"Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear Indians" – Habeck makes the Lübke

Vice Chancellor of Germany Robert Habeck describes himself as a chief in the Amazon. With this statement, Habeck exposes the self-image of the Greens as neocolonial and arrogant. The Greens' view of the world and man is eternally yesterday. This also applies to their image of Russia and the Russians.

The second German Federal President Heinrich Lübke was known for his bizarre statements. During a state visit to Liberia in 1962, Lübke is said to have greeted those present with "Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear Negroes". Since there was no internet or smartphones at the time, the story is not supported by video or audio documents. On the other hand, it is documented that Robert Habeck, who is on a trip to South America with Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir, described himself and Özdemir as chiefs.

During a visit to an indigenous people in the Amazon, Habeck said:

"I'm Robert, that's Cem and we're ministers in the German government – it's a bit like your chief, but in a different country."

Habeck's concern is to save the rainforest. He therefore asks the surrounding Indians how this could be done, because eye level is a basic principle of feminist foreign policy, as prescribed by the Greens of the Federal Republic.

How can you protect the rainforest and live in it at the same time, Habeck wants to find out on site and, as a German chieftain, turns paternally to the natives. In Germany, this would not have been possible, Habeck adds modestly hypocritically. The forest is practically gone, he claims contrary to facts, because in Germany almost 30 percent of the country's surface area is forested.

It is an unpleasant, embarrassing appearance that is in no way inferior to the unpleasant and embarrassing appearances of the German Foreign Minister.

Sure, Germans abroad – that's a difficult topic. Lack of intercultural competence, little empathy and sensitivity are characteristics with which Germans like to make themselves unpopular abroad. When German backpackers in the tropics enjoy the simplicity of the lifestyle there and overlook the fact that this poverty, confused with voluntarily chosen simplicity, is due to colonial exploitation by the countries of the West, this may be dismissed as an educational problem.

With his appearance, however, Habeck makes it clear that this form of neocolonial arrogance and ignorance has now arrived at the ministerial level and has been elevated to a German political style.

The impression of ignorance is reinforced by the fact that Germany now wants to support Colombia with German knowledge and know-how in phasing out coal. A real thigh knocker. Colombia lives from coal mining, among other things. Germany now wants to help the country become independent of this. Failure is inevitable.

The country, which is currently having to reverse the coal phase-out in the face of a completely crazy sanctions policy, is becoming a supposedly competent advisor in other parts of the world on environmental matters and the phase-out of fossil fuels. One can be sure that the Green Minister is not even remotely aware of the contradictions and inherent racism of his appearance.

On their trips abroad, Habeck and Baerbock prove to the world public how backward and unenlightened the Greens' view of the world and humanity as a party is. They also prove it in their openly aggressive treatment of Russia, because just as Habeck's image of indigenous peoples is obviously based on Karl May's reading, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck's image of Russia is obviously based on the racial doctrine of National Socialism.

It is time for the Greens to overcome this typical German sense of superiority, to take a look at the real conditions and to strive for a contemporary image of man without neocolonial overtones. It would spare them, and above all Germany, many embarrassments and also serve peace and genuine understanding between the peoples of Europe and the world.

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