Polish Prime Minister Warns We Are In "Pre-War Era" Amid Russian Aggression
In a sobering assessment of the current geopolitical landscape, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has sounded the alarm, cautioning that Europe is entering a "pre-war era"
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German Navy Commander Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach has resigned after being criticized for saying that Vladimir Putin wants respect and Kiev will never regain the Crimean peninsula annexed by Moscow, world news agencies reported.
Germany’s Navy chief, vice-admiral Kay-Achim Schoenbach, has resigned just a day after he said that Crimea “will never come back”, and that Putin and Russia “deserve respect.” pic.twitter.com/cmHHZ8M3e4
— Geopolitics & Empire (@Geopolitics_Emp) January 22, 2022
“I asked the Minister of Defense, Christine Lambrecht, to dismiss me immediately,” the admiral said in a statement. “The minister accepted the request.”
The vice admiral had also called the idea that Russia wanted to invade Ukraine “nonsense.”
What Putin wants is “to be respected,” the admiral said in a video released on the Internet, which was filmed at a meeting of an analysis group in Delhi on Friday. “It's easy to give him the respect he wants and probably deserves,” Schönbach added. He described as nonsense the idea that Russia wanted to invade Ukraine.
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In the afternoon, the Vice Admiral apologized, calling his remarks ill-considered. “It was obviously a mistake,” he added on Twitter. But in a statement later that evening, he explained that he had resigned “so as not to cause further damage to the German navy and especially to the Federal Republic of Germany.”
Unbedacht, fehleingeschätzt in der Situation, hätte ich das so nicht tun dürfen. Da gibt es nichts zu deuteln, das war ein klarer Fehler. @BMVg_Bundeswehr #deutschemarine https://t.co/rJhoKqGYUy
— chiefdeunavy (@chiefdeunavy) January 22, 2022
In the afternoon, the German ambassador to Kiev was summoned to the foreign ministry over the general's statement, which Ukrainian authorities described as “completely unacceptable.”
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