BELGRADE, December 24. /TASS/. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock have been working to consolidate an anti-Russian coalition in the European Union under pressure from U.S. President Joe Biden's administration. Now, they face the challenge of establishing ties with the incoming team of President-elect Donald Trump, Milorad Dodik, President of the Republika Srpska (one of the two constituent entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina), said.
"Germany was in a politically losing position when Scholz and Baerbock traveled across the EU in a bid to build an anti-Russian front, creating problems for themselves in the process. Just look at Germany now, compared to the world’s fourth-largest economy during [former Chancellor Angela] Merkel’s time. This shows that their policy was flawed. They failed to resist pressure from the Biden administration," Dodik remarked.
"Now we see the outcome: a Europe burdened with numerous problems and struggling to determine how to establish relations with the Trump administration. I am curious how Europe will handle accepting [Russian President Vladimir] Putin as a leader who is not a loser," he said in an interview with the Politika news outlet.