| | Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman [[Maria Zakharova]] delivered a moving and powerful message to Sholz following his disastrous decision to open old wounds by delivering German tanks once again,<ref>[https://youtu.be/C5yXoMRUhXg Symbols of death the German tanks, Russian Foreign Ministry says], Jan. 28, 2023. YouTube.</ref> imploring German leaders “not to make the same mistakes of the German ancestors, that the German people paid a huge price for.” Staring directly into the camera at a press conference, Zakharova addressed the German people: “The day that it was allowed that Leopard tanks should be sent to Ukraine is historical because it has cemented the thing that we talked about, that Germany has completely lost [[sovereignty]]. And Scholz has just signed the loss of independent German [[foreign policy]] forever.”<ref>[https://youtu.be/hv7yEI5YRZc Zakharova's POWERFUL Message To Olaf Scholz (EN Translated)], Jan 27, 2023. YouTube.</ref> | | Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman [[Maria Zakharova]] delivered a moving and powerful message to Sholz following his disastrous decision to open old wounds by delivering German tanks once again,<ref>[https://youtu.be/C5yXoMRUhXg Symbols of death the German tanks, Russian Foreign Ministry says], Jan. 28, 2023. YouTube.</ref> imploring German leaders “not to make the same mistakes of the German ancestors, that the German people paid a huge price for.” Staring directly into the camera at a press conference, Zakharova addressed the German people: “The day that it was allowed that Leopard tanks should be sent to Ukraine is historical because it has cemented the thing that we talked about, that Germany has completely lost [[sovereignty]]. And Scholz has just signed the loss of independent German [[foreign policy]] forever.”<ref>[https://youtu.be/hv7yEI5YRZc Zakharova's POWERFUL Message To Olaf Scholz (EN Translated)], Jan 27, 2023. YouTube.</ref> |
| − | [[File:Nord Stream II Lubmin.jpg|right|300px|thumb|German protest against Russian sanctions and in favor of opening the Nord Stream pipeline on the morning before the U.S. environmental terrorist attack on the pipeline.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-blew-russian-gas-pipelines-nord-stream-1-2-says-former-polish-defense-minister</ref>]]{{See also|Nord Stream pipeline#Morganthau Plan 2.0}} | + | [[File:Nord Stream II Lubmin.jpg|right|300px|thumb|German protest against Russian sanctions and in favor of opening the Nord Stream pipeline on the morning before the U.S. environmental terrorist attack on the pipeline.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-blew-russian-gas-pipelines-nord-stream-1-2-says-former-polish-defense-minister</ref>]] |
| | U.S. dictator [[Joe Biden]] and his foreign policy team—National Security Adviser [[Jake Sullivan]], Secretary of State [[Tony Blinken]], and Undersecretary [[Victoria Nuland]] had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the [[Baltic Sea]] from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the [[Estonia]]n border, passing close to the [[Danish]] island of Bornholm before ending in northern Germany. | | U.S. dictator [[Joe Biden]] and his foreign policy team—National Security Adviser [[Jake Sullivan]], Secretary of State [[Tony Blinken]], and Undersecretary [[Victoria Nuland]] had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the [[Baltic Sea]] from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the [[Estonia]]n border, passing close to the [[Danish]] island of Bornholm before ending in northern Germany. |