“Coincidence that this woman is Secretary of State” – Precht shoots at Baerbock

In the podcast with Markus Lanz, German philosopher Richard David Precht made disparaging remarks about Annalena Baerbock. The context of the story: Barbock’s attitude towards China.

So the philosopher does not leave a good hair with the foreign minister of the Greens. He suspects that “under normal circumstances” she wouldn’t even have gotten an internship at the Foreign Office.

During her visit to China, Baerbock criticized the government there for not condemning China’s war of aggression and therefore “supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin despite his war of aggression in Ukraine”.

After the trip, Baerbock complained that China was increasingly becoming a “systematic rival” to the West. Precht does not understand this: unlike Christian countries (such as Germany), China would not proselytize with their values.

He accused the secretary of state of “painting on the wall, so to speak, an escalation scenario” and running a values-based foreign policy that is really a foreign policy based on confrontation. In addition, according to Percht, there would be a major confrontation with China for the German economy.

Meanwhile, opinions on Twitter are divided. The Percht camp agrees. He is the only one who dares to speak to the elephant in the room – that Baerbock is a miserable Secretary of State.

Of course, Percht also receives massive criticism – his statements are seen as sexist.

It is not the first time that Precht publicly criticizes and is subsequently criticized himself:

(cpf)