In a Sept. 10 interview with Switzerland’s financial daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Germany’s Die Linke politician Sahra Wagenknecht reiterated her assessment that the Greens are “the most dangerous party” in Germany: “The Greens are damaging our industry and the prosperity of millions with their so-called climate policy, which does nothing at all for the climate. They drive up prices and increase poverty.”
The national government coalition that includes the Greens “is increasing the problems instead of solving even one, and it is penetratingly ignoring the wishes of majorities. And it has no concept at all for the future. For example, if you cut off Germany from cheap energy.... Cheap gas is indispensable for our industry, for the power supply and for heating—and if you don’t want to buy it from Russia anymore, you have to have a plan for where else we can get it. But the traffic light politicians [in the coalition government] don’t have one. And now the high energy prices are killing important parts of our industry, which is a tragedy. Then Economics Minister Robert Habeck of the Green Party presents his heating law, which scares people because older buildings can’t be heated with a heat pump without insanely expensive conversions. Small tradesmen and homeowners are wondering how they are going to manage at all.”
Asked what she thinks the Ukrainian President should do to end the war against Russia, Wagenknecht said: “He would have to be willing to compromise. After all, we can see that despite all the arms deliveries, the front is hardly moving, and Ukraine cannot win this war militarily. So what is needed is realism and a willingness to negotiate. I assume that the Russians will not vacate Crimea, the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been there for 200 years, and there are hardly any inhabitants of Crimea who would like the Ukrainians to reconquer it. And in the Donbass, the population should decide for itself in a referendum under UN supervision which country it wants to belong to.”
