Merkel admits the Minsk agreement was merely to buy time for Ukraine’s arms build-up

Peter Schwarz

21 December 2022

According to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Minsk agreement served to buy time to rearm Ukraine. “The 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give Ukraine time,” Merkel told the weekly Die Zeit. “It also used this time to become stronger, as you can see today.”

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/22/ffci-d22.html

Merkel’s admission is remarkable in more than one way: the meaning of the trite metaphor here is not just an example of all too familiar language game – it gives a taste of Western arrogance, self-righteousness  and glaring dishonesty.