Not long ago, Carlson, a famous American talk show host, conducted an exclusive interview with Russia's ** Putin, which is very rare, and this is the first interview that Putin has given to a Western journalist since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Subsequently, more than two hours of interviews were broadcast on various **, with more than 100 million hits, and Putin told the big truth for 2 hours.
Putin talked about the issue of NATO's eastward expansion, which, as always, is not complacent.
They had promised: NATO would not expand eastward, would not move an inch eastward, as they told us. And then? They say: well, it's not written on paper, so we'll expand. Five expansions, including the Baltic States, the whole of Eastern Europe, etc., and so on. ”
The conversation about the Nord Stream pipelines is even more interesting:
Tucker Carlson: Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines?
Putin: You, of course. (laughs).
Tucker Carlson: I was busy that day. I didn't blow up the Nord Stream pipelines.
Putin: You may not be there personally, but the Intelligence Agency does not have an alibi.
Tucker Carlson: Do you have evidence that NATO or the Intelligence Agency did this?
Putin: You know, I won't go into details, but in this case people always say: find who is interested. But in this case, we have to find not only who is interested, but also who is able to do it. Because there may be a lot of people interested, but not all of them will be able to dive to the bottom of the Baltic Sea and carry out this **. These two components must be combined: who is interested and who is able to do it.
Tucker Carlson: So why are the Germans silent? This puzzles me: why did the Germans not say a word on this issue?
Putin: This also surprised me. But the German leadership today is guided not by national interests, but by the interests of the collective West, otherwise it is difficult to explain the logic of their actions or inaction. After all, it's not just "Nord Stream-1" that was blown up. "Nord Stream-2" was damaged, but one of the pipelines was intact through which gas could be delivered to Europe, but Germany did not open it.
In the interview, which lasted more than two hours, Putin mentioned Germany more than 20 times.
Putin lamented that in the past, there were always some smart people in Germany, but now it is different, and the Germans are no longer so smart.
In fact, since Mrs. Mo's mother**, there have been no more politicians in Germany, they are all politicians.
Especially this session of Germany** is simply a hateful party.
It's not that the Germans aren't smart enough, it's that almost all of Germany's post-World War II rulers are puppets of beautiful countries, and all their policies are based on the interests of their masters, even if they harm Germany's own national interests, which is why they are afraid of the AFD coming to power.
In fact, it's not just Putin who doesn't understand Germany, but the Germans themselves don't understand Germany very well.
Here are a few examples:
The first is the news that just broke recently, a Ukrainian family stayed in their home country but received 40,000 euros in German benefits.
Shortly after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in the spring of 2022, a Ukrainian mother fled to Germany with her son and moved into a local host family.
The hostess of this homestay accompanied the two to the ** department to register, and soon the income of the citizens was settled, and an apartment was also allocated.
A few months later, the Ukrainian woman's husband also arrived in Schleswig-Holstein, and the family soon welcomed their second child. After giving birth, the family received about 3,200 euros a month in state benefits, including civic income, rent subsidies and heating subsidies.
At the beginning of 2023, the Ukrainians returned to their homeland, and at the end of 2023, they returned to Schleswig-Holstein, where their eldest son is going to primary school.
The Ukrainian once again turned to the hostess of the previous host family. When helping to apply for admission, it was discovered that the family had not been living in Germany as refugees for almost a year, but had been receiving German welfare support, receiving a total of about 40,000 euros.
This is ironic, since German citizen benefit beneficiaries are usually required to disclose their financial situation when applying for citizenship benefits, and are not allowed to own more than 40,000 euros of property, otherwise they will receive nothing.
According to statistics, about 700,000 Ukrainian refugees are currently receiving citizenship benefits in Germany.
The second thing is even more interesting, the Germans are very generous to the refugees, the Ministry of Defense has a power outage, but there is no money to set up a backup power supply, and they are out of contact with the outside world for several hours.
On February 12 this year, the first headquarters base of the Bundeswehr in Bonn suffered a power outage due to a "medium-voltage distribution outage", resulting in the headquarters base and offices of the Ministry of Defense being without power or emergency power for several hours. This meant that it was almost impossible to contact the Ministry of Defense from the outside world, and both the ** and the network were disrupted.
In addition, the "Armed Forces Base Command" and the "Bundeswehr Digitization Center" are also stationed there, which are also without electricity.
The third thing is that the AfD party has publicly stated that it is considering a referendum on leaving the European Union.
Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD, raised the possibility of holding a referendum on Germany's exit from the European Union.
She told the Financial Times that her party-led ** would try to reform the EU and give more sovereignty to member states.
If this plan does not come to fruition, she believes that Germany should also hold a referendum on whether to remain in the EU, as was the case in the UK in 2016.
According to economists' estimates, "if Germany leaves the EU and the eurozone, we could lose about 10% of the value of our economy".
Applying a study of the practical consequences of Brexit to Germany would mean that Germany loses between 400 and 50 billion euros of wealth every year.
At the same time, Germany, as an exporter, will be hit hard by its exit from the European Union, with up to 2.2 million jobs at risk.
There is also the issue of pensions for German civil servants, which is also widely dissatisfied with the German public.
The chart below shows the statistics on civil servants' pensions as of January 1, 2023, recently published by the German Federal Government**.
In Germany, 33,635 civil servants have a monthly pension of more than 4,000 euros, 56,060 between 3,000 and 4,000 euros, 174,775 between 2,000 and 3,000 euros, and 98,420 under 2,000 euros.
The average pension for a federal civil servant in Germany is 2,630 euros per month (before taxes).
If an ordinary employee is to receive a pension of this amount, he or she needs to work for 73 years. In other words, they would have to pay almost twice as many years of work to get a civil servant pension.
Or if a salaryman earns around €10,000 a month (before taxes), they get a pension of €2,630 when they retire.
However, a monthly salary of 10,000 euros, hehe, is only a salary that only a few corporate executives can get.
The last one is about decoupling from China, can it be decoupled?
Hehe, the mouth says no, the body is very honest.
Official data released by the German Bundesbank on February 14 showed that German direct investment in China increased by 4.0% last year3% to 11.9 billion euros, a record high.
Last year, investment in China rose to 10 percent of Germany's total foreign investment3 percent, the highest level since 2014, while German direct investment in the rest of Asia stagnated at around 8 percent.
Germany** is now faced with a dilemma. Although Germany wants companies to reduce their investment in China and reduce their dependence on China, China will still be Germany's most important partner for the eighth consecutive year in 2023, according to the Statistics Office.
In short, Germany is screwed up in every way.