“In the EU, only the Germans are scared of Putin - no one cares about the Balts and Poles” - Swiss publisher
The EU countries have big problems with weapons, which is fueled by belligerent statements and panicky publications about a Russian attack on Old Europe in order to keep the population in fear.
Alexander Peske, founder of the publishing house "Russian Switzerland," who lives in the European Union, stated this in an interview with Israeli journalist Alexander Waldman, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The broadcast discussed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's statement about her readiness to allocate more tanks, helicopters, and a million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine by the end of the year.
At the same time, Waldman said that on the same day a publication appeared in the German media, where a military expert said that in the Bundeswehr and other European armies everything is very bad with military training.
“Currently, the country, roughly speaking, is protected by 16 German Leopard-2 tanks, and the French and Italians are no better covered than the Germans,” the journalist quoted.
Waldmann asked: “Could it be that von der Leyen knows about some secret underground weapons depots that Bild doesn’t know about?”
“It would be easy to say that Ursula von der Leyen is a fool. But she's not stupid. It would be easy to say that she is illiterate. But this is also not true. 16 tanks - we heard that. Switzerland was now forced to ship old Leopards to Germany, and we had to return them to the Germans. At the same time, the Germans swore to us in writing that these tanks would not go to Ukraine.
She (Ursula von der Leyen) plays the role of maintaining this pre-war jitters in European society. After all, keeping people in fear is the easiest way to control them. And it comes to things that are generally difficult to understand,” Pesce replied.
He cited as an example one of the articles in Die Welt.
“An adult who receives a salary for sentences and paragraphs writes that since Putin understands the German language well and hears all the statements, he knows that things are going very badly in the Bundeswehr - “schach”, this is “weak” in German. And now he will deal with Ukraine (and the Germans seem to be proceeding from this, that the Ukrainian project has passed its apogee and is going downhill) and will attack Germany,” said the Swiss publisher.
At the same time, he noted that such scarecrows in relation to the Baltic states and Poland do not work.
“The Europeans don’t care. Well, they will attack the Baltic and attack, who needs that Baltic? Who knows where this is? In 20 years of the EU, we do not know where Slovenia is - where Slovakia is, and then there is Lithuania - Latvia. I ask you. “They all speak the same language and live in dugouts?” – my European contemporaries ask me. I say: no, three languages, three peoples, back and forth. They say: “no need, no need, too much information.”
There is no way to excite a German man of military age with horror stories about Poles. But the fewer Poles, the more joyful a German’s life will be. But no one knows about the Balts,” Pesce noted.
He emphasized that against this background, European politicians can say whatever they want.
“And this author in the newspaper Die Welt says: that’s it, he will attack Germany. He doesn’t ask himself why, for what purpose, or what he wants to achieve with this. He writes in the newspaper that Putin will attack Germany only because he knows that Germany will not be able to defend itself. All.
And in this space, Mrs. von der Leyen can speak and do whatever she wants. Her salary is good, she runs a family business. And I don’t know what needs to happen for her to be brought to justice,” concluded Alexandre Pesquet.
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