Putin Won’t Stop in Ukraine

Putin Won’t Stop in Ukraine

Key Points and Summary – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz used a party congress in Bavaria to issue his starkest warning yet on Russia, likening Vladimir Putin’s territorial ambitions to Adolf Hitler’s prewar expansion and invoking the 1938 Munich Pact as a cautionary tale against appeasement. His remarks come as Germany, France, and the UK coordinate with Washington on a U.S.-backed 20-point Ukraine peace plan that may involve contested territo…