4 minutes agoMerkel says she does not regret her policy with Putin
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Germany's former cadre, Angela Merkel, has said she feels no remorse for her policy with Russian President Vladimir Putin during her time in power, arguing that Russia's president would have begun the Ukraine invasion even in 2008, when Ukraine's NATO membership was planned but that it was blocked by [...]
Merkel said that a then Ukrainian, led by oligarchs and unripe democratic ones, would have been less prepared for an invasion then than it is now.
I'd feel really bad if I said: There's no point in talking to that man. It's a big tragedy that didn't work, but I don't blame myself for trying”, Merkel said in an extremely sincere response from a politician who rarely spoke freely during his time in office.
Asked if he regretted the US-led membership action plan for Ukraine and Georgia in 2008, Merkel said: “Ukraine was not the place we know now. There was a Ukraine that was very divided... even the reformist forces were very at odds. That means it wasn't a country whose democracy was strengthened from within. Ukraine was then governed by oligarchs”.
Germany's iron woman said she knew how Putin thought, and that she did not want to provoke her further.
The 67-year-old claimed she had blocked Ukraine's path towards membership in the military alliance with the country's best interests.
You cannot become a NATO member in one day. It's a process, and during this process I knew Putin would have done something Ukraine would not do well for him”.
Merkel praised President Volodymyr Zelensky for his leadership during the war, saying he represents a new Ukraine.
While Merkel condemned Russia's aggression in clear terms, she also said the West failed to prevent this war, reports Guardian, broadcast Klankosova.tv.
What happened is a huge mistake in the name of Russia... an objective breach with all international law rules that allow us to co-exist in Europe in peace. If we were to begin spending a century after another arguing about which territory belongs, then we would be at war without letup. We failed to create a security architecture that could have prevented this war. And we need to think about it.
She dismissed criticism that Germany under her leadership had fallen into an illusion that a militarily aggressive Russia could be democratised by expanding trade ties with the West.
