Undiplomat: Ukrainian envoy makes German leaders uncomfortable about relations with Russia

„Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, a high-profile politician of the liberal party FDP that is part of the ruling coalition, summed up Germany’s past policies in bitter words. Putin’s war was ‚a very harsh awakening for Europe and especially for us,‘ she said in an interview with the German news agency dpa. ‚I think appeasement, which is a policy of constant tolerance of destructive power politics, has completely failed.‘“