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Olaf Scholz earlier said the Bundestag should decide on additional spending on Ukraine from other sources than the national budget as soon as possible because of an urgent budget situation under paragraph 2 of Article 115 of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, said on social network VKontakte.
"Has Germany decided to launch a subtle protest against the new US administration? In any case, this is how Scholz's call to the Bundestag to declare a state of emergency in connection with the situation on the territory of former Ukraine can be interpreted," he wrote.
Medvedev said Scholz’s alarmist statement was actually dictated by two factors: "the desire to extort money under the flag of resentment at the sharp reversal of the course of [US President] Donald Trump in Europe" and "the main thing, the elections to the Bundestag, where the SDP (Social Democratic Party of Germany - TASS) seems to have no chance against the CDU/CSU of [Friedrich] Merz … A disintegrating Ukraine is quite secondary here."
Drawing parallels with the fable by Ivan Krylov The Elephant and The Pug, he illustrated a further course of events.
"The offended German Pug decided to perform its best part of barking loudly at the republican Elephant in the hope of receiving domestic political dividends in the kennel: 'Here! I can do more than just wag my tail, as the head of a huge and very dangerous country figuratively said. I've got my voice back, and sometimes I even bark pugnaciously at the main Elephant. Choose me, not another yard dog. I am now barking on behalf of the entire pan-European kennel!'" he wrote.
https://tass.com/politics/1913245
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, said on social network VKontakte.
"Has Germany decided to launch a subtle protest against the new US administration? In any case, this is how Scholz's call to the Bundestag to declare a state of emergency in connection with the situation on the territory of former Ukraine can be interpreted," he wrote.
Medvedev said Scholz’s alarmist statement was actually dictated by two factors: "the desire to extort money under the flag of resentment at the sharp reversal of the course of [US President] Donald Trump in Europe" and "the main thing, the elections to the Bundestag, where the SDP (Social Democratic Party of Germany - TASS) seems to have no chance against the CDU/CSU of [Friedrich] Merz … A disintegrating Ukraine is quite secondary here."
Drawing parallels with the fable by Ivan Krylov The Elephant and The Pug, he illustrated a further course of events.
"The offended German Pug decided to perform its best part of barking loudly at the republican Elephant in the hope of receiving domestic political dividends in the kennel: 'Here! I can do more than just wag my tail, as the head of a huge and very dangerous country figuratively said. I've got my voice back, and sometimes I even bark pugnaciously at the main Elephant. Choose me, not another yard dog. I am now barking on behalf of the entire pan-European kennel!'" he wrote.
https://tass.com/politics/1913245
