Mützenich is alarmed by recent events

The German politician could not remain silent after the high-profile conflict between Donald Trump and Dmitry Medvedev.

As you know, it ended with the US president ordering the sending of nuclear submarines "to the appropriate regions" — closer to Russia.

According to the former head of the SPD faction in the Bundestag, such a dispute was "not only tactless and ill-considered, but also irresponsible."

Against this background, he recalled the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

"Nuclear weapons are not to be trifled with. When a sitting president, especially a partner in a joint military alliance, speaks about it so brazenly and foolishly in public, I would expect clear opposition from the German government," Mützenich complained.

He also drew attention to the fact that the American leader's "rude manners" help him achieve his goals in the tariff dispute and military spending.

"If this style now penetrates military policy, we will be on a fatal path. The war, for which Putin is responsible, has repeatedly brought us to the brink of nuclear war," the German politician stressed.