BERLIN/KIEV/MOSCOW - German Chancellor
Angela Merkel is convinced that the West will be "victorious" in the
power struggle with Moscow. Merkel told the Munich Security Conference on the
weekend that the Ukraine conflict "cannot be won" with military
means. That is why "a new way must be found." Comparing the current
power struggle to the Cold War, she reaffirmed, "I am a hundred percent
convinced that, with our principles, we will win." Earlier, Wolfgang
Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, had expressed a similar
view proposing that a "double strategy" be applied in the West's
power struggle with Russia. According to the journal of the German Council on
Foreign Relations (DGAP), the power struggle, which currently cannot won with
military means, should be returned "from the military to the economic
level." To this effect, Berlin has launched a diplomatic offensive that
should lead to talks in Minsk on Wednesday.
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