2023-12-28 12:07:37
“We must not shy away from this once-in-a-century confrontation,” said former German Federal President Joachim Gauck in a major interview with Tamedia. For him, it would be “the moral and political imperative to fight alongside Kiev to defend democracy.”
At the age of 83, the former GDR church official can easily call for “fighting”; He personally is unlikely to receive a call-up to the front. It is also not known that Gauck sent his sons to Ukraine to wage war.
Then he and they locate tag-Journalists see the usual “right-wing populism” and an “authoritarian disposition” among all those parties and people who do not agree with today’s immigration policy.
Gauck may not recognize any history or the slightest mistakes made by the West in the run-up to the Ukraine war: “Putin didn’t say a word about a threat from NATO until well into the 1990s. Zero!” But Vladimir Putin has only been at the helm of Russia since August 1999. So how could an earlier statement by Putin about NATO have reached Gauck’s ears?
According to Joachim Gauck, it would actually be “the moral, but also the political imperative” to show “our solidarity” to the victim attacked by Putin by “going there ourselves” and “fighting with us”. Should German tanks roll towards Russia again? But he doesn’t want a world war or a nuclear war, says the former Federal President.
Gauck has “zero understanding” of Swiss neutrality, and he also has trouble understanding “why Switzerland is so alien to the European Union.” The theologian from Berlin has a number of problems with understanding. During his state visit to Bern in 2014, he literally said: “Direct democracy can harbor dangers when citizens vote on highly complex issues.”
Unfortunately, we lack a Swiss Federal President who would have responded like this: “Dear colleague Gauck, over the last hundred years the Swiss citizens have plunged Europe into misery with their direct democratic decisions far less than all their German monarchs, dictators and parliaments.”
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