http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/65325
Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel.
The two leaders had a detailed discussion on a number of topical international matters.
While exchanging opinions on ways of resolving the intra-Ukrainian crisis, the Russian President and the German Chancellor voiced concern in connection with the escalation of tensions in southeastern Ukraine. Vladimir Putin drew attention to the provocative actions of Kiev which is now deliberately aggravating the situation along the line of contact. The parties noted the need for the Kiev authorities to implement earlier agreements without fail, in particular those aimed at the launch of direct dialogue with Donetsk and Lugansk and at legally formalising the special status of Donbass.
They urged the parties to the conflict to display restraint and to invigorate the negotiating process in order to fully implement the 2015 Minsk Package of Measures as the only legal foundation for a peace settlement. They reaffirmed their commitment to further close coordination of Russian and German efforts, including within the Normandy Format, between political advisers and foreign ministers.
Mr Putin and Ms Merkel continued to exchange opinions on the subject of Syria and noted the high priority of tasks to improve the humanitarian situation in Syria. The Russian party underscored the unacceptability of politicising issues as regards the provision of foreign assistance to the people of Syria, the restoration of the socioeconomic infrastructure and the return of refugees.
While discussing the situation in Libya, both leaders praised the establishment of interim national institutions of state authority in the country. They voiced readiness to help normalise the domestic situation and to facilitate Libya’s peaceful development. They agreed to continue coordinating their efforts in this direction.
The two leaders touched upon the situation in the Balkans and noted the importance of further well-coordinated steps to ensure stability and inter-ethnic accord, including with due consideration for the decisions of the Steering Committee of the Council to fulfil the 1995 General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, or the Dayton Agreement.
In connection with the interest displayed by the Federal Chancellor, the situation regarding Alexei Navalny was touched upon.
At Vladimir Putin’s initiative, certain matters regarding the activities of foreign media outlets and NGOs in both countries were reviewed.
It was agreed to maintain close working contacts through various channels.
The phone call is being spun by empire propagandists as good Merkel demanding evil Putin to deescalate:
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-04-08/merkel-demanded-putin-reduce-russian-troops-around-ukraine-german-statement
Related:
RT picked up Dmitry Kozak’s statements as reported by TASS and widely reported in empire media today:
If Zelensky launches a full-scale war in Donbass, Russia will intervene & it will mean the ‘end of Ukraine’, warns key Putin aide
“Everything depends on what the scale of fighting will be. If there is, as the president says, a Srebrenica, we will be forced to stand up for ourselves.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/520490-zelensky-war-donbass-putin-aide/
Here’s a relevant write-up by Scott Ritter fresh on RT:
Ukraine’s NATO fantasy is a suicide pill in disguise; military action by the alliance against pro-Russian forces would be crushed
https://www.rt.com/russia/520366-nato-zelensky-ukraine-suicide/
Then there is the counter narrative of this article:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/merkel-demands-putin-reduce-russian-troop-build-near-ukraine/
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Zero Hedge has been forced to go much more mainstream, or risk being de-platformed by google.
It is not close to being the same independent website it was when I began visiting it eight years ago. Such a shame.
merkel (intentionally not capped out of disrespect) demands this of Putin? Were I him I would tell the dim dour frau to f… off and then add another battalion on that front! My mom came to America from Germany after the war, she used to ride her bike to the nearby hospital wear she worked as allied planes bombed targets in the countryside. She passed in 2014 and was deeply ashamed of the pathetic little minion state the her homeland had become. merkel is nothing and has ruined her nation with her failed policies which were handed down to her by her overlook puppet masters. In my opinion, the U.S. wants a war in Ukraine to involve Russia thinking that it will again lead to the destruction of Europe whom China is courting for its belt and road initiative. A destroyed Europe would be incapable of partaking in that economic union, Nord Stream 2 would be dead and so would a peer economic competitor. Trouble is, the U.S. miscalculates in thinking this coming war will be limited to the European continent. Despite milley and his dim civilian counterpart austin, one hopes that cooler heads elsewhere in the Pentagon apparatus prevent the current tripwire from being triggered.
