The politician expressed this opinion in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung.

Schröder recalled that he had pointed to the need to preserve the transatlantic alliance, but not at any cost.

"We pursued a largely sovereign sovereign foreign policy. Today, we no longer have one," he said.

According to him, at the moment Germany is doing what the United States wants it to do.

Earlier, historian Tariq Cyril Amar said that Germany would pay a "terrible price" for its anti-Russian policy.