The Merz Chancellor invokes Russia's danger to the US congressmans: “It is clear that they have no idea what is going on there.”
Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the meeting with a group of American Photo senators: CNP / MediaPupch / Imago Stock & People / Profimedia
Some US legislators do not understand the extent of Russia's re -armament campaign, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday, one day after discussing with US President Donald Trump, Reuters reports.
“I met some senators in the Capitol and I told them to look at the reunion that Russia is doing,” Merz said in a conference with businessmen in Berlin.
“It is clear that they have no idea what is happening there in the present,” he noted, without specifying which of the senators he met.
Russia has passed the factories in the defense sector to the non-stop production activity since its invasion in Ukraine in February 2022 and has signed armament deliveries with North Korea and Iran, which made some European officials to draw an alarm that Moscow could soon be able to attack NATO territory.
Russia denies any such intention and states that it carries out “a special military operation” in Ukraine to protect its own security against what it considers to be “an aggressive and hostile West.”
Merz, a conservative who took power in May, is the latest European leader who visited Trump in the hope of convincing him to support Ukraine against the invasion of Russia and to continue to contribute to the security of Europe through NATO alliance.
The German Chancellor said that during the meeting in the Oval Office, to which the press and officials on both sides were present, Donald Trump answered a “no categorical” to the question whether the United States intended to withdraw from NATO.
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The European countries have increased their defense expenses since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, the bloodiest conflict on the old continent since World War.
Merz has supported Trump's request for NATO members to engage in more than 5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the future. Trump welcomed this commitment on Thursday and assured Friedrich Merz that American forces will remain in Germany.
“Whether we like it or not,” said the German Chancellor on Friday, “we will remain dependent on the United States … for a long time.”