Merkel-Putin phone call today a different story, Merkei is using the US/NATO party line now, lecturing Putin about placement of Russian troops that threaten Ukraine.
Merkel Demands Putin Reduce Russian Troops Near Ukraine In Phone Call
Explain German people in three words – Two World Wars
Explain the RF in a few more words – BigBucks for Military/Industrial America’s BigBiz, by inventing an imaginary enemy when you don’t have an enemy to the Zionist state
Explaine Russian Federation in a ‘few more words’ – The West Starts the wars, Russia finishes them.
Yes, Reuters is spinning this unbelievably – and all sources lead to Reuters. If you look at the ZeroHedge one, the link to the purported German government statement is artfully not there.
I went looking and can find no German government statement, neither one from Angela Merkel’s office, up to this moment – nowhere in the English Bundestag translations. Maybe it is there and someone else can find it. I sure cannot – und ich spreche ein wenig Deutsch.
https://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/bkin-de/aktuelles/telefonat-von-bundeskanzlerin-merkel-mit-dem-russischen-praesidenten-putin-1886540
found it!
Yes they have a short statement in German on there government website. They say that Merkel told Mr Putin to reduce troops on the southeast boarder to Ukraine Other touched themes are Syria, Libya and Some small former Yugoslavia states
So Putin and Merkel agree to stick to legal agreements.
Agreements that have existed for several years and which are being actively undermined by the lawless West …of which Germany is a part of…
Merkel ‘communique’ says the exact opposite, she almost gave an ultimatum to Putin to reduce forces at the border.Not a single word on Ukies forces and of course ask for transfert of Navalny.
Merkel demanded Putin reduce Russian troops around Ukraine: German statement:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-merkel-putin/merkel-demanded-putin-reduce-russian-troops-around-ukraine-german-statement-idUSKBN2BV1VJ?fbclid=IwAR23zT6Kuq9b8ehR6bWpqovuquw9JZGRWFrvHdIF7k8raLAnE6cB0tShZtg
Here’s the official German Chancellor’s statement:
https://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/bkin-de/aktuelles/telefonat-von-bundeskanzlerin-merkel-mit-dem-russischen-praesidenten-putin-1886540
“Press and information office of the Federal government
Thursday, 08. April 2021
Running No.:
110
Year of issue:
2021
“Phone call from German Chancellor Angela Merkel with Russian President Putin
“The Deputy spokesperson of the German government Ulrike Demmer, announces:
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel has today on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The subject of the conversation, among other things, the increased Russian military presence in the environment of Eastern Ukraine was the. The Chancellor demanded the removal of these troops, reinforcements, in order to achieve a de-escalation of the situation.
“Furthermore, some of the other foreign-policy issues were discussed, in particular Syria, Libya and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Also the case of Navalny was raised.”
Quite a difference than the MSM spun bullshit from Reuters, the British mouthpiece that hasn’t printed a Truth in half a century, if ever.
Yes It’s different to the Reuters/mms version but it omits the fact that she agreed to uphold the various legal commitments which are explicitly named in the Kremlin statement. (Minsk, Dayton..)
The main paragraph concerns “Russian military presence”. Everything else was lumped together at the end as an afterthought.
Larchmonter445
What is Merkel doing ? Issuing imperial decrees to Putin ? Or perhaps she is worried that Germany might be drawn into a wider conflict. Time will tell.
Hitler was doing the same thing with Stalin. Demanding Stalin pulling all troops away from the Russian border for peace, to allow for easy access road for German troops to Moscow.
i find it extremely curious both xi & putin phoned merkel today. not a coincidence.
First of all, the official “German statement” isn’t there–click bait from Reuters.
Secondly, “opposite” and “subset” are two different things. The Reuters spin is clearly a cherry-picked subset of the Russian read-out.
“All parties should deescalate” is spun as “Germany demands Russia deescalate”.
Only the Navalny element is retained in full. Because of course!
Surely surely Germany has some purile, snivelling 2-bit political “opponent” whose cause Putin can throw in Merkel’s face?
Every time some Zog tweets about Navalny, I beg for Maria to reply with a pic of Assange.
