Merkel admits Minsk cease fire agreements of 2014-15 were meant for Kiev to buy time, not be implemented

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel juxtaposed with Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden.

A week ago in an interview with Zeit magazine former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted the Minsk cease fire agreements of 2014-15 to settle the war in Eastern Ukraine was only meant for Kiev to buy time and become stronger instead of implementing the accord which Germany and France had drawn up. [1]

Remember Germany and France were the two countries supposedly most interested in ending the war. Now we find Minsk was just a ruse.

What's important to realize what Merkel's admission says. How can one trust the West's true intentions when it agrees to an accord.

In negotiations between opposing but equal sides compromise by each of them is necessary for an eventual agreement to be reached. It's supposed to benefit each of them.

That's what the nuclear armaments treaties between the US and the USSR did during the cold war. All have since expired except the New Start treaty between the US and the Russian Federation with regards to further reduction and limitation of strategic nuclear arms.

However all the other nuclear treaties have not been renewed, allowed to expire by the US. Then of course Trump in 2018 reneging on the 2015 nuclear treaty with Iran.

The point here being agreements reached between the western European governments and the US with Russia and its Donbass allies have not been worth the paper they're written on.

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