Germany Says India, Brazil Must Help Prevent World Turning Into ‘Den Of Robbers’

Last Updated:January 08, 2026, 20:05 IST

This unusual strong remarks came following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who has been accused of heading a state-backed drug trafficking network.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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.

This unusual strong remarks came following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro along with his wife, Cilia Flores, was capture by the US that accused him of heading a state-backed drug trafficking network that conspired with international criminal groups to smuggle large quantities of cocaine into the United States.

Prosecutors have charged him with narco-terrorism, cocaine trafficking conspiracy and related offences, which carry potential sentences ranging from decades in prison to life if convicted.

On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron slammed the US was “breaking free from international rules" and “gradually turning away" from some of its allies.

In his annual speech to French ambassadors at the Elysee Palace, Macron said: “The United States is an established power, but one that is gradually turning away from some of its allies and breaking free from international rules that it was still promoting recently."

He accused the US of breaking rules on trade and “some elements of security," Politico reported.

This comes as the European leaders work towards a coordinated response to US President Donald Trump if he acts on his threat to acquire Greenland. Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory with a population of about 57,000, holds untapped rare earth deposits and sits on key polar routes that could become strategically important as ice melts. It also lies on the shortest missile route between Russia and the United States and hosts a US military base.

Meanwhile, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has called Trump’s remarks on Greenland as “deeply concerning" while confirming that the EU has had an internal discussion on how it could respond to any move from the US to control the territory.

Speaking in Egypt after a meeting with the country’s foreign minister, he said: “The messages that we hear regarding Greenland are extremely concerning, and we have had discussions also among the Europeans … [on] if this is real threat, and if it is, then what would be our response?"

“As Denmark has been a good ally for United States … these … statements are not really helping the stability of the world," he further said.

“I would say the international law is very clear. We have to stick to it. It is clear that it is the only thing that protects smaller countries, and that’s why it is in the interest of all of us, and we discussed this today as well, that we uphold the international law on all levels." he added.

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