Especially the image of him being dragged out of the embassy.
“Every time some Zog tweets about Navalny, I beg for Maria to reply with a pic of Assange.
Especially the image of him being dragged out of the embassy.”
Right there is a gold plated opportunity for Russia to pick up an absolute gutload of western support. Do it, every single time!
Despite centuries of feuding, Russia and Germany are natural allies for the 21st century. Some background history on the German CEO of NordStream AG, Matthias Warnig is a close friend of Putin who helped reverse the looting of Russian energy reserves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Warnig
https://thesaker.is/putin-expels-the-families/
She is almost irrelevant. If Russia wants to exert real influence, it should work directly with elites and the population. Sponsor affiliate organizations etc. and connect to relevant elites – probe if there are shared power interests. The average Joe is also irrelevant, only as meat in mass ops somewhat significant. The nation once called Germany is spiritually and culturally dead. Approach it like a bazaar. Buy, sell and conspire.
Even if Merkel does not represent the will and interests of her people, she is still the leader of Germany and de facto leader of the EU, so she’s not exactly “irrelevant”.
Challenge accepted. That is why I wrote almost. She has some real competencies as the organ of the executive, this is true. Real power lies with those individuals and groups, who appoint, decide and put the options on the table, which our lovely flock “votes” on. This is where all the conspiracies “theories” stem from, as all of you very well know. Without getting in depth into history, structure of the formal states and federation, institutions, media etc. of Germany, the power to decide lies with the manifold groups and networks inside and outside Germany (Western type network). Just the publicly known and registered lobbyists amounts to 6000 people, which is about 8.5 per representative. Just plain and boring everyday baazaries buying politicians i.e. trading favors and influence. I don’t want to touch how power is organized from municipalities (Gemeinde) to states (Länder), nough said, if we just note, that power is rooted locally in representatives of the economy, religion, merit, history, aristocracy etc. Than we have higher orders which are usually organized groups and networks of these groups. I have documented (for myself) just a fraction of scandals or revelations throughout almost 16 years, how each of these actors operate and who they are. The amount of lies and deception coming from media and regular academics is a fabulous song onto itself – as they say in Germany, there is no ridiculous lie an academic wouldn’t believe. I don’t claim to know all about how power functions and how it comes into existence, but had good teachers like the late Hans Jürgen Krysmanski. This left / right nonsense is also very well dispelled by C.A.Bond (Nemesis) building on Bertrand de Jouvenel and others.
This brings me to this figure called Merkel. She is a function and you are right, therefore nominally relevant. (She could be more, but you have to have courage like Putin to be more than a cardboard cut-out.) All core points of power have different sources, which feed decision makers concepts, frame of references, options etc. The U.S. elite understands this very well, that is why it is permeating every pore of culture with its ideas (ideology) and agents. Innumerable foundations, fonds, talking shops, grants, personal contacts are permeating the bones of German society. The “Media” and educational complex is the worst of them. I’ve run through their brain washing from school to university and know intimately how this works. I didn’t even touch secret services with its (semi official) terror groups – just to name one “Gladio”, which was active in the Cold War.
The finale: Instead of wasting money on useless diplomatic chores, build networks with the strategic subject (in Andrei Fursov’s terms) and produce outcomes, which figure heads like “das Merkel” will announce on TV.
That’s all
That’s literally what Russia is doing. As the guy above posted, this is who Putin is working with directly to complete Nord Stream 2 behind Merkel’s ineffectual back
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Warnig
That’s a concrete project. I’m writing about a systemic approach. Not the low level oligarchic projects. Many experts criticize this fact inside Russia. You forget, that the current Russian elites origins are from the criminal processes from the 90s. The official approach was to become part of the West, as a junior partner. Therefore nothing resembling a systematic approach has been undertaken to this day. RT, Sputnik f.e. have been stop gap emergency measures not to loose everything…
Ramstein might be a suitable target?
(Ramstein Air Base is a United States Air Force base in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwestern Germany. It serves as headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) and also for NATO Allied Air Command (AIRCOM). Mod.)
Russia’s nuclear arsenal can generously provide for everyone.
