Russia has legal right to invade Germany but it won't because it's not aggressive: German politician
German author and politician Christoph Horstel says Russia has the legal right to invade Germany in self-defense, but Moscow won't because it is not aggressive.
“It’s very clear we’re made to lose here,” Hörstel, who is based in Berlin, Germany, said on Tuesday while speaking on Press TV’s “SPOTLIGHT” program.
“I said in the past that Germany is a guaranteed loser in the next war against Russia,” he added.
“And be careful about this. We signed the Two Plus Four Treaty. We had the NATO-Russia act. And we violated both of them very thoroughly. Russia would have the legal right to invade Germany on a very short red telephone notice to Washington, Paris and London, saying, ‘Look, guys, we’re coming, that’s self-defense. That’s allowed,’” he stated.
On September 12, 1990, the foreign ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, France, Russia, the UK and the US signed the Two Plus Four Treaty that sealed the foreign policy aspects of reunification.
“So this is the situation here. Russia is not coming because they are not aggressive. The aggression sits solely and exclusively with Washington. And the Europeans know it but they are so corrupt; they’re more afraid of their Washingtonian leaders than their own voters and populations. That’s the dirty fact here,” he lamented.
Horstel worked as a German foreign correspondent 1985 from 1999 from Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Jordan. During the fall of the Taliban in 2001 he was one of the few Western journalists residing in Afghanistan. He wrote several books.
In 2013, he founded the political party Deutsche Mitte.
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