cyu@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoAngela Merkel rejects criticism over Russia gas dealswww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down12
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minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoI’ve never heard anyone lay any of the blame on Germany before. The European powers seem so subservient to US dictates. Merkel has admitted to knowing that the West was never going to honor the Minsk agreements, and that all happened on her watch. Was she unable to intervene, or unwilling?
minus-squarepassiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThis is a good point, thinking Merkel would have prevented the war is laughable. Never knew Kissinger felt the same though
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoAnd Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Sachs. Basically everyone but the neocons who’ve been running the show since the fall of the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard
I’ve never heard anyone lay any of the blame on Germany before. The European powers seem so subservient to US dictates. Merkel has admitted to knowing that the West was never going to honor the Minsk agreements, and that all happened on her watch. Was she unable to intervene, or unwilling?
This is a good point, thinking Merkel would have prevented the war is laughable. Never knew Kissinger felt the same though
And Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Sachs. Basically everyone but the neocons who’ve been running the show since the fall of the Soviet Union.