According to a recent survey conducted by the Forsa Public Opinion Research Institute A small majority – 52 percent – the Germans are in favor of territorial concessions as a solution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine: “Ukraine should be prepared to give Russia to occupied territories, if necessary, to facilitate a peace agreement.” Among the supporters of the Chadecs of the CDU and CSU 43 percent That's right with this sentence. He also considers 48 percent. Social democrats and as many as 72 percent of AFD supporters.
The result of the survey may not be a great surprise, but it is terrifying. Two rules are emphasized both in everyday politics and on the occasion of historical anniversaries, such as the foundation of NATO or OSCE: “Territorial integrity and sovereignty” individual countries and “ban on an aggressive war” Codified in international criminal law.
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Even the German Penal Code recognizes as a crime “preparing an invading war” (paragraph 80). Theoretically, Putin could also be accused and convicted by a special tribunal. But The probability that this happens is so minimal that they can be safely ignored.
In this way, the jungle law wins with the international order
Although the survey carried out by the Forsa is only a fragment of reality, it sends a clear message: it is not so praised in international law that determines how countries treat each other, but the jungle law. Immeasurable, but still a significant part of the Germans, especially prominent figures from the cultural sectorbelieves that the armed conflict can be resolved “peacefully”if the victim of the attack gives up and renounces parts of his territory. In this particular case, it is even about territories, which the aggressor has not yet conquered, but already formally annexed.
And as it still exists A handful of pensioners who insist that Poles started World War II “Attack” on the radio station in Gliwice, so Putin's fans speak almost every day and claim that Russia did not invade Ukraine, that it had only warned the planned NATO attack on Russia. History can be creatively interpreted in many different ways.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with members of the Government in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 27 August 2025.PAP / EPA / VYACHESLAV PROKOFYEV / Sputnik / Kremlin Pool / PAP
In the translation of the housing estate in the suburbs, this would mean that The homeowner can actively take over his neighbor's house because he is afraid that this neighbor is determined to expand. As a sign of willingness to peacefully coexist, the buyer of the Earth offers sharing of the house and land with the previous owner.
Or 52 percent would he accept such a contract? Or maybe one or two people would have doubts about the peace of the neighbors on the other side of the fence, who have already suggested that they would like to have a swimming pool, but the plot would be too small for that? At last 48 percent would vote against such a contractbecause they know or suspect that it may not end there.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler in Munich, September 1938.Uppa /Photoshot /PAP /PAP
It is enough to remember the Munich system from 1938, in which representatives of Great Britain, France, Italy and the Third Reich forced Czechoslovakia to withdraw the Sudetes to Germany and leave them within ten days – in the hope that it will satisfy Hitler's hunger for more Lebensraumu [“przestrzeni życiowej”]. As we know, things went differently. In the Sudetes, Hitler took only the first step.
What was the saying that all peace lovers shouted yesterday? “It's never again!”
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