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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz showed weakness by rejecting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's hand, Focus magazine columnist Ulrich Reitz wrote.
The situation took place at the G20 summit in India, in addition to Scholz, German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock also refused to greet Lavrov.
Reitz said that in this way the representatives of the German leadership want to demonstrate the “isolation” of Russia, but in vain. At the same time, the observer noted that such demarches will not affect Russia in any way, thereby emphasizing Moscow's cooperation with the other countries of the BRICS bloc.
Reitz called this policy of the German authorities a “stupid policy of weaklings” that will not bring anything.
“You can't do this, you won't achieve anything. This only strengthens the sense of self-righteousness, and in fact it is not foreign policy, but domestic policy,” he wrote.
According to Reitz, such actions by Scholz and Baerbock can be called the opposite. diplomacy, saying that in general the German authorities should “strive for mutual understanding with the Russians.”