German far-right MP 'could be absolutely controlled by Russia'

BBC ^ | April 5, 2019 | Gabriel Gatehouse

[rrrod]

Wonder if they hire part timers...I could use a little extra cash..../s

[dp0622]

They pay was ok and you get free naughty talk with a Russian chieck whose fake pics are online. :)

[rrrod]

LMAO!!

[Boogieman]

I tried to collude with Russia, but made a wrong turn some where and ending up falling in with some Prussians instead.

[dp0622]

LOL!!

Next time use GPS!

[Fedora]

Oh, it's the AfD colluding with Russia now? And here I thought it was the SPD. Gerhard Schröder: On his first official trip to Russia in late-1998, Schröder suggested that Germany was not likely to come up with more aid for the country. He also sought to detach himself from the close personal relationship that his predecessor, Helmut Kohl, had with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, saying that German-Russian relations should "develop independently of concrete political figures."[41] Soon after, however, he cultivated close ties with Yeltsin's successor, President Vladimir Putin, in an attempt to strengthen the "strategic partnership" between Berlin and Moscow,[42] including the opening of a gas pipeline from Russian Dan Marino-Pipelines over the Baltic Sea exclusively between Russia and Germany (see "Gazprom controversy" below). During his time in office, he visited the country five times. Schröder was criticised in the media, and subsequently by Angela Merkel, for calling Putin a "flawless democrat" on 22 November 2004, only days before Putin prematurely congratulated Viktor Yanukovich during the Orange Revolution.[43] Only a few days after his chancellorship, Schröder joined the board of directors of the joint venture. Thus bringing about new speculations about his prior objectivity. In his memoirs Decisions: My Life in Politics, Schröder still defends his friend and political ally, and states that "it would be wrong to place excessive demands on Russia when it comes to the rate of domestic political reform and democratic development, or to judge it solely on the basis of the Chechnya conflict."[44]. . .During his time in office, Schröder visited China six times.[45] He was the first Western politician to travel to Beijing and apologise after NATO jets had mistakenly bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999.[46][47] In 2004, he and Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao established a secure, direct telephone line.[48] He also pressed for the lifting of the EU arms embargo on China. . .As Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder was a strong advocate of the Nord Stream pipeline project, which aims to supply Russian gas directly to Germany, thereby bypassing transit countries. . .In 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s friend Schroeder hastily signed the deal just as he was departing the office from which he had been voted out days earlier. Within weeks, he started to oversee the project implementation himself, leading the Nord Stream AG’s shareholder committee. . .In January 2009, the Wall Street Journal reported that Schröder would join the board of the oil company TNK-BP, a joint venture between oil major BP and Russian partners.[75] In 2016, Schröder switched to become manager of Nord Stream 2, an expansion of the original pipeline in which Gazprom is sole shareholder.[76] In 2017, Russia nominated Schröder to also serve as an independent director of the board of its biggest oil producer Rosneft.[77] At the time, Rosneft was under Western sanctions over Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis.[78] Schröder told Blick that he would be paid about $350,000 annually for the part-time post.[79] His decision caused an outcry in Germany and abroad, especially in a climate of fear about any potential Russian interference in the 2017 German elections.[80] German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized her predecessor, saying "I do not think what Mr Schröder is doing is okay. . ."

[NorseViking]

Merkel pushing the narrative of Schroeder the traitor is rather off. That Schroeder did is given the Germany abundant cheap energy providung the lasting positive effect to the German economy for which Merkel managed to falsely take credit for.

[Fedora]

While providing abundant income for Gerhard Schröder.

[NorseViking]

###While providing abundant income for Gerhard Schröder.###

Good deeds should be rewarded.

When Schroeder became a chancellor Germany was a poor semi-socialist country with GDP per capita at around $20000.

It steadily skyrocketed under his ‘Agenda 2010’ in a few years and peaked north of $45000 early into Merkels presidency for her to take credit for it.

It is stagnating ever since under Merkel.

Average German is now more than twice wealthier and literally on par with an American economically thanks to Schroeder.

I don’t care if he made something for himself off it.

[Fedora]

Nothing good about political corruption and treason. Schröder was on the take his entire career. He evaded prosecution because of his position, but his allies such as Siemens got fined for it. As for Merkel, she says she doesn’t like Putin, but she got along cozily enough with Medvedev when it suited her.

[NorseViking]

The damage is the main element of corruption and treason as crimes. There is no crime without damage and victim. Shroeder’s ‘treason’ did not undermine German people but quite contrary. Above I explained why.

