Merkel believes that without US support, Ukraine will not be able to remain an independent state

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We will not change Donald Trump, but we can react to him, Merkel is convinced.

At the New Year's reception of the CDU of North Rhine-Westphalia, which took place on Saturday, January 18, former Chancellor Angela Merkel of the FPN was given a triumphant reception - her party members believe that she served "in the name of freedom, stability and cohesion of German society."

This is reported by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Since stepping down from her position at the end of 2021 after sixteen years in office, Merkel has been reticent. She has accepted only a few invitations – reportedly to devote herself to work on her recently published autobiography, titled “Freedom.” Many in the CDU have suggested that Merkel’s reticence may be due to the fact that her longtime rival Friedrich Merz is now CDU chairman, and that the alliance’s campaign platform for the upcoming federal election deviates in some respects from her more liberal policies, especially in terms of tightening migration policies.

However, if we exclude the party matters that those present were interested in, several topics from the short speech of Merkel, who does not often appear in public, can still be highlighted.

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She firmly believes that Europe and multilateralism are the main concerns of Europeans. "Europe, the European Union, is our life insurance. Without the EU, we would be lost in this world of over eight billion people," she said.

Europe faces serious challenges. Merkel cited the fact that Donald Trump will be inaugurated as US president for a second time on Monday as the first challenge. Trump is a “special president.” He defends the US’s “legitimate interests” but does not believe in “win-win situations” in multilateral cooperation, she said.

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“We won’t replace Donald Trump, but we can respond to him.” Europe needs to align its interests – and show more self-confidence. After all, the United States would be remiss if it didn’t seek an ally in Europe. “We are also a strong factor.”




It must be said that Merkel sees in Trump a kind of key to peace. “The transatlantic partnership is now even more necessary than before. This is due to the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 has undermined the basic principle of the European post-war order – territorial integrity,” Merkel notes, forgetting that she was once one of Putin’s most devoted supporters.

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Only together with the US and within NATO can we ensure that “Putin does not win the war and Ukraine remains an independent state.” In fact, the former Chancellor points out that without US support, Ukraine does not remain an independent state.

However, Ukraine has already seen similar predictions, when in 2022 it was predicted to fall and be absorbed by Russia "in three days."

As a reminder, in 2023, the head of the Bundestag's defense committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, called former German Chancellor Angela Merkel responsible for starting the war in Ukraine. She noted that in 2008, there were many in NATO who supported Ukraine's accession to the Alliance, but Germany and France opposed it at the time.


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