The chancellor-in-waiting says he would commit to giving Kiev long-range missiles if London backs him
Germanyβs chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz doesnβt officially take office until May 6, but that hasnβt stopped him from hitting the press circuit like itβs demolition day. Apparently, heβs got some lost time β and infrastructure β to make up for.
In a chat with Germanyβs public broadcaster, ARD, he floated the idea that Kiev, which seems to rank higher than Berlin on his priority list, needs to βget ahead of the situationβ on the battlefield and βshape eventsβ instead of playing defense. The event he seems most eager to shape? Oh, just the Third World War, apparently. Because he pivoted straight to the Kerch Bridge β mainland Russiaβs lifeline to the Crimean peninsula β like itβs been living on borrowed time.
Merz said that βif for example, the most important land connection between Russia and Crimea is destroyed, or if something happens on Crimea itself, where most of the Russian military logistics are located, then that would be an opportunity to bring this country strategically back into the picture finally.β Cool, cool. Which picture would that be, exactly? The one labeled βCatastrophic Misjudgments of the 21st Centuryβ?
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