German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, in an interview with the French magazine Paris Match, said that “everyone was wrong about Putin”, admitting that he was always skeptical, but he should have realized his threat faster and threatened. “We should have perceived the magnitude of the threat in 2014, when he invaded Crimea, and perhaps as early as 2008, when he attacked Georgia,” the German Chancellor said. However, he expressed the hope “to relive, one day, good neighborhood relations with the Russians”, but adding that “unfortunately, we are far from it, because we are facing Putin, a” kleptocratic system “that approached the authoritarian.” “Let us remind us of the historical size of what is happening: attacking Ukraine, Putin attacked the second largest country on the European continent,” he said. To a question about whether […]
Source: News Beast
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