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Posted on 08/18/2025 2:38:19 PM PDT by McGruff
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz broke with the generally optimistic tone of European leaders during their meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump on Monday, stating that peace talks could not continue without a ceasefire.
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"Now the path is open. You opened it last Friday, but now the way is open for complicated negotiations," he said, adding, "And to be honest, we all would like to see a ceasefire at the latest from the next meeting on."
"I can't imagine that the next meeting would take place without a ceasefire," he went on. "So, let's work on that."
He urged leaders to pressure Russia to agree to a ceasefire, saying, "Let's try to put pressure on Russia, because the credibility of this effort, these efforts we are undertaking today are depending on, at least, a ceasefire from the beginning of the serious negotiations from the next step on. So, I would like to emphasize this aspect and would like to see a ceasefire from the next meeting, which should be a trilateral meeting wherever it takes place."
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Trump pointed to his recent successes in helping to broker peace deals between other countries without a ceasefire.
“I will say, and again, I say it, in the six wars that I’ve settled, I haven’t had a ceasefire,” he said. “We just got into negotiations and … one of the wars was, as you know, in the Congo, was 30 years, 31 years long. Another one that we settled last week was two great countries, was 35 years going on, and we had no ceasefire.”
Translation: we must threaten, cajole, and punish Putin until he walks away from peace negotiations and we can get back to the business of our proxy war where Ukrainians do the dying so we dont have to.
Why are we wasting time here. Go to oracle bidet and get his plan to end the war. Have him appear at a press conference and respond to questions off the cuff.
Clearly, there is more grifting to do and the EU wants it to go on as long as possible.
If I was Russia, I wouldn’t give ‘em shit.
Don’t let these vultures anywhere near the next meeting.
“Let’s try to put pressure on Russia”
Says the leader of a country (Germany) that is funding the war by buying Russian oil.
Are we supposed to believe his B.S.? Why did he even come?
In other words, let us not reward wars of aggression, or we will have more of them.
“If I was Russia…”
Are you?
Merz is an a-hole. His country is quickly falling into the toilet thanks to him and that idiot Angela Merkel who began the process of shutting down all nuclear and coal fired power plants. The country is running out of power, and its economy is crashing. Merz wants to keep the war going as war is in his genes.
Europe wants this war to continue. Clinton promised Putin no NATO conversation of Russian border countries. Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lith all became NATO. Obama promised Ukraine no NATO, Biden said it was time for Ukraine to be NATO.
But yeah, this is Russia’s fault.
Is there confirmation that the map discussed with Zelensky is real? Colored deep red and less red in the east?
Are those real photos? If so, Trump gave orders for that map days ago. That’s meaningful.
Trump also said that the word ceasefire was never mentioned.
Tell those Globohomos from Germany and France and the UK to pound sand.
Blackrock Merz, the German chump...
The sauer Kraut.
Why isn't Ursula von der Leyen in the cat bird seat, "leading."
Though the numbers are approximate, the sentiment is correct:
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”Time for the Europeans to lead. Go first. And by the way, stop importing Russian oil and other energy products. Stop immediately, Europe.Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit:
"The EU will gradually and effectively stop the import of Russian gas and oil by the end of 2027, under a legislative proposal put forward by the European Commission today. "Our President Trump has more important things to do here in these United States, to declaw the corrupt, prosecute the fake "lawfare" shysters, get our financial house in order and our rising debt under control.Commission proposes gradual phase-out of Russian gas and oil imports into the EU European Commisson, 16 June 2025.
More sources....
EU Proposes Ban on Russian Oil, Gas Imports by End 2027 Wall Street Journal, 17 June 2025.
EU plans gradual end to Russian gas and oil imports by 2027 Financial World, 17 June 2025.
EU proposes complete ban on Russian gas and oil imports by end of 2027 World ECR from Dow Jones, 19 June 2025.
EU sets 2027 as deadline to phase out all Russian energy Euro News, 6 May 2025.
EU proposes keeping gas storage filling goals until 2027 Reuters, 5 May 2025.
EU plans to stop Russian gas and oil imports by 2027 Yahoo Finance, 18 June 2025.
President Trump basicly told him to stuff it.
The correct answer from Trump, would have been “sit down, shut up, you’re not in charge of this, you’re lucky I even let you on the bus. The adults are in charge right now…”
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