Sahra Wagenknecht, the leader of the German pro-Russian far-left party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, has refused to comment on whether she was pleased that Ukraine “still exists after three years” of full-scale war, rather than capitulating to Russia in the first week. She called the cost of resistance “absurd” and argued that the “death of a million people” was allegedly unnecessary.
I gotta hand it to Putin, he is clever in propping up fringe, populist lunatics from either political spectrum to destabilise the West. He pays lip service to the far left by invoking anti-Western imperialism. Then on the far-right and ultraconservatives, he purports to be supportive of traditional values. It makes it hard for traditional mainstream politics to sway on either side without being pro-Russia. That being said, I appreciate a counterforce from the German left to pit against AfD, but it is very hard for me to support BsW for being such a Putin lick ass.