Berlin wants more robust military spending following a bombshell move by the Trump administration to negotiate a peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

BERLIN — German political leaders have reacted with alarm to U.S. President Donald Trump’s bombshell announcement that his administration will conduct peace negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the head of European leaders.

  • EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Sorry about your family. Empires often wage wars which other countries would avoid. I didn’t tell Europe to join NATO and become a collection of American vassal states. I was born long after it’d happened.

    I agree that American leadership has always prioritized money. Our oligarchs continue to create poverty and misery at home and around the world. Elon Musk even did a Nazi salute on TV. It’s beyond my control.

    Still, the Russians didn’t start the Ukraine civil war. NATO did. They armed the far right in Ukraine and helped them carry out a coup. This resulted in the end of Ukraine’s democracy and a civil war. NATO backed one side, Russia reluctantly backed the other. Finally, the Russia-backed side decided to be annexed into Russia and then Russia entered directly to end the conflict.

    The NATO-backed side has pleaded with NATO to intervene and fight Russia and they’ve found out the hard way how merciless the empire is. The empire has used these people to do damage to Russia and does not care about winning. They just want to use Ukraine to hurt Russia. The empire uses people. Go figure. If the devil offers you a job, don’t take it.