Merkel does not accept criticism and believes she is being made “scapegoat” for war in Ukraine
Merkel does not accept criticism and believes she is being made “scapegoat” for war in Ukraine
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes that she is being made a “scapegoat” for the war in Ukraine due to her position at the NATO summit in 2008, when she blocked Kyiv’s path to a Membership Action Plan.
In the interview, Merkel stated that Vladimir Putin, at the beginning of his presidency, had no intention of attacking Ukraine, and his plan gradually took shape over the years, partly due to the behaviour of the West.
Did he also have no intention of continuing to occupy Georgia and Moldova and the West forced him to continue the occupation and then invade Georgia in 2008?
So did the interviewer ask her this? Cause they should have.
Not directly, but she did say that the Bucarest Summit lead to the invasion of Georgia in 2008.
She is talking about the year 2000. It took 8years for the war in Ukraine and 14 until he took Crimea and 22 years until the full scale invasion. Is it really that hard to imagine that Putin is not some incredible mastermind, but does something big, when he believes there is a good chance of success or something else changes. In 2008 Georgia had made moves to join NATO, so Russia intervened. 2014 was the Orange Revolution and Ukraine was weak, so he attacked. If he wanted to take all of Ukraine all the time, that was actually also the perfect moment for that. However it took him until 2022, when he thought the West was weak due to Covid and a lot more propaganda, for him to attack. It might also very well be that he changed his mind on a lot of things, being in power for over two decades and yes the behavior of the West certainly was part of it.
Russia invaded Moldova and Georgia in the early 90s under Yeltsin.
This is not a putin matter per se. This is a russia issue.
Putins court ideogog wrote the book on russian empire path. They have followed it to the letter for decades. Even before ger reign. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Merkel attempting to retcon all the decades long "success" she had on the back of cheap Russian oil and gas, selling out Ukraine in the process
show me a conservative that accepts blame for anything
Plenty of blame to go around. Where is Gerhard Schroder these days?
Apparently his party wasn't able to expell him and caved. Source in German: https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Miersch-erklaert-Gerhard-Schroeder-wieder-zum-Teil-der-SPD-article25321765.html
The move to expel him was utterly shameful. A lot of smart people ridicule pacifists and people believing in peace through trade etc. They should be ashamed. Schröder was a great chancellor and he should be praised for a lot of good decisions during his tenure. His vision to position Germany and Europe in the middle between the US and Russia was farsighted, still is today. He kept Germany out of the Iraq war, turned out he was very right about that. He also fostered a shift towards renewable energy.
A lot of good could be said about his years as chancellor yet smug online "experts" on foreign policy of course know everything much better lmao.
Hey someone should try to find a ladder - it might help her to climb down a bit from her own asshole.
For real, she killed any possibility of a response because she was too invested in nordstream 2. It was a conflict of interest, and it made a difference, and this war, right now, is the consequence.
She also fed the afd.. letting in a million refugees, telling everyone it will be fine and then not actually doing anything to prevent the issues everyone saw coming.
And somehow now it‘s all the greens fault.
I will never understand how that works.
@Badeendje @Skiluros well, i'am thankful for 1 million ppl in our overaged society. And she and fckg Obama fckes it up in Syria letting this genocidal tyrant mass murder and gas their citizens! So this is actually the only thing she was right about!
I'm not saying she should have stopped the migrants or whatever.. but integrating a million people will mean you need to invest heavily in making sure these people land properly, get the help they need (including medical and psychological where needed, language and integration, preventing ghetto forming, housing.. etc etc) I'd argue she came up short.
Why are you censoring yourself?
Ukraine was essentially a Russian client state until a few years later. I imagine very few wanted Ukraine in the alliance until a little more of the corruption was taken care of. Germany definitely benefited from cheap oil and gas from Russia while Russia did bad things but I think these are two different issues.
A Boomer who refuses to accept and acknowledge their personal failing and complicit decisions?
Quelle surprise
Denialism
It's a mistake to say that she (as a single person) is responsible for all the problems nowadays.
Do you think Putin woldn't have attacked, if Ukraine would have joined the NATO? Nobody knows. There is just no indication to believe such an step would have prevented the problems nowadays.
She enabled putin and promoted russian imperialism. Even to this day she refuses to speak clearly about this.
Putin didn't attack the Baltic nations, even though they have even less capability to fight back against the russians.
"She enabled putin and promoted russian imperialism. Even to this day she refuses to speak clearly about this."
Can you give some examples for that claim? Anyway, I still believe there were more people involved, a single person can not be made responsible for consolidation of his position.