Gone to moscow. well, five members of your party went to moscow. no seniorfigure. well, it depends what you call senior. they were seniorfigures in your party. they went to moscow. and it is quite clear that if you were to come to power, you would start the process of importing russian gas once again, wouldn t you? well, the russian gas has come in throughout the cold war decades, since the early 1970s. russia at the time, or the ussr, was the archenemy of the west. nobody bothered. and we had this gas coming in, yes. and there will be a time for peace. of course, we are not expecting the gas to come in as long as the war rages. but finally and ultimately, and this is what afd is saying, somebody has to negotiate a peace treaty here, and there is a time after this unfortunate and horrible war. just one final point on geopolitics and the afd. you seem to be very keen to move away from germany s traditional
Here we are, more or less neutral, always said and have been saying from the very beginning this is not our war. germany did not have neither by nato engagement or treaties, nor by eu treaties any obligation to involve itself in that war. there are dozens of wars all over the world, and usually germany does not interfere. here, we are forced or voluntarily interfered. the german government did something which we had not done in decades, or never after the second world war. but to be clear. we sent weapons. we sent german weapons to the ukraine. this has never happened before. actually, i was really very surprised in february 22 that this could happen. crosstalk some of your colleagues went on a recent trip to moscow. it s fair to say that your party s leadership is warm towards president putin and moscow. no seniorfigure has