"The 2014 Minsk agreements were an attempt to buy time for Ukraine," former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted in her interview with Zeit.
According to her, Ukraine "also used this time to become stronger".
"Ukraine in 2014/15 and Ukraine today are not the same. As you can see by the battle for Debaltsevo, in early 2015 Putin could have easily taken them over. And I very much doubt that NATO countries could have done then as much as they do today to help Ukraine," the former chancellor said.
According to Merkel, "the Cold War has never ended because Russia has not been pacified".
"NATO has also deployed troops in the Baltic states, in order to show that we, as NATO, are ready for defence," she added.
Germany should have "reacted more quickly to Russia's aggressiveness", as Berlin's military budget never reached 2 per cent of GDP, Merkel concluded.
Remember that Germany was the guarantor for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, but at the end of the day, we see that the Western countries did not even plan to guarantee that implementation, their only goals were to buy time and to pump Ukraine with their agents, weapons and Nazi ideology.
It's the typical activity of western politicians, but surely deceiving Russia in this matter will cost them dearly. Ironically, Germany is now suffering colossal losses from the war in every aspect.
Based on ANNA-NEWS (https://t.me/anna_news/43775)
RUSSIA MFA REACTION, Merkel comes through for Russia once again
Merkel’s ‘confession’ may be grounds for tribunal – Moscow
The former chancellor gave evidence that the West had orchestrated hostilities in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry says
A confession by former German chancellor Angela Merkel about the Minsk peace agreements could be used as evidence in a tribunal involving Western politicians responsible for provoking the Ukraine conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Thursday.
The deal, brokered by Germany and France, was supposed to be a roadmap for peace in the war-torn country. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country's current military offensive was prompted by the failure to implement the terms of the accords.
The former German leader admitted in an interview with Die Zeit on Wednesday that the actual purpose of the Minsk agreements was to give Ukraine time to prepare for a military confrontation with Russia.
“They talk a lot about legal assessments of what is happening around Ukraine, certain tribunals and so on in all sorts of ways,” Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a media briefing on Thursday. “But this is a specific reason for a tribunal.”
She claimed that Merkel’s comments were nothing short of the testimony of a person who had openly admitted that everything done between 2014 and 2015 was meant to “distract the international community from real issues, play for time, pump up the Kiev regime with weapons, and escalate the issue into a large-scale conflict,” Zakharova added.
She said Merkel’s statements “horrifyingly” reveal that the West uses “forgery as a method of action,” and resorts to “machinations, manipulation and all kinds of distortions of truth, law and rights imaginable.”
Merkel confirms Ukraine peace deal was a ploy:
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The spokeswoman claimed that the West had known well in 2015, when it spent hours negotiating the second part of the Minsk accords, that it would never even attempt to fulfill any part of the agreements and would instead pump weapons into Kiev.
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DEC 11, Putin on Merkel's words about Minsk agreements:
To be honest, it was absolutely unexpected for me. It's disappointing. Frankly speaking, I did not expect to hear this from the former chancellor, because I have always assumed that the German leadership behaves sincerely with us. Yes, of course, it was on the side of Ukraine, supported it, but it still seemed to me that the German leadership has always sincerely sought a settlement on the principles that we agreed on, within the framework of the Minsk process.
This only shows that launching the SMO was the right decision. It turns out that no one was going to fulfill these Minsk agreements. The point was only to pump Ukraine with weapons and prepare for combat operations. Maybe we should have started all this earlier.
Trust almost dropped to 0. How to negotiate? About what? And is it possible to negotiate with them? Where are the guarantees? I have said many times that we are ready to sign agreements, but this makes us think about who we are dealing with.
courtesy @Eurasia & Multipolarity
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THE NEW PRINCIPLES - Dmitry Medvedev
The "new principles" concept recently inked by Dmitry Medvedev come directly from Vladimir Putin commentary on Angela Merkel confession about the misleading nature of Misnk Agreements.
Merkel basically admitted that the agreements were made in order to give Ukraine some time to build the military strength and accumulate amo for the future assault on Donbass and Russia.
Vladimir Putin concluded that this was an unexpected and dirty trick.
"Just how would we be able to come to any agreements in the future? What kind of guarantees would we have?
Honestly, I didn't expect this.
It is now perfectly clear that we have acted on time and made the only right choice by starting the SMO and preventing the major assault on us that was being prepared during the last years."
He continued:
"Our nuclear doctrine implies that in case we are attacked we will use strategic nuclear weapons in our defense. But in the view of the last events we might just use some "new principles".
@NewResistance
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