🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 Merz said that the US, not European countries, is currently playing a decisive role in resolving the war in Ukraine. ‼️ Europe is certainly involved, but its influence should not be overestimated: the American president has key influence both in the military sphere and through sanctions.
Spineless.
And what influence is that? European weapons supplies to Ukraine is now surpassing the US supplies. Add to that a growing Ukrainian domestic production and the US "influence" is weakening even more.
There is a nice German expression: Selbstverzwergung. Might be translated as „selfendwarfing“. Or this a new sophisticated policy to steer Trumbbb?
It is really hard to overestimate European influence. Really. Europe is a self proclaimed dwarf of international relations.
Resolving? What’s going to happen to millions of bitterly dissapointed battlehardened soldiers forced to fight for Russia when they are overrun? Chamberlain 2.0
coming from the most powerful member of EU.. reality check? or capitulation?!
I never thought that brain fog could be contagious! Perhaps too many contacts with the current US government. The widely quoted war statistics of Germany's Kiel Institute, known as "UA support tracker", show a huge & growing figures of European support above the grudgingly contributions of the US
He didn't get it! ivodaalder.substack.com/p/a-wake-up-...
Sounds like he’s just a few statements away from sacrificing Ukraine to save Germany, fucking coward and a weasel.
Europe should do something about this permanently or enjoy being a vasal state of Muscovy
The weak and coward Merz came out, so we just know he's no leader too.
That’s called sugarcoating things so you don’t have to feel your own inaction too much.
US decisive role - Military and sanctions? They’re sending the bare minimum and the rest Europe is paying for. Trump has invoked zero sanctions. Which US is Merz talking about?
Ah please stop kissing Trump's arse. He still likes Putin more. Make yourselves independent and buy your weapons in Europe.
I understand why he says this, but this also backfires. It reinforces Americans in their conviction that they are superior to Europeans and decide everything...
And yet this is not their continent nor their people
That's not entirely true, the German government, the French and the British in conjunction with the EU can release up to 300bn euros in frozen Russian funds that would have a far greater effect than anything the US administration can do.
Scholz 2.0
He is afraid. Europe is afraid.
and to say this 1 day after the US effectively switched sides, or decisively revealed its side anyway. Why does Merz rush to capitulation? bsky.app/profile/saip...
What in the actual fuck is that even supposed to mean?? FIGHT them, you fucking asshole! Trump and Putin are cowards and weaklings. FIGHT them, for fuck's sake! Europe has all the economic strength of the US, and Trump and his Nazis are making America weaker by the day.
Russia's a fucking mafia-run gas station, and the Ukies have largely destroyed its army, navy and air force. DO something! Show some balls, and some leadership. WHY haven't you sent a single fucking Taurus missile --after promising to do exactly that like 12 different times?
Instead of bowing down to Hitler (Trump), FIGHT him and DESTROY him. Don't you understand you've got no fucking *choice*?? Do you seriously not see that???
F cowards
Mertz pre campaign rhetoric vs post campaign rhetoric shows he was never really on Ukraine's side. He still hasn't released one Taurus missile. Sad.
PURE TRUMPUTIN PROPAGANDA!!!
This strategy has outplayed itself. The European leaders are losing the European voters at rocket speed presently. The clock is 5 minutes to 12. If he and his colleagues do not start to lead - they can resign. This behavior is fueling ultra left/right with nitro. They take the wrong gamble.
From ‘I want to make Germany and Europe more independent from the USA’ to ‘it won't work without Trump’. 😂 🤡 @diplo.de @aussenminister.diplo.de
Cowardish
Is he off his rocker? Another Russian agent in Germany?
Give Taurus missiles a decisive role or shut up.
Fucking clown of man. Europe doesn't need sycophants and cowards like this.
Well then, Europe has to get its shit together and stand up!
Nobody overestimated Europes influence in the first place🙄
There is nothing decisive about it. Trump is,a bag of hot air, all the Europeans false compliments have lead to nothing, the war will go on and on.
That is my take as well. This isn't going to end. For Put(k)in it's gonna be a suicide to stop now. Donbas isn't what he promised to his fanbase-orcs, it's the whole of Ukraine. Like other have said: "Trump doesn't have the cards."
I don't understand our humiliation kink. US has barely leverage now that they don't donate anything so Trump can't credibly pull out, yet they always come back to kiss his feet It damages EU defense discourse so much, they seem so weak, not even spineless, when they know they have the upper hand
We could simply do it. Why the hell we are not doing it. We could deliver many more weapons. We could pressure China and India. ... we have all the cards. Are our politicians retarded?
We don't have those many cards, let's not get ahead of ourselves The key is that Trump doesn't have the political capital to offer Ukraine to Russia, so we should put Trump in that position as often as possible. This way he can only help Putin openly, and he had to back down every time he did ita
Starmer is doing the same. Why the fuck is all of NATO kowtowing to the Putinist Puppet in DC?
We cannot outflatter Putin. Should we stop trying, perhaps?
450 million indifferent cowards who are afraid to leave the house after dark because some illegal Arab might fuck them. That's what Europe is today.
I'm not indifferent. I'm German and I have no idea why he says that. It is simply not true. We could do so much more. I want to cry seeing our chancellor making Europe small again. Really. Fuck it.
Sorry. You have to understand that what I said is an exaggeration. But this is exactly how I can characterize the policy of most Western countries. Both foreign and domestic. I have no intention of offending anyone. But I am talking about what I have seen with my own eyes for 30+ years there.
Merz better get a wiggle on it’s up to Europe Now not the USA Trump has surrendered already. NATO is dead. Now it’s Canada and Europe! To secure Ukrainian territory within Europe!
100% because the latest news here is that useless dip💩 will be supporting Putins Ukraine land deal.
This is due to lack of will.
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Sounds like avoiding responsibility to me...