> The Minsk Accords were not a good-faith effort to avoid war, but a stalling tactic. Merkel was trying to mke her past actions sound more noble. The truth is

> The Minsk Accords were not a good-faith effort to avoid war, but a stalling tactic. Merkel was trying to mke her past actions sound more noble. The truth is that it was far closer to appeasement. The Minsk agreements were not in good faith not just because Russia repeatedly broke both of them (while pretending not to be a party to them of that the so called republics were not Russian puppets) but also because they also broke earlier agreements to respect Ukraine's independence and borders by invading in 2014.