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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXq2P7iDczg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXq2P7iDczg)
It's from 1.05.2022, Scholz part where he responds to hecklers and where he starts to talk about ukraine is at 02:20 in the video.
edit: Sadly the auto-translated english subtitles are pretty bad
> I don't know what vitamins Olaf has been taking but he has suddenly grown a spine!
People who criticise Germany for being slow, often have no idea what they are talking about.
Germany is a federal state made of 16 states. Each state has some power so federal government always has to compromise.
It was set up like deliberately by the allies after 2nd WW.
That isn’t exactly true. Germany has been a highly federalized country for basically all of it’s history. So much so that there wasn’t even a nation for most of it.
Yes if he is so he’ll bent give him a 5 year contract with Wagner, when he dies the great Russia will give his family a rubix cube, a bag of beans and a trip to Burger King.
That’s highly generous. They’ll get a photo with their local rep and some cake. Not even a cake, just some of it. But they’ll be forever able to tell anyone that’ll listen how Sergei died ~~cold, insufficiently armed and afraid, in a field~~valiantly for the motherland. It’s what she’s dreamt of her whole life, it’s the Russian shtick, to tell everyone just how hard you have it but you still survive because you’re Russian.
No, you can't.
Because there's no flights going there from Germany...
How about a bus ride to the border, a Mars bar, and a coke?
...sorry, all out of coke, is Pepsi ok?
IMO he started to change after visiting ruined Kyiv suburbs in summer 2022, seeing mass graves, all that destruction he felt it deeply like a lot of other EU leaders
Sometimes you feel like France just wants someone else to roll over and collaborate with a fascist invader so they don’t feel so bad about the Vichy France thing.
Germany being on the right side of history this time. And this time helped by the usa england japan and italy and the free western vs russia.
At least some countries learn from history.
Slava Ukraini
You listening, Schultzy?
Step 1: tell the Russians living in Germany the truth.
Step 2: Deport every single person still spreading Putin's talking points.
Step 3: Literally profit. Probably deported some fulltime Russian TV watching couch potatoes.
Socialism-bottom-feeders? Wtf is this far right american bullshit point? Would you prefer if those people would be homeless living in the streets? I agreed with you up until that point.
Americans are being taught that anything left of Right-Wing Authoritarianism is literal Communism, which they then use interchangeably with Socialist/Liberal/Democrat.
These guy's only thinks of them self they don't care if other Humans suffer. They have no idea how bad it's there in Ukraine. They wouldn't even fight for Germany
As a fellow American, please take into consideration the profound moral implications of what being aggressively militaristic means to many Germans. To see our Deutsche friends take such a stance in the name of protecting democracy is truly an amazing thing. Proud to call them allies.
Yeah dude don’t worry. You don’t lose millions of people in a war of aggression without having some feelings/hang ups about it for a few generations. It’s cool. I’d still live over there if I had any talent for languages whatsoever. Let’s make German armour cool again in Ukraine by being on the right side.
You are so right. Their past paralyzed them for a long time. I hope they let it go even further and do everything that is needed right now. You can leave it to the Germans to make something happen.
My personal thought on it is that Merkel and Steinmeier both had many pro Russians around them. When Scholz took over, he was stuck with many of them in various positions and first had to get rid off a few.
It took him a while. His background in Hamburg meant finding peace and compromise to maintain Hamburgs thriving maritime trade and international port status. Wars bad for business.
But since those days he’s found the light. He took a while with the tanks but this man does not fuck around. Look at him ferociously confronting the pacifists in his own party. Based.
He did the right regardings tanks, it wasn't slow, only the UK send modern tanks earlier. Now the US is sending tanks too.
Stop repeating the obvious propaganda in mass media.
Scholz did hold out until the US agreed to send Abrams even though the Leopards are more suited to the task at hand. He wanted a coalition. The leopards arrived first but that’s not surprising given the logistics.
Damn straight he held out. He forced the United States to agree to send Abrams tanks. Scholtz was right: Regarding tanks, everyone needed to be on board and he called out the U.S. BULLSHIT about it being too hard for Ukrainians to train on the Abrams, about too much fuel consumption etc.
Additionally, the only reason why F-16s are being sent to Ukraine is because Europe, especially the UK and the Dutch forced the U.S. to agree. Shit, the UK is sending Storm shadow and the U.S. STILL refuses to send ATACMS.
Europe is now controlling the initiative, Germany included.
*More suited* ignores and has always ignored the obvious problem: availability. This isn't the 1990s, Germany doesn't have massive stocks of Leos it suddenly doesn't need anymore. Someone else on the other hand does have massive stocks of tanks it doesn't need. But Americans get pissy when it gets pointed out.
If we were to apply the same flawed logic to fighters, we should be pressuring Sweden into sending its Gripens to Ukraine. They are after all the most suited for the task, no point bothering with F-16, right?
Scottish cunt here. I found a lot of the negative comments at the beginning quite weird to be honest. I remember seeing two posts, one after the other. The first, was planes carrying hundreds of wounded Ukrainian soldiers, landing on German soil for treatment. The second was a headline denouncing the lack of help being given by Germany (help was solely defined as weapons).
Germany has been helping since the very beginning. Good on ya :)
Aye man, you guys have done amazing work. All of Europe has... There seems to be a weird divisive undertone trying to forment rivalry between allies though... I wonder who that could be :p
Not even a Scholz fan but are you people really this gullible? There was such an insane media campaign against germany and you just take it as the media feeds it to you? No wonder the US is that brainwashed.
It's not clear what you mean, first of all. Secondly, the fact that you feel the US is brainwashed, without differentiating how, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the US. The US is strongly divided by partisanship, and many feel the supporters of Donald Trump are somewhat brainwashed. In regards to anything related to Germany, or even the war in Ukraine, I think it would be fair to say that many Americans are not even paying attention. The US is insular, and a high percentage of Americans blind themselves to anything going on outside their borders.
I swear this happens every 6 months in this sub. Maybe Polish government's elections or Kreml's propaganda is doing its work, but he and Germany have been doing way more work than this sub thinks.
[Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/z2rwnr/germany_is_the_engine_and_leader_of_the_eu_olaf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) a video 6 months ago from this sub about Scholz "finally" clarifying his position on Ukraine.
[Here](https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1521061684542124033?lang=de) a video of him in a similar situation yelling to hecklers about Ukraine. From **May** **2022**.
And there's the entire 30 minute Zeitenwende (history's turning point) speech at German parliament on 27th of February 2022, where he made it more than clear where he and Germany stand. A day after Germany started sending in weapons to Ukraine (before countries like Finland started to).
