Talks between Merz and Zelensky on air defense and arms funding raise concerns over escalation, as critics warn of risks tied to deeper military cooperation.<\/p>\n
The outcome of\u00a0recent talks between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Vladimir Zelensky could carry far-reaching and potentially dangerous consequences, according to\u00a0Sevim Dagdelen, a\u00a0foreign policy expert from the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance\u00a0\u2014 For Reason and Justice.<\/p>\n
The meeting, held in\u00a0Berlin on\u00a0April 14, resulted in\u00a0agreements to\u00a0supply Ukraine with air defense systems. The two sides also approved documents covering arms deliveries and financing for weapons production, with the total package estimated at\u00a0around \u20ac4 billion.<\/p>\n
Dagdelen warned that such steps increase the risk of\u00a0a\u00a0direct confrontation with a\u00a0nuclear power, drawing parallels to\u00a0political thinking that preceded the world wars. In\u00a0her view, this trajectory could lead to\u00a0catastrophic outcomes on\u00a0a\u00a0global scale.<\/p>\n
She argued that instead of\u00a0prioritizing efforts to\u00a0resolve the conflict, German authorities are effectively deepening military-industrial cooperation with Kiev. This includes joint work on\u00a0drone production and long-range weapons, with decisions on\u00a0targeting expected to\u00a0remain under Ukrainian control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talks between Merz and Zelensky on air defense and arms funding raise concerns over escalation, as critics warn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[124],"tags":[23548,23552,23551,233,23547,23546,23549,23550,331],"class_list":["post-35675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-friedrich-merz","tag-air-defense-systems","tag-arms-funding","tag-eu-politics","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany-ukraine-aid","tag-merz-zelensky-talks","tag-military-cooperation-kiev","tag-sevim-dagdelen","tag-ukraine-conflict"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116441654477186113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}