Soltz: Putin started the war for ‘absolutely absurd’ reasons

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of launching the attack on Ukraine for “completely irrational” reasons.

“NATO has never been a threat to Russia,” he told the Chancellery Open Day, rejecting the charge that NATO states had failed to look after Russian security interests before the war.

He had assured Putin in talks before the start of the war on the issue of Ukraine joining NATO: “It is not on the agenda for the next 30 years.” Putin, however, did not want to accept liberal, open societies in Europe. Putin has “absolutely absurd” ideas and had explained to him that Belarus and Ukraine, for example, should not actually be separate states.

Source: Capital

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