Relationship with Russia: Kretschmer: Russia is a reality

Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) is based on the fact that an approximation between Germany and Russia will be possible again in the future. “Russia is a reality. Russia under President (Vladimir) Putin is currently a danger,” he said in the ARD “daily topics”.

“But we have to believe that we have to work for the fact that other times come again, that we can come back together and do things together.” Otherwise you won’t live safely on this continent.

Kretschmer is one of the politicians who asked for diplomatic efforts for an end to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. “Obviously our was, my attitude was also the right one,” he said now. “If we had done so a year or two ago, many people would still be alive.”

But now you have to draw the right conclusions from the current location. Kretschmer defended the billion -dollar financial package, with which significantly more money is to flow into the defense of Germany. “We see what happens in Russia, in other places in the world. We see that America is not as reliable as the decades are.” In Germany you can only have prosperity and a good future for the children and grandchildren if Germany is sure and you live in peace.

However, one will also have to talk about what had gone wrong in the last two to three years “in the question of the failed diplomatic efforts to terminate this war in Europe”. “The fact that it is now the American president who is doing business over us to make this war to stop, and the Europeans sit next to it, amazed and ask that they come to the table – this is so bitter. And it also shows how little we still have to say in the world.”