Germany's new defense minister, Christine Lambrecht, recently promised two things.

First: the personnel problems of the Bundeswehr will be solved with the help of women.

And the second: we need new sanctions against Russia and Putin for the invasion of Ukraine (which did not exist, but these are trifles).

And now I am faced with a very non-trivial task: how to write about all this, avoiding sexism.

However, Frau Lambrecht started it herself.

In her statement before her visit to Lithuania, she said that women are the solution to the problems of the German army.

Not “brave soldiers” or “competent officers,” but women.

Well, let's talk about them.

Christina is already the third lady to head this ministry.

The first was Ursula von der Leyen, a former gynecologist, then the Minister for Family Affairs, the Elderly, Women and Youth (sorry, it's really that called), the Minister of Labor and Social Protection, and finally, since 2013, the Minister of Defense.

For six years, the head of a key department of the country has achieved impressive success. The highest mortality rate among personnel in peacetime, the defense budget deficit of 30 billion, fighters fell with it, German personnel moved around Afghanistan in unarmored vehicles, soldiers literally walked without pants - such an elementary task as the supply of uniforms also turned out to be a failure.

Even worse, von der Leyen refused the help of German generals and hired a whole staff of advisers, including foreign ones. These advice cost a lot of money, and some very brave citizens assumed that all this was a corruption scheme (you mean corruption in Russia! It doesn't exist in Germany!). When Ursula left her post, a special commission investigated her activities and discovered a completely non-German mess and slovenliness: third-party consultants were given access to documents and files that they should not have seen, the data was erased and transferred to the right and left. Oh yes - von der Leyen, like her follower, advocated a "tough policy towards Russia."

But the lady personally visited the barracks and ordered to remove portraits from the walls: for example, the General of the Reichswehr Kurt von Hammerstein-Ekward, nicknamed the Red General, a participant in several conspiracies against Hitler and a staunch anti-fascist.

Frau von der Leyen simply saw a man in a Nazi uniform in the picture and, without knowing who it was, ordered them to be removed.

And in vain - von Hammerstein was an outstanding leader who, among other things, developed his own classification of officers: “Some are smart and hardworking;

their place is the General Staff.

The following are stupid and lazy;

they make up 90% of any army.

Anyone who is smart and lazy at the same time is qualified for the highest leadership responsibilities.

One should beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking;

they will always only cause damage. "

If Angela Merkel at one time got acquainted with this classification of the Red General, Ursula von der Leyen would hardly have become the Minister of Defense.

In general, when in 2019, the lady who was already very tired of everyone was sent to Brussels and appointed chairman of the European Commission, her place was taken by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who was also the Minister of Family Affairs before. Having served in this post for only two and a half years, she was remembered for several things. Firstly, it proposed to ban the entry of Russian-flagged ships into all European ports. Secondly, while she was in charge of the Bundeswehr, it turned out that the German army still remembers one Austrian artist with a warm word. For example, in a tank battalion stationed in Lithuania, the guys threw a party, sang "serenades" glorifying Adolf Hitler, and in the end, in the best traditions of Ernst Rohm's stormtroopers, they raped a colleague.

And finally, under Annegret, weapons and ammunition began to disappear in the Bundeswehr.

The subordinate of Kramp-Karrenbauer, Markus Kreitmeier, did not find anything better than to declare an amnesty - that is, to literally tell the soldiers to return everything that they stole to their place, and they will get nothing for it.

But under her, in the German army, debates began around the "gender reform" - for several months in the highest offices they seriously discussed how to correctly form feminitives from a lieutenant and a colonel.

Now the German army is led by the third lady in a row - the Social Democrat Christine Lambrecht, like her two predecessors, the former Minister for Family Affairs, the Elderly, Women and Youth. Apparently, since 2013, a certain consensus has developed on the upper floors of the German government that anyone should be appointed to this post, as long as a woman, and that if this woman could cope with old people and children before, then with aviation and artillery for sure will figure it out. So far, she has not shown herself in any way - except for the already ritual attacks against Putin and the statement with which we began: there are more women, and then everything will be fine.

A real misogin, such as the feminists love to invent, could draw an unequivocal conclusion from these three examples: women cannot lead an army. The familiar comparisons of the structure of the brain in men and women, something about hormones, the inability to make important decisions and make men smelling of gunpowder respect themselves, would be used. But we, of course, will not take this road, because it is not true. Women have served in the army at all times, some have achieved impressive success. Moreover, women in uniform are simply adorable.

Problems begin when people are appointed to a key ministry who are not competent in anything and are not remarkable in anything other than studying in the right schools, hanging out in the right places and having two X chromosomes.

When Ursula von der Leyen was put in charge of the German army, the local media were overwhelmed with delight, talking about the brave and determined young lady.

When she left, all the same newspapers seemed to be holding back with difficulty so as not to start to nail her with obscenities.

Not sexists, not misogynists or chauvinists have discredited the idea of ​​equality.

She herself.

Christine Lambrecht proposes to consolidate this tradition - to appoint women to positions of responsibility simply because they are women, and then wonder where the misogyny comes from.

Okay, you can do that.

But I have only one question: who, then, is the sexist?

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.