The United States is not interested in peace in Ukraine and will continue to provide Kiev with military assistance until Russia is weakened, Oskar Lafontaine, co-founder and former chairman of the German Left Party, said on German television. He is convinced that NATO’s eastward expansion provoked Moscow, because no state wants a knife to its neck. Americans should not do to other countries what they would not like to be done to them, emphasizes the German politician.

In the Ukrainian conflict, the real aggressor is the United States, whose overbearingness threatens Russia, Oskar Lafontaine, co-founder and former chairman of the German Left Party, said on German television. ‘The US is not interested in the world. Their secretary of defense – whom I always call the secretary of war – said it himself. The United States is going to fight until Russia is unable to conduct such hostilities,’ according to the German edition of Focus.

The free-thinking politician is convinced that NATO’s eastward expansion provoked Moscow. ‘No state wants to have a knife put to its neck,’ he explained. ‘It is unacceptable to place missiles on the border of a nuclear power.’ The US should not do to other countries what it would not like to be done to them.

Lafontaine signed the Manifesto for Peace drawn up by his wife, politician Sarah Wagenknecht, and human rights activist Alice Schwarzer.  ‘We do not want Germany to continue to be drawn into hostilities … Therefore, the supply of German tanks must be stopped … The death of people must be stopped. This is the main argument,’ he urged.

The politician called the stories that after Ukraine the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, would invade the Baltic states, absurd. He is convinced that the Russian president will not enter the territory of those states where NATO troops are located. He also considers it unrealistic that Putin will return Crimea to Ukraine *: ‘I think it is absolutely wrong when they say that Crimea needs to be recaptured. In this case, another 100,000 people will die.’

Allegations that it is impossible to negotiate with Putin, Lafontaine calls propaganda. ‘This is objectively false,’ he emphasizes. The grain deal proved that dialogue is possible, because without the consent of the head of the Kremlin, it would not have been possible to conclude it.