“At some point, Ukraine will sign a ceasefire agreement; at some point, hopefully, a peace treaty with Russia. Then it may ​be that part of Ukraine’s territory is no longer Ukrainian,” Merz ​told students at the Carolus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Marsberg, a town in ⁠North Rhine-Westphalia, on Monday.

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    Oh Germany…

    I thought of saying “how low you’ve fallen”, but then again, you’re never known for standing on the right side of history.

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    I don’t know why everyone in the comments is freaking out, it’s the most likely outcome.

    I mean: What has Ukraine to gain by spending young men’s lives to regain territory already lost? To ask a famous question asked by a certain band: What’s the price of a mile?

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      Scholz SPD was against sending Taurus. The Greens and Liberals were openly calling for more aid and were also part of the governing coalition. So the opposition leader Merz was hitting the government in a weak spot.

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    WHY! THE! FLYING! FUCK! would he say that publicly? Doing so significantly weakens Ukraine’s (and the West’s) negotiating position. If the opponent knows that this is on the table from the get-go, they’ll start with even bigger demands. It’s terrible enough that Traitor Donnie has backstabbed Ukraine at the behest of his handlers in the Kremlin. It befuddles me, however, why even Merz now takes pages from “The Fart of the Deal”.