Shoigu compared the words of the head of the German defense Ministry with the speech of a schoolgirl
The world needs to be told more about the events of the great Patriotic war, especially to the current generation of Western politicians who make calls to communicate with Russia from a position of strength, so defense Minister Sergei Shoigu responded to the corresponding statement of his German counterpart Annegret Kramp - Karrenbauer. He also compared Kramp-Karrenbauer's statement to the words of a schoolgirl.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu compared the words of a schoolgirl to the speech of his German counterpart Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer that it is necessary to talk to Russia from a position of strength.
According to the Russian General, the world needs to be told more about the events of the great Patriotic war, especially to the current generation of Western politicians who make such calls, RIA Novosti reports.
"It's more like, you know, a speech by a Junior high student attacking students from a completely different school. And a student whose mother or father is the school principal. She can afford everything. Guys, so we are in a different school, we have a different Director, " Shoigu explained.
Kramp-Karrenbauer made the above statement during a speech to the Bundestag on November 25.
"This has always been a good position of German foreign policy, and it should remain so in the future," she said.
"The fact remains that the Russian side has made large - scale investments in modernizing its armed forces, that it has new types of weapons, and that its threat has become even more pronounced," Kramp-Karrenbauer said.
The Germans are completely dependent on Washington and the Pentagon for security issues, Russian foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a Facebook post.
"Germany is still, I'm not sure that it is in a good, but definitely in a very interesting position - "a dependent country in the security sphere". I quote Annegret herself, who recognized that Germany is completely untenable in the military sphere without the United States, " the diplomat's post says.
However, it is doubtful that Germany will be able to "rattle weapons" when talking with Russia, Zakharova noted, Recalling that one of the largest US military contingents is located on German territory, and most recently Berlin was outraged by the White house's plans to transfer some of its troops to other European countries.
"Strong, you can't say anything," the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry added.
The official representative of the Russian defense Ministry, major General Igor Konashenkov, stressed, in turn, that the statement of his German counterpart does not contribute to strengthening security in Europe.
"I told [German foreign Minister] Heiko Maas, I can repeat this, because I think it's no secret that we see Germany taking on the role of leader of a new aggravation in relations with the Russian Federation. We are concerned about this, including from the point of view of the global role that Germany plays in Europe," the Russian Minister said during an online press conference.
Last month, the Russian defense Ministry invited the defense attache at the German Embassy to convey to him Moscow's extremely negative attitude to the participation of the German side in the NATO nuclear exercises Steadfast Noon and Resilient Guards.
As indicated in the comments of the Russian military Department, during the maneuvers of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, elements of the use of American tactical nuclear weapons were worked out.
"The involvement of personnel and dual-use aircraft of" non - nuclear " NATO member countries, which is Germany, in working out scenarios for the use of nuclear weapons is a gross violation of the Treaty on the non - proliferation of nuclear weapons," the Russian defense Ministry explained.
Moscow stressed that what is happening will result in a lower threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, as well as even greater tension on the borders of the Russian Federation and NATO countries. Plus, such steps by Berlin reduce the degree of trust between Russia and NATO.
The annual NATO nuclear strike exercise Steadfast Noon took place in mid-October in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. One of the training exercises was the air base "Nerfing" in the land of North Rhine-Westphalia.
It is considered a possible alternative location for us tactical nuclear weapons of the B61 type, which, according to officially unconfirmed data, is stored in the West of Germany,in the city of Buchel, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Andrey Ermolov
