Angela Merkel is getting assailed from all sides, by friends and enemies alike.
In what could prove a watershed moment in her long political career, Angela Merkel is playing go-betweenthis week with two angry superpowers while trying to deliver peace to a European continent terrified that the Ukraine conflict could expand into an all-out, east-west war with Russia. She faces a daunting and potentially thankless task.The German chancellor has emerged as Europe’s lone champion in the dread-filled months following Vladimir Putin’s calm-shattering invasion and annexation of Crimea almost one year ago. In part through her dozens of one-to-one telephone …read more
Source: AlterNet
