Does anyone actually know what became of the association for clear pronunciation?

The last chairman known to us who committed himself to this honorary office was Franz Josef Strauss.

His voice pointed the way when one still had to choose between freedom and socialism, the Russians were at the door and the SPD was Moscow's fifth column in Germany.

Do we need to enumerate more parallels to underscore how much the Republic would need such a sharp-tongued orator today?

Strauss would have scoffed at the gender hiccups

Bertolt Kohler

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Strauss would not only have scoffed at the gender hiccups, but would also not have gone along with the whitewashed renaming of Belarus as Belarus. Speakers on radio and television emphasize the name as if they were talking about Bella Italia. Strauss would certainly not have let a political pygmy like Kevin Kühnert get away with accusing the Greens of warmongering. Of course, the chairman of the CSU would have reserved that for himself.

Where are we going if the partners in a coalition of progress and new beginnings put the opposition out of work on their honeymoon and stir things up against each other themselves? That is exactly what the SPD general secretary did when he warned that international conflicts should not be "talked about" in order to bury unwelcome projects like Nord Stream 2. By that, Kühnert could only have meant the Greens, because they alone are vehemently opposed to this project in Berlin. The CDU and CSU have also become such soft-spoken politicians in foreign policy that the prominent Munich figure in heaven can only shake his head at his incompetent successors on earth.

Kühnert's accusation is so serious that a committee of inquiry here should examine whether dangerous talk by the Greens or other German pacifists was to blame for Russia having to invade Ukraine, Georgia, Syria and most recently Kazakhstan in order to defend its right to territorial integrity to protect.

What is decisive, as is often said now, is not what we think and plan, but what Moscow thinks about it.

And we have long suspected that our "soft power" or what Chancellor Scholz now called "democratic leadership" could be an intolerable provocation, especially for democrats with clear inclusions, which can only be eliminated on the field of honor is to create.

Lambrecht's saber-rattling could have gotten nasty

So we have to de-escalate very quickly, even in terms of language. The fact that our defense minister announced that she was "targeting Putin and his entourage" could have been offensive. That's when you realize that Lambrecht hasn't had much to do with the military. When they hear such words, the hawks in Moscow immediately think of a decapitation blow with a hypersonic weapon. Lambrecht's continued saber-rattling, which would have made Kühnert faint from one faint to the next, presumably only did not lead to a nuclear war because the Russian secret service knows very well that we Germans do not want to get closer to the two percent target for the defense budget by purchasing missiles, but through the true-to-original restoration of sailing ships.

Our Social Democrats should really not babble on so recklessly, but rather heed the proverb more often: speech is silver, silence is golden. So do we really want to blame our chancellor for saying so little and so quietly? When the SPD ordered Scholz to lead, they probably forgot the tick on the sound, probably on purpose. The party already has plenty of loudspeakers that like to hear themselves talk.

Now, of course, it's not about sayings, but actions!

It is important to prevent our Green Foreign Minister from talking about a war when she flies to Moscow on Tuesday and tells her hard-nosed colleague Lavrov what she thinks.

Perhaps the SPD should send a minder along.

It doesn't necessarily have to be such a flawless appeaser as Kühnert, for whom Strauss would have had another title: giant statesman.