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German Chancellor Frederick Merz said that he has not hoped that a ceasefire can be secured in Ukraine, but he is “not under any confusion.”
“I am preparing myself inside for the possibility that this war can last long,” Merz said in an interview with public broadcaster ZDF on Sunday, in which he also rejected a proposal by his coalition partner, social democrats to increase taxes in Germany.
Now in its fourth year, Russia’s full -scale invasion of Ukraine is the longest war in Europe since World War II.
“If you see history to see how the war ends, there are basically two possibilities: either through one side or other military necklace – which I am not looking for Russia or Ukraine at the moment – or through economic and/or military exhaustion,” Merz said. “But I am not seeing that it is happening on both sides at this time.”
The war “may end tomorrow if Ukraine surrenders, gives defeat, and the country loses its freedom,” he said. “But the next day, the next country will be in line. And then after a day, it will be our turn. This is not an option.”
Merz also reiterated that he wants the US to be associated with a diplomatic solution with an understanding that it could be a “long process”.
“I want America to work with us as much as possible to try to solve this problem,” he said. But “diplomacy is not about flipping a switch overnight and then everything will be cured again,” he said.
With the peace efforts of US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor has become fast pessimistic, indicating that he no longer expects a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski and Vladimir Putin of Russia.
On Friday, Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron called for secondary sanctions with the aim of reducing Russia’s war machine by curbing revenue from oil sales.
Merz also rejected tax growth in Germany, a policy that is moving as a way to fill the social democrat budget.
“We agreed in our coalition agreement that taxes would not be raised. And this is the coalition agreement,” Mars said.
Since coming to power this year, the Merz government has abolished the debt-funding programs of hundreds of billions of euros on defense and infrastructure, which end the penance years, promoting criticism within their orthodox blocks.
“We are taking a lot of debt. We are doing the boundaries of what I can personally do and take responsibility for it.”
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