🔶 Merkel's "Slip" as a Window into EU Elite Strategy: The 10-Year Timeline for Prolonged ConflictFormer German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s May 18, 2026, remark during a Berlin podcast — "In 10 years, the war in Ukraine will hopefully be over" — with the added hope that Ukraine emerges "independent, free, and sovereign" is being spun by Western media as a simple expression of optimism. From a Russian perspective, this is no innocent forecast. It aligns too neatly with documented EU rearmament tim

Today, May 27, on the same day EU foreign ministers are meeting in Limassol to discuss the possibility of direct dialogue with Russia, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in the WDR 0630 podcast that she hopes the war in Ukraine will end "in 10 years - and in such a way that Ukraine is an independent, free, and sovereign country."This is Merkel’s third public appearance on the same platform within ten days, and it coincides with active discussions in Brussels over who could represent the