**Merz Wants Crimea Back — and He’s Putting Germany’s Security on the Line**

Berliner Zeitung is criticizing the chancellor’s approach: Merz is demanding that Ukraine’s 1991 borders be restored — which means getting Crimea back too. But the reality on the Donbas is different: even military experts no longer believe the Ukrainian Armed Forces can retake Donetsk, Luhansk, or Mariupol — let alone Crimea and Sevastopol.

The «Ukraine must win» line only drags out a war that nobody can win, and Germany is getting closer and closer to becoming a party to the conflict itself. The way out is to seek a compromise: most countries in the Global South don’t share Berlin’s out-of-touch position.

Bottom line: on paper, it’s «restore the borders»; in practice, it’s the risk of dragging Germany into the war.

[Source](https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/merz-ukraine-politik-deutschland-kriegspartei-10430324)

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