The trouble is, these effete, elite Europeans are running the risk of starting a nuclear world war with their puny games.

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other European leaders are desperately playing with fire in a bid to sabotage diplomatic efforts to end the Ukraine conflict. It’s a nefarious role with a long history.

This week, Merz caused a storm (by the way, his grandfather was a Nazi Stormtrooper) when he publicly declared that Germany was henceforth giving permission to Ukraine to fire long-range missiles at pre-war Russian territory.

The chancellor, who only took up the office three weeks ago on May 6, also indicated that he was considering approval for the supply of German-made Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. The Taurus has a range of 500 kilometers and thus could hit the Russian capital, Moscow.

Russian officials immediately denounced Merz for recklessly provoking war in Europe. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said such a move by Berlin would mean Germany was a direct participant in the conflict. He said that Germany was “crossing a dangerous line… sliding down a slippery slope to disaster.”

Senior Russian lawmaker Andrey Kartapolov said that if Ukraine fired the German Taurus into Russia, it would result in Russia striking Germany in retaliation. The logic is that the sophisticated cruise missile could not be launched without German military technical involvement.

The United States, under the former Biden administration, Britain and France have already supplied long-range missiles to Ukraine with permission to use against Russian territory. But after Russia deployed its unstoppable Mach 10 hypersonic Oreshnik weapon last November, the use of long-range ATACMS, Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles ceased.

The German Taurus weapon has a longer range than those weapons supplied previously by the US, Britain and France. Such a deployment would constitute a significant escalation by NATO against Russia.

It wasn’t just Russia that castigated Merz. The comments by the German leader were also repudiated by his Vice Chancellor, Lars Klingbeil of the Social Democratic Party, who said that no decision had been taken or would be by the coalition government in Berlin. Even lawmakers within Merz’s conservative party (CDU) disowned his comments.

It seems, therefore, that the 69-year-old Merz, a former corporate lawyer, was speaking without engaging his brain.

The supply of Taurus missiles is a taboo subject in Germany. The previous government under Olaf Scholz ruled out providing Ukraine with the long-range weapon precisely because of fears that such a move would ramp up the proxy war in Ukraine to an all-out war between the NATO bloc and Russia. It also has obscene connotations given the 80th anniversary earlier this month marking the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Merz’s comments seem to have been rashly made without understanding the implications. The push-back from within his own government could mean his shaky coalition collapsing if he dares to proceed with the idea.

Furthermore, what the foolish chancellor is actually revealing is how weak European leaders are. Merz is trying to compete with France’s Emmanuel Macron and the British Prime Minister Kier Starmer in a pathetic contest to see who can be the toughest against Russia.

Merz announced this week an additional €5 billion in military aid to Ukraine while hosting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Berlin. The chancellor vowed to back Ukraine for as long as it takes in the proxy war against Russia. He even predicted that the conflict would continue for the long term. In short, diplomacy and peace are anathema to this robotic Russophobe.

The timing of Merz’s long-range provocation comes as Russia and Ukraine are about to hold their second round of negotiations in Istanbul next week on finding a diplomatic resolution to the more than three-year conflict.

Diplomatic efforts are at a delicate stage. Moscow has consistently stated that it wants to negotiate a lasting solution for peace and security in Europe.

The United States, under the Trump administration, has engaged with Russia to explore diplomatic efforts to end the proxy war.

President Trump’s scaling down of US military involvement and his personal pressure on Zelensky have forced the Kiev regime to come to the table.

However, the Europeans are playing a dirty game of undermining diplomacy by giving succor to the Kiev regime by promising more military aid.

Britain, France and Germany have talked about a “coalition of the willing” to keep backing Ukraine militarily. Such talk has faded in recent weeks because the Europeans do not have the military or political strength without Washington to go it alone.

Nevertheless, the Europeans are still able to exert an influence on sabotaging peace talks by indulging Kiev’s fantasies about “defending Europe from Russian aggression.”

Merz’s rhetoric about permitting long-range strikes on Russia and his teasing comments about delivering Taurus missiles are part of the charade being played by European has-been politicians trying to appear purposeful and strong.

Let’s face it, they need all the help they can get for their tough image-making. Macron gets his face jabbed in public by his wife stepping off a plane, while Starmer is coping with a vendetta from cheated rent boys burning his property.

Merz, the rich corporate lawyer who can’t fix Germany’s broken economy, has an additional fetish. Like his Nazi grandfather, the brownshirt mayor of Brilon who renamed streets for Hitler and Goering, Herr Merz has inherited an obsession to defeat Russia.

The trouble is, these effete, elite Europeans are running the risk of starting a nuclear world war with their puny games.

As Russia’s top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, reminded this week, Germany has destroyed Europe twice over the past century out of warmongering imperialist fantasies. British and French machinations also had a helping hand in that destruction.

The elitist ruling class learn nothing from history. The people of Europe must not allow them to play their dirty games again.