Former Left Party co-founder and chairman Oscar La Fontaine accused the West of lying about the Ukraine crisis and called for greater understanding of Moscow's position, writes Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten.

"The whole policy of the Western states - of course, led by the United States, who make the policy, no one else - is based on lies," said the current leader of the Left Party faction in the Saar Landtag.

According to Lafontaine, the US financed the coup in Ukraine. Today they have missile bases in Romania and Poland. "The solution could be quite simple: since the Americans don't want missile bases and troops on their doorstep, they should grant the same right to Russia," the politician said.

The leader of the Left Party believes that Germany and Europe need to pursue an independent foreign policy. Although today there are not enough statesmen of the scale of Charles de Gaulle and Willy Brandt.

Lafontaine stated that the NATO bloc was systematically advancing towards the Russian border. The construction of the "new European home" did not take place. The SPD now has a golden opportunity to return to Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik.

However, détente is "no longer alive," lafontaine laments. There is a good example of this. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) "had nothing better than to lay the blame on Russia for the current danger of war, as if he did not know that the West had promised not to expand NATO eastward."

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