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Merkel speaks with Putin almost every day. She's is the key to any resolution to the problem. Putin and her don't use translators as they both speak each others languages fluently. They know each other very well. Putin respects her and so does Moscow. She was against expanding NATO to the east into the Ukraine and Georgia knowing it would piss off Russia. That's Russia's red line. What people aren't talking about is part of the EU package that was rejected by Ukraine was the stepping stone to NATO membership. Once the Ukraine's pro-NATO revolutionaries took over.. all bets were off.
Now the illegal PM of Ukraine is realizing this and trying to correct his position of Ukraine being a future NATO member to being one of Non-Alignment.
Good Post AC. :2wave: Not many have brought up Merkel nor what she has been saying to Putin and vice versa. Which you know we aren't talking about the grandstanding and joining in on the bandwagon. Do to NATO commitments.