Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has blamed bureaucrats from the European Union for the crisis in Ukraine, likening it to the lead-up to the World War I.
In an interview with German paper Bild on Friday, the 95-year-old Social Democratic politician said that the situation in the country recalls the eve of the WWI.
«I think very little of talking up the threat of World War III, and especially of demands for more money to arm NATO,» said Schmidt, who was the German chancellor from 1974 to 82, adding, «But the danger that the situation gets ever more tense, as it did in August 1914, is growing day by day.»
“The situation to me seems increasingly comparable to the eve of war a century ago. He stated, adding that the world powers were «acting the way author Christopher Clark describes the start of World War I in his very readable book, like ‘sleepwalkers’.»
Schmidt also slammed the European Commission for interfering in the world’s politics, of which «most commissioners understand very little.»
«The latest example is the attempt of the European Commission to annex Ukraine and also to try to draw in Georgia. Just a reminder: Georgia lies outside of Europe. This is megalomania. We have no business being there. The officials and bureaucrats in Brussels… are confronting Ukraine with the apparent choice of having to choose between West and East.»
The crisis in Ukraine began last November, after the country’s then president, Viktor Yanukovych, refrained from signing a deal with the EU in favor of closer ties with neighboring Russia.
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