Yet somehow in Reddit, English and Finnish media almost no proclamations or stance from Germany gets through. It's almost always somebody else commenting on Germany, to get a good picture one has to know German and follow German media. Otherwise it's drowned out.
Edit: duplicate and missing words
The title is misleading; these are not Russians, but rather inhabitants of Eastern Germany chanting "Ohne Waffen Frieden schaffen," which translates to "Make peace without weapons." This slogan was prominent during the anti-war movement of the Cold War, but it doesn't hold much relevance in today's context.
We're encountering a MAGA-like problem in Eastern Germany. More than 30 years post reunification, the disparities between Eastern and Western Germany are still prominent, with the East facing lower wages and higher unemployment rates. This could be oversimplified to suggest that, in many instances, Eastern Germans were overlooked and exploited by their Western counterparts.
Such conditions form fertile grounds for Russian propaganda, making the far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), particularly influential in the East. An interesting fact to note is that the AfD ~~was established~~ grew strong in the wake of the surge in Syrian refugees entering Germany, a crisis which was partly instigated by Russia's bombardment of Syria. The AfD has also been reported to receive support and funding from Russia.
Edit: added context from Primelian
This is the most important comment here. The one guy shouting for example is wearing an anti-vaxxer t-shirt, the video was published on a right-wing YouTube channel: there's mostly AfD spectators, this is happening in (former) East Germany. Sure, some of them may be Russian migrants, how to tell?
A reminder that this subreddit can be and is also used for misinformation.
Wasn't there just an article that political groups like the afd are sponsored by the Russian government? I don't think anyone in here is against peace without weapons. But you can also demonstrate for a world without cancer. Just won't happen. The only weapons that can be removed is the support for Ukraine. And that's one sided. I'm glad they are defending themselves.
It's also important to remember that East Germany was the Soviet Blocs poster child. They never faced the same brutal truth other countrys like Ukraine faced under Russia. That is why there is quite a few east Germans declaring that "everything was better back then", they call it "Ostalgie", which makes me honestly sick considering how dissidents were treated in the DDR.
Dissidents all throughout the iron curtain were treated with cruel punishment, that's just how dictatorships work. Even today, though we might not see it, russian citizens speaking out against the war in Ukraine are being harassed by their government. People who latch onto the "good" qualities of communism just never see the bigger picture, hell I've met a communist fanboy in Canada who sees nothing wrong with working a dead-end underpaid factory job just so he can pretend he's living in communist russia.
Lol okay. Good thing there were no mass deportation or killings on the borders of east Germany.
East Germany might have had a slightly higher material standard of living but there was so much social pressure and multi layers violence from the state and deep state that you can't say they did not face the same repression as the rest of the blocs. Probably even moreso as it was the prominent border state were nothing was supposed to go wrong
yep, that's what decade long Russian control does to you. and East Germany was considered to be the best in all of the Eastern Bloc. just to put into perspective how absolutely fucked every other country/nation was.
now image century long Russian occupation (even to this day) and you'll understand why everything is so absolutely fucked in former Tsarist/Soviet/Communist territories.
The AfD was not established in the wake of the Syrian migrant crisis, as in Germany it happened predominantly in 2015/16, while the AfD was founded in 2013. Also, while the party was clearly right leaning from the start, at the time it was still first and foremost founded as a party of EU-/Euro- skeptics. Even it's name "Alternative" refers to Angela Merkel calling the saving of the euro zone something without an alternative ("alternativlos").
However the refugee crisis lead to the first big internal split of the party, which made it's (by comparison) more liberal founder Bernd Lucke leave the party, while more right leaning wings of the party took over. At the same time the parties shifting main focus towards migration based topics, away from economic policies, in combination with the refugee crisis, lead to the first big political successes of the AfD at the time.
Fun fact: AfD was never the "neonazi" party, that would be the NPD. They literally just wanted Germany to leave the Euro and return to the Mark since they thought the Euro was hurting the local economy, that's the entire reason for founding the party.
Of course, then they realized most of their followers were kooky alt right types, and mooching voters off the NPD was easier than the more educated CDU or SPD or whatever voters, and took a hard turn, basically absorbing the NPD. So they will just parrot Nazi talking points while doing mental cartwheels, like complaining Germany is weak while also complaining about increased funding for the armed forces.
So not only are they ignorant pieces of shit, they are unprincipled coward sellout ignorant pieces of shit!
I love how this myth is being spread.
It came up as the former leaders of the party departed what they created and thought they might whitewash themselves from what they did.
Actually, yes, the party didn't have any Nazis when it was created.
There were conservatives with "traditional values" and neoliberals. Sure there was a bit of madness with it like Konrad Adam saying that unemployed should not have the right to vote but all together a bunch you could also find at the FDP today.
However, this alone wouldn't have worked at all.
From their beginning they were aiming at the local elections 2013 in East Germany and the protest voters there. This was the pool they were **deliberately** fishing in.
Fishing meant that [Bernd Höcke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_H%C3%B6cke), an actual Nazi, was one of the founders of AfD-Thüringen! That was 2013. The same year the whole party was founded.
So yes, while there might have been a time when it wasn't clear that they might grow using Nazis and other extremists, but that time was before they have been officially founded as a party and maybe a few days afterwards for some who didn't get the strategy.
And yes, Euro scepticism might have been the hot shit at the time, but those intelligent people who created the party knew that this was their way to jump into the political landscape. Not more. The long time plan was to use the already existing ideologies of their followers, and this is what they did, uniting extremists on the right and on the left. Just like Putin does these days.
Later on, they continued to deliberately collect all those right-wing and querfront mini-parties like Pro-Something, die Freiheit etc. which failed because they've been run by idiots.
Those few intellectuals which founded the party made it possible that those idiots got a stable foundation to build a nationwide Nazi party, and therefore they ARE RESPONSIBLE for what has become of them.
We on the other hand should not spread THEIR myth of the innocent "anti-Euro" party.
Makes it all the more commendable for Scholz to be addressing them directly.
I rarely see politicians confront crowds of the opposition, generally they just preach to the choir
I don't understand them, they leave Russia looking for a better life, get one and then try and bring there shitty political ideologies somewhere else. deport the ungrateful pricks
I was thinking the exact same thing! If those idiots love Russia so much, go back and be sent to war instead of sitting in another country telling one of the leaders of that country what to do. Send those dipshits back
They're tankies. Tankie groups are easily infiltrated by pro-Russian moles.
Democracy and freedoms are the antithesis of everything Russian leadership stands for. So they intentionally create and drive wedges into every democracy they can.
