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German navy chief resigns after controversial comments favorable to Putin
Fox News ^ | 1-22-22 | Andrew Mark Miller

Posted on 01/22/2022 4:51:39 PM PST by dynachrome

The head of the German Navy is stepping down over controversial comments favorable to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I have asked Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht to relieve me from my duties with immediate effect," Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schoenbach said in a statement"What he (Putin) really wants is respect," Schoenbach said. "And my God, giving someone respect is low cost, even no cost... It is easy to give him the respect he really demands - and probably also deserves."

Schoenbach added that he believes Ukraine joining NATO is not a "smart" idea., according to Reuters. "The minister has accepted my request."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: germany; navy; resignation
He spoke some truth. oops.
1 posted on 01/22/2022 4:51:39 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

...and it sounds like Germany took his advice (or at least found a bit of common sense), as they’re blocking NATO from arming Ukraine.


2 posted on 01/22/2022 5:37:07 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: dynachrome

This admiral is the first casualty of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that Brandon keeps promising.

There will be others.

:(


3 posted on 01/22/2022 5:40:15 PM PST by mvonfr
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To: dynachrome

Can you imagine Karl Doenitz saying something nice about Stalin?


4 posted on 01/22/2022 5:48:52 PM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Hitler and Stalin personally admired each other. Hitler even though had Germany won the war, he could use Stalin to help rule over the Nazi Russian Puppet State.


5 posted on 01/22/2022 5:50:31 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dynachrome

https://112.international/politics/germany-states-ukraine-to-not-return-temporarily-occupied-crimea-ukrainian-foreign-ministry-demands-refutation-68858.html


6 posted on 01/22/2022 6:00:54 PM PST by elpadre (And here in NC)
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To: BobL

“Regarding what happened in Ukraine. The Crimean island is lost and will never return. That’s a fact,” Schönbach said.

However, he noted that Putin’s goal is not “a small strip of Ukrainian land”, but the split of the European Union and the restoration of respect, “which he probably even deserves.”

“Russia is an old country, Russia is an important country… We need Russia. This is a big country, but this country is not a democracy in our opinion… Of course, we cannot agree with what Russia is doing, both in Chechnya and in other places where the situation should be resolved. And yes, this also applies to what happened in Ukraine,” the head of the German Navy said.”


7 posted on 01/22/2022 6:04:35 PM PST by elpadre (And here in NC)
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To: AlaskaErik

What would you-know-who think?


8 posted on 01/22/2022 7:32:03 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: dfwgator

Would you like to buy a consonant?


9 posted on 01/22/2022 8:02:11 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: dynachrome

Various events of the last week indicate Germany is not on board with recent US/ NATO war mongering in Ukraine

Biden is soon going to get humiliated and made to look a fool, again


10 posted on 01/22/2022 9:30:26 PM PST by PGR88
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To: elpadre
"https://112.international/russian-agitprop-is-elpadre's-modus-operandi"

This marks your 51st post from 112.international and 112.ukraine in the past 6 months.

These are unapologetically pro-Russian websites, not just pro-Russian websites but pro-Soviet-kontrol-in-Ukraine websites; controlled by Viktor Medvedchuk, who is among the top-3 Ukranian puppets to be installed by Putin as Dear Leader after Putin attacks Ukraine next month and decapitates their leadership and chain-of-command.

If so much as one American, or American serviceman, is harmed before, during, or after Putin's illegal Ukranian war, that's not going to be a good look for you after having pimped hard for Medvedchuk's Soviet point-of-view, and having done so by trolling Medvedchuk's websites, on a site -- the only site -- dedicated to American constitutional conservatism.

11 posted on 01/24/2022 2:13:22 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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