> Merkel on "tricking Russia into a ceasefire" Once again this is a complete fabrication. Here's Google translate of the linked section: But that presupposes

> Merkel on "tricking Russia into a ceasefire" Once again this is a complete fabrication. Here's Google translate of the linked section: But that presupposes also saying what exactly the alternatives were at the time. I thought the initiation of NATO accession for Ukraine and Georgia discussed in 2008 to be wrong. The countries neither had the necessary prerequisites for this, nor had the consequences of such a decision been fully considered, both with regard to Russia's actions against Georgia and Ukraine and to NATO and its rules of assistance. And the 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give Ukraine time. There is nothing there that even comes close to the claimed quote (and quote marks imply an actual quote).