An Interesting Speech by Minister Rau in Berlin.
Rau met with Annalena Baerbock, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, probably so that a simple plan to send tanks from Poland to Ukraine and from Germany to Poland did not stop halfway.
Germany writes about hesitation on the issue of Ringtausch with Poland. Considering how symbolically you can understand Ringtausch (It can also be the equivalent of: A revolving change, As well as exchanging wedding rings), the issue is significantly tense. It seems that everyone in Europe has long been with each other "after the word", but not after the gesture. The ritual stopped, froze. Hence the spooky powerlessness of the EU masked by chatter (Parletré).
The language is commonly understood, the language of meanings resulting directly from the image, the magical language is based on the identity of the word and the gesture. If there is too much pause between one and the other resulting directly from the archetypal ritual, the effectiveness of the action disappears. That is why the liturgy-ceremonal is equally important in religion and politics.
Minister Rau's speech had almost liturgical fervor. He told the Germans that Europe without reliable (Glaubwürdigkeit) Germany is unimaginable.
Faith-dignity It's a beautiful word. You can easily imagine a number of corresponding beautiful gestures. Rather, these will not be gestures on the caterpillars.
Looking for an understanding of the German perspective of looking at Russia, we often look too shallowly. Not everything is explained by the lost war, mass rapes, the memory of ceremonial humiliation, the fear of eighty years ago. Not everything results from the cold pragmatism of the economic lobby, which intends to use the existing infrastructure as long as possible.
Today's Germany is still strongly embedded in the tradition of Prussia as well as the First Reich - the Holy Empire of the German Nation (Heiliges Römisches Reich) still cannot decide whether the Eastern (Moscow) tradition of absolute domination of secular power is not better than Western disputes over regulatory ideas and their relationship with facts. The Russians have (nonchalance) technology that Germans can only dream of. They create any facts without worrying about justifying them. They are very capable (almost everything) constructors, who are limited only by a very general feeling of a "holy and great cause" (Holy and great Russia, Holy Russian land). This must impress the technocratic imagination.
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