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The sofa mentality of the SPD

British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan once said that the past should be a springboard, not a sofa.

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The sofa mentality of the SPD

British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan once said that the past should be a springboard, not a sofa. If you transfer Macmillan to German social democracy, then they have made Willy Brandt's legacy their couch corner and the détente policy of the 1970s their foreign policy pillow, also for their conscience. The SPD not only allowed its former chancellor Gerhard Schröder to do his business with Russia, it got involved itself, as the ties with Gazprom at the climate foundation of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania show.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig said that from today's perspective, her years of support for Nord Stream 2 were a mistake. But the restriction "from today's point of view" shows that Schwesig is stuck in the sofa mentality.

Because the pipeline project has not only proven to be a mistake from today's perspective: With Nord Stream 2, Germany had knowingly positioned itself against Eastern Europe and at the same time signaled Putin's solidarity with Russia, regardless of the illegal annexation of Crimea. However, it is also true that the then CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed the German special path with Nord Stream 2 just like the comrades.

SPD leader Lars Klingbeil has now stepped onto the stepping stone. He presented his party's realignment in Ostpolitik in a five-point plan in Warsaw in the middle of the week. "We didn't see enough of the security concerns of our Eastern European partners. That must not be repeated,” said Klingbeil.

Big words that lose their power if the SPD continues to look on as their comrade Schwesig pulls out of the climate foundation affair instead of fully disclosing the events. As long as attempts are made to lay the cloak of silence over the past, the past cannot become a stepping stone. For the SPD, it then remains a sofa in which to sink.

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