Why respond to such statements at all?
This question arises not only in the pronouncements of certain television philosophers or performing artists in a broader sense, when they express themselves in a more or less simple way on questions beyond their own world.
It also occurs in politicians who are overly delusional.
Sergei Lavrov has now been Russia's foreign minister for almost two decades - and his most recent statements are part of the narrative with which the Putin regime is trying to legitimize its inhuman aggressive war against Ukraine: the opponent is declared a Nazi.
And against Nazis everything is allowed.
Envy, hatred, will to annihilate
Lavrov has now taken this formula, which the Moscow leadership apparently hopes will have an effect on the home audience, even further.
His speculations about Hitler's parentage and his conclusions that Jews themselves are the greatest anti-Semites have at least further revealed where the actual criminal racists are located.
The pattern is not unknown: Others, whom you feel superior to, want to live differently than you do. They may live better.
Envy turns into hate, then the will to annihilate.
And in the worst case, this will be implemented.
Lavrov has once again exposed the spirit of the blood-and-soil regime in the Kremlin.
The madness is out in the open.
But it doesn't make you innocent.