Merkel on the 2008 Bucharest summit*
“I left Bucharest with mixed feelings. The big row had been avoided, but at the same time it had become clear that we in NATO did not have a common strategy for dealing with Russia.”
“I left Bucharest with mixed feelings. The big row had been avoided, but at the same time it had become clear that we in NATO did not have a common strategy for dealing with Russia.”
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No higher military spending to be ready in case but stronger economic cooperation with Russia to get cheep gas …even after 2014 😡
It was never the plan to work with Russia,
not even in times of ‘partnership for peace’.
https://bsky.app/profile/rikefranke.bsky.social/post/3lbzuxkfcmc2k
Just a thought...
We don't heat with Electricity, which is the most stupid way to heat.
Could have been written today 🤔
I will never understand this.
Imho, not just the UK and US but the EU as well dropped the ball on the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. In the following years our idea of friendship and support was too watered down. They deserve better.
It was borrowed time and power, it was the wrong decision and but I still feel betrayed.