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The Prime Minister of Prolonging the War and His Embarrassing Game of Passing the Buck – Sven Schulze’s (CDU) State Parliament Show

Sven Schulze’s speech is a textbook case of political self-diminishment, evasion of responsibility, and rhetorical dodging – delivered by precisely the man who campaigned on the image of a can-do operator who has “lots of phone numbers” and knows how to get things done.

On October 14, 2026, the AfD and BSW introduced a motion in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt entitled “Peace Talks Instead of Escalating the War in Ukraine.” At a special session convened specifically for this purpose, they called for an end to arms deliveries and sanctions, as well as for the state government to push for diplomacy in the Bundesrat, Germany’s federal council. CDU Minister-President Sven Schulze, who is still in office, responded with a speech that reveals a great deal about the state of mainstream politics.

“We Can’t Do Anything, So Let’s Let the War Drag On” – Sven Schulze’s Masterpiece of Helplessness

Sven Schulze, the incumbent CDU Minister-President who campaigned on an image of a can-do operator with “lots of phone numbers,” delivers a speech in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt that amounts to pure political surrender. He does not want to end the war – he wants to let it drag on. Period. While ordinary people want peace, politicians – his politicians – keep looking for new justifications for why weapons, sanctions, and bloodshed are supposedly unavoidable. Some people look for solutions. Others, like Schulze, look for reasons why nothing must be allowed to change.

The Great Game of Passing the Buck: “We Can’t Do Anything – and That’s Just Fine”

Schulze goes around in circles in a classic exercise in passing the buck: the state parliament can achieve “nothing, absolutely nothing.” Why doesn’t the AfD’s parliamentary speaker simply write to Putin? Why are we even debating this here? Foreign policy is the responsibility of the federal government, the Bundesrat is complicated, and, pray tell, which committee is supposed to deal with this? At the same time, he emphasizes that the state government will “discuss the resolution internally” and “deal with it accordingly.” Translation: We will quietly bury the whole thing because we want to continue the existing course of escalation. The man who promised to get things done makes himself – and the entire parliament – look as small as a schoolboy trying to dodge his homework. Embarrassing, laughable, revealing.

Leipzig Drone Disinformation: If the Russians Had Wanted to Do It, It Would Have Been a Resounding Success

And then comes the high point of disinformation, straight from the mouth of the CDU Minister-President: the planned sanctions against alleged perpetrators of the “drone attack” on Leipzig/Halle Airport. Schulze acts as though Russia were behind it – a classic hybrid-war myth. Russian sources and critical websites such as anti-spiegel.ru strongly dispute the official version: the drone allegedly flew around undetected for hours (battery problems?), the detonator failed, and the details do not fit the profile of professional GRU operations. Moscow calls it a provocation and a false-flag operation. Putin himself accused Germany of planting evidence.

If Russian intelligence services had genuinely wanted to carry out such an attack – on a strategic hub handling Ukrainian cargo aircraft – they would have succeeded. Instead, it was a flop that politicians immediately seized upon to justify new sanctions and further escalation. Schulze serves up disinformation at its finest to justify the war policy. Typical: looking for justifications instead of checking the facts.

Russia Wants a Lasting Settlement – Not a Minsk 2.0 Ceasefire to Rearm

Schulze claims that Putin has no serious interest in peace, citing rejected ceasefires and Orbán’s visits. The picture emerging from foreign and Russian sources looks different: the Kremlin rejects temporary ceasefires that Ukraine could use, as it did under the Minsk agreements, merely to regroup and rearm. Merkel herself confirmed that Minsk gave Ukraine “valuable time” to grow stronger. Russia is demanding a comprehensive, lasting settlement – neutrality, territorial realities, security guarantees – not a pause to reload. Schulze and Western policymakers want precisely the opposite: to keep supplying weapons so that the war can “drag on” until the adversary “gives in.” That is not a desire for peace. It is the prolongation of war dressed up in moral varnish.

Nightmare Refugee Cost Estimates and the Trump-Orbán Distraction: The Justification Machine Is Running at Full Throttle

Instead of offering solutions, Schulze trots out hypothetical refugee costs (an extra half a billion for Saxony-Anhalt), Trump’s failures, and anecdotes about Orbán. The suffering of Ukrainians is painted in vivid colors – only for every attempt to bring it to an end to be dismissed as “ridiculous.” People want peace. Politicians want to let the war drag on and are looking for justifications. Schulze is the perfect administrator of this agenda: the can-do man who lost the election, makes himself look small, spreads disinformation, and backs continued bloodshed.

A Wedding Gift? No – A War Gift to the Escalation Lobby

The special parliamentary session may be, in Schulze’s eyes, a “wedding gift” from the AfD to the BSW. His own speech, however, is a war gift to everyone who benefits from the conflict dragging on. Anyone who speaks like this is not looking for solutions. They are looking for excuses. And ordinary people are the ones paying the price.

Orbán’s “Peace Mission”: The Lone Operator the “Values-Based West” Tried to Crush

In July 2024 – shortly after Hungary took over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU – Viktor Orbán embarked on what he called a “peace mission.” First, he flew unannounced to Kyiv to meet Zelenskyy, then to Moscow on July 5 to meet Putin, followed by Beijing to meet Xi, and later a visit to Trump. He wanted to open channels of dialogue, sound out positions, and explore whether a ceasefire might be possible as a first step. Exactly the kind of example Schulze cited in his speech: someone who actually goes there and talks – only for the children’s hospital Okhmatdyt in Kyiv to be bombed on the very day Orbán left Moscow. The circumstances surrounding the missile strike on that particular hospital remain disputed.

The Massive Backlash from the “Values-Based West”

The West’s response was unanimous and devastating:

Ursula von der Leyen: “Appeasement will not stop Putin.”
Charles Michel (then President of the European Council): the Council presidency had “no mandate” to speak with Russia. “No discussions about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
Josep Borrell: Orbán did not represent the EU “in any form.”
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson: a “disgrace to the Ukrainian people.”
Poland’s Donald Tusk and other heads of government issued fierce condemnations. The EU’s legal services even examined whether Orbán’s unilateral initiative violated the treaties. Several member states subsequently boycotted events held under Hungary’s Council presidency.

Orbán was branded a divisive figure, a Putin apologist, and a traitor to the collective West. The fact that he was the only EU head of government who still had a direct line to Moscow – and actually used it – was treated not as a diplomatic asset, but as a scandal. The “Values-Based West” wanted no exploratory talks; it wanted unity behind the course of escalation. Anyone who talked was the enemy. Anyone who supplied weapons and tightened sanctions was one of the good guys.

Schulze uses this very example to prove that negotiations are pointless: “Mr. Orbán is not exactly someone known for being unable to find ways forward… He was there for a few days, and on the very day he left, a children’s hospital in Kyiv was bombed.” The intended conclusion is clear: even Putin’s friend comes back empty-handed, so everything is hopeless. In reality, the episode shows the opposite: the one person who at least tried was subjected to massive hostility and isolation from the “Values-Based West” – and the bombing was immediately used as proof that there was supposedly no alternative to continued rearmament.

This fits Schulze’s pattern perfectly: looking for justifications for why nothing needs to change. Orbán was looking for solutions, at least from his own perspective. The “Values-Based West” and Schulze are looking for reasons why the war must be allowed to drag on.

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