The German former chancellor Angela Merkel I wanted to appease Vladimir Putin to prevent the Russian autocrat embarking on a new military adventure, but the discrepancies within the European coalition They did not allow it. That has been the confession that until shortly before the invasion of Ukraine was considered the most powerful woman in the world and one of the most important political figures of the 21st century in the old continent.
A few words that have raised A great controversy Because Merkel has not bit his tongue and has pointed out those responsible, in his opinion, of preventing direct conversations with the Kremlin leader. “In June 2021 he felt that Putin no longer took the Minsk protocol,” he said in reference to the peace agreement to end the Donbás war. “And that’s why I wanted a new format in which we, as a European Union, could talk directly to Putin“.
In an interview with the Hungarian opposition medium Partizánthe German former chancellor explained that that same month, at a meeting of the European Council, he proposed with the French president Emmanuel Macron open A new negotiation route With Putin, which was already beginning to accumulate troops on the border with Ukraine. However, the East Allies opposed the plan.
Zelenski, Merkel, Macron and Putin, after a meeting in Paris in 2019.
“This did not have the support of some. Mainly the Baltic countries, but Poland also opposed“Merkel revealed, detailing that his governments feared that there was no common policy towards Russia and unloading part of Putin’s responsibility in the outbreak of the conflict, which finally occurred in February 2022.” In any case, it did not happen. Shortly after I left office and then Putin’s aggression began. “
This story has caused deep discomfort in countries directly indicated by the former chancellor. The former Minister of Latvia, Krišjānis Kariņšhe blamed that radiography that many allies did not understand at that time the true threat of Russia, “including Germany and his former chancellor.”
“I constantly told him that You can’t deal with Putin in good faithbut she believed that the Baltic countries were wrong. I knew Merkel’s opinions well, but I am surprised that after everything that happened in Ukraine, he thought like that, “Kariņš confessed, adding that the only options of the West against Putin are “SOMETERSE TO RESIST”: “It comforts me that the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, does not share this point of view.”
Estonia Foreign Minister, Margus Tsahknahe insisted that there is only one responsible for the beginning of the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II: Vladimir Putin. “The Russian war against Ukraine is based on one thing: its refusal to accept the collapse of the Soviet Union and its implacable imperialist ambitions.”
Merkel’s words have also found opposition in Poland. The former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawieckihe accused the former chancellor being “one of the most harmful German policies for Europe in the last century.” Waldemar Buddha’s Europarliamentary assured for his part that Merkel’s plan would have meant the division of Ukraine. “They do not understand that when doing business with Putin they caused the war,” he said.