Is it arrogance or just a sober statement of reality? Politicians have seldom thrown their contempt in the face of the population as directly as the German Greens do. They demand more weapons, more war, regardless of the threat of nuclear war. At the same time, the German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, Habeck, remarked even before the war began: Others will fight and die, I don’t have to.
A comment by Willi Huber
It would be best if we gave the go-ahead for all the super-serious “fact-checkers” ourselves. Hop, hop, hit the keys – defend your favorite green party and explain to us, full of words and tears, that nothing was meant that way. The part linked below from the show “Maischberger – Die Woche” on February 24 is a viral hit on social media. However, only Habeck’s statement is circulating, without context. That makes it easy for the other side to say that it’s not all that bad, that it’s all meant very differently. We searched for the original source, found it and presented it for you: Listen to the minutes before and after the narrator and decide for yourself what is meant – without the supervision of mass media thinking.
Habeck: But a certain amount of damage will of course remain, that’s perfectly clear. But that is also to be accepted, as we have already heard. In such a situation, in a war-threatening situation, peace has a price. And we should also be willing to pay for it.
Maischberger: They seem really touched. So you’re afraid of this war.
Habeck: I don’t have to fight there and I won’t die in this war either. But if it happens, many people will die. And that is a situation in such a concrete situation that we have not had at least since the Balkan wars. And those were civil wars in the broadest sense.
In addition to the outrage that the leading member of a warmongering party succinctly declares that you have to pay the price of the war – he doesn’t anyway – but others will die: the comments on the Balkan war are also interesting. This was Germany’s first war of aggression since World War II. This with the government participation of a predecessor of Habeck, the controversial Joschka Fischer. Fischer was also deeply involved in the RAF terror, but was never convicted for it and was later rewarded with the honors of the Foreign Ministry. As soon as the Greens were in government, Germany happily took part in a war of aggression – which was not covered by international law.
