{"id":130322,"date":"2024-11-26T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130322"},"modified":"2024-11-26T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:03:10","slug":"germanys-merkel-recalls-putins-power-games-and-contrasting-us-presidents-in-her-memoirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130322","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merkel recalls Putin&#8217;s &#8216;power games&#8217; and contrasting US presidents in her memoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Former German Chancellor <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/angela-merkel\">Angela Merkel<\/a><\/span> recalls Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201cpower games\u201d over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she could have done more to prevent Brexit, in her memoirs published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel, 70, appears to have no significant doubts about the major decisions of her 16 years as German leader, whose <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-fb1b1e7e87232054548e7ab5d6a7d8a8\">major challenges<\/a><\/span> included the global financial crisis, Europe\u2019s debt crisis, the 2015-16 influx of refugees and the COVID-19 pandemic. True to form, her book \u2014 titled \u201cFreedom\u201d \u2014 offers a matter-of-fact account of her early life in communist East Germany and her later career in politics, laced with moments of dry wit.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel served alongside <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-business-health-europe-coronavirus-pandemic-c35e36597774124830da8cc7c0786676\">four U.S. presidents<\/a><\/span>, four French presidents and five British prime ministers. But it is perhaps her dealings with Russian President Putin that have drawn the most scrutiny since she left office in late 2021.<\/p>\n<h2>Putin\u2019s power games<\/h2>\n<p>Merkel recalls being kept waiting by Putin at the Group of Eight summit she hosted in 2007 \u2014 \u201cif there\u2019s one thing I can\u2019t stand, it\u2019s unpunctuality.\u201d And she recounts a visit to the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi that year in which Putin\u2019s labrador appeared during a photo opportunity, although Putin knew she was afraid of dogs. <\/p>\n<p>Putin appeared to enjoy the situation, she writes, and she didn\u2019t bring it up \u2014 keeping as she often did to the motto \u201cnever explain, never complain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The previous year, she recounts Putin pointing to wooden houses in Siberia and telling her poor people lived there who \u201ccould be easily seduced,\u201d and that similar groups had been encouraged by money from the U.S. government to take part in <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-39e98ed5e89d4e62b74ef7bb4d90b3dc\">Ukraine\u2019s \u201cOrange Revolution\u201d of 2004<\/a><\/span> against attempted election fraud. Putin, she says, added: \u201cI will never allow something like that in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merkel says she was irritated by Putin\u2019s \u201cself-righteousness\u201d in a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe-moscow-nato-6abd03995b4d359ba194179d0b51b0de\">2007 speech in Munich<\/a><\/span> in which he turned away from earlier attempts to develop closer ties with the U.S. She said that appearance showed Putin as she knew him, \u201cas someone who was always on guard against being treated badly and ready to give out at any time, including power games with a dog and making other people wait for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne could find this all childish and reprehensible, one could shake one\u2019s head over it \u2014 but that didn\u2019t make Russia disappear from the map,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n<p>As she has before, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-putin-politics-berlin-germany-20b29c43618d4d711d62c07b589de4b1\">Merkel defends<\/a><\/span> a much-criticized 2015 peace deal for eastern Ukraine that she helped broker and her government\u2019s decisions to buy large quantities of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-business-germany-lisbon-2a8722c63c7ba84923c12eb0e1f8d35c\">natural gas<\/a><\/span> from Russia. And she argues it was right to keep up diplomatic and trade ties with Moscow until she left power,<\/p>\n<h2>Obama and Trump<\/h2>\n<p>Merkel concluded after first meeting then-Sen. Obama in 2008 that they could work well together. More than eight years later, during his last visit as president in Nov. 2016, she was one of the people with whom she discussed whether to seek a fourth term.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, she says, asked questions but held back with an opinion, and that in itself was helpful. He \u201csaid that Europe could still use me very well, but I should ultimately follow my feelings,\u201d she writes. <\/p>\n<p>There was no such warmth with Trump, who had criticized Merkel and Germany in his 2016 campaign. Merkel says she had to seek an \u201cadequate relationship &#8230; without reacting to all the provocations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March 2017, there was <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-merkel-president-trump-handshake-e74e410c08633855b13e84bf37b5c2fb\">an awkward moment<\/a><\/span> when Merkel first visited the Trump White House. Photographers shouted \u201chandshake!\u201d and Merkel quietly asked Trump: \u201cDo you want to have a handshake?\u201d There was no response from Trump, who looked ahead with his hands clasped.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel faults her own reaction. \u201cHe wanted to create a topic of discussion with his behavior, while I had acted as if I were dealing with an interlocutor behaving normally,\u201d she writes. She adds that Putin apparently \u201cfascinated\u201d Trump and, in the following years, she had the impression that \u201cpoliticians with autocratic and dictatorial traits\u201d beguiled him.<\/p>\n<h2>Could Brexit have been avoided?<\/h2>\n<p>Merkel says she tried to help then-Prime Minister David Cameron in the European Union as he faced pressure from British Euroskeptics, but there were limits to what she could do. And, pointing to Cameron\u2019s efforts over the years to assuage opponents of the EU, she says the road to Brexit is a textbook example of what can arise from a miscalculation.<\/p>\n<p>After Britons <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-9fe246470105431abf55e888683f3dbe\">voted to leave the EU<\/a><\/span> in 2016, an outcome she calls a \u201chumiliation\u201d for its other members, she says the question of whether she should have made more concessions to the U.K. \u201ctortured me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came to the conclusion that, in view of the political developments inside the country at the time, there would have been no acceptable possibility for me to prevent Britain\u2019s way out of the European Union from outside,\u201d Merkel says. <\/p>\n<h2>Giving up power<\/h2>\n<p>Merkel was the first German chancellor to leave power at a time of her choosing. She announced in 2018 that she wouldn\u2019t seek a fifth term, and says she \u201clet go at the right point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She points to <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-2575eac4767e4df89602eb7605542524\">three 2019 incidents<\/a><\/span> in which her body shook during public engagements as proof. Merkel says she had herself checked thoroughly and there were no neurological or other findings. An osteopath told her that her body was letting off the tension it had accumulated over years, she adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom\u201d runs to more than 700 pages in its original German edition, published by Kiepenheuer &amp; Witsch. 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