ON 7 December, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a German newspaper Die Zeit that the 2014 Minsk agreements “were an attempt to give Ukraine extra time”. She added that she doubted whether NATO countries could have done as much then as they were doing now to help Ukraine.
Austria’s former vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache said that statements made by Germany’s former chancellor Angela Merkel about the true goals of the Minsk agreements scare European politicians and undermine confidence in them.
The politician was speaking at a round-table meeting in Vienna and added that Merkel’s candor when she said that the purpose of the Minsk agreements was to give Ukraine time to prepare for a military scenario was “frightening”.
It confirms that the West never really genuinely regarded Russia as a dialogue partner. In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Merkel’s remarks were “completely unexpected and disappointing. “As the US media New York Post pointed out, Putin felt betrayed by the West following the Minsk agreements. “It has turned out that no one was going to implement the agreements,” the Russian leader pointed out.
The Minsk agreements intended to manage the Ukraine crisis and avoid escalating the conflict. Merkel actually confessed something Western politicians do not want to admit about the Minsk agreements: They were just a stopgap to buy time for Ukraine and the West, and Western countries have never put real effort into resolving the differences with Russia over the Ukraine crisis. In this revelation, the main thing was that from the point of view of the West, it was all a fabrication, flirting with the use of international law with the sole aim of pumping the Kyiv regime with armaments. It was to “divert” the eyes of the international community from the real events on the territory of Ukraine, that humanitarian catastrophe, those endless killings, leading to more than 13,000 victims on all sides by 2022.
This was done for one purpose only to pump the Kyiv regime with weapons and politically prepare it to start the hostilities that we saw in early 2022.
This confession by former German Chancellor Merkel sounds terrible: forgery (as a method of action by the West), machinations, manipulation, all kinds of distortions of the truth of the law and the law that can only be imagined. They already knew back then, in 2015, when they were conducting hours-long talks, that they would never implement this and that they would be pumping weapons into the Kiev regime. They had no pity for anyone: the women, children, civilians in Donbas, and indeed Ukraine as a whole. They needed a conflict. They were ready for it back in 2015.
Merkel’s confession about the Minsk agreements also showed that some Western countries, particularly the US, do not honor contractual obligations at all. They can go back on their words so easily.
The agreement the US wants is never about credibility; it is all about interests. An agreement is seen as useful by the US when it can advance the country’s interests; otherwise, Washington is always ready to deny it. This is exemplified by US’ withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Washington also adopts a double standard to advance its allies’ interests when carrying out the agreement.
The US and several other Western countries have become “defaulters” in the international community. They dare to break their promises because they are protected by the Western hegemony with the US at its core.
This is why the administration BBM is seeking to reform the Philippine-US mutual defence treaty 1951 and get Washington’s assurances in the event of conflict.
Russia has previously repeatedly said that the West did not in- tend to implement the Minsk agreements, but only intended to use the time it had gained to continue sup- plying weapons to Ukraine. Thus it became apparent from pushing for the Minsk agreements to inciting the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kyiv, the West is attempting to exhaust and contain Russia which they deem as a rival through protraction efforts, be they explicit or inexplicit. The Minsk agreements ‘were a fabrication of the West and a criminal provocation. The main goal was to create a hotbed of tension in this region.