Analyst: Merkel tries to reduce U.S. influence in the European Union
German Chancellor Angela Merkel supports the punishment is relatively capital of Russia only in order not to give the Washington civil war in the European Union, has written a scientist at the American University in Moscow Gilbert Doctorow in Russia Insider.
"Merkel has agreed on a policy of punishment, because after all, this is a peaceful alternative to a military solution, promoted by Washington," says the analyst. In addition, the Federal Chancellor went on it, despite the undoubted harm To his people, To US have not had the opportunity to have a decisive opinion in regard to the relations of Europe with Russia, he says his position, calling Merkel peacemaker. Doctorow emphasizes that after Minsk negotiations, which resulted in, and among them, a truce in Ukraine, the opinions of the United States and Europe about the causes of the Ukrainian fall and the ways of its solution very quickly dispersed, RIA " Novosti ". In the U.S., he said, continued to dominate the "party of war" requiring to Ukraine arm as if To counter Russian aggression, criticized the position of Merkel. For example, the Republican Senator said that the German government or "no idea" about what is happening in Ukraine, or him in the end. In the EU, however, Merkel and her "Junior partner" of the EU Francois Hollande called the "dream team" after the conclusion of the Minsk agreements. For Merkel and her advisers military solution, discussed in the capital of the United States has become " intolerable betrayal ", and it marked the beginning that the diplomatic path, which still led to the conclusion of a new Minsk agreement emphasizes Doctorow. In early February, the media reported that Merkel has managed to explain Western leaders danger of an arms race with Russia, which may result from the delivery Ukraine arms.
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