What is Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s policy? He sends mixed signals, he sometimes says things that shock us. What is really German politics today? Is Germany losing its international position as European leader? Justyna Gotkowska, Deputy Director of the Center for Oriental Studies, talks to Igor Janke in the open system.
– First of all, the Chancellery creates Germany’s policy towards the war, Ukraine, Russia through Chancellor Scholz and two of his advisers. It has to take into account public sentiment, also in East Germany, which is quite different from public opinion polls in the federal states of West Germany.
– For Germany, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a rupture in the international order in which Germany had lived and prospered quite well for years, and a rupture in German policy towards Russia, the Ukraine, security policy and energy policy. This situation showed the failure of German policy in many areas. The Chancellor believes that the West should not support Ukraine too much with arms deliveries. The Germans do not feel that their security depends on the outcome of this war.
– Scholz does not want scenarios in which the Putin regime would fall and Russia would fall into chaos, Russia would collapse and this would have unpredictable consequences for the West.
-Liberals, Greens openly undermine Scholz’s policy. There is a heated debate about the Chancellor’s policy towards Russia and Ukraine and huge criticism from experts who deal with this topic.
What are Scholz’s political goals today? What do Scholz’s words that the situation will return to the past when Putin backs down mean? Isn’t the German elite worried about its policy towards China?
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