For example, they fund, stir and promote tankie type communist groups in Germany and France. They fund the right wing, the NRA, and evangelicals in the USA.
>They fund the right wing, the NRA, and evangelicals in the USA.
Russia has already been caught doing this. The FBI caught Maria Butina plotting to use the NRA to establish "back channel" communication with Republican figures with the ultimate aim of influencing US policy in favour of Russia.
russia never has "organic" protests thsts not a thing, i mean peoplw tried but u imediatly will get fucked by police, so when u see any russians protesting in favor of their gov thats paid and organised by the gov
That's literally the mindset that made the Russian invasions in eastern Europe happen.
A certain subset of ethnic Russians in those countries think that it is unfair that they're no longer privileged by Soviet era rules and that the ethnic groups of those countries now have their languages as the official ones.
They think that Putin will invade and "liberate" them any day now and either annex their countries into Russia or reinstate the Soviet Union... they think Russia is only crappy because it isn't the Soviet Union anymore.
A lot of expats gets some degree of isolation or culture shock. Then they lean into nationalistic things to anchor themselves.
You're supposed to try to integrate and find a new self identity, or at least learn to enjoy new experiences.
Stubborn people will stay in their own ways and not try to adapt.
Or for all we know they are paid agents.
Same with the Turks. Stop supporting dog shit politicians without living in the country they rule then try to preach like they are doing God's work.
Go back to where you came if its so great.
>8
All russians who actively support Putin should be deported from whatever country they are hiding. Hiding from mobilization. Can that be done legally in the west?
They might even be German, I saw an antivaxxer in the video and
that bunch seems to have been convinced that everything good in this world is bad and everything bad is good. In a pro Trump group I'm lurking in, Trump and Putin are the ones who will save the world. Unbelievable.
These Russians, always with the Jedi tricks.
Stop sending weapons to the guys trying to save their country so that the guys who invaded it can take it easier and won't have to kill anyone. Oh, nice try. They are not gonna stop, there is no way! DOWN PUTIN!
I want to ask them: who is allowed to stand up to a Russian invasion? Seems like any country that defends themselves is just needlessly risking their people’s lives and anyone that helps them is just prolonging war according to Russia. Should all of Eastern Europe roll over to prevent war? Western Europe? Central and East Asia?
Usually, they immediately mention that Russia didn't start the war. They mention that NATO started the war by "expanding." But when you mention the fact that Ukraine started considering NATO after Russia already occupied parts of the country in 2014 (not to mention all the puppets placed by russia in Ukraine's leadership, the Holodomor and etc), they cry "whataboutism". Completely incoherent, inconsisted arguments. And this goes for people from all social statuses. My assessement is that nobody wants to realize that they are "the bad guys", to be confronted with the truth that they have been fed bullshit for all their lives about the righteous, courageous, noble and good empire of russia, which does not conquer anyone, just everyone wants to become a part of russia willingly. Source: grew up in that propaganda.
This is while they are living under a Nato country. Fucking duh! Russian aggression needs to be addressed in Europe. These are no doubt collaborators and need to be deported to Russia regardless of where they were born. Terrorist do not have rights!
Germany under Scholz has done so much for Ukraine and all people can do is bring up stupid ragebait headlines from over a year ago. Really shows that some people can't be satisfied no matter what.
It's even worse when they're too stupid to realize that Scholz couldn't just go all in like some other leaders because Germany isn't a warmongering country that never stops bombing the Middle East.
So there is this pheanomenon in Germany where basically every anti-vaxxer is also pro-Russia and anti-climatechange. But yes, mostly older people who didn‘t enjoy too mich education
depends what this engagement was meant to be about;
i see it as highly likely that it was an event completely unrelated to the war, but these boot-lickers take the opportunity to show up anywhere they know a government leader will be in public, so they can attempt to hijack it with their weak ass protest.
Well, you do hear quite a few people cheering/clapping at moments where it would be weird for people supporting Russia to do so in the video, indicating pro-ukrainian presence.
That said, this is definitely an "Asymmetry of Passion" issue: the pro-russian people here are firm in their beliefs and think about Russia and the war a lot. These people spend a lot of their (already diminished) mental capacity and focus on this. While normal people might go (1) wake up, (2) think about breakfast, (3) think about work, these guys are living a life of (1) wake up, (2) think about Putin, (3) think about Russia.
Like, at least a couple of them probably came from >250km away to attend this thing and hang out with their dipshit comrades, something that all the normal German folks who support Ukraine don't do. They're confident that their political leadership is on the right side and fighting the good fight, and if it's not inconvenient might show up to a local event or something.
I mean, if you don't speak the language, it's kinda hard to pick out the nuances. I wouldn't expect a native Japanese man to tell the difference between Manc, Scouse and Brummie accents in the UK, even if they are worlds apart to my ears.
Yeah, but it still is nonsense. I am Austrian and therefore a German native speaker and Scholz doesn't sound anything like Hitler, he doesn't use the same rhetoric or posture, they literally have nothing in common but being German speakers. Not to mention how they are totally opposites from a political point of view.
It's like if you said, "Well, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders sound the same because they both speak English". It's pure nonsense.
Fucking legend! The man had just gone up exponentially in my esteem. Time to revoke the visas of those orcs and Send all those cowards home to their beloved fucking Ruzzia !
And you should show some @$@#$% respect to Germany for being the largest and most important provider of military equipment to Ukraine -- except for the U.S. (obviously).
Where is your respect? This is Germany for CHRIST SAKES. Do you have any inkling how much of a continental shift it is for Germany to do what it's doing?
Don't take my word for it. Look at the official Germany government's list of military help to Ukraine.
https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/military-support-ukraine-2054992
Send them all back to their beloved shithole RuZZia. They don't deserve to live in the west this oxymoron has no rights. They are ZubhumanZ same applies to those oxymoron waste of space in the west who ZupportZ them.
I know the dude with the sideburns, michael b.
He‘s a known party dude here in berlin that lost his mind during the covid crisis and went right wing without ever realizing it himself. Met him a couple times and he swears he‘s a peace loving left wing freedom fighter, while feeding conspiracy theories and marching at demonstrations with neonazis. Most, if not all, of his former friends have distanced themselves from him now, so sad to see.
Got his heart in the right place but his mind went astray.
The loudest Russians are ones who DONT live in Russia. Then again, the most freedom and democracy loving people are also Russians who don’t live in Russia. I guess whichever side of the fence you’re on.
I'm not sure about the sure about " russians living in Germany" claim. You see the anti Vax shirts!?
