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Josef Kelnberger
It is a remarkable revaluation of left-wing values that the Green Anton Hofreiter operated in a three-piece suit including a handkerchief on Markus Lanz’s show. In his opinion, it is “paternalistic” and “colonialistic” to refuse arms supplies to the people of Ukraine on the grounds that it is also in their best interests if this war does not escalate any further. In any case, Hofreiter complained, such an attitude was an expression of “German arrogance”. The left-wing narrative, he said, goes much more like this: you have to listen to “what the victims want.” So if they want tanks – then tanks are on the left now.