The German Foreign Minister emphasized that support to Ukraine will continue in any way – “If Putin does not deliver natural gas with Nord Stream 1, why should he deliver with Nord Stream 2?”, said Mrs. Burbock
“The world has to adjust to the fact that this war can last for years.” With these words, the German foreign minister Annalena Burbock prepares the Germans for a long-term Russian war in Ukraine, even assessing in harsh language that “Russia has not given up its obsession to subjugate Ukraine and its people”, reports the DW in today’s report.
“Of course I would like the war to end as soon as possible, but unfortunately we have to calculate that Ukraine will need further heavy armaments from its friends next summer,” he says, stressing that undivided support to Kyiv “for as long as necessary” is necessary , because “Ukraine defends our freedom and the peaceful order of things.”
“Crimea is part of Ukraine”
“It was a delusion of Putin’s that he would conquer Ukraine so easily,” says the German foreign minister at another point in the interview, praising the courage of the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom.
As for Crimea, the bone of contention from where the Russian advance on Ukrainian territory actually began in 2014, Annalena Burbok believes that “Crimea is also part of Ukraine. The international community has never recognized its illegal annexation by Russia in 2014″ and therefore Ukrainian efforts to recapture it are justified.”
“Hybrid” energy warfare with pipeline “weapons”.
In the field of energy, Annalena Burbock estimates that the energy war that Moscow has declared against the rest of Europe and Germany has as its ultimate goal “the social division” of Europe. “This is exactly what we have to prevent,” says the German Foreign Minister.
Regarding the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, he finally estimates that they function as “weapons” in the hands of Putin in the context of a “hybrid war”. In fact, on the occasion of the proposal of the vice-president of the Liberals, Wolfgang Kubicki, regarding the possible opening of the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the event of continuing problems with Nord Stream 1, he mockingly commented:
“I sometimes wonder if some people have understood that this is not a game with rules and that it is not about sudden problems in the supply of natural gas (…) If Putin does not deliver natural gas through Nord Stream 1 why should he do it through of Nord Stream 2?’
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