This is CBSI and the world. Judy Dempsey's here. I'm John Batchel. Judy is guiding me through the

very sophisticated regrets and ambitions of the European Union. We come now to a puzzle. When I saw it,

I thought, now this is a plot. But it happened within these last hours, a headline.

Merkel, you will recall, Ms. Merkel was Chancellor of All Germany for more than a decade, actually, 15 or 16 years.

Merkel, Poland and Baltics, partly responsible for Ukraine invasion. This is a headline in London.

Subhead, former German Chancellor claims the country's opposition to negotiations with Moscow

fueled Russian aggression.

Judy, does this make any sense?

Were you expecting this?

Has Merkel talked like this before?

No.

And it's is quite shocked

the Baltic states and Poland

and indeed the Ukrainians.

And as

what she's really saying is

that the kind of opposition

by the Baltic states and Poland

to having talks with Putin when he,

after 2022 just before, they opposed it because they knew it wouldn't lead to anything.

Now Merkel is saying, actually, they are partly to blame for Russia's aggression and invasion of Ukraine.

It's a curious logic, frankly, because Merkel knew already by the late 20, 2019,

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