Merkel and Hollande started talking about war after meeting with Putin
Moscow - Kyiv, February 9 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - World leaders are increasingly talking about war in connection with Ukraine, but do not specify which war they are talking about with whom. Some believe that the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine will equalize power in the Donbass, others doubt that this will stop Russia, and Angela Merkel hints at something serious, but does not specify what. "Vedomosti" They believe that the very fact of such threats is unprecedented.
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“If we do not succeed in finding a sustainable peace agreement, we know the scenario very well,” Hollande said in Munich on Saturday. “He has one name - war.”
“A military solution” is becoming the main topic in discussions among politicians and experts. Eugene Rumer (Carnegie Endowment) and Thomas Graham (Kissinger Associates, former chief adviser on Russia at the US National Security Council) wrote in the FT that there is no need to supply weapons to Ukraine: American instructors will have to be sent with them, and this increases the risk of US involvement into open conflict.
Two days later, Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich conference, wrote that, on the contrary, only by publicly promising military assistance to Ukraine could a military solution be avoided, since an agreement satisfactory to all parties could be reached when their strength was equalized.
Merkel, who carefully weighs her words, in Munich allowed herself perhaps the most powerful statement since the remark attributed to her about Putin’s loss of “contact with reality.” “I cannot imagine a situation in which the improved weapons of the Ukrainian army would lead to President Putin being so amazed that he believes in his military defeat […],” Merkel said. “Unless,” she continued and fell silent. - But I would not like to talk about this “unless” (quote from Die Welt). Considering the traditional dryness of German diplomatic language and the role of Germany in the history of the XNUMXth century, this “unless” is an extremely serious statement.
The only one who does not talk about war is Vladimir Putin. But it’s hard not to notice that it was after meeting with him that Merkel and Hollande began to talk about war seriously.
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