Top German Official to Russia: 'F-ck You,' Causes Stir
Culture Minister Claudia Roth was in Odessa at the time
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Claudia Roth, Germany’s cultural minister, demonstrated once again that our leaders are mentally deranged and detached from all reality.
Roth visited Ukraine’s Odessa on Tuesday and jokingly told Russia “f-ck you.” She had been invited to the city by Oleksandr Tkachenko, her Ukrainian counterpart, and DW.com pointed out that she is the first German government official to visit the city.
She held up two stamps at the time showing a Ukrainian soldier gesturing to Russia's Black Sea fleet. The stamps commemorated the sinking of Russia’s Black Sea flagship Moskva. The New York Post said the soldier was holding up his middle finger.
“This is Russia,” Roth said, holding up one of the stamps, “and this is ‘f–k you.’”
The Post pointed out that she attempted to edit her comment and clarified, “F–k you, ship.”
Vladimir Solovyov, a presenter on Russia-1, who is called Putin’s mouthpiece, lashed out at Germany for her comments.
“What are we to do now?” he asked. “Are we to once again shake the dust off Teutonic graves with the powerful march of Soviet boots? Otherwise, they will never understand?”
Germany seemed to have done a 180 when it comes to its approach to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Just months into Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship, Russia invaded Ukraine and he was forced to quickly gain his footing. He seemed to take a wait-and-see approach and made an effort to avoid angering Moscow. Germany relies on Russia for oil and did not want a conflict with the world's largest military.
In the early days of the invasion, Germany was mocked in the media for only donating 5,000 military helmets to Ukraine. Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, called the offer a joke at the time and said he was left speechless.
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“What kind of support will Germany send next?” he asked. “Pillows?”
Germany further agitated the West when it did not take a clear position on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a massive gas project with Russia that was eventually suspended.
But since the early perceived foot-dragging, Scholtz has become one of the most ardent supporters of Ukraine in its fight to repel the invading Russian army.
Scholz said last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the world “cannot allow Putin to win this war. It is a matter of making it clear to Putin that there will be no dictated peace—Ukraine will not accept that and neither will we.”
TRENDPOST: Scholz’s use of the word “we” is just the latest example of a western country presenting itself as though it is a participant in the war, even though the battle is (on paper) one between Ukraine and Russia.
Just a week after Russia invaded Ukraine, we noted that the tens of billions of dollars of weapons the United States and other NATO members were sending to Ukraine to fight the Russians is a deadly, destructive waste of money, and that Ukraine should engage in peace talks rather than fight a much larger and much better armed opponent. Indeed, the massive amount of homes and buildings that have been destroyed and the deaths and lives ruined will be lost forever.
As we wrote in the 8 March Trends Journal, “The only message from politicians and the mainstream media is to increase the military conflict rather than work toward a peace agreement. We continue to note that neither Napoleon nor Hitler could defeat Russia. Thus, to think that Ukraine can defeat Russia’s military is nonsensical.”