Berlin, Germany (Weltexpress). German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is delighted that Victor Orbán was not re-elected and that the EU can now transfer 90 billion euros to Ukraine. On 14 April, Merz received Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy with military honors in Berlin. Among other things, a ‘strategic partnership’ was agreed. Merz’s relationship with Ukraine has a long history.
Excerpt from “Geopolitics at a Glance: Germany-USA-EU-Russia“
Friedrich Merz is giving the Kiev authorities a boost with his support. The former Ukrainian ambassador Andriy Melnyk, who venerates the fascist Stepan Bandera[1] and has distinguished himself through insults and audacity, publicly approached him in April 2025 with a downright absurd list of demands: The coalition should pass a resolution “on the financing of arms deliveries to Ukraine amounting to at least 0.5 per cent of GDP (21.5 billion euros per year) or 86 billion euros by 2029 … To initiate and implement the same 0.5 per cent rule at EU level (€372 billion by 2029)”, as well as “the immediate delivery of 150 Taurus cruise missiles” and “30 per cent of available German fighter jets and helicopters …”[2]
It must be assumed that such demands are not made without consultation with Zelenskyy. The madness emanating from the Kiev war government could not be more clearly illustrated. The praise Merz receives from Melnyk is revealing: ‘You know how much I – as a long-serving Ambassador – have always valued the confidential exchanges with you as CDU Chairman and CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag. It would be no exaggeration to say that, in April 2022, thanks to your personal commitment and the massive pressure from the opposition in parliament, we succeeded in persuading Chancellor Scholz and the traffic-light coalition to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine after much hesitation. Your courageous visit to Kyiv in early May 2022 – as the first German statesman to do so – was also a powerful signal to spur the then Federal Government on to provide much stronger military support to Ukraine.[3]
This is reflected in the following passage from the coalition agreement: “Ukraine, as a strong, democratic and sovereign state that determines its own future independently and with a Euro-Atlantic perspective, is of central importance to our own security. We will therefore substantially strengthen and reliably continue our military, civilian and political support for Ukraine, together with our partners. We will work closely with our partners to pursue a joint strategy towards genuine and sustainable peace, in which Ukraine acts from a position of strength and on an equal footing. This also includes material and political security guarantees for a sovereign Ukraine. Germany will participate in the reconstruction of Ukraine.”
It seems to have completely escaped Merz and his coalition partners, or they simply do not want to acknowledge, that Ukraine is a failed state whose rulers, under the direction of Western warmongers, intend to let their soldiers – some of whom have been forcibly conscripted – fight against Russia to the last bullet. The fact that the nuclear power Russia cannot be defeated[4] is lost on the instigators, and they are already planning their business deals in the reconstruction of the destroyed areas.
When the coalition agreement states that ‘the aim of our foreign and security policy is to preserve peace in freedom and security’, these are – as is evident from the further declarations of intent – nothing but empty words. This also applies to the commitment to NATO, which is particularly emphasized, as well as to the USA and the UK: ‘The transatlantic alliance and close cooperation with the US remain of central importance to us. We are strengthening Europe’s capacity to act, deepening existing strategic partnerships, establishing new ones—particularly with countries of the Global South—and supporting multilateral frameworks with all our might … The United Kingdom is one of the EU’s and Germany’s closest partners—bilaterally and within the framework of NATO.’
It is questionable whether the countries of the Global South are interested in strategic partnerships with warmongers. And the transatlantic alliance and close partnership with the US? Merz and his partners have evidently not yet grasped that, since Donald Trump’s presidency, this has been a chimera, and that Germany remains in a state of unconditional surrender and, under the UN Charter, is an enemy state vis-à-vis the opponents of the Second World War – including Russia.
Sources and notes
[1] Stepan Bandera (1909–1959), war criminal, murderer and Nazi collaborator, revered as a national hero.
[3] Ibid.
[4] If its very existence were at stake, Russia would use nuclear weapons, and that would spell the end of Western civilization.
First published on Nachdenkseiten on 15 April 2026: www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=149090
