Landsbergis recalled that it was under Merkel that the aggressor country Russia attacked the neighbors twice-in 2008 on Georgia and in 2014 to Ukraine, and its economy was actively funded by the EU through the Nord Stream German gas pipelines. According to him, such a policy strengthened the Russian Federation and made a war inevitable.
He called Merkel's words “inverted logic.” According to him, it was the one who most of all that contributed to the strengthening of Russia who is now “looking for who to blame responsibility.” Landsbergis believes that the former Chancellor is afraid for his political heritage and is not ready to recognize mistakes. “It would be better if she didn’t say anything at all. And even better, she recognized her mistakes,” he said.
The politician also recalled that during the migration crisis of 2021, Merkel, without coordination with Vilnius, was negotiating with the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, ignoring Lithuania.
As for Merkel’s statements about the allegedly lost opportunity to influence Putin because of Pandemia, Landsbergis noted that she had no influence. “The policy of peace did not work either in 1938 or today,” he said, pursuing a parallel with politics before the Second World War.
Landsbergis added that modern Germany, led by Friedrich Merets, acts much more responsible: strengthens defense and places military forces in Lithuania.
Context
Merkel was the Federal Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021-the longer all the heads of the Government of Germany.
After the start of the Russian aggression of 2014, Merkel played a major role in diplomatic efforts, in particular, in the Minsk process. She supported sanctions against the Russian Federation and provided political and economic support to Ukraine. At that time, the current chancellor adhered to the policy of dialogue with the Russian Federation, but after the annexation of Crimea and the war in the Donbass took a more stringent position.
In an interview with the Hungarian publication, Partizan on October 3, Merkel said that Poland and the Baltic countries Indirectly guilty in a full -scale invasion of Ukraine At the beginning of 2022. According to her, in 2021, these north-east of Europe allegedly blocked the format of dialogue between the European Union and the Russian Federation regarding the war in Ukraine. This led to a deterioration in relations between the EU and Moscow and eventually provoked a war, the ex-Chancell said.
On October 7, the President of Latvia Edgers Rinkevich commented on the statement of the former chancellor and said that in 2021 different ideas were expressed, and It was clear that the Minsk agreements did not work And Russia is not going to fulfill them.
Merkel's statement outraged Ukrainian and Eastern European leaders, wrote Politico.
