Quotes
You won’t be chancellor for ever. And then they’ll be a Nato member. And I want to prevent that.”
Without specifying when he made the comments, Merkel says Putin had told her They [the Germans] didn’t love me because I said you gotta pay,
he told a rally in Pennsylvania this month, apparently referring to defence spending within Nato There were some points that I did not regard as completely absurd. As we know, there was never any evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq,
she writes, referring to the US justification for regime change I wish with all my heart that Kamala Harris … defeats her competitor and becomes president.”
In what she admits will be a belated endorsement, written before this month’s US election, Merkel declares Instead of stoically bearing it, I whispered to him that we should shake hands again,
He was ... In the years that followed, I had the impression that has was captivated by politicians with autocratic and dictatorial tendencies."
You could find all this childish, reprehensible, you could shake your head at it, ... but that didn't make Russia any less important on the world stage,
He claimed that I had ruined Germany by taking in so many refugees in 2015 and 2016, accused us of spending too little on defense and criticized us for unfair trade practices,
The state knew no mercy,
I understood the desire of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to become NATO members as soon as possible, but the accession of a new member was supposed to bring more security not only to them but also to NATO,
None of the candidates for NATO membership had ever had such a close relationship with Russian military structures before,
I perceived him as a man who did not want to be disrespected and was ready to pounce at any moment. You may consider this childish and contemptuous, you may shake your head. But it meant that Russia would never disappear from the world map,
And I want to prevent this,
Putin is quoted as saying in the book You will not always be chancellor, and then they will join NATO,
He saw everything from the perspective of the property developer he was before entering politics,
When he noticed that I was vigorously opposing this, he abruptly ended his tirade and changed the subject,
Bend, bend, bend, but make sure it doesn’t break,
he told Merkel, according to her account I very much doubt whether Gerhard Schröder would have behaved in the same way towards a man,
I experienced him as someone who didn’t want to be disrespected, ready to lash out at all times,
When he did pay attention to my arguments, it was usually only to construct new accusations from them,
