Putin's war of annihilation against Ukraine: German egoism disguised as compassion
Created: 03/22/2022, 13:26
By: Georg Anastasiadis
A firefighter stands in front of a shopping center in Kyiv that was hit by grenades, bombs or rockets.
A commentary by Merkur Editor-in-Chief Georg Anastasiadis.
© Felipe Dana/AP/dpa/Klaus Haag
In view of Putin's increasingly brutal war of annihilation against Ukraine, the government's refusal to stop oil imports from Russia cannot remain the same.
A comment.
In the Ukraine, the port city of Mariupol is on the verge of being wiped out – it is a cruel warning from Putin: If the government in Kyiv does not lay down its arms, all of its metropolises, like Aleppo and Grozny, will be razed to the ground.
The war criminal in the Kremlin has put himself and his victims in a hopeless situation: The terror on the battlefield breeds greater terror the less he succeeds in breaking the military stalemate and the morale of the Ukrainians.
But the heroic nation fights all the more ferociously, the more brutally Putin pushes his breach of civilization.
Defenders of the Ukrainian homeland are not tired of war
One prefers not to imagine what the German resistance would look like if Putin were standing in front of Berlin.
No: the defenders of the Ukrainian homeland are not war-weary.
But some circles in Germany are war-weary and have the supposedly good advice for the Zelenskyi government that it is better to give up than to accept more bloodshed.
This is really selfishness disguised as compassion.
Because if the Ukraine capitulates, so the hope is, the cheap oil and gas from Russia will finally flow again.
But that's a calculation that doesn't add up.
If it is not possible to stop Russia's drive to expand in Ukraine, the flames of war will spread to other European neighbors.
If the Putin regime wins in Ukraine, it will soon test NATO's will to defend itself.
The federal government should also be aware of this, which – after a moment of self-assertion and the announcement that it would rearm the Bundeswehr – ducked away again.
The traffic light seems to be even more afraid of the anger of energy customers than of Putin, which is why it rejects an oil import ban from Russia.
This is how Berlin continues to finance the Kremlin's terror.
In view of the increasingly brutal war of annihilation, things cannot stay that way.
That's right: an oil embargo demands sacrifices from the Germans.
But the price for doing nothing is likely to be much higher in the end.
A commentary by Georg Anastasiadis
