The farmers’ protests are not only causing a stir here. Russia’s ex-president, Chancellor Scholz, predicts serious problems. Moscow will follow the events with “malicious interest.”
After the farmers’ protests in Germany, Russia’s former president Dmitri Medvedev mocked the federal government and Chancellor Olaf Scholz predicted serious problems. “The subsidies have been stopped and the astronomical expenses for Ukraine continue to rise,” Medvedev wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter) on Monday evening.
If things continue like this, the Ukrainian nationalists could soon export the protests (Maidan) that are so popular with them to Berlin. “In that case, it is highly doubtful that the liverwurst (Chancellor Olaf) Scholz will hold out,” he scoffed. In any case, Russia will follow the events with “malicious interest”.
On Monday, farmers in Germany protested against planned cuts in agricultural subsidies, disrupting traffic in many places. Moscow repeatedly argues that Western aid to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia have led to economic difficulties in Germany, for example. Since the outbreak of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, Medvedev has been considered one of the hardliners in Moscow. He repeatedly attacks leading Western and Ukrainian politicians personally with insults.
Medvedev took the term “liverwurst” for Chancellor Scholz from a statement by the former Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk. After Scholz canceled a trip to Kiev in solidarity with the disinvited Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier last year, he accused Scholz of “playing the insulted liver sausage”.
Source: Stern
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