Joschka Fischer describes the USA as “borderline democracy in the transition to the oligarchy” | EUROtoday

The United States is now not a full -fledged democracy for former Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. “It is still a democracy, but a borderline democracy, that is, a democracy in the transition to an oligarchy,” mentioned the 76-year-old Greens politician in Cologne. He puzzled why the Americans don’t see themselves that they’ve began a means of self -destruction.

For him it was extraordinarily painful to look at this course of, mentioned Fischer. He is basically going to the kidneys. “I am born 48, that is, it is my world that is now perish,” mentioned the previous vice-chancellor of the red-green coalition from 1998 to 2005. With all justified criticism, the USA was all the time the core of the West, “the guarantee night of the democratic idea”, the oldest democracy.

You cannot get wherever with flattery, says Fischer

Fischer mentioned he was “happy” that he was now not an lively politician and needed to negotiate with Donald Trump. However, he was satisfied that the US president can not get any additional with flattering. Politicians corresponding to French President Emmanuel Macron, the British Prime Minister Keir Straers and NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte have been just lately inspired by demonstratively pleasant and generally showered him with compliments. “I think that is self -deception,” mentioned Fischer.

“Trump is not an idiot. He knows exactly what he is doing. And he also knows whether someone wants to sell something subliminally.” You need to face Trump confidently. “Trump thinks in power categories and first-person categories,” mentioned Fischer. “To flatter him, only refers to the first-person categories. That will not work. We Europeans have to become power. For military power. I would not have thought that I would say that publicly.” But it’s the case that individuals like Trump or the Russian President Vladimir Putin can solely impress with energy.

Upper upgrading have to be European, not nationally

The urgently obligatory improve should turn into a European, not a nationwide mission, Fischer warned. “We have no perspective as Germany, as France, as Poland. We are too small for that. Only together we will achieve something together.” In order for this to succeed, the EU member states must put the just lately uncared for European integration again to the fore. “Putin and Trump do not leave us an alternative,” says Fischer.

Germany play an important function on this. He subsequently hoped that the black and crimson federal government-if it got here about-was profitable, even when he didn’t select it. He says this within the pursuits of Germany, within the pursuits of Europe: “There is no alternative.”

Fischer offered his new e book “The Wars of the Present and the beginning of a new world order” in Cologne on the Lit.Cologne literature competition.