Merkel is a globalist Communist. Her treason is certainly damaging.

[Fedora]

The damage from corruption and treason is not reducible to finances and is not explained away by alleged financial gains for Germany. First of all, on the purely financial front, Schröder’s corrupt actions damaged his own domestic financial allies, to the tune of record fines, in addition to promoting long-term trade war with the U.S., which is not in Germany’s financial interests, so the financial benefits of his actions for Germany were a mixed bag at best. Beyond finances, he damaged Germany’s relations with the U.S. and NATO and increased tensions between the West and Russia, which is in no one’s best interests. Furthermore, a corrupt politician who can be bought by one country can be bought by anyone else, eroding a nation’s legal structure as well as its security—Germany’s social disintegration under government-supported Muslim migration, promoted by corrupt politicians who have been bribed by foreign lobbying groups and globalists, is a case in point. And Merkel, beyond being a globalist communist, supported Nord Stream after campaigning against it and has gone back and forth on this, so her protests against Schröder should be taken accordingly—she points to a thief as she makes off with the loot.

[NorseViking]

You can dig a lot of dirt on everyone in high office. The economy always would be the highest priority. I believe Schroeder was overall positive figure.

[Fedora]

Economy is one priority, but domestic and international security are other important ones, and it’s not clear Schröder fared well in any of these categories. Schröder in fact lost to Merkel partly because of his administration’s economic underperformance, such as hitting 12 percent unemployment in 2003, so crediting his economic achievements solely based on his support for Russian oil companies is debatable. And I don’t see how we can say Merkel is a communist globalist without considering Schröder lobbying for China throughout his career, as far back as Tiananmen Square and continuing to this day. I don’t see either of them as very positive figures. If Merkel is a globalist communist motivated by ideology, Schröder is a globalist and communist enabler motivated by greed: whatever the rationalization, the results for Germany and the world are the same.

[NorseViking]

Nobody says Russian oil was the only driver. Agenda 2010 was about to cut taxes and welfare benefits in the first place. Once again Schroeder’s reforms has doubled the the German GDP so it is just ridiculous to blame him for economic underperformance. I have no idea why his Chinese or Russian deals undermined German security. German companies made tons of money in both Russia and China. Mass immigration is not his policy. Germany was always an immigration magnet in the world only third to US and Russia. Although it heavily escalated under Merkel not under Schroeder.

[Fedora]

Most German voters considered this to be economic underperformance, which was a key factor in Schröder's loss to Merkel: "In recent years, Europe’s largest economy has ground to a halt under the weight of its generous welfare system and constricting labor market policies. Economic growth slowed to only 0.2 percent in 2002 and gross domestic product actually shrank in the first quarter of this year. German unemployment is running at over ten percent." Schröder Urges Reform as SPD Celebrates 140th Anniversary (May 2003) The tension over energy policy in the Ukraine would not have escalated into Soros' coup there without Schröder's corrupt Russian deals aggravating the situation, to name but one byproduct of his Russian policies; and supporting Communist China's infiltration of Germany's infrastructure and siding with China against the U.S. has certainly undermined German security, as well as that of other nations. Schröder helped set the stage for Merkel's immigration policy by lobbying for increased Turkish immigration to support his economic policy, among other things: The hard-pressed chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schröder, suffered another setback yesterday when the constitutional court threw out a law that is at the heart of his government's efforts to turn around the economy. The country's top judges upheld a complaint from the conservative opposition about the way in which Mr Schröder's followers steam-rollered a new immigration law through parliament last March. The affair has shown the fragility of his centre-left government which, despite its victory in last September's general election, has no clear majority in the Bundesrat, or upper house. The law would have opened Germany up to immigration for the first time since the 1970s, when it stopped taking in "guest workers" from Turkey and other Mediterranean states. The government maintains that foreigners are essential to plug skills gaps in the labour force and correct the effects of an ageing population - notably a rising imbalance between those contributing to, and benefiting from, its pension system. . .: Schröder's pro-immigration law overruled (December 2002). And let's not forget Schröder's close alliance with the socialist globalist Tony Blair.

[Krosan]

Russia supports the forces they see as disruptive no matter if they are left or right.

[Krosan]

Schröder closed the nuclear power stations and killed the Nabucco pipeline in favor of Russian one and 2 weeks after losing his re-election got a high paying job in Gazprom board of directors.