Alexander Mercouris von ‘The Duran” mit einer resignierten aber leider treffenden Einschätzung des europäischen und speziell deutschen politischen Führungspersonals, das erneut in eine Konfrontation mit Russland nicht hineinstolpert, sondern hinein marschiert:
“The attitude of the leaders of Europe, the attitude of the German government in particular I find incomprehensible. German MP of the CDU are now demanding that Germany expel all Russian diplomats from German territory, meaning that Germany end diplomatic relations with Russia.
I have absolutely no idea what planet these people are living on.
I presume that all of this is a drum beat in preparation of the banning of the AFD party in Germany, which will no doubt be classified as a pro Russian party, a cat’s-paw of Vladimir Putin, run from the Kremlin in some unexplained and mysterious way, but as I said, none of this makes any kind of sense to me.
In terms of German national interest one would have thought Germany more than any other country would know that getting into an open and confrontation with Russia is a disaster, especially for Germany. But I get the sense that Friedrich Merz – and some of the people around him – have an almost visceral loathing of Russia. Which, as I said, astonishes me and which I suspect has very deep roots, and which has now risen to the surface and it looks as if all of those old ghosts and demons from the past, which I once assumed had been banished, are still in Germany, alive and well.
So, terrible decision-making there and of course terrible decision-making across Europe (…)
I would’ve thought that even more than the Americans the Europeans would try to bring this conflict which is a disaster for them to an end.
No, they want to escalate it and instead they want to launch missiles into Russia. They back all of these escalator moves by Zelensky, as the Russian media has been pointing out now, not criticizing Zelensky and the Ukrainians at all for the attack on the train in Briansk. There’s criticisms of Russian actions which result in the death of civilians, there’s no criticism of Ukrainian actions when they appear to target civilians. Just saying
So what exactly it is that Europeans think they’re doing, I simply don’t know. There is that famous expression which some people attribute to Uripidis and the ancient Greeks – which may actually be French and date from the 19th century – that those who the gods destroy they first make mad.
I think in Europe, we are collectively going mad, but there it is. Whether anybody in the United States was fighting back against this madness, can bring us back, is an open and very complicated question.”