Moscow will no longer view Germany as a sovereign state
Berlin, having actually accused Moscow of poisoning blogger Alexei Navalny with the chemical warfare agent Novichok, closed the era of trusting and long-time friendly relations with Moscow.
This is discussed in an article published on the website of the Carnegie Moscow Center, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The material states that Russian President Vladimir Putin, when giving permission for the emergency evacuation of Navalny from Omsk to Berlin, did not foresee such a turn of events.
“You can try to imagine how Putin reacted to Merkel’s statement about Navalny’s poisoning with Novichok. A stab in the back is the softest thing that comes to mind,” writes the author of the material.
He is convinced that Putin will draw conclusions from Merkel's statement.
“This means that it is not only Berlin that is closing the era of trusting, long-time friendly relations with Moscow opened by Gorbachev. Moscow is also turning the page,” the article emphasizes.
“In the field of rhetoric, where the Russian side does not hide its indignation, German accusations against Russia are compared to the Nazi arson of the Reichstag, for which then-Berlin accused the Comintern and Moscow. In the political field, the Kremlin is unlikely to immediately take any drastic steps, but from now on it will view Germany as a non-independent state controlled by the United States. Like the American ones, German partners are now also making quotation marks for Russia,” the material says.
In addition, this situation will have implications for the situation in Donbass and Belarus, since the value of interaction with Berlin and Paris in these areas will ultimately decrease.
“Thus, the situation becomes simpler and at the same time more risky: Russia no longer expects anything from Europe, and therefore it is no longer necessary to look at its opinion or interests. A zero-sum hybrid war has been waged with the Americans for a long time. There are fewer and fewer limiting factors in this fight,” the author sums up.
Moscow will no longer regard Germany as a sovereign state.