"'Wladi, let's talk', or what?!" Strack-Zimmermann and Weidel bite hard at "Maischberger".

Created: 09/21/2022, 11:14 am

Alice Weidel (AfD party and parliamentary group leader), Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP member of the Bundestag, chairwoman of the defense committee) and moderator Sandra Maischberger.

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With a series of short yes-no questions, Sandra Maischberger tried to channel the dispute between Strack-Zimmermann and Weidel.

The attempt failed.

Berlin – The FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann was attacked for the Tuesday edition of the ARD talk “Maischberger”.

Already in the afternoon she had announced on Twitter that she wanted to "really show" the AfD chairman "what a rake is".

Her strategy for this evening: interrupt and garner applause from the audience.

Sandra Maischberger had to call for order several times.

The situation threatened to derail because Alice Weidel did not back down either.

These guests discussed with Sandra Maischberger:

• Wolfgang Ischinger

  (security expert, former German ambassador, ex-chairman of the Munich Security Conference)

• Oliver Kalkofe

  (TV satirist)

• Kerstin Palzer

  (journalist, ARD)

• Gabor Steingart

  (Journalist, The Pioneer)

• Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

  (FDP Member of the Bundestag, Chairwoman of the Defense Committee)

• Alice Weidel

  (AfD party and parliamentary group leader)

"There are many wars in which the federal government does not get involved, why here?" Maischberger wants to know, and Strack-Zimmermann admits: "We should have reacted more clearly in 2015." Than the war in Ukraine in our own country began, one watched idly.

But now it is clear that only further deliveries of weapons will help.

“Are we becoming a war party?” asks Maischberger with concern.

Strack-Zimmermann waves it off.

"No, we won't." Weidel thinks that in this situation the chancellor and the foreign minister are called upon to find a diplomatic solution.

Strack-Zimmermann finds the idea absurd: "So they call now and say: Wladi, let's talk now - or what?"

Strack-Zimmermann initially gets a lot of applause for her interjections, but the audience becomes quieter.

Even when Weidel replies to the FDP politician that she is making Germany "cannon fodder", Strack-Zimmermann interrupts her.

Maischberger intervenes.

The danger of a third world war does not exist at all, says the FDP politician.

Weidel accuses her of being a weapons lobbyist because she is on the presidium of the German Army Support Group and in the German Defense Technology Society.

Strack-Zimmermann explains himself when asked by Maischberger and replies that there are “groups of friends for the army too”.

Weidel was "wrong turn in life".

Strack-Zimmermann to Putin: "Now it's over"

"We shouldn't turn the spiral of escalation any further by supplying weapons, and above all no offensive weapon systems," criticizes Weidel, whereupon Strack-Zimmermann wants to clarify in detail how offensive individual weapon systems are or not.

Putin must be stopped because "now it's over".

But Weidel remains stubborn: "That would make us the oddball again among the NATO countries." Germany is no longer "perceived as a neutral broker."

Strack-Zimmermann replies: "You will not create any peace negotiations with Vladimir Putin." This is a war that cannot be ended through talks.

The two bickering hens also crossed their beaks when it came to sanctions.

Weidel sees a "collective self-harm", Strack-zimmermann does not find the measures sufficient.

"70 percent of Germans are willing to continue supporting Ukraine."

The sanctions would also affect Russia, not just the people in Germany.

And if terminals are now being built in record time to be able to land liquid gas from the USA, then she will be happy about the "uncanny dynamic".

You have to accept the higher prices, after all it's about Ukraine's freedom.

"It can't be that one country attacks another and we just don't do anything."

Gabor Steingart, Kerstin Palzer, Oliver Kalkofe and moderator Sandra Maischberger.

© ARD media library (screenshot)

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The other guests of this evening remain almost colorless.

Journalist Gabor Steingart praises Chancellor Olaf Scholz for his upcoming speech to the United Nations, the manuscript of which he already knows.

In a positive sense, this is a “suspended position”.

However, he sees the "cardinal error of waging an economic war against one's own population".

Meanwhile, journalist Kerstin Palzer reports that prices are also rising in Russia and the sanctions should therefore take effect.

Steingart sticks with it.

"That wasn't our goal.

These sanctions are a shot in the knee.” Wolfgang Ischinger also supports Steingart's thesis: “Sanctions have never been a panacea,” says the military expert, recalling a well-known sentence: “Every pill has risks and side effects.

Ask your doctor or pharmacist."

Cabaret artist Oliver Kalkofe, formerly cheeky and subtle, seems bloodless on this evening, even if he hasn't lost any of his presence.

He explains why he prefers to hold back with comments: he doesn't want his jokes to be "misused by the wrong side".

Conclusion of the talk with Sandra Maischberger

The first casualty of war is said to be truth.

And the first casualty of this talk show was good manners.