A Year with Angela Merkel : « You’re Done with Power Politics »

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  • A Year with Angela Merkel : « You’re Done with Power Politics » - DER SPIEGEL
    https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-year-with-ex-chancellor-merkel-you-re-done-with-power-politics-a-f46149cb-

    Merkel suddenly recalls that in addition to watching “The Crown” and “Babylon Berlin” with all her free time, she also took in “Munich: The Edge of War,” the Netflix film about Neville Chamberlain’s role in the run-up to World War II. Jeremy Irons played Chamberlain. She liked it because it shows Churchill’s predecessor in a different light – not just as a frightened pawn for Hitler, but as a strategist who gave his country the buffer it needed to prepare for the German attack. In her telling, the Munich of 1938 sounds a bit like Bucharest of 2008. She believes that back then, and then later during the Minsk talks, she was able to buy the time Ukraine needed to better fend off the Russian attack. She says it is now a strong, well-fortified country. Back then, she is certain, it would have been overrun by Putin’s troops.

    Comme je ne trouvais pas de lien depuis DeDefensa, voici la citation de Merkel à propos des accords de Minsk.

    • The Kyiv Independent: In an interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit, Angela Merkel said about the Minsk protocols that ’It was obvious that the conflict was going to be frozen, that the problem was not solved, but it just gave #Ukraine precious time.’
      Do you also believe that the negotiations in Minsk were intended to delay Russian advances in Ukraine?

      François Hollande: Yes, Angela Merkel is right on this point.

      The Minsk agreements stopped the Russian offensive for a while. What was very important was to know how the West would use this respite to prevent any further Russian attempts.

      https://kyivindependent.com/national/hollande-there-will-only-be-a-way-out-of-the-conflict-when-russia-f