Posted on 10/06/2025 6:19:58 AM PDT by dennisw
Germany's former Chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed Poland and the Baltic states for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Merkel, who led the country from 2005 to 2021, made the explosive claim in an interview with Hungarian outlet Partizan.
She said she blamed Poland and the Baltic states for the severance of diplomatic ties between Russia and the EU, which she said led to the invasion just a few months later.
In her telling of history, Poland's refusal to support the Minsk Agreements, a pair of key international agreements between Russia and the EU, emboldened Putin to properly invade Ukraine in 2022.
Following the secession of Donetsk and Luhansk, two Ukrainian regions that broke away from the country to become what Russia calls its republics, representatives from the two countries and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) signed the first Minsk agreement in September 2014.
This agreement sought to establish a ceasefire between Russia, Ukraine and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).
Merkel claimed that the first Minsk agreement 'brought about calm' between 2015 and 2021 and gave Ukraine, which had been defeated by Russia during a summer counter-offensive in 2015 that aimed to take back its land, time to 'gather strength' and 'become a different country'.
The initial agreement didn't appear to hold any sway with Putin, or his lackeys in Donetsk and Luhansk.
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Heil Merkel!
East German Angela Merkel, the queen of open borders for one million Muslim refugees. This saboteur of Europe is a Putin puffer, putting out puff pieces for Putin. Who would have thunk they are allies?
Russian Spy Merkel speaks
You can take the woman out of the Stasi, but you can’t take the Stasi out of the woman.
Merkel is also on record as stating they only signed the Minsk agreements to buy time to arm up Ukraine for war with Russia. They never intended to follow it.
….and here we are.
Well said.
Angela Merkel is responsible for all the migrants in Europe. She is responsible for Brexist. And she is responsible for the crime wave in Europe. As well as the German economy going to hell in a hand basket.
Shut up you old Stasi b*tch!
I have no dog in the current Ukraine-Russia war. There are nothing but egotists and fools on each side.
But when I see the phrase “Angela Merkel says…” I know that everything that follows should be ignored. She is discredited trash. And if she just happens to be right about something, it’s purely by accident.
This surely seems quite the same tiny thing, writ large on the geopolitical stage. Two bucks -- well, Euros -- that Madame Merkel will now come a-cropper from other females, von der Leyen and Kallas, over this.
As the days pass, it seems many are "triangulating" it's someone else's European-ish fault. It's still a war between non-NATO Ukraine and non-NATO Russia. "Officially."
Excepting Secretary of State Rubio's "proxy war" thingy....
The Partizán YouTube is offered in Hungarian, but for those who would like to hear the German, the YouTube "settings" can be tweaked. Too bad there isn't an English track, as there are only the two.
Aber sehr interessant....
Please don't forget the "fundamental transformation" BS artist, Obama, for bombing the hell out of Libya, causing a huge westward migration of Muslims across to Europe.
The Berlin Wall falls and a united Germany elects an East German. I’d hate to think of all the Germans united in one country. Between them and the Russians who’s worse? Everyone else is victims it seems.
I’ve spotted the problem! If only the countries next to Russia would roll over on their backs and present their unprotected throats to Russia, there would be no war.
Easy.
And the EU, founded in part by a now-honored Italian Communist, elevates another German, Merkel's incompetent "defense minister," to lead the whole shebang.
Ever notice how Merkel and von der Leyen have those same jackets in various colors, but nonetheless the same?
Spoken like a true East German communist youth movement official (former😂)
“Merkel is also on record as stating they only signed the Minsk agreements to buy time to arm up Ukraine for war with Russia. They never intended to follow it.
….and here we are.”
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Yes, that is true, and I was just about to post a similar statement but then I read yours.
Well then they did a piss poor job of arming up Ukraine or themselves for that matter(perhaps that was merkles plan all along)
True “how dare they” resist😎
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