By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-17 17:15:36 | Updated at 2024-11-17 19:48:23
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Germany's Scholz Defends Call to Putin Ahead of Snap Elections
Newsmax ^ | November 16, 2024 | Rooters
Posted on 11/17/2024 9:04:05 AM PST by Navy Patriot
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his conversation with Vladimir Putin on Friday had given no indication of a shift in the Russian President's thinking on the war in Ukraine, but defended his much-criticized decision to phone the Kremlin.
Scholz's hour-long call with Putin, their first direct communication in almost two years, comes three months before snap elections in which the wildly unpopular chancellor faces a stiff challenge from populists of left and right who are demanding a resumption of diplomacy.
Critics, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said the call was a breach of Western solidarity for the sake of domestic political advantage.
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