• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Putin’s a complete total psychopath for whom human life has no value.

    And yet he’s fucking Mother Theresa of Calcuta by comparison with mass baby murderer Netanyahu whose troops actively target children.

    You will notice that Merz has “forgotten” about Netanyahu is this “most serious war criminal of our time” scale.

    This is all smoke & mirrors: German mainstream politicians loved Putin and they especially loved the money they got paid when they retired from politics for “consuting work” or even board memberships in companies like Gazprom, and it took months and a lot of pressure from everybody else in the West to get Germany to start disconnecting from Russia and reduce the money they sent Putin’s regime for things like gas which was used by the likes of BASF as cheap raw material in their processes to get a competitive advantage over other chemical companies. Also getting them to actually start supporting Ukraine militarily was like trying to pull teeth out - I remember how everybody and their dog had to send tanks to Ukraine before Germany finally got around to sending their old tanks there.

    I very much doubt that these statements from Merz are any more than pure image management, especially because his “unwavering support of the Jewish State” (his own words) has showned that for him too, just like for Putin, human life has no value when a person is not from the “right” ethnicity.

    • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
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      7 days ago

      by comparison with mass baby murderer Netanyahu whose troops actively target children.

      Here I’d like to point out that Putin isn’t really better even in this regard. Among the most important targets for Russian drone attacks are maternity hospitals. Then there have been attacks against children’s hospitals.