kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: #Germany writer Marko Martin speaking at the 35th anniversary ceremony of the ...
#Germany writer Marko Martin speaking at the 35th anniversary ceremony of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, presents a scathing criticism of German elites patronising attitude to Eastern Europe and completely false understanding of the concept of “sustainable peace”.
His speech is long and worth reading in whole, I just chose a few juicy quotes:
Gerhard Schröder, still an unrepentant, boastful, close friend of the mass murderer in the Kremlin, is guaranteed by the new general secretary of the chancellor’s party that there is still room for him in German social democracy. Incidentally, this is met with the same horror by Eastern Europeans and established social democrats as they heard from the mouth of the then Foreign Minister in 2016, when he said that NATO manoeuvres on the eastern flank to protect the democracies there were ‘sabre-rattling and war cries’. Sabre-rattling and war cries?!
Then he directly addresses President Steinmeier who sits in one of the first rows:
Dear Mr President, with all due respect: the Nord Stream project, which the SPD and CDU clung to for so long despite all the well-founded criticism, was only a ‘bridge’ – in your words from spring 20 022 – was only a bridge insofar as it further encouraged Putin in his aggression, namely in his calculation that the Germans, otherwise world champions in moralising, would not let go of the lucrative business, Ukraine or not. And again, it was ignored with considerable arrogance how clearly Eastern Europe was warned. And it is also the threatened Eastern Europe that will have to bear the consequences – in the near future, moreover, possibly even without American support.
Martin speaks in a quite eloquent way, using many references which probably only German audience will catch, so assume much is lost in the above translation by DeepL. I suspect only fluent German speakers will be able to fully appreciate his speech!
Source: https://www.welt.de/kultur/article254426424/Marko-Martins-Mauerfall-Rede-Sehr-geehrter-Herr-Bundespraesident-und-bei-allem-Respekt.html (in German)
His speech is long and worth reading in whole, I just chose a few juicy quotes:
Gerhard Schröder, still an unrepentant, boastful, close friend of the mass murderer in the Kremlin, is guaranteed by the new general secretary of the chancellor’s party that there is still room for him in German social democracy. Incidentally, this is met with the same horror by Eastern Europeans and established social democrats as they heard from the mouth of the then Foreign Minister in 2016, when he said that NATO manoeuvres on the eastern flank to protect the democracies there were ‘sabre-rattling and war cries’. Sabre-rattling and war cries?!
Then he directly addresses President Steinmeier who sits in one of the first rows:
Dear Mr President, with all due respect: the Nord Stream project, which the SPD and CDU clung to for so long despite all the well-founded criticism, was only a ‘bridge’ – in your words from spring 20 022 – was only a bridge insofar as it further encouraged Putin in his aggression, namely in his calculation that the Germans, otherwise world champions in moralising, would not let go of the lucrative business, Ukraine or not. And again, it was ignored with considerable arrogance how clearly Eastern Europe was warned. And it is also the threatened Eastern Europe that will have to bear the consequences – in the near future, moreover, possibly even without American support.
Martin speaks in a quite eloquent way, using many references which probably only German audience will catch, so assume much is lost in the above translation by DeepL. I suspect only fluent German speakers will be able to fully appreciate his speech!
Source: https://www.welt.de/kultur/article254426424/Marko-Martins-Mauerfall-Rede-Sehr-geehrter-Herr-Bundespraesident-und-bei-allem-Respekt.html (in German)