Who Would Have Thought.

Germans begin to smell desperation descending over the land of Bismarck and Goethe. Desperate times--desperate measures. It is too late now, but as the wisdom goes--better late than never. 

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder remains a valued member of the country’s ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) despite narrowly avoiding expulsion over his refusal to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin, the SPD’s new general secretary has said. Asked by Germany’s Stern magazine whether there was room for Schroeder in the senior ranks of the SPD, incoming General Secretary Matthias Miersch replied “Yes. Otherwise Gerhard Schroeder would have had to be expelled from the party.” Miersch, who was named as the party’s new leader earlier this month, told Stern on Monday that he can appreciate Schroeder’s “life’s work as a whole… even if I have a fundamentally different view on Putin and the attack on Ukraine.” Miersch listed Schoeder’s refusal to take part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, his endorsement of same-sex partnerships, and his funding of schools as some of the former chancellor’s crowning achievements. “We never did politics together, but like many others, I was able to build on his work,” Miersch added.

Really? "able to build on his work"--fuck me ten ways over this afternoon. Gerhard Schroeder and Vladimir Putin are very good personal friends, and it was on Schroeder's watch that so much was accomplished in Russian-German relations. SPD and Grune unholy alliance finished Germany off. Now, when the prospects of Germany becoming a third world country begin to look all too real and Russians now burn German Leopards in 404, they recognized that they need energy. Well, it doesn't work like this--Germany has committed a treason of relations and now is Russia's enemy. So, SPD tries to engage with one of a very few honorable men in Germany's otherwise brothel of perverts and fanatics who populate Germany's political "elite". Nope, doesn't work like this. For majority of Russians Germany is the enemy and will remain so for generations. Everything else flows from this.