and director of the rising tide foundation of canada in munich, we have ralph ne meyer. he is chairman of the counsel for constitution and sovereignty. and in belgrade we have stephen guide. he is a research associate at belgrade institute for european studies. are gentlemen cross roads and in fact that means he can jump in anytime you want, and i would appreciate it. let's go the route the 1st. rather my introduction. i didn't, i don't want to be too extreme here, but it seems there is a major shift going on in german foreign policy since the end of the cold war. and the, the pinnacle i think the most well known foreign policy trajectory of germany in the postwar years was off power teak specifically, which is meaning basically essentially having some form of reconciliation with the soviet union. then later russia that appears now to be completely off the agenda since the foreign minister of germany better. bob says that we are.

of german politician on ortho, ralph ne meyer believes the ukraine conflict as entering a new phase of direct confrontation between nato and russia and brussels. we're face key decisions. now we are entering the new phase of a direct confrontation between nato and russia. of course that was foreseeable and we are not surprised at its happenings, but nevertheless, i can say, i'm quite shocked to hear that. i mean, to stop treaty, anybody was dead. but at the same time in germany, state then use that we are facing a major recession. and that is because of sanctions because of the energy process that we provoked ourselves. and also because the americans want to de industrialize us here. so we have now, let's call it an economic war against germany as well by the americans on the territory of ukraine and military lies against russia. of course, that's much less, but we are losing our economy in the sanctions. shoot into our own feet here, and that is what we cannot endure longer. i don't believe that even though they will continue doing that on good. but we have to come to our sensors. ok,

and director of the rising tide foundation of canada in munich, we have ralph ne meyer. he is chairman of the counsel for constitution and sovereignty. and in belgrade we have stephen guide. he is a research associate at belgrade institute for european studies. are gentleman cross type roles in effect, that means he can jump in anytime you want, and i would appreciate it. let's go the route the 1st. rather my introduction. i didn't, i don't want to be too extreme here, but it seems there's a major shift going on in german foreign policy since the end of the cold war. and the, the pinnacle i think the most well known foreign policy trajectory of germany in the postwar years was os poet teak specifically, which is meaning basically essentially having some form of reconciliation with the soviet union. then later russia that appears now to be completely off the agenda since the foreign minister of germany better. bob says that we are in war with russia boss. yeah, it is terrible. what they are saying and also doing by committing to send arms into a conflict. it is actually a