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“At some point, Ukraine will sign a ceasefire agreement; at some point, hopefully, a peace treaty with Russia. Then it may ​be that part of Ukraine’s territory is no longer Ukrainian,” Merz ​told students at the Carolus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Marsberg, a town in ⁠North Rhine-Westphalia, on Monday.

  • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
    31·
    22 hours ago

    WHY! THE! FLYING! FUCK! would he say that publicly? Doing so significantly weakens Ukraine’s (and the West’s) negotiating position. If the opponent knows that this is on the table from the get-go, they’ll start with even bigger demands. It’s terrible enough that Traitor Donnie has backstabbed Ukraine at the behest of his handlers in the Kremlin. It befuddles me, however, why even Merz now takes pages from “The Fart of the Deal”.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      102·
      22 hours ago

      Because Merz and the far right in Germany are decidely on russia/Putin’s side?

      What has Merz done as actions that demonstrate he actually wants Ukraine to win?

      • Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish
        102·
        19 hours ago

        He sends a lot of aid to Ukraine and has not tried to stop or slow down that aid. As much as I dislike Merz, I sincerely doubt that he is on Putins side.

        Always look at what politicians actually do and not what they say. Words are cheap.

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          18 hours ago

          The US also still sends quite a bit of aid to Ukraine despite Trump and his fellow criminals doing everything they can to sabotage it for Putin. No matter what Trump does, the fact remains that most people in the US are neutral to positive about Ukraine and see Trump’s blatant attempts to sabotage Ukraine as yet more proof of the fact that Trump is full of shit and Putin is his daddy.

          I am not convinced Merz could get away with NOT giving Ukraine a ton of military help, I don’t think that is probably a politically tenable move in Germany if you want to form a majority coalition… so people like Merz undermine help in other ways that are less easy to pin on them negatively… like helping manufacture an architecture of military intel and personnel that makes it easy for rightwing elements of Germany to feed technology, doctrine and intelligence to russia or at least place it in places that are so easy for russia to get that it is basically a gift.