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Strack-Zimmermann is 66 years old, a woman with gray hair and clear political views, which do not always please the chancellor's adviser...
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German politicians who support Ukraine lead a dangerous life. Prominent Member of Parliament Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann from the Liberal Party (FDP) told the magazine "Der Spiegel" that every month she sues about 200 people, who verbally attack her in various ways because she supports Ukraine's fight against Russia and demands that the German government supply more weapons to the Ukrainian army. These are mostly German men who worship Vladimir Putin. Strack-Zimmermann said she receives threats almost every day. She showed that she wins most court cases. Strack-Zimmermann is the liberals' candidate for the European elections, which will be held from June 6 to 9. Since the start of the election campaign in January, Strack-Zimmermann has been under police protection.
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Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is also waging a long-distance battle with Jens Plötner, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's foreign policy adviser. Irritated by Strack-Zimmermann's demands for support for Ukraine, Plötner last year went to a meeting of the German army and said: "This old woman gets on my nerves." Strack-Zimmermann is 66 years old, a gray-haired woman with clear political views that do not always sit well with the chancellor's adviser. After it became public what Plötner had said about Strack-Zimmermann, the liberal politician did not hesitate to respond on the X platform (formerly Twitter): "Plötner is a symbol of the disastrous German policy towards Russia in the last 15 years, on the ruins of where we are now". Plötner's insult ("This old lady gets on my nerves"), Strack-Zimmermann has turned into the leitmotif of her electoral slogan, where she emphasizes that she gets on the nerves of the guardian skeptics, the autocrats, the Nazis, the lazy, the status quo quo in the case of Ukraine, etc.
Plötner has recently been criticized by the correspondent of the German newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" for the Balkans, Michael Martens. He wrote that Plötner "systematically sabotaged" Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe. Plötner has been criticized that during the negotiations in Minsk, Belarus between Ukraine and Russia, he put more pressure on Kiev. In an interview with the "Tagesspiegel" newspaper, Plötner said that in the meantime he has changed his opinion about Russia and Putin.
"Obviously, during the negotiations in Minsk, they would have acted differently if we had known what would happen on February 24, 2022," Plötner said. Indeed, with the invasion of Crimea in 2014, it was known what destabilizing plans Putin has. Plötner is not the only Western diplomat or politician who has refused to understand what is going on around him. In 2018, four years after the annexation of Crimea, Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl invited Putin to her wedding. On that occasion she made a kneeling gesture towards the Russian leader. Last year it was announced that Kneissl has taken over the leadership of a Thinktank in the Russian metropolis of St. Petersburg.
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After the terrorist attack by Milan Radoicic's gang against the Kosovo police, Strack-Zimmermann called for an increase in the German military presence in Kosovo and said that the conflict is being instigated by Serbia. She called the mission of the German army within KFOR as successful and at the end of February she visited Kosovo at the head of a delegation of the Defense Committee of the Bundestag.
Strack-Zimmermann has not been a politician so well known to the general public. Her open commitment to Ukraine and against Russian aggression, as well as her harsh criticism of German governments for naive policy towards Russia in the past, have made this liberal politician quite popular. According to a poll by the DPA news agency, 76 percent of the German population knows Strack-Zimmermann. One pensioner labeled Strack-Zimmermann as a "warmonger". Strack-Zimmermann sued. "The fact that she is retired does not interest me. Even a pensioner should think carefully about what she posts", said Strack-Zimmermann to the magazine "Der Spiegel".
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