Angela Merkel recalls Putin’s fear of Ukraine joining NATO
Angela Merkel recalls Putin’s fear of Ukraine joining NATO
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel writes in her memoir, Freedom: Memoirs 1954 - 2021, that Russian leader Vladimir Putin planned his invasion of Ukraine after her resignation in order to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.
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No I don't support torturing russian POWs. I agree with you that bombing NS was a bad idea. I disagree with you that it was "EU infrastructure", it was owned by the russians I believe and Germany explicitly told other EU members to "bugger off" with their concerns.
What bothers me is your moralizing attitude. The last two German leader were some of the biggest enablers of russian genocidal imperialism in the last ~30 years. There is nothing to discuss with Schroeder. Merkel as a bit sneaky. Nominally she said she opposed it, but all her actions de facto always supported russian imperialism.
And then you come along saying "Poland and Ukraine" shouldn't be in the EU because they don't uphold moral standards. You don't see how this could be seen as hypocritical!?
I'm not sure what your point about Schröder and Merkel is, I don't support them, I don't like them, I have frequently called them out on their bullshit politics.
And you still miss the point, even though I clearly stated it already. I am of this opinion because they did not recognize Germany's sovereignty and chose to commit an act of war against an ally. Two things that Russia and Nazi Germany did to Ukraine and Poland btw. You try to justify Ukraine's aggression towards Germany by the same bullshit arguments that Russia uses to attack Ukraine, not respecting their right of sovereignty, that they are not allowed to make their own decisions, like joining NATO for example. In the West, disagreements like this are supposed to be solved through politics and diplomacy, not through hostilities.
Did I not say bombing NS was a mistake?
I am just pointing out you have no right to pretend to be noble when you're own leadership de defacto supported and enabled russian imperialism.
What exactly do you want me to say?
Of course I have. I never voted for them, nor agreed with them. So why are you telling me I have no right to not just tell them off, but also other's who do the wrong thing?
Because you were saying that "Poland and Ukraine are not ready for EU", yet you don't take the same maximalist, hyper critical attitude to the Germany leadership.
Germany did not commit an act of war against Poland or Ukraine, let alone did not recognize their sovereignty, so it's hardly if at all comparable. Germany just did stupid policy that failed, which is always easy to criticize in hindsight.
And if you're so critical of NS, what's your opinion on the Polish pipelines coming from Russia? Or the Ukrainian ones? It wasn't so much about morality when it comes to NS, there was rather a lot of criticism for it purely because it would bypass the transit tariffs that Germany had to pay for the import, which also benefited all the countries who then imported from Germany.
This is not an act of war and no one sees it this way.
An act of war is ballistic missiles falling on your cities and tanks rolling in. It's honestly pathetic of you to trivialize this.
You probably recognize this on same level, but you see too self-absorbed to be willing to publicly admit this.
You should stick to ruminations about how "Poles and Ukrainian are unfit" and "they are like the russians, anyway!" I think we will both agree that this is a good reflection of your character.
I am done here.