few days, and the position of germany occupies a special place here, we are now in touch with andreas umlandlitical scientist, mr. andreas , congratulations, congratulations. europe this year, because of the ukrainian war, had a special flavor or, uh, well, there were no ukrainian notes. first, i apologize that i will speak in russian , so it will be faster. российской войны против Украины eh i'm in berlin right now , for example, at such a large eh in berlin, tomorrow and today, they will not use any flags, it’s not the russian flag, it’s not the ukrainian flag. today it's overdue to answer that, well, russia justifies its attack on ukraine as a continuation of the great patriotic war and sees ukraine as something equivalent to fascist germany. germans are such a painful topic, i think. but this is russian rhetoric, which looks at today's ukraine as something similar to fascist germany. it is just for ukraine . to this uh, comparison and uh well, this here is generally perceived as a scandal, that's uh, uh, this is the russian language, well, we also drew attention to the fact that the auth

moments before the arrival of the flights friends, we invite the next guest to the air andreas umland political scientist, analyst of the stockholm center for the study of eastern europe p andres, good evening, how are you, i would like to talk to you about finland more and more decisively, the country declares its intentions to join the alliance, obviously this is what will happen in in the near future, moscow is making more and more decisive statements, one of the last ones, that if finland and sweden become members of the alliance, then russia may consider these territories as possible areas for attack for do you think the attacks are empty verbal threats or are they really a danger for these countries? first of all, i apologize that i will speak in russian, so it will be faster . which are in nato and in the european union, we have all sides and topics that are not in these organizations, eh. and that is why these territorial conflicts with moldova, with georgia and with ukraine are types of the great war, eh, so i think there will be all sorts of political and diplomatic threats