Timothy Birdnow

Former German Chancellor; Biden wouldn't let Ukraine take a peace deal with Russia.

From Breitbart:

In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, Gerhard Schröder, who served as Chancellor of Germany from1998 to 2005, claimed that hundreds of thousands of lives could potentially have been saved if not for pressure exerted on Kyiv by Washington to reject peace negotiations with Moscow.

Schröder, who has faced criticism over his friendship with Vladimir Putin and his business ties in Russia, including as a broad member of the Nord Stream 2 AG, revealed that last year he was asked by Ukraine to act as a mediator with Moscow to seek a peaceful end to the conflict after the Russian military invaded the former Soviet state.

"The only people who could settle the war against Ukraine are the Americans,” the former chancellor said. "At the peace negotiations in March 2022 in Istanbul with [now-Ukrainian Defence Minister] Rustem Umerov, the Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to. They first had to ask the Americans about everything they discussed.”

"The war could be ended if geopolitical interests were not at play,” he added.

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