I am thrilled.
Great weather, great atmosphere, peace-loving people wherever you look.
I am already looking forward to the coverage in our quality media.
Yes, because the truth is always a tricky thing, especially in Germany. Where a lot of people
also suffer from the long daytime news symptom.
Well, the truth, the truth, the one truth, doesn't really exist.
So, whether it's about the energy transition, man-made climate change or the corona number.
Depending on who you ask and what facts they don't know, the truth can look one way or the other.
This also applies to issues such as Ukraine and the question of whether President Putin invaded
the country in violation of international law.
There are people who say that the Russian invasion was not against international law because the Donbass
republics had previously seceded from the central state.
Just as Kosovo broke away from Serbia, the Donbass republics broke away from Ukraine.
President Putin has recognized the republics, signed a mutual assistance agreement with them and
thus Russia would even have a military obligation.
Others say, yes, of course the Russian invasion is against international law, there's really nothing to discuss.
Brutal war of aggression, clear violation of international law.
Just like back in March 1999, when the USA, Germany, France and 16 other NATO countries bombed Yugoslavia.
Brutal and contrary to international law.
Which is not to equate the war in Ukraine with the war in Yugoslavia.
No, not that. I mean, that's not possible.
This is not possible, if only because it did not result in any sanctions for the aggressors in the brutal war of aggression
against Yugoslavia in violation of international law, i.e. for the USA, Germany, France and all the other NATO countries.
So, as far as the truth in cabaret is concerned, as a cabaret artist I naturally opt most comfortably for
the truth that the so-called mainstream wants to hear.
Yes please, if you join in with the general Putin bashing, nothing can happen to you, you're on the right side.
There is applause.
But now suppose, just suppose, I wouldn't go along with that and I would question the Putin bashing instead.
I don't do it, of course.
No, I'm not doing it. Listen, I'm not crazy.
I don't want to run the risk of someone looking up where my next performance is taking place on the Internet,
then calling the organizer or the mayor there and defaming me as a Putin apologist or a Nazi.
I don't do it.
But now let's assume, just assume, that I would do it.
Just assuming, purely hypothetically.
I would do it and I would ask who else could be partly responsible for the war in Ukraine
and how long the war has actually been going on.
So for over two years now, or more than ten years, unchallenged by Western politics and our leading media.
Yes, or do the causes of the Ukraine war perhaps go back even longer than ten years?
I mean, everything also has a history.
We are not here today by chance.
And children are not born just like that.
No, there's a back story.
There is actually always a back story.
Yes, and it could also play a role in the war in Ukraine.
For example, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia moved its external borders ever closer to the NATO countries.
But please, I like to look to the right.
But that doesn't mean that I can't relate to the left here.
I in no way want to justify the Russian invasion.
Yes, let alone defend Putin.
No, I'm just asking myself questions.
Why, for example, is the West always the good guy and the Russians always the bad guy?
Why?
Why did the West accept Kosovo's independence without a referendum?
Crimea's independence despite referendum?
Why was there no media outcry when Barack Obama bombed Syria, Libya and Yemen in violation of international law?
Why is the media outcry deafening when Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine?
Yes, because Vladimir Putin doesn't have a Nobel Peace Prize?
Now imagine if I were to bring such things here.
I mean, I don't do it.
But if I were to do it, there could be problems.
Recently, anyone who questions the narrative of the federal government is a rabble-rouser.
130 of the Criminal Code makes it possible, inciters of hatred.
And that's why I stay away from topics like Russia and Ukraine.
You already have one foot in prison.
And who wants that?
At least not me.
And if I were to be taken away because of some misunderstanding or something, then I would wish
to be taken away like Greta Thunberg in Lützerath.
So, what you can still ask without any problems is how long the war in Ukraine will continue.
According to US Senator Lindsey Graham, the Americans will fight to the last Ukrainian.
And German war experts like Roderich - you have to take the war to Russia, Kiesewetter.
And Anton - I almost became Minister of Agriculture once, Hofreiter.
They have made it clear in a personal letter to Joe Biden that they see no reason to rule out an
extension of the war beyond the end of the year.
This war, in which the USA is not standing on Ukraine's side out of charity, but out of its own strategic interests, as
Kamala Harris said at the so-called peace summit in Switzerland.
This war, which could have ended just a few weeks after it began in Istanbul, is
apparently set to continue for as long as possible.
So what comes next?
So, it must be mentioned that those who drum up support for the war will never be seen at the front.
But more and more deaths.
Dead and more dead.
So, what comes after the professional killing?
Then comes what comes after every war.
After war comes peace.
And my suggestion would be to simply leave out the war.
Thank you very much.