“Have a different opinion in Europe”
Merz “shocked” about Trump's Ukraine expressions
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The United States Ukraine course is causing growing concerns in Europe. In a press conference, President Trump Kiev assigns the war. CDU boss Merz reacts “shocked”. Europe now has to develop a weight very, very quickly.
Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz has sharply rejected US President Donald Trump's statements about Ukraine. To Trump's presentation that the government in Kiev had a complicity in the Russian aggression war and could have made peace for a long time, said Merz in the afternoon: “Basically, this is a classic perpetrator-sacrifice reversal.” This corresponds to the Russian narrative of President Vladimir Putin. “And I am honestly shocked by the fact that Donald Trump has now obviously made himself his own,” said Merz in the “ARD interview of the week”.
Trump had rejected the concerns of Ukraine at a press conference, and she could be excluded from the peace talks with Russia. The government in Kiev should have taken negotiations much earlier and should conclude an agreement years ago: “Today I heard: 'Oh, we were not invited'. Well, you have been there for three years, you should have ended it. You should never have started. You could have done a deal,” said Trump.
With a view of the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj, Trump demanded new elections. Selenskyj allegedly only enjoys four percent approval among the population. Where Trump had the number from remained open. He himself believes that he has the power to end the war in Ukraine, Trump said the USA with the mediation efforts of the United States with Russia.
Merz emphasized that the Europeans should now show unity: “Thank God we have a different opinion in Europe. Now it is important that the Europeans very, very quickly agree on a common strategy how they deal with this topic,” said the CDU boss. “And to ask and beging that we finally get to the negotiating table, that is not the right approach. We now have to develop our own weight.” “Now really a paradigm shift in the entire foreign and security policy”.
