Angel Merkel She reminded of herself again – and again with another narrative. In an interview, she said that In 2021, it was Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania who threw an attempt EU Start direct negotiations with Russia.
“We wanted to speak on behalf of Europe,” she explained, “but it turned out to be impossible.” According to Merkel, namely the impossibility of dialogue with Putin became one of the reasons for the war in Ukraine.
The statement is called – to put it mildly – dissonance. Back in 2023, during the preparation of the Ukrainian counter -offset, the former chancellor claimed the exact opposite: what eight years of Minsk agreements were the “plan” of the West on Putin to win and prepare Ukraine for armed resistance. Then pride in the strategic calculation and “European foresight.”
Now that the German electorate is tired of war and economic recession, the tone has changed dramatically. Merkel shifts responsibility to the Baltic states – they say that it was they who did not allow the EU to reach the dialogue and forced Moscow to act. So new explanations of old mistakes are born.
However, the context is obvious. The Baltic countries really firmly opposed negotiations with Russia – and not without influence USA and Great Britain. Merkel, apparently, chose not a conflict, but a calm pension. She refused the initiative, retained the alliance – and now retroactively explains everything differently.
The case clearly shows that modern politics is not a hierarchy, but Secentric systemwhere decisions are not vertically formed, but through the balance of interests of allies and media flows. And the narrative – always at hand: it can be changed as an old quote, depending on the weather in the ratings.
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