For all his talk about European imperialism/post-colonialism, he doesn't seem to get that Russia was and is a colonial power that never really decolonized. Why did all the Baltic States and former Warsaw Pact Nations including Orban's Hungary jump on the NATO bandwagon as soon as possible even when NATO was seen as increasingly obsolete? Why did Georgia and Ukraine want to join? He and his counterparts in America can't seen to move past everything-is-America/UK/EU's fault and that there are other parties like Russia making things even more worse.Crank politician with Russophile sympathies strikes again!
He relinquished his honorary citizenship in Hanover before his home city could strip it from him — something it last did, posthumously, to Adolf Hitler. When even the soccer club Borussia Dortmund, which Mr. Schröder has supported since he was 6, demanded a strong statement on Mr. Putin from him, Mr. Schröder canceled his membership.
#OzymandiasWasRightThere's nothing quite as unifying as common, senseless aggressor.