Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin in 2002 – Wiki Commons
Even Merkel can be right, sometimes.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is considered by many the ‘godmother of unchecked mass migration’, and in so many aspects, she is not missed at all in the broader geopolitical scene.
But compared to the subsequent German leaders Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz, she does not seem so bad, after all – especially when it comes to the war-mongering by Euro-Globalist leaders.
Today, Merkel has come out criticizing the EU publicly for not ‘using its diplomatic clout’ to help end the Russia-Ukraine war.
You need political power to hold talks with the Russian President — Angela Merkel at WDR Europaforum
Merkel appears to be ruling herself out as the EU mediator in current Russia-Ukraine talks
‘It wouldn’t have occurred to me to ask a mediator to go to Minsk for me’ pic.twitter.com/7X0DqXXaFn
— RT (@RT_com) May 18, 2026
Politico reported:
“’I think the military support we’ve provided so far is absolutely the right thing to do. I also think it’s right that we do much more to create a deterrent effect beyond our support for Ukraine. What I regret is that, in my view, Europe is not making sufficient use of its diplomatic potential’, Merkel said during an interview with public broadcaster WDR. ‘It’s not enough for [U.S. President Donald] Trump to maintain contact with Russia’, she added.”
“Merkel, who served as Germany’s chancellor from 2005 to 2021, said she had proposed establishing a diplomatic format between the EU and Russia during her last European Council meeting in October 2021 at the end of her tenure — four months before Russia’s all-out war began. But she added that it had failed due to differing opinions within the bloc on how best to deal with Moscow.
‘You have to keep working on it until you reach a common position’, she said about differences within the bloc. ‘Diplomacy has always been the other side of the coin, also during the Cold War’.”
Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to mediate in Russia-Ukraine negotiations on behalf of EU
“Resolving the conflict in Ukraine is the task of the current heads of state alone” https://t.co/FRdcyuDnS8 pic.twitter.com/JNsnFqbUku
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 18, 2026
Merkel’s past negotiating experience with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky led to her name being floated as one of the possible candidates for becoming the EU’s peace envoy.
Merkel: Putin brought a dog to our meeting in 2007 to intimidate me, I have a phobia!
Also Merkel: Haha, who’s a good boy? *pets a dog* pic.twitter.com/iDvLpuw4Qb
— RT (@RT_com) December 11, 2024
Fears for #Merkel’s health after she violently shakes while meeting Ukrainian president https://t.co/XW9nzoJcVi pic.twitter.com/LGJBNBbAfw
— RT (@RT_com) June 18, 2019
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