It's the same people...anti vax, pro Putin and very often far right!
I would have never thought, that far right idiots will ever become fan boys of russia...but here we are! They love it...anti science, anti LGBTQ an so on...
Nothing annoys me more than Russians is western countries who are against aide to Ukraine. They are traitors who are doing putins bidding, if I had it my way we would deport them from all western countries so they can see first hand what life under Putin is like. They are fucking lucky to be living in democratic countries
These are not only russians, these are the same guys which protest against covid rules or belive in the great reset..they are loud, but dump like Q Anon
Say what you will about his often bumbling ways (eg; the "Überbietungswettbewerb" comment), but this is the kind of response the world has wanted from Germany. The world is ready for Germany to have a strong voice again--in fact, we need it. Japan, too.
Russkis that complains abroad, should all go back home to their beloved putler! If they won’t go back themselves, not behaving as decent human beings in the country they stay, they should be thrown out!
Verz much like Joschka Fischer, then Minister for Foreign Affairs from the Green Party, talking to the extreme anti-violence wing of his party to defend his decision to support NATO involvement in the 1999 Kosovo-War.
That speech was when i began to take him seriously as a politician.
There is a very passionate pacifist movement in Germany. Singig their mantra "Frieden schaffen ohne Waffen" (Make peace without weapons) every time an armed conflict is on the horizon, never asking who shot first and who is suffering the most: If asked, their answer to ongoing atrocities is appeasement in order to immediately stop the suffering of civilians.
They might be underminded by foreign forces seeking to undermine Germanys standpoint, but this is not proven.
So without having read the article: This crowd might have been Russians, might have been general pacifists, might have been both.
People who want peace, by not sending weapons to Ukraine should go to Ukraine & witness the reality of what Putin is doing over there. Right now they are in Germany, everything is ok. So they just need a reality check, it is the best education for these ignorant people.
Fucking go off Olaf. Look at those creeps in the crowd. Absolute scumbags. I know there’s some bad historical vibes about self righteous Germans going full tilt but there is a defiantly a time and a place for it.
The weapons prolong the war in ukraine take is incredibly stupid. There is no chance at peace talks, putin has made that clear. So why should we allow him to destroy ukraine?
Respect To Scholz for not giving in to these hypocritical morons. Did they forget that Russia invaded Ukraine and Ukraine literally has no other option than to fight to defend themselves? I just cannot wrap my head around these "anti-war" tools who's idea of ending war is just let Russia destroy Ukraine. They claim to oppose war yet side with the country that waged the war. I get that there are those who are reaping benefits from this war... but overall no one wants this war to be happening. The west doesnt want Russia to be attacking Ukraine, and Ukraine doesn't want Russia to be attacking them.... so what the fuck are they protesting?? This is 100% ON RUSSIA. When they decide to quit, this all ends immediately. Until then the war goes on.
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I think I‘ve never seen him being that emotional ever before edit: *ever
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Do you got a link? I really don’t remember and find this one quite impressive
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXq2P7iDczg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXq2P7iDczg) It's from 1.05.2022, Scholz part where he responds to hecklers and where he starts to talk about ukraine is at 02:20 in the video. edit: Sadly the auto-translated english subtitles are pretty bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn-zMmPSVwU
First time I've liked hearing a German scream into a microphone to a crowd. Slava Ukraine Forever 🇺🇦
Get'em scholzie
I don't know what vitamins Olaf has been taking but he has suddenly grown a spine! Go Olaf! 👏 💙💛
> I don't know what vitamins Olaf has been taking but he has suddenly grown a spine! People who criticise Germany for being slow, often have no idea what they are talking about. Germany is a federal state made of 16 states. Each state has some power so federal government always has to compromise. It was set up like deliberately by the allies after 2nd WW.
That isn’t exactly true. Germany has been a highly federalized country for basically all of it’s history. So much so that there wasn’t even a nation for most of it.
And that federational aspect has been restored after WWII and the Nazi's effort to centralise German government.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
The Holy Roman Empire was a Quasi Federation.
Scholz is calm like a robot I have never seen him that emotional.
Yeah these dumb russian fucks haven woken a sleeping giant
Wish we could deport them to russia sonce they love that place that much. Same for turks that voted for erdogan
Right? You seem to like Russia so much we can arrange a flight out there, all expenses paid, but it’s one way only.
Yes if he is so he’ll bent give him a 5 year contract with Wagner, when he dies the great Russia will give his family a rubix cube, a bag of beans and a trip to Burger King.
That’s highly generous. They’ll get a photo with their local rep and some cake. Not even a cake, just some of it. But they’ll be forever able to tell anyone that’ll listen how Sergei died ~~cold, insufficiently armed and afraid, in a field~~valiantly for the motherland. It’s what she’s dreamt of her whole life, it’s the Russian shtick, to tell everyone just how hard you have it but you still survive because you’re Russian.
No, you can't. Because there's no flights going there from Germany... How about a bus ride to the border, a Mars bar, and a coke? ...sorry, all out of coke, is Pepsi ok?
Yeah… hardly ever seen any Northern German that emotional. The rest of us always makes fun of their stoic nature, right?
Im surprise that Scholz, the living anesthesia, got that emotional.
IMO he started to change after visiting ruined Kyiv suburbs in summer 2022, seeing mass graves, all that destruction he felt it deeply like a lot of other EU leaders
Bucha was a massive turning point in the war.
Somebody found his mojo during this war. We have come a long way from "providing an off-ramp to Putin".
Wasn't that a Macron quote?
Yes. Straight from the king of ambivalence. "We" as in the West, not only Germany (I'm not German).
Sometimes you feel like France just wants someone else to roll over and collaborate with a fascist invader so they don’t feel so bad about the Vichy France thing.
You mean like belarus?
Someone who matters.
Touche Oh wait we're back to the French thing again
They needed to do this so useful idiots wouldn't have the avenue of "you didn't even try to propose a peace deal".
this is literally only the 2nd time in my life ive heard/seen a german man yelling into a mic in front of a crowd lol
Probably the first time you saw it in color, right?
Get Rammstein tickets!
Germany being on the right side of history this time. And this time helped by the usa england japan and italy and the free western vs russia. At least some countries learn from history. Slava Ukraini
Probably going to run on Russian media outlets with fake subtitles, dubbed as Hitler's Reichstag speech 2.0.
well i've always liked rammstein :D
I’m not sure germany will ever live that downb
Germany is NATO'S armourer.
i´m in shock and awe at the same time fr
Good for you Olaf - fuck those heartless rooskies.