Europe, North America and a large quizzing island in the South Pacific have all been catered for.
Looking at the range of topics being discussed by the 2 leaders, I wonder how much of this is being done only out of diplomatic courtesy by the Russian side. Apart from the Balkans, where Germany can exert real influence, mostly via some EU-tools, there is not much to talk about. In Ukraine it has very limited influence and in Syria and Libya it is not even a player. Even after 1990 Germany has never become a full-fledged geopolitical actor. Its sovereignty is limited and its armed forces have degenerated into a complete joke. The contrast to a reinvigorated Russia is striking.
I also don’t think that Russia should expect much of an economic partnership in the future as Germany is rapidly declining in almost everything. The last 10 years have been disastrous for Germany’s longterm prospects. Among the biggest failures are the exit from nuclear and fossil-fuel energy, the sabotage of the car industry and other industries, the uncontrolled and ongoing immigration of millions of people and the underwriting of the debt of other Eurozone countries. The country is now basically in a complete inertia mode, feeding on its past accomplishments. Once this capital is used up, it’s game over.
Does anyone know what is going on in the inner politics of Germany? It may be that Merkel is having to look like she is “talking tough” to Putin or that someone in her publicity entourage is making the translation look that way.
Did she “demand”. what is the word in German? and what is the context. Sigh. please don’t make me have to consult my 96 year old nazi neighbor who knows exactly what is going on in Germany albeit a few days later after she gets her newspapers delivered.
I think everyone is jockeying for chancellorship…. Could she survive a vote of no confidence?
The statement from the official link above was:
Die Bundeskanzlerin forderte den Abbau dieser Truppenverstärkungen ein, um so eine Deeskalation der Lage zu erreichen.
Whether ‘forderte’ means ‘asked’, ‘ordered’, ‘called for’ (the Google and Yandex translation) or ‘demanded’, I’ll leave for a German-speaking person to judge.
Yandex translation: The Chancellor called for the reduction of these troop increases in order to achieve a
de-escalation of the situation.
Google translation: The Chancellor called for these troop reinforcements to be dismantled in order to de-escalate the situation.
DeepL: The Chancellor called for the reduction of these troop reinforcements in order to achieve a de-escalation of the situation.
‘Calling for’ a reduction of the increases is rather different from demanding a reduction in troops. Sounds more like “Please could you back off a bit to cool things down”.
This is a strange use of the word “einfordern.” Normally that means “to call in,” as to call in a debt.
In the context I would expect to see “auffordern,” to demand/challenge a person to do something.
Also, when you demand that someone do something (auffordern), that person is the direct object, not the action—jemanden auffordern, etwas zu tun. It means “to ask/also invite” (jdn zum Tanzen auffordern).
It is not as strong an imperitive as “demand.” But auffordern is not the word used.
I did a search for the quote and that is the wording I found–with einfordern—but it seems to me like an unusual usage.
I checked in my unabridged German-English dictionary and the definition there for “einfordern” is short:
vt sep. Schulden [debts], to demand payment of, to call (in).
I wonder whether in the context it means to “call back” troops.
The FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) has this headline:
“Merkel ruft Putin zu Abbau russischer Truppen auf”
This is the usage I would expect.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/merkel-ruft-putin-zu-deeskalation-in-der-ukraine-auf-17284211.html
The article starts:
“Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) hat den russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin [direct object] mit Blick auf den Ostukraine-Konflikt zu einem Abbau der russischen „Truppenverstärkungen“ ***aufgefordert.*** Dies sei erforderlich, um „eine Deeskalation der Lage zu erreichen“, sagte Merkel am Donnerstag in einem Telefonat mit dem Kreml-Chef.
Yandex translation:
“”German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to reduce the Russian “troop reinforcements” in view of the Eastern Ukraine conflict. This is necessary in order to “achieve a de-escalation of the situation,” Merkel said in a telephone call with the Kremlin leader on Thursday.
Katherine
“de-escalation” by Russian forces leads to escalation by USA – time to get this over with especially with the US getting out of Afghanistan & Iraq soon – lets have the Ukraine be the finale
and the USA fall for the good of its “citizens”
No mystery there the B..tch just wants to look good in the eyes of her fascist friends wherever they are in the CIA(many Nazis), the BND (all Nazis), the CDU, the SPD, the FDP and of course her personal favorites: the Greens (the young hip green Nazis).
