According to Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the war started by Russian President Vladimir Putin is not only directed against Ukraine, but also against the very essence of democracy. Putin is “not only pursuing the goal of destroying Ukraine,” wrote the SPD politician in a guest article for “Welt”.
“His war is directed against everything that constitutes democracy: freedom, equality before the law, self-determination, human dignity,” writes Scholz. In contrast, the democratic countries of the world are currently appearing more united than they have in a long time: “This shows what unites us as democracies: the conviction that law must set limits to power.”
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Scholz continued: “Anyone who denies the existence of common human values does not know what they are talking about. Anyone who does it anyway is simply ignorant.” This person does not know “that a life in freedom, justice and dignity is not an ideal restricted to the West” and overlooks that there are humanistic values that “transcend times and borders from be shared with all people”. This is also the reason why people all over the world feel “sadness, compassion and anger” when they see the images of murdered women, men and children from Bucha or other places in Ukraine. (dpa)