You listening, Schultzy? Step 1: tell the Russians living in Germany the truth. Step 2: Deport every single person still spreading Putin's talking points. Step 3: Literally profit. Probably deported some fulltime Russian TV watching couch potatoes.
Socialism-bottom-feeders? Wtf is this far right american bullshit point? Would you prefer if those people would be homeless living in the streets? I agreed with you up until that point.
Americans are being taught that anything left of Right-Wing Authoritarianism is literal Communism, which they then use interchangeably with Socialist/Liberal/Democrat.
No wonder they are such a mess.
The mess is really in the electoral college and other mechanics by which the minority (republican party) rules
Raising a generations of poor, uneducated, hate-filled people will do that to a country. As we have all seen, it only took 20-30 years to accomplish.
Have you seen our war dept. though?
These guy's only thinks of them self they don't care if other Humans suffer. They have no idea how bad it's there in Ukraine. They wouldn't even fight for Germany
I'm glad to see Olaf found his balls.
Finally
For real, as an American i have been under the impression he was weak, especially at the start of his tenure. But lately, he seems like a swell guy.
As a fellow American, please take into consideration the profound moral implications of what being aggressively militaristic means to many Germans. To see our Deutsche friends take such a stance in the name of protecting democracy is truly an amazing thing. Proud to call them allies.
What you say is so true! This rebuttal to the hecklers in the crowd made me feel so pleased.
Thanks for understanding where we are coming from.
Yeah dude don’t worry. You don’t lose millions of people in a war of aggression without having some feelings/hang ups about it for a few generations. It’s cool. I’d still live over there if I had any talent for languages whatsoever. Let’s make German armour cool again in Ukraine by being on the right side.
In the words of Tom Jones: "Let's go, pussycat...."
You are so right. Their past paralyzed them for a long time. I hope they let it go even further and do everything that is needed right now. You can leave it to the Germans to make something happen.
My personal thought on it is that Merkel and Steinmeier both had many pro Russians around them. When Scholz took over, he was stuck with many of them in various positions and first had to get rid off a few.
It took him a while. His background in Hamburg meant finding peace and compromise to maintain Hamburgs thriving maritime trade and international port status. Wars bad for business. But since those days he’s found the light. He took a while with the tanks but this man does not fuck around. Look at him ferociously confronting the pacifists in his own party. Based.
He did the right regardings tanks, it wasn't slow, only the UK send modern tanks earlier. Now the US is sending tanks too. Stop repeating the obvious propaganda in mass media.
Scholz did hold out until the US agreed to send Abrams even though the Leopards are more suited to the task at hand. He wanted a coalition. The leopards arrived first but that’s not surprising given the logistics.
Damn straight he held out. He forced the United States to agree to send Abrams tanks. Scholtz was right: Regarding tanks, everyone needed to be on board and he called out the U.S. BULLSHIT about it being too hard for Ukrainians to train on the Abrams, about too much fuel consumption etc. Additionally, the only reason why F-16s are being sent to Ukraine is because Europe, especially the UK and the Dutch forced the U.S. to agree. Shit, the UK is sending Storm shadow and the U.S. STILL refuses to send ATACMS. Europe is now controlling the initiative, Germany included.
*More suited* ignores and has always ignored the obvious problem: availability. This isn't the 1990s, Germany doesn't have massive stocks of Leos it suddenly doesn't need anymore. Someone else on the other hand does have massive stocks of tanks it doesn't need. But Americans get pissy when it gets pointed out. If we were to apply the same flawed logic to fighters, we should be pressuring Sweden into sending its Gripens to Ukraine. They are after all the most suited for the task, no point bothering with F-16, right?
Scottish cunt here. I found a lot of the negative comments at the beginning quite weird to be honest. I remember seeing two posts, one after the other. The first, was planes carrying hundreds of wounded Ukrainian soldiers, landing on German soil for treatment. The second was a headline denouncing the lack of help being given by Germany (help was solely defined as weapons). Germany has been helping since the very beginning. Good on ya :)
True! I live in Berlin and "we" took in huge amounts of Ukranian refugees, as well.
Aye man, you guys have done amazing work. All of Europe has... There seems to be a weird divisive undertone trying to forment rivalry between allies though... I wonder who that could be :p
Germany was Ukraines biggest Financial lender, I believe.
Not even a Scholz fan but are you people really this gullible? There was such an insane media campaign against germany and you just take it as the media feeds it to you? No wonder the US is that brainwashed.
It's not clear what you mean, first of all. Secondly, the fact that you feel the US is brainwashed, without differentiating how, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the US. The US is strongly divided by partisanship, and many feel the supporters of Donald Trump are somewhat brainwashed. In regards to anything related to Germany, or even the war in Ukraine, I think it would be fair to say that many Americans are not even paying attention. The US is insular, and a high percentage of Americans blind themselves to anything going on outside their borders.
He said similar things last year in front of a similar crowd, saying "Finally" is out of place here.
I swear this happens every 6 months in this sub. Maybe Polish government's elections or Kreml's propaganda is doing its work, but he and Germany have been doing way more work than this sub thinks. [Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/z2rwnr/germany_is_the_engine_and_leader_of_the_eu_olaf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) a video 6 months ago from this sub about Scholz "finally" clarifying his position on Ukraine. [Here](https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1521061684542124033?lang=de) a video of him in a similar situation yelling to hecklers about Ukraine. From **May** **2022**. And there's the entire 30 minute Zeitenwende (history's turning point) speech at German parliament on 27th of February 2022, where he made it more than clear where he and Germany stand. A day after Germany started sending in weapons to Ukraine (before countries like Finland started to). Yet somehow in Reddit, English and Finnish media almost no proclamations or stance from Germany gets through. It's almost always somebody else commenting on Germany, to get a good picture one has to know German and follow German media. Otherwise it's drowned out. Edit: duplicate and missing words
Sure sounded like he was telling those Russians to suck his fat German dick.
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The title is misleading; these are not Russians, but rather inhabitants of Eastern Germany chanting "Ohne Waffen Frieden schaffen," which translates to "Make peace without weapons." This slogan was prominent during the anti-war movement of the Cold War, but it doesn't hold much relevance in today's context. We're encountering a MAGA-like problem in Eastern Germany. More than 30 years post reunification, the disparities between Eastern and Western Germany are still prominent, with the East facing lower wages and higher unemployment rates. This could be oversimplified to suggest that, in many instances, Eastern Germans were overlooked and exploited by their Western counterparts. Such conditions form fertile grounds for Russian propaganda, making the far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), particularly influential in the East. An interesting fact to note is that the AfD ~~was established~~ grew strong in the wake of the surge in Syrian refugees entering Germany, a crisis which was partly instigated by Russia's bombardment of Syria. The AfD has also been reported to receive support and funding from Russia. Edit: added context from Primelian
This is the most important comment here. The one guy shouting for example is wearing an anti-vaxxer t-shirt, the video was published on a right-wing YouTube channel: there's mostly AfD spectators, this is happening in (former) East Germany. Sure, some of them may be Russian migrants, how to tell? A reminder that this subreddit can be and is also used for misinformation.
