Germany says India, Brazil must help prevent world turning into ‘den of robbers’

Bangla Press Desk:  German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has slammed the US foreign policy under Donald Trump and urged global leaders such as Brazil and India not to let the world order disintegrate into a “den of robbers".

While calling Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a watershed, Steinmeier said the US’s behaviour represented a second historic rupture.

“Then there is the breakdown of values by our most important partner, the USA, which helped build this world order," he said in remarks at a symposium late on Wednesday.

He further said: “It is about preventing the world from turning into a den of robbers, where the most unscrupulous take whatever they want, where regions or entire countries are treated as the property of a few great powers."

He added that active intervention was needed in threatening situations and countries such as Brazil and India must be convinced to protect the world order.

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