Friedrich Merz: Eklat around Trump and Selenskyj.

The CDU chairman Friedrich Merz said that the scandal was specifically brought about by the US side when visiting Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj in the White House. “In my opinion, it was not a spontaneous reaction to interventions by Selenskyj, but obviously an escalation in this encounter in the Oval Office,” said Merz on Monday in Berlin. He was “reasonably amazed at the mutual tone – that was not useful”.

The collapse of Selenskyj and US President Donald Trump, however, fits the current behavior of the US government, said Merz, who emphasized that he had looked at the video of the encounter several times. “It is now a certain continuity in the series of events of the past few weeks and months, including the occurrence of the American delegation in Munich at the security conference, what we are currently seeing from Washington.”

This means a wake -up call for Europeans and their defense skills. “I promise that we prepare for the fact that we have to do very, much more for our own security in the next few years and decades,” said Merz. At the same time, he promotes “that we do everything we can to keep the Americans in Europe”. He believes that the United States also has its own interest in it.

Trump and Selenskyj had a lot of clash on Friday in front of the world public in the Oval Office of the White House. Seconded by his Vice President JD Vance, Trump accused the Ukrainian head of state to be a lack of gratitude for US military aid and disrespect. Selenskyj left the White House in a dispute, being put at the door.