Scorning the ordinary voter?
A controversial quote
Background
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock set the moral tone of German politics after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In a speech to the UN general assembly in March she lambasted her Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov for his “lies”. At the EU’s border to Ukraine, she spoke with everyone from border guards, to refugees, to politicians.
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