In her new memoir the German former chancellor writes that Trump seemed to find Vladimir Putin ‘very fascinating’
Russian president Vladimir Putin welcomes chancellor Angela Merkel with a bouquet of flowers at the Kremlin in August 2021. It was the chancellor’s final visit to Moscow. Photograph: Evgeny Odinokov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Imagesas in thrall to autocratic leaders and someone who views everything “from the perspective of the real estate entrepreneur he had been before politics”.
Their talks always took place on two levels, she added, with her “figures and facts” making no impression with a president who operated “on an emotional level”. “The Russian president was clearly very fascinating to him,” she wrote. “In the years that followed, I had the impression that politicians with autocratic and dictatorial traits cast a spell over him.”door to Ukraine in 2008, Merkel said “the admission of a new member should not only bring more security to the new member, but also to Nato”.
“Not a word about the unresolved conflicts on his doorstep in Nagorno-Karabakh, Moldova and Georgia,” she said. “Criticism of Nato’s deployment in Serbia, yes, but not a word about the atrocities committed by the Serbs during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia; not a word about developments in Russia itself.”
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