Posselt (CSU) warns in Gammelsdorf: "Putin wants Eurasia by Lisbon"

Created: 07/11/2022, 08:00 p.m

By: Andreas Beschorner

The start of the "Gammelsdorf Talks" with (from left) Minister of State Florian Herrmann, Manuel Mück (Chairman of the District Council), Raimunda Menzel (Mayor of Gammelsdorf), Bernd Posselt, MP Erich Irlstorfer and the CSU local chairman Konrad Weinzierl.

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During the first Gammelsdorf talks, European politician Posselt warned of a "disintegration of Europe".

That is Putin's goal.

Gammelsdorf

– According to CSU member of the Bundestag Erich Irlstorfer, he is “someone who has something to say”, someone “who has basic knowledge”: Bernd Posselt, a member of the EU Parliament for 20 years until 2014 and a long time as President of the Paneuropa Union Germany active.

With Posselt, Irlstorfer started the series of “Gammelsdorf Talks” on Sunday, which should become a permanent fixture.

Topic of the premiere: Putin and the Ukraine war.

It was no exaggeration to say that Posselt, as a proven expert on European foreign policy, had something to say.

In 1999, Posselt reported, he had already given the first speech against Vladimir Putin in the European Parliament, when he wasn't even President of Russia.

Posselt went way back in history, which began in the late 1980s.

Putin's goal is a "smashing of Europe"

Above all, the 1990 Charter of Paris, to which Russia also signed, stating that the borders of all member states are inviolable, and the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, in which Russia "guarantees" Ukraine's borders, Posselt emphasized.

And then the intriguing question: "What does Putin actually want?" The answer: Putin's goal is to restore "a kind of Soviet Union" and the "shattering of Europe" in order to then build a Russian-controlled Eurasia from Vladivostok to Lisbon.

According to Posselt, all forces that are striving to disintegrate Europe - whether right-wing or left-wing - are supported by Putin: "The only thing that interests him: it has to be anti-European." Posselt's conclusion: "If we support Ukraine, that's it naked self-interest.” As a consequence of these efforts by the Russian President, Posselt called for the development of a common European foreign and security policy, a European energy union, and that Europe should in future produce more food from its own soil.

Minister Florian Herrmann warns: The western way of life is to be destroyed

Minister of State and constituency deputy Florian Herrmann shared this assessment: The war in Ukraine is certainly not about a small conflict.

Putin's goal is clearly "to destroy our western way of life and to establish a Eurasian union." Because it was called the "Gammelsdorf Talks", the almost 70 guests were then allowed "to ask anything", emphasized Irstorfer.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

There was, for example, Renate Neuling, who warned against awarding the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, as Neuling literally puts it, with a halo or even the Nobel Peace Prize.

You have to "take a close look" at it.

Irlstorfer said he was aware of the propaganda of both warring parties, after all, the truth always dies first in war, but he also knew the facts.

Posselt made it clear that, according to international law, Russia's invasion was clearly a war of aggression.

And he said something else to Neuling: "There will be no peace with Putin and his regime."

The threat will continue for a long time

When Neuling asked if Posselt could at least confirm that Putin had always been a reliable energy supplier, the 66-year-old answered: "No." And: "We'll have to live with the threat from this direction for a long time to come." Posselt knew himself that the closing words of the 1st Gammelsdorf Talks on Sunday morning with Schuxn, Kirtanudeln and wheat beer were not very encouraging.

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