically worsening situation in Ukraine and demands: “ If these sanctions are supposed to do anything in terms of deterrence - they have to come now!" Röttgen makes it clear how Putin's current appearance on Russian state television is to be evaluated: "This speech is a war speech!" The invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine - the first became known during the night - Röttgen already classified in the program as a "blatant breach of international law".

Shortly before the broadcast, Frank Plasberg changed the subject and guests of his political talk on the first.

Instead of inflation and price increases, he raised the

Ukraine crisis

* on the tableau.

The main reason was Putin's long speech on state television - directly after the patriotically staged celebrations for the return of the Russian Olympians from the Winter Games.

In his speech, Putin publicly questioned Ukraine's independence.

The Duma had previously approved the recognition of the separatist areas in Ukraine.

"Hard but fair" - these guests discussed with:

  • Norbert Röttgen

     (CDU) - Member of the Bundestag, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee

  • Christian Dürr

     (FDP) - parliamentary group leader

  • Udo Lilischkies

     - ex-head of the ARD studio in Moscow

  • Sarah Pagung

     - Russia Expert of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

  • Vassili Golod

    - German-Ukrainian editor and reporter at the WDR Newsroom

  • Hermann-Josef Tenhagen

     - Editor-in-Chief of the consumer guide "Finanztip"

Switched on as correspondents:

  • Ina Ruck

    - head of the ARD studio Moscow

  • Markus Preiß

    - head of the ARD studio in Brussels

The head of the ARD studio in Moscow, Ina Ruck, is also of the opinion: "There are currently no signs of peace." The Kremlin's action "repeals the Minsk agreements".

Ruck sees the risk of a conflict increasing drastically: If Ukraine cedes large parts of its territory to Russia, the country will not remain without a call to defend its territory.

And Ruck's predecessor, the former head of the Moscow studio Udo Lilischkies, says: "We are in the initial phase of a new cold war!" The Russia expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Sarah Pagung, sees the situation even more dramatically: "I'm afraid of a hot war - that's the concern!"

Moscow connoisseur criticizes the federal government: Must take a proper position!

The ARD colleague from Brussels, Markus Preiß, has an urgent appeal: "One must be clear" that Putin means what he says.

Putin continues to regard Ukraine as a "brother nation" and does not see it as an independent state, but as part of Russia.

Preiß predicts that with the “technocratic, arithmetic, precisely legally calculating unit of the EU” it will be “difficult” “to do justice to it.” Pagung agrees: “German foreign policy has been focusing solely on dialogue and business for too long!” ARD correspondent Ruck also doubts the effectiveness of sanctions, which Putin has so far been able to use to his own advantage: "You always manage to portray everything as if it's ultimately the fault of the West."

Röttgen adds: "Putin doesn't give a damn!".

Lilischkies also sees Russia's harshness as Putin's strongest weapon: "The West's problem in dealing with Russia is: Russia is lying!" Most recently, the offers of dialogue to Scholz and Macron had shown that they were only "a small, cheap bluff". .

"A slap in the face", because instead of a promised retreat, the troops were actually reinforced.

It is now clear: "No one wants to negotiate there!" The journalist also sees the responsibility of leading politicians who create illusions and claim that everything is "false war cries and the solution lies in diplomacy" instead of "taking a proper stand!"

Röttgen on Putin's way of thinking: "They are even weaker than I already thought!"

Röttgen sees it the same way: Moscow thinks “little bit anyway” about the West.

The West's hesitation at the moment would only encourage Putin to think: "I did everything right!" and only give the impression: "They are even weaker than I already thought!"

Plasberg wants to know from the editor-in-chief of the consumer guide "Finanztip" Hermann-Josef Tenhagen what consequences an economic departure from Russia would have for Europe.

He gives the all-clear, thanks to the mild winter, the storage is currently full: "We now have until autumn" to develop alternatives.

But it also shows how much the gas price has risen within a year and a half: "From 5 cents to currently up to 30 cents".

Tenhagen: "For people who don't have much money, a sword of Damocles".

Plasberg promises consolation for the spontaneous cancellation: "We're doing a show on the subject!"

The German-Ukrainian and WDR journalist Vassili Golod, visibly moved, responded to the opinion of a viewer who thought that Putin was a "stubborn person" who should be allowed to act: "Ukraine is a democratic, independent country," he says he clearly.

That is closer to “democratic values” than to Russia.

Golod: "The attack we are witnessing today is an attack on democracy, on the independence of states."

Conclusion of the "hard but fair" talk

The literary classic by the Swiss writer Max Frisch "Biedermann and the Arsonists" is considered a lesson in totalitarianism.

Out of opportunism, citizen Biedermann is unable to put the two arsonists he has taken into his house in their place and in the end sees his belongings go up in flames.

Is history repeating itself here?

Did we fail to “take to the chest” of Russia in a timely and unequivocal manner?

In the "hard but fair" talk, this criticism is loud.

(Verena Schulemann)

Source: merkur

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