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    Scott Ritter: Merkel Reveals West's Duplicity Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on December 6, 2022, 10:01 am

    5 December 2022

    Lede: War, it seems, was the only option Russia's opponents had ever considered.

    (quote)
    Recent comments by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel shed light on the
    duplicitous game played by Germany, France, Ukraine and the United States in the
    lead-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.

    While the so-called "collective west" (the U.S., NATO, the E.U. and the G7)
    continue to claim that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was an act of "unprovoked
    aggression," the reality is far different: Russia had been duped into believing
    there was a diplomatic solution to the violence that had broken out in the
    Donbass region of eastern Ukraine in the aftermath of the 2014 U.S.-backed
    Maidan coup in Kiev.

    Instead, Ukraine and its Western partners were simply buying time until NATO
    could build a Ukrainian military capable of capturing the Donbass in its
    entirety, as well as evicting Russia from Crimea.

    In an interview last week with Der Spiegel, Merkel alluded to the 1938 Munich
    compromise. She compared the choices former British Prime Minister Neville
    Chamberlain had to make regarding Nazi Germany with her decision to oppose
    Ukrainian membership in NATO, when the issue was raised at the 2008 NATO summit
    in Bucharest.

    By holding off on NATO membership, and later by pushing for the Minsk accords,
    Merkel believed she was buying Ukraine time so that it could better resist a
    Russian attack, just as Chamberlain believed he was buying the U.K. and France
    time to gather their strength against Hitler's Germany

    The takeaway from this retrospection is astounding. Forget, for a moment, the
    fact that Merkel was comparing the threat posed by Hitler's Nazi regime to that
    of Vladimir Putin's Russia, and focus instead in on the fact that Merkel knew
    that inviting Ukraine into NATO would trigger a Russian military response.

    Rather than reject this possibility altogether, Merkel instead pursued a policy
    designed to make Ukraine capable of withstanding such an attack.

    War, it seems, was the only option Russia's opponents had ever considered.
    (/quote)
    -- Cont'd at https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/05/scott-ritter-merkel-reveals-wests-duplicity/

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