Russia behaves like an enemy, not like an enemy – opinion

Beware of the demonization of Russia, the spectators like to say at this war – meanwhile the Russian leadership insults the Europeans as “pigs”. So you have to call an attacker that – if you don’t do that, you fall into a language-political trap.

The Brothers Grimm listed more than forty terms, properties and things in their dictionary, all of which they knew how to derive from the one word “enemy”. It is interesting and sometimes surprising which words they were able to extract from the archives of the German language and which did not even exist at the time. They were familiar with “love of enemies”, they even characterized it as a “duty” and quoted Luther’s translation of the Bible: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him with bread; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.” Some of the words you mentioned are no longer in use, although they denote something that there is still no shortage of today, such as “hostile” people. They thirst to have enemies from whom they can feel disregarded, threatened, persecuted, they are looking for them until they find ones who can disregard, threaten, persecute them with a clear conscience.

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