It’s as it was in 1944, if things get though, the slogan always is and was “And now more than ever !” with these folks. One must never forget the bulk of the SS-Divisions (just as an example) did everything possible to be caught by the Western Allies, because they knew that there were many friends in high positions who will help them afterwards. The ‘Aufklärung Ost’ (Reconaissance East) led by Gehlen was almost in total integrated by the Dulles brothers into the newly formed CIA – naturally becoming it’s backbone because of their expertise regarding the Sowjet Union, this immedialty made itself felt in Germany were the Nazis took up strategic positions throughout the whole state apparatus and almost exclusively ran/run the BND (State Intelligence Service).
Springer Media is one of their outfits.
You have the same in Austria and Switzerland basically, albeit with some specifics which are minor.
Major reason that both the area of the Former Yugoslavia and USSR (apart from Russia) are such a mess is permanently racist Germany. Their historical revanchism knows no bounds. They supported pro-Nazis and pro Wahhabi crazies in the newly created states of those regions finally rewarding all those ethnicities that showed an even greater zeal in killing the Slavic Untermensch.
Germans are nowadays reduced to liars. She rang Putin and she was begging for a deescalation yet her press releases are nothing but arrogant bull crap.
Merkel wants to push through a German special envoy (read: overlord) for Bosnia whose job is to assist the American woke regime in dismantling the Republic of Srpska in Bosnia, the Serb entity of Bosnia, followed by another ethnic cleansing of Bosnia of her 1.5 million Serbs. Russia’s POV is that Bosnia should finally be let to govern herself without an international “supervision“ (read: colonial regime).
The Departing Hegemon has left the region of the former Yugoslavia to be governed and exploited by ze Germans. The problem are the Serb people (not their quisling government) who remember well all the atrocities committed by Germans/Austrians and their local Nazi allies during the WWII and the nineties.
And to think this is not financially wrapped in a tight bow is a bit naive too. Euro who?
Let me say that I despise Merkel. That being said I have always felt that Putin and Merkel seem to have an unusual understanding with each other. I think that perhaps they have genuine respect for each other. Different points of view for sure but in this case perhaps a breakthrough can be made in this direction of diplomacy.
Surely they do share common background that “outsiders” cannot understand.
According to Wiki, “From 1985 to 1990, he served in Dresden, East Germany,[43] using a cover identity as a translator.[”
So he does have insight into Merkel’s homeland and probably into a lot of her views and assumptions, regardless of her current political positions. Furthermore, Putin can speak German with merkel, and that makes a huge difference. So, I don’t have any theories as to what Merkel is up to. But it may well be possible that she can signal in German to Putin some shadings of meaning or intention.
It is important to bear in mind that in a superheated political atmosphere such as the current one, basically all leaders are under a lot of pressure from “domestic” political actors or others. Think Kennedy (trying to communicate with Castro, Khrushchev, in the teeth of the CIA and the Pentagon chiefs), Khrushchev himself (trying to deescalate the cold war and nuclear danger), de Gaulle (trying to bring Algerian war to an end), and surely many others that more knowledgeable heads here can enumerate . . .
It may be crucial that Putin is fluent in German.
Katherine
Unless Putin gave her a “come to Jesus” talk,the call was worthless.And just shows its foolish to think Russia can remove Germany from the US’s control. Her calling on Russia to remove her defensive troops from the Russian /Donbass border,instead of calling on Ukraine to remove their troops threatening Donbass shows they can’t be dealt with through negotiations
Apparently Xi also phoned Merkel on Wednesday. A full transcript was published in the Chinese press.
Alexander Mercouris discusses this and from a diplomatic point of view he consideres it very important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IH-Kbbn-zY&ab_channel=AlexanderMercouris
Make of it what you will …
Ah, good Merkel has requested Putin eat cheese cake fast, deescalate, but Putin understood the desert and told her to f**k off before putting down the phone laughing.