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MADRID, 14 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized European leaders on Tuesday, especially the German authorities, for, in his opinion, having lost their independence in favor of the United States.
“Europeans, in my opinion, have lost the gene for independence, sovereignty and national interest. The more they get hit on the nose or on the head, the further down they lean and the wider they smile,” the president said. .
In an interview for the Rossiya-1 television channel, Putin has had a special impact on the case of Germany, which he considers that its relations with the United States are simply based on “a humiliating dependency.”
“European politicians themselves have publicly and repeatedly said that after the Second World War, Germany has never been a sovereign state in the full sense of the word,” said a Putin who has attributed this thought to “at least one well-known and respected German politician”.
Thus, the Russian president has lamented that “it is difficult to live” in this situation, but that “this is the generation of leaders today.” “The instinct of national interest has been lost,” the president remarked, according to the Interfax news agency.
When explaining this supposed European dependence on the United States, Putin has argued economic, political, informational and industrial reasons. “There are many threads that create these conditions of humiliating dependency, but nothing can be done about it,” he has settled.