German politician: "The war against Serbia was wrong. Stock of beer evacuated first"

Namely, in an interview with Deutsche Welle, she was asked why the Left is considered friendly towards Vladimir Putin, she drew a parallel with the former FR Yugoslavia.
"It makes a big difference whether you have sympathy for someone or you think you should not go into military escalation against a country. I had no sympathy for Milosevic, but I thought the war against Serbia was wrong. That is the difference," Wissler said.
The German Ministry of Development has suspended payments to Afghanistan, which should hit the Taliban regime hard. After the United States, Germany was the most important source of development aid for Afghanistan. This year alone, 375 million euros were planned for co-operation with official Kabul, and another 75m for civil society projects. Now, all that should remain is only humanitarian aid of 100 million euros.
"I am against completely cutting off the funds for development cooperation. This is about the people, who are now suffering both at the hands of the Taliban, and from the terrible humanitarian situation on the ground. Of course, we need to keep an eye on what happens next," she told DW. Wissler sharply criticized the fact that the evacuations from Kabul started too late.
"That's a shabby way to treat the local staff. They're flying 65,000 liters of beer out of there, but when it comes to the people that were working for the Bundeswehr and for other German institutions — the human rights activists, women's rights activists — they're being left to fend for themselves," Wissler pointed out.
Ahead of Germany's troop pullout at the end of June, the military implemented an alcohol ban for its troops and flew its stock of beer, wine and other spirits out of Afghanistan. Reports at the time said the military...

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