KHARTUM, Feb. 9 To German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, before rather than talk about who «the world would be a better place without,» it is worth recalling history and paying attention to the internal politics of Germany itself and its colleagues from the European Union, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who visited Kyiv on Tuesday, allowed himself harsh remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying in an interview with the Bild newspaper that the world would be a better place without him.
«As for the statements of the new Minister of Defense of Germany, whose last name I have not yet learned, we have heard a lot of boorish statements from German politicians, but regarding what kind of world would be better and who should be got rid of I think they should start with the process of studying their EU colleagues around them and look at internal German politics,» Lavrov told reporters.
According to him, «judging by the militaristic chorus of voices that are louder and louder in the West — in Washington, and in London, and in Brussels, and in Paris — voices that the way to peace lies through arming Ukraine to the teeth, then, judging by this, Western colleagues believe that the world would be better without Russia, without a defeated Russia.
Lavrov noted that statements like those made by Pistorius «from the German lands have already sounded at least once in history.»
«Do you remember how it all ended,» the Russian minister added.