The Ukrainian Peacemaker website, which keeps track of the enemies of Ukraine, ranked the head of the Munich Conference on Security Wolfgang Ishinger as such. In principle, there is nothing supernatural. Antonina (the friendly nickname of Anton Yuryevich Gerashchenko, who is in charge of the site) is rowing with a very frequent comb. The number of enemies of Ukraine marked by the Peacemaker has long exceeded 100,000 and continues to multiply.

Along with the real opponents of the current Kiev regime, there were also people who were deeply apolitical (TV presenter A.N. Malakhov) and even more likely sympathizing with Kiev and certainly not on the side of Russia (TV presenter V.V. Pozner, lioness K.A. Sobchak) . The main contingent of Russian enemies generally consists of individuals: a) of any kind known (mainly singers and artists); b) at the same time, they visited Crimea after its reunification with Russia.

But, of course, Antonina noticed noble foreigners. The former chancellor of Germany Schroeder, the head of the Hungarian MIL Siyarto, the Syrian president Assad, etc. Here, “Peacemaker” agrees with the pro-scriptural “Putin List”, which is composed and replenished at the congresses in Vilnius by emigrants from “Free Russia” - Assad and Schroeder, as well as Marine Le Pen and our former compatriot Dmitry Simes (Simes) also appear in it .

The logic of the compilers is clear: where the horse with the hoof, there is cancer with the claw. When today important persons from Washington enthusiastically compile the proxy lists, he also wants to add small fry. And if the disabled team from Free Russia can already do this, then Antonina - after all, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Avakov - is it all the more appropriate to prepare the scriptures.

However, the fact is that with Ishinger in Kiev, it seems, they overdid it. Leading the Munich forum since 2009, Ischinger has an impeccable track record. In service in the German Foreign Ministry since 1975, he headed the political department of the ministry, was ambassador to Washington and London, in the 1990s he participated in negotiations on Yugoslavia, where he held a very firm position. He pointed out that "the position of Moscow, which blindly supports the Serbs on all issues, has nothing to do with a sense of solidarity with the Slav brothers, but is explained by Russia's desire to prevent the further expansion of NATO."

He spoke out for the supply of weapons to Kiev to fight separatism in the Donbass. He noted in 2019 (this is when Trump and Macron vigorously lobbied V.V. Putin to enter the G8 again), "that Russia's return to the G8 format will become a powerful slap in the face to Ukraine."

In a word, an old fighter, seasoned, Nordic character. Or, as R.I. said Khasbulatov, "This is a tested horse." And suddenly the old fighter was recorded as an enemy of Ukraine.

Moreover, the sin of the head of the Munich Conference against Ukrainian freedom is completely insignificant, if it can be called a sin at all, and not quite the opposite. During the last conference, a settlement plan in Ukraine went on the sidelines, consisting of 12 points, and its authors included the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (1998-2004) I.S. Ivanov, former British Secretary of Defense Des Brown and Ishinger himself. On the sidelines - because the status of the document remained unclear. That he appeared on the official website of the conference, then disappeared.

In terms of content, it partly coincided with the Minsk agreements, partly contained new points that would be more advantageous to the Ukrainian side — you won’t drink the experience of the Yugoslav settlement. On the whole, however, the document was weak and unclear; it was only suitable as a trial balloon, but was rejected by all as such. Only Ukraine responded to it, saying that it did not agree with this private initiative.

That would be the end of the matter - most trial balls burst, this is the law of diplomacy - if not for the power intervention of the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Antonina said that there is “an attempt on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine”, after which Herr Ishinger was on the list of villains along with Malakhov, Pozner and rapper Hoyny.

That is, an undoubted game on the side of Ukraine, but a little more subtle and not completely dubious, was immediately declared an enemy sortie worthy of being included in the transcripts. If there was no Peacemaker, he should have been invented.

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