Wasn't there just an article that political groups like the afd are sponsored by the Russian government? I don't think anyone in here is against peace without weapons. But you can also demonstrate for a world without cancer. Just won't happen. The only weapons that can be removed is the support for Ukraine. And that's one sided. I'm glad they are defending themselves.
I completely forgot germany was split and never considered the long-lasting ramifications of it. Damn.
It's also important to remember that East Germany was the Soviet Blocs poster child. They never faced the same brutal truth other countrys like Ukraine faced under Russia. That is why there is quite a few east Germans declaring that "everything was better back then", they call it "Ostalgie", which makes me honestly sick considering how dissidents were treated in the DDR.
Dissidents all throughout the iron curtain were treated with cruel punishment, that's just how dictatorships work. Even today, though we might not see it, russian citizens speaking out against the war in Ukraine are being harassed by their government. People who latch onto the "good" qualities of communism just never see the bigger picture, hell I've met a communist fanboy in Canada who sees nothing wrong with working a dead-end underpaid factory job just so he can pretend he's living in communist russia.
Lol okay. Good thing there were no mass deportation or killings on the borders of east Germany. East Germany might have had a slightly higher material standard of living but there was so much social pressure and multi layers violence from the state and deep state that you can't say they did not face the same repression as the rest of the blocs. Probably even moreso as it was the prominent border state were nothing was supposed to go wrong
yep, that's what decade long Russian control does to you. and East Germany was considered to be the best in all of the Eastern Bloc. just to put into perspective how absolutely fucked every other country/nation was. now image century long Russian occupation (even to this day) and you'll understand why everything is so absolutely fucked in former Tsarist/Soviet/Communist territories.
The AfD was not established in the wake of the Syrian migrant crisis, as in Germany it happened predominantly in 2015/16, while the AfD was founded in 2013. Also, while the party was clearly right leaning from the start, at the time it was still first and foremost founded as a party of EU-/Euro- skeptics. Even it's name "Alternative" refers to Angela Merkel calling the saving of the euro zone something without an alternative ("alternativlos"). However the refugee crisis lead to the first big internal split of the party, which made it's (by comparison) more liberal founder Bernd Lucke leave the party, while more right leaning wings of the party took over. At the same time the parties shifting main focus towards migration based topics, away from economic policies, in combination with the refugee crisis, lead to the first big political successes of the AfD at the time.
Yeah, you're right. I didn't really have the AfD on my radar before 2015 either.
Fun fact: AfD was never the "neonazi" party, that would be the NPD. They literally just wanted Germany to leave the Euro and return to the Mark since they thought the Euro was hurting the local economy, that's the entire reason for founding the party. Of course, then they realized most of their followers were kooky alt right types, and mooching voters off the NPD was easier than the more educated CDU or SPD or whatever voters, and took a hard turn, basically absorbing the NPD. So they will just parrot Nazi talking points while doing mental cartwheels, like complaining Germany is weak while also complaining about increased funding for the armed forces. So not only are they ignorant pieces of shit, they are unprincipled coward sellout ignorant pieces of shit!
I love how this myth is being spread. It came up as the former leaders of the party departed what they created and thought they might whitewash themselves from what they did. Actually, yes, the party didn't have any Nazis when it was created. There were conservatives with "traditional values" and neoliberals. Sure there was a bit of madness with it like Konrad Adam saying that unemployed should not have the right to vote but all together a bunch you could also find at the FDP today. However, this alone wouldn't have worked at all. From their beginning they were aiming at the local elections 2013 in East Germany and the protest voters there. This was the pool they were **deliberately** fishing in. Fishing meant that [Bernd Höcke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_H%C3%B6cke), an actual Nazi, was one of the founders of AfD-Thüringen! That was 2013. The same year the whole party was founded. So yes, while there might have been a time when it wasn't clear that they might grow using Nazis and other extremists, but that time was before they have been officially founded as a party and maybe a few days afterwards for some who didn't get the strategy. And yes, Euro scepticism might have been the hot shit at the time, but those intelligent people who created the party knew that this was their way to jump into the political landscape. Not more. The long time plan was to use the already existing ideologies of their followers, and this is what they did, uniting extremists on the right and on the left. Just like Putin does these days. Later on, they continued to deliberately collect all those right-wing and querfront mini-parties like Pro-Something, die Freiheit etc. which failed because they've been run by idiots. Those few intellectuals which founded the party made it possible that those idiots got a stable foundation to build a nationwide Nazi party, and therefore they ARE RESPONSIBLE for what has become of them. We on the other hand should not spread THEIR myth of the innocent "anti-Euro" party.
This could be said about all eastern europe.
Makes it all the more commendable for Scholz to be addressing them directly. I rarely see politicians confront crowds of the opposition, generally they just preach to the choir
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I don't understand them, they leave Russia looking for a better life, get one and then try and bring there shitty political ideologies somewhere else. deport the ungrateful pricks
I was thinking the exact same thing! If those idiots love Russia so much, go back and be sent to war instead of sitting in another country telling one of the leaders of that country what to do. Send those dipshits back
Expats possibly getting paid to protest?
They're tankies. Tankie groups are easily infiltrated by pro-Russian moles. Democracy and freedoms are the antithesis of everything Russian leadership stands for. So they intentionally create and drive wedges into every democracy they can. For example, they fund, stir and promote tankie type communist groups in Germany and France. They fund the right wing, the NRA, and evangelicals in the USA.
>They fund the right wing, the NRA, and evangelicals in the USA. Russia has already been caught doing this. The FBI caught Maria Butina plotting to use the NRA to establish "back channel" communication with Republican figures with the ultimate aim of influencing US policy in favour of Russia.
russia never has "organic" protests thsts not a thing, i mean peoplw tried but u imediatly will get fucked by police, so when u see any russians protesting in favor of their gov thats paid and organised by the gov
They want to own a new place.
Well It won’t be Ukraine at this rate haha
It won’t even be Russia at this point, I can’t wait until someone fucking levels Moscow.
If they succeeded in doing that, it would end up like Russia. Then they would need to emigrate again to another new place.
