The President of Germany could not imagine that Putin would go to the full economic, political and moral disintegration of his country.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted that His country's policy towards Russia was a mistake . Germany failed to create a “pan-European house with Russia's participation” and to include Moscow in the “common architecture of European security.” This was reported by DW.
“My commitment to the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline was a clear mistake. We clung to bridges that Russia no longer believed in, as our partners warned us, “Steinmeier said. European security architecture. ”
Steinmeier has recently been criticized for his silence on his personal miscalculations, especially during his tenure as foreign minister. The President of Germany clarified that he could not imagine that Putin “because of the imperial madness that engulfed him, will go to the full economic, political and moral disintegration of his country.”
The German leader blamed the Russian president for war against Ukraine and assured that with Russia under Putin “there will be no return to the pre-war status quo.”
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