Merkel is trying to appeal to the warmongers by retroactively claiming she wanted to give Ukraine time to arm itself. Ukraine implementing Minsk was the best option for German industry, her main political base. It’s not a coincidence that this conflict kicks off when the Greens win in Germany, Washington wanted her out of the way, because she genuinely saw peace as the better option for Germany.
I’m partial to that explanation as well. That said, this was an absolutely idiotic thing to say in geopolitical terms as it can now be used to argue that the west was being duplicitous all along. She’s saving her own reputation in Germany at the expense of the reputation of Germany globally.
I have to agree with moonofalabama on this one: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/minsk-ii-was-agreed-on-to-arm-ukraine-did-merkel-really-say-that.html#more
Merkel is trying to appeal to the warmongers by retroactively claiming she wanted to give Ukraine time to arm itself. Ukraine implementing Minsk was the best option for German industry, her main political base. It’s not a coincidence that this conflict kicks off when the Greens win in Germany, Washington wanted her out of the way, because she genuinely saw peace as the better option for Germany.
I’m partial to that explanation as well. That said, this was an absolutely idiotic thing to say in geopolitical terms as it can now be used to argue that the west was being duplicitous all along. She’s saving her own reputation in Germany at the expense of the reputation of Germany globally.