Kirjoittaja on Edward Hunter Christie, hänen twitter-tilinsä kuvaus = Senior Research Fellow
@FIIA_fi. PhD
@VUBrussel & Belgian Royal Military Academy. Former
@NATO official 2014-2020.
Linkki viestiin josta alla oleva teksti on lainattu:
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For years, some Eastern European colleagues were concerned that Ms Merkel might have some hidden loyalty towards Moscow.
Such notions were systematically and indeed violently ridiculed by everyone else. By everyone in Germany, but also by pretty much everyone in Western Europe.
Indeed the generally accepted, politically correct way of thinking about Ms Merkel in established centrist or liberal circles was that she was some kind of "leader of the free world".
In reality, she was a rotten leader who made several major strategic decisions that strongly helped Moscow while typically being bad for the collective European interest, and in some cases also clearly bad for Germany even in a narrow sense.
Not only that, but Ms Merkel lied to the public in very egregious ways after leaving office on very fundamental questions concerning the current war and the role played by her policies in the years preceding it.
In November 2022, she seemed to seek credit for having bought time, through the Minsk agreements and from 2014 onwards, for Ukraine to prepare itself for a future large war. Given that Germany did nothing whatsoever to help Ukraine in that direction under her leadership, that claim is thoroughly indecent and dishonourable.
It was already clear by mid- to late 2022 that Ms Merkel's legacy would come to be viewed very negatively in any honest historical assessment, given the catastrophic conditions she left Germany and Europe in on the eve of Putin's full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine -- notably through years of deliberate under-investment in defence and through deliberate increases in Germany's dependence on Russian gas.
The most recent revelations about Ms Merkel's actions considerably darken an already very negative picture.
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Hän vastaa tuolla viestillään tähän viestiin:
Merkel received intelligence that Gazprom, on Putin’s orders, was reducing gas supply through NS 1 as blackmail to force the opening of NS 2 before official certification. In October 2021, Merkel stood before the press and lied in order to protect Russia.
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Linkin takaa löytyvä artikkeli on maksumuurin takana, mutta lainaan siitä näkyvän osuuden (alla tekstin konekäännös, artikkeli julkaistu 6.6.2024):
Angela Merkel
Chancellor withheld information about Putin's blackmail tactics
The gas price crisis caught Germany unprepared. Even before Russia's attack on Ukraine, Berlin suspected that the Kremlin was manipulating the gas market. But the government did nothing.
Moritz Koch ,
Julian Olk ,
Klaus Stratmann
06.06.2024 - 10:00 a.m.
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Kremlin in 2020.Photo: IMAGO/ITAR-TASS
Berlin. It was one of her last trips as Chancellor, the federal election had taken place and a change of power was looming in Berlin. It was now time for
Angela Merkel to say goodbye and do a bit of monument preservation on the side. On October 6, 2021, at the end of the EU summit in Slovenia, Merkel appeared before the press. The Chancellor wanted to create the impression that she was leaving the Republic in perfect order. Disturbing reports about empty gas storage facilities and the approaching winter did not fit into the picture.
Crisis? What crisis?
She saw no signs that Russia was reducing gas supplies to Europe , Merkel replied to a question from Handelsblatt at the time. She advised against seemingly simple explanations for the high gas prices.
Russia can only supply gas on the basis of contractual obligations, "not just like that". According to her information, however, there are no
natural gas-Orders “where Russia said we won’t deliver that to you”.
“Are enough orders being placed, or is the high price at the moment perhaps a reason not to order so much?” is therefore the question, stressed Merkel – and thereby took the Russian energy company
Gazpromin protection. The EU has agreed to keep an eye on developments on the energy markets and to discuss the issue in more detail at another summit two weeks later.
(loput maksumuurin takana)
, Navalnyi muisto elää vahvana ja nähdään yhä mahdollisena sytykkeenä levottomuuksille.