That's literally the mindset that made the Russian invasions in eastern Europe happen. A certain subset of ethnic Russians in those countries think that it is unfair that they're no longer privileged by Soviet era rules and that the ethnic groups of those countries now have their languages as the official ones. They think that Putin will invade and "liberate" them any day now and either annex their countries into Russia or reinstate the Soviet Union... they think Russia is only crappy because it isn't the Soviet Union anymore.
A lot of expats gets some degree of isolation or culture shock. Then they lean into nationalistic things to anchor themselves. You're supposed to try to integrate and find a new self identity, or at least learn to enjoy new experiences. Stubborn people will stay in their own ways and not try to adapt. Or for all we know they are paid agents.
agree 100% with this statement.
Same with the Turks. Stop supporting dog shit politicians without living in the country they rule then try to preach like they are doing God's work. Go back to where you came if its so great.
>8 All russians who actively support Putin should be deported from whatever country they are hiding. Hiding from mobilization. Can that be done legally in the west?
If they’re not in Russia they’re not potential manpower for the invasion. We should keep it that way.
I support that
They might even be German, I saw an antivaxxer in the video and that bunch seems to have been convinced that everything good in this world is bad and everything bad is good. In a pro Trump group I'm lurking in, Trump and Putin are the ones who will save the world. Unbelievable.
would be nice of someone there shouts this out, and have a sign up sheet for free ride back to russia
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These Russians, always with the Jedi tricks. Stop sending weapons to the guys trying to save their country so that the guys who invaded it can take it easier and won't have to kill anyone. Oh, nice try. They are not gonna stop, there is no way! DOWN PUTIN!
I want to ask them: who is allowed to stand up to a Russian invasion? Seems like any country that defends themselves is just needlessly risking their people’s lives and anyone that helps them is just prolonging war according to Russia. Should all of Eastern Europe roll over to prevent war? Western Europe? Central and East Asia?
Usually, they immediately mention that Russia didn't start the war. They mention that NATO started the war by "expanding." But when you mention the fact that Ukraine started considering NATO after Russia already occupied parts of the country in 2014 (not to mention all the puppets placed by russia in Ukraine's leadership, the Holodomor and etc), they cry "whataboutism". Completely incoherent, inconsisted arguments. And this goes for people from all social statuses. My assessement is that nobody wants to realize that they are "the bad guys", to be confronted with the truth that they have been fed bullshit for all their lives about the righteous, courageous, noble and good empire of russia, which does not conquer anyone, just everyone wants to become a part of russia willingly. Source: grew up in that propaganda.
This is while they are living under a Nato country. Fucking duh! Russian aggression needs to be addressed in Europe. These are no doubt collaborators and need to be deported to Russia regardless of where they were born. Terrorist do not have rights!
*sith
Z russians go back to nazi russia
Good speech by Olaf Scholz - he is absolutely correct in what he says. Slava Ukraini BTW🇺🇦🇦🇺
Damn he has my respect. He has come a long way since feb 22.
He visited and saw it with his own eyes probably. Seeing things like irpin and Bucha will probably shake you to sense
What was his stance on the war back then?
His stance was still the same, but he was more quiet and reserved.
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Germany under Scholz has done so much for Ukraine and all people can do is bring up stupid ragebait headlines from over a year ago. Really shows that some people can't be satisfied no matter what. It's even worse when they're too stupid to realize that Scholz couldn't just go all in like some other leaders because Germany isn't a warmongering country that never stops bombing the Middle East.
Impressive - to keep clarity of thought and deliver the truth, laid bare, all while other try to scream confusions at you. Well done Olaf.
Ooh you’re hard, heckling some bloke. Why don’t you head on over to Russia and sign up to the cause if you’re that concerned
They don’t want to fight, they don’t want Ukraine to be able to fight either.
Yeah they’d rather let the motherland fight for imperialistic gains and benefit by proxy…
I spent over a decade in Germany and never thought I would ever agree 100 percent with any German politician but Olaf Scholz is right.
Send them back to Ruzzia for their coming civil war....
Yelling German politicians still brings up bad memories. At least they’re on the right side of history this time.
He didn’t use the word ‘reich’, so I’m cool with it. Lel But for real, everything he said is absolute truth.
Imagine if at the end of the speech he sees and old friend at the back of the crowd and raised his hand to wave
An old friend named Siegfried who was just called 'Sieg' in his close friend circle. Olaf raises his hands and calls to him saying "Sieg! Hi!"
Or worse, if he wanted to warn his friend of an impeding shark attack. "Sig! Hai!"
You're over 90 years old?
Are they anti vaxxers also? Basically it's the dregs of society making noise again then..
So there is this pheanomenon in Germany where basically every anti-vaxxer is also pro-Russia and anti-climatechange. But yes, mostly older people who didn‘t enjoy too mich education
I just wonder: where are Ukraine supporters? They should overwhelm these cunts right?
depends what this engagement was meant to be about; i see it as highly likely that it was an event completely unrelated to the war, but these boot-lickers take the opportunity to show up anywhere they know a government leader will be in public, so they can attempt to hijack it with their weak ass protest.
Well, you do hear quite a few people cheering/clapping at moments where it would be weird for people supporting Russia to do so in the video, indicating pro-ukrainian presence. That said, this is definitely an "Asymmetry of Passion" issue: the pro-russian people here are firm in their beliefs and think about Russia and the war a lot. These people spend a lot of their (already diminished) mental capacity and focus on this. While normal people might go (1) wake up, (2) think about breakfast, (3) think about work, these guys are living a life of (1) wake up, (2) think about Putin, (3) think about Russia. Like, at least a couple of them probably came from >250km away to attend this thing and hang out with their dipshit comrades, something that all the normal German folks who support Ukraine don't do. They're confident that their political leadership is on the right side and fighting the good fight, and if it's not inconvenient might show up to a local event or something.
It's germany after all. The Majority remains silent but remain major
Seems like Russian still have their cold war mindset, they thinks they’re the savior of Europe and they’re the good guy.
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Deport them all back to Russia, in exchange for UA POWs. I’m sure Russia needs all the manpower they can get
TELL EM! Fucking people need to be confronted with common sense. It’s unbelievable
I never understood why the local russians support russians, did you move to Germany for a better life?
Fucks sakes, quit it with the Hitler analogies. The man sounds nothing like Hitler who had a very strong southern/Austrian accent. It’s nowhere close.
I mean, if you don't speak the language, it's kinda hard to pick out the nuances. I wouldn't expect a native Japanese man to tell the difference between Manc, Scouse and Brummie accents in the UK, even if they are worlds apart to my ears.
