Leif-Erik
Holm
Nord
Stream 2
AfD
Kompakt, August 7, 2020
[Leif-Erik Holm is an Alternative für
Deutschland Bundestag member from the eastern German state of
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern where he is also the AfD state chairman. He is a radio
moderator. Three U.S. senators have recently threatened to impose economic
sanctions on a marine engineering firm involved in the construction of the Nord
Stream 2 pipeline carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany with a planned
landfall on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.]
The
threats of destruction from the U.S.A. are an unbelievable boorishness and
require immediately a sharp response from the Federal government – which so far
unfortunately is wanting. It is completely unacceptable when an ostensible ally and friend conducts
itself like an occupying power. We must now unmistakably affirm our
sovereignty. Frau Merkel can no longer beat the brush but must set a limit to
the U.S. administration’s encroaching offensive.
In
my view, an appropriate, initial response could be a lifting of the Russia
sanctions. That would send the correct signal across the Atlantic. Should the
U.S. senators nevertheless fulfill their threats, Germany must reply with sharp
sanctions. We should therefore not shrink from completely closing the U.S.
military bases in Germany. The Federal government must urgently concern itself
with the insecurity of the Baltic harbor at Rügen. Berlin should offer to buy
the harbor at Mukran from the city of Sassnitz and the state of MV [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]
so as to make clear that the Federal government is unwilling to yield even a
millimeter. We must once and for all make clear that we will not accept a
meddling in our affairs. A binding guarantee is also required from Berlin that
this pipeline will be finished, whatever the U.S.A. does.
[trans: tem]
