An interview with former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt
in Friday’s edition of the Bild newspaper reflects the seriousness of the political crisis.
The 95-year-old warned that, as in 1914, Europe was standing on the edge of the abyss.
“The situation seems to me to be increasingly comparable.” Though Schmidt said
he did not want “to speak too soon about a third world war,”
he said that “the danger that the situation could escalate as in August 1914 is growing daily.”
Helmut Schmidt BILD vrijdag: Ukraine-Krise zunehmend vergleichbar mit 1914
http://www.bild.de/regional/hamburg/helmut-schmidt-ukrainekrise
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