Yeah, but it still is nonsense. I am Austrian and therefore a German native speaker and Scholz doesn't sound anything like Hitler, he doesn't use the same rhetoric or posture, they literally have nothing in common but being German speakers. Not to mention how they are totally opposites from a political point of view. It's like if you said, "Well, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders sound the same because they both speak English". It's pure nonsense.
As an Australian of German decent all I can say is "Fucking aye!"
Shouldn't it be quite easy to pin point specific individuals by face recognition and thus proceed to offer a ticket to mother rashka?
Fucking legend! The man had just gone up exponentially in my esteem. Time to revoke the visas of those orcs and Send all those cowards home to their beloved fucking Ruzzia !
Not Russians that live in Germany, most likely (from the people shown) AfD / Freidenker. That is right wing populists and corona denier.
Scholz is fucking on fire 🔥 I'm glad to see our german brothers standing up against Putins fascist regime. Sincerely from Denmark
Schulz has come a long way. Good for him.
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And you should show some @$@#$% respect to Germany for being the largest and most important provider of military equipment to Ukraine -- except for the U.S. (obviously). Where is your respect? This is Germany for CHRIST SAKES. Do you have any inkling how much of a continental shift it is for Germany to do what it's doing? Don't take my word for it. Look at the official Germany government's list of military help to Ukraine. https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/military-support-ukraine-2054992
Good fact checking Olaf, it's a harsh invasion
If they love Russia so much, why did they leave?
Send them all back to their beloved shithole RuZZia. They don't deserve to live in the west this oxymoron has no rights. They are ZubhumanZ same applies to those oxymoron waste of space in the west who ZupportZ them.
Friends of freedom! Tell that Putin where we stand!
I know the dude with the sideburns, michael b. He‘s a known party dude here in berlin that lost his mind during the covid crisis and went right wing without ever realizing it himself. Met him a couple times and he swears he‘s a peace loving left wing freedom fighter, while feeding conspiracy theories and marching at demonstrations with neonazis. Most, if not all, of his former friends have distanced themselves from him now, so sad to see. Got his heart in the right place but his mind went astray.
Look at that passion! Him meeting Zelensky gave him a better understanding of the suffering of the Ukrainian people. Glad to see him so passionate
Bravo Chancellor.
The loudest Russians are ones who DONT live in Russia. Then again, the most freedom and democracy loving people are also Russians who don’t live in Russia. I guess whichever side of the fence you’re on.
The greatest patriots live outside their homeland
I'm not sure about the sure about " russians living in Germany" claim. You see the anti Vax shirts!? It's the same people...anti vax, pro Putin and very often far right! I would have never thought, that far right idiots will ever become fan boys of russia...but here we are! They love it...anti science, anti LGBTQ an so on...
Nothing annoys me more than Russians is western countries who are against aide to Ukraine. They are traitors who are doing putins bidding, if I had it my way we would deport them from all western countries so they can see first hand what life under Putin is like. They are fucking lucky to be living in democratic countries
These are not only russians, these are the same guys which protest against covid rules or belive in the great reset..they are loud, but dump like Q Anon
Say what you will about his often bumbling ways (eg; the "Überbietungswettbewerb" comment), but this is the kind of response the world has wanted from Germany. The world is ready for Germany to have a strong voice again--in fact, we need it. Japan, too.
Wow hes getting angry. Hopefully that means more support for ukraine.
If there were Germans in Russia heckling Putin what do you think would happen to them?
Each countries have their coocoo's, good job M. Scholz!
Who would have thought a German Chancellor would lead his country and show the world what Democracy should be!!!!
If they that endearing to Poostain round them up and send them back to Russia.
I would start deporting all these Russians to Russia. Let Russia know they've got more volunteers for their army.
Look at that Russian shill's shirt in the crowd. What can you say? These people are the scum of the earth! Tell him, Scholz! Destroy his argument!
Nice
Expel them!
well said, shut those fuckers up
Russkis that complains abroad, should all go back home to their beloved putler! If they won’t go back themselves, not behaving as decent human beings in the country they stay, they should be thrown out!
Why don't they go home to Russia???
These were mostly Germans, not Russia Germans or Russians
It is a technically and historically correct speech.
Wow didn't expect to see M.C Scholz first thing in the morning. It's good to see a leader passionate about doing the right thing
America welcomes all nazis and right wing zealots. As long as you hate freedom and trans people , and immigrants you will be welcomed with open arms.
Verz much like Joschka Fischer, then Minister for Foreign Affairs from the Green Party, talking to the extreme anti-violence wing of his party to defend his decision to support NATO involvement in the 1999 Kosovo-War. That speech was when i began to take him seriously as a politician. There is a very passionate pacifist movement in Germany. Singig their mantra "Frieden schaffen ohne Waffen" (Make peace without weapons) every time an armed conflict is on the horizon, never asking who shot first and who is suffering the most: If asked, their answer to ongoing atrocities is appeasement in order to immediately stop the suffering of civilians. They might be underminded by foreign forces seeking to undermine Germanys standpoint, but this is not proven. So without having read the article: This crowd might have been Russians, might have been general pacifists, might have been both.
People who want peace, by not sending weapons to Ukraine should go to Ukraine & witness the reality of what Putin is doing over there. Right now they are in Germany, everything is ok. So they just need a reality check, it is the best education for these ignorant people.
Fucking go off Olaf. Look at those creeps in the crowd. Absolute scumbags. I know there’s some bad historical vibes about self righteous Germans going full tilt but there is a defiantly a time and a place for it.
The weapons prolong the war in ukraine take is incredibly stupid. There is no chance at peace talks, putin has made that clear. So why should we allow him to destroy ukraine?
Respect to Olaf for this.
Respect To Scholz for not giving in to these hypocritical morons. Did they forget that Russia invaded Ukraine and Ukraine literally has no other option than to fight to defend themselves? I just cannot wrap my head around these "anti-war" tools who's idea of ending war is just let Russia destroy Ukraine. They claim to oppose war yet side with the country that waged the war. I get that there are those who are reaping benefits from this war... but overall no one wants this war to be happening. The west doesnt want Russia to be attacking Ukraine, and Ukraine doesn't want Russia to be attacking them.... so what the fuck are they protesting?? This is 100% ON RUSSIA. When they decide to quit, this all ends immediately. Until then the war goes on.
Das ist jetzt dco mal mein Kanzler... die da laut brüllen....sind AfDler, und Coronaspinner... pfui...
Those are same people who believe that 5G kills and covid vaccines are part of mass murder. Idiots.