Posted on 04/08/2014 12:20:55 PM PDT by McGruff
A senior Christian Democrat criticized German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier's stance on Ukraine and Russia in a signal of a possible rift appearing within Chancellor Angela Merkel's right-left coalition over relations with Moscow.
Conservative leader Merkel and Steinmeier, who is a senior member of the Social Democrats (SPD), have been at pains to stress how closely they are coordinating on policy since the Ukraine crisis began, despite the traditionally warmer ties to Moscow maintained by the leftist SPD.
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Thank you.
Straw man arguments. No one ever said anything like that.
You’re the troll. I’ve been at FReeRepublic since 1998. You’re the one who wants to hurt the conservative brand by making conservatives look like ignorant cranks who’d align with a brutal foreign dictator because he has you fooled.
Yes, they’ve puffed up Putin for similar reasons. “Oh, Putin is a Christian because he poses for pictures with priests.” Please. There are so many facile and weak minded people duped by Putin that they remind me of the goobers who used to run off to every new socialist dictator to praise him as the wave of the future. Putin’s a fraud and conservative Putinistas are dupes.
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