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In any case it's not Putin, it's the great majority of the Russians. Heck, even Yeltsin (when he was sober enough) complained about NATO enough to piss Clinton off totally, and he was probably the most West's-ass-licking Russian politician ever (including Navalny).
Russians are not asking Germany to do anything. They know Washington calls the shots in NATO (and thus pretty much in the EU [and thus pretty much in the OCSE]). Germany can't decide to remove the cruise missiles from Poland or Romania. Germany can't stop the USAF from flying to Russian borders "to send a message". Germany won't even tell the US to cut it out to de-escalate before we get WW3.
Thus Germany is meaningless, just like the rest of Europe, until we can figure out our own security policy, one that is not run from Washington and has Russia as a part of it. And that can't happen while NATO exists. Which is weird, since NATO is not aggressive, I'm told - it just can't create neither peace nor security. For some reason.
I agree about NATO, because I believe that the EU should defend itself (otherwise it has no objective right to exist). But that means mostly defending itself against Russian neo-expansionism, because the other potential belligerents are further away, and less threatening to EU members.
Bad things happens to Russia's neighbours if they don't belong to defensive alliances. Indisputable fact. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
In the footsteps of a number of Serbian leaders, Kosovo President Thaci charged by ICC in The Hague.
Kosovo's President Steps Down To Face War Crimes Charges
Unfortunately there are elements out there that defy the gravitational forces of Einstein's theory.
Funding "freedom fighters" all across the globe from the America's, SE Asia, Afghanistan, Angola, Chechnya, Iraq, Levant, Libya, and on ... and on. 'Sapere aude'
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