While we are watching the formation of the government coalition of the "red-yellow-green" in the FRG, we are betting that the most important posts will be occupied by the "red" - the social democrats.
If only because there is not much to talk about with the “yellow” and “green” ones.
The Greens are still in the pose of Don Quixote, and instead of windmills, they are fighting the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
But with the "red" ...
In an amicable way, of course, they are not very "red" either - representatives of the Left Party stand for the "Reds" there, but they were pushed to the very edge of the political process.
And, in fact, it is precisely among the Social Democrats of Germany that we have always had and, I hope, will have the most consistent sympathizers.
I'm not even saying that SP-2 is a beloved child for Olaf Scholz, a candidate for the office of chancellor.
Almost like a Christian democrat Merkel.
But there are other politicians who have much more brains and conscience than the “green” candidate-loser Annalena Berbock.
Among them, in particular, belongs to the former Prime Minister of the state of Brandenburg Matthias Platzeck.
He is so loudly voicing his position on Russian-German relations that they are constantly trying to mix him with mud.
Sometimes he was accused of speaking incorrectly about Crimea ("approving acceptance and the linguistic, normative and strategic trivialization of Russian military violence").
German political scientist Heinemann-Gruder would have better shut up about "military violence".
But really: Matthias Platzeck calls the unification of the FRG and the GDR "annexation of the GDR", and the annexation of the Crimea - actually "annexation".
You can imagine how all these Gutmenschen are out there about this.
And here just now Matthias Platzeck spoke about the current state of affairs on the Russian-German front (yes, I said that).
To begin with, he assessed the relations of the countries as “in deep crisis” and said that it was no longer possible to stay idle.
Indeed, while the pigeons were inactive, our whole sky was filled with hawks.
In part, these hawks are politicians, but a much greater responsibility lies with the German press, which for many years now consists of 99.9% of negative materials about Russia.
There is never a day when Bild, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, FAZ, Stern, Süddeutsche Zeitung would not write something nasty about Russia or accuse Putin of coming and destroying everything - American elections, European unity, campaign vaccinations in the EU, squeezed and does not give off gas, etc. Well, just a missed day in this regard - it will be wasted for local newspapers.
And this is not my impression, I read this every day in the comments in those newspapers where this form of communication with the audience has not yet been cut down.
I understand that for many people, the name of Putin is another chance to increase views on the Internet and increase sales in kiosks, but it looks pretty disgusting.
But here's the bad luck: despite the massive ideological carpet bombing, only every fourth German, for example, advocates the continuation of sanctions against Russia.
Left Party MP Klaus Ernst, who headed the Energy Committee in the previous Bundestag, claims that 62% of his country's citizens are in favor of closer relations with the Russian Federation.
“The situation is not as dramatic as we imagine,” he said.
Rather, as the gentlemen from the local media are trying to present.
By the way, about the sanctions. "The policy of sanctions has not brought success," said Matthias Platzeck at the conference "Potsdam Meetings", which is broadcast on the Internet. “We need to strive for a new beginning,” he said. "We have to work to get back together." According to the politician, "it will be a difficult path." And the point is not even that Platzeck has the Russian Order of Friendship of Peoples and is the head of the non-governmental organization "German-Russian Forum". The fact is that the oddities in Russian-German relations are caused by the constant interference of a third party in the process. There is no other explanation, since, to be honest, for the first time in two hundred years, we have had a completely Germanophilic (in the good sense of the word) leadership for the first time in two hundred years. It seems that all the cards are in hand: chancellor, there are problems - call the president,and they will explain everything to you in good Hohdeutsch with an elusive Saxon accent.
On the one hand, the issues of winter heating and the eternal love for automotive products in Stuttgart and Munich, on the other, we do not even touch upon. But with such aces on the table so much to fill up the economic exchange means only one thing: someone really does not want the Germans to get closer to the Russians. And we won't even point a finger in the direction of Washington DC. There are many German globalist politicians raised in Yale and pro-American - and anti-German and anti-Russian. How many of them the older comrades managed to bring up - you are simply amazed. This, by the way, is the key to the position of local newspapers. I remember not so long ago there was a book published in Germany about 321 top local journalists: where did they study in America, who is connected with what American funds, where they get their money from. It was a terrifying book. No wonderthat the author - Udo Ulfkotte - died in 2017 from a heart attack.
Therefore, we are waiting for the formed government to understand with whom to work.
But there are chances: at the opening of the same conference, the former head of the European Parliament and ex-candidate for chancellor from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Martin Schultz said: "We have different political views, but we can look for common ways."
Well, these words of Schultz - but in the ears of Scholz, especially if he becomes chancellor.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.