In Germany, “lost the gift of speech” after the appeal of Scholz to the nation

MOSCOW, 25 Sep — PRIME. Readers of the German newspaper Die Welt were shocked by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s weekly video message in which he said that energy prices must come down.

“The same person who raised energy prices with his energy policy is now demanding lower prices? One can be speechless after such statements!” — wrote one of the users.

“This government is only a year old, and we are on the path to poverty. Whole concepts of life <…> crumble to dust. For what and for whom?” another was outraged.

“He is screaming at the top of his voice against the consequences of his own policies,” said a third.

“I can’t see him anymore,” one reader admitted.

“The poor fellow forgot that he and his politics are to blame,” the fifth noted sarcastically.

“At first he raised prices with useless sanctions, and now he is demanding that they be reduced,” readers summed up.

After the start of the Russian special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, Western countries stepped up sanctions pressure on Moscow: Russian assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars were frozen, the European Union has already adopted seven packages of restrictive measures, including an embargo on coal and oil.

The Kremlin called these measures an economic war. As Vladimir Putin noted, the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy for the West, but the sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. The population of European countries has already faced a significant rise in the price of food, fuel and electricity, and the authorities are forced to introduce austerity measures due to the energy crisis.