Steinmeier causes outrage with “caliber expert” sentence | EUROtoday

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MHonorable politicians have sharply criticized statements by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the talk about arms deliveries to Ukraine. The set off was an look by Steinmeier on the readers' convention of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” final Thursday.

Steinmeier praised the course of the federal authorities below Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). Germany is “the second most important supporter of Ukraine”, he wouldn’t have anticipated that two years in the past, the “FAZ” quotes the Federal President as saying. During the talk concerning the attainable supply of weapon methods – such because the Taurus cruise missile – Steinmeier then expressed criticism: “The military experts, the caliber experts are doing it… with exuberance and with growing ambition.” That the vast majority of the Germans have been behind Scholz's Ukraine coverage , is “not such a bad interim result”. Steinmeier criticized these politicians and consultants who advocate the supply of Taurus to Kiev. Chancellor Scholz vehemently rejects this.

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The sentence concerning the “caliber experts” brought about criticism. “Why can’t the Federal Chancellor & Federal President clearly justify their Taurus position without insulting the other side & self-praise?” requested the Green protection politician Agnieszka Brugger on the web service X. “That doesn’t seem particularly confident.” The state of affairs in Ukraine is just too critical for a “petty domestic political show”.

Military professional Carlo Masala from the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich, who is usually quoted within the media, additionally appeared irritated. He distributed two images of Steinmeier on “Great successes of German diplomacy,” Masala commented mockingly. “But from the high office of the Federal President, let’s briefly dismiss everyone who argues differently than the Chancellor,” he continued. “If you don’t realize how embarrassing it is, then you’re already living in your beautiful bubble of arrogance.” Parts of the SPD have taken a “course that discredits science.”

FDP protection politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann referred to as Steinmeier's statements “simply unworthy” given his workplace. The Bundestag member instructed the Berlin “Tagesspiegel”: “Instead of living up to his role as Federal President and giving a big speech to the citizens to explain to them the seriousness of the situation, he is ridiculing experts for the SPD’s election campaign to support.”

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CDU international politician Norbert Röttgen instructed the “Tagesspiegel” that he had not but criticized Steinmeier with regard to his workplace. “But there is ridicule and condescension in the Federal President's formulations when he appears irritated by the debate about weapons systems, which is being conducted by parts of the coalition and the opposition with massive criticism of the Chancellor.” It shouldn’t be acceptable language to make use of mockery and to say disparaging issues about those that have been having this dialogue.