While meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was asked if he agreed with Trump's take on the Russia-Ukraine War.
00:00I would like to have a question to the Chancellor as well, because do you agree with the analogy the President made on the war between Russia and Ukraine as being a fight between two kids? Is that how you view that as well? And what do you actually want the U.S. President to do in this?
00:19Well, I think we both agree on this war and how terrible this war is going on, and we are both looking for ways to stop it very soon.
00:34And I told the President before we came in that he is the key person in the world who can really do that now by putting pressure on Russia.
00:46And we will have this debate later on, again, how we can proceed jointly between the Europeans and the Americans.
00:53And I think we are all in, we are having the duty to do something on that now, to stop it after three and a half years, which is really terrible.
01:03Look at the kids, the kids which were kidnapped from Ukraine to Russia.
01:10This is all terrible. And so we are talking about instruments, measures, what we can do, and my personal view is clear on that.
01:17We are on the side of Ukraine, and we are trying to get them stronger and stronger just to make Putin stop this war.
01:24And this is our approach.
01:25We get satellite pictures of the war field, and you don't even like to look at them, right?
01:31It's terrible.
01:32It's so – bodies, arms, heads, legs all over the place. You've never seen anything like it. It's so ridiculous.
01:41And this is only by Russian weapons against Ukraine. This had never happened with Ukraine weapons against Russia. Never.
01:50Ukraine is only targeting military targets, not civilians, not private, not energy infrastructure.
01:59So this is the difference, and that's the reason why we are trying to do more on Russia, how to stop this war.
02:05Well, in this case, I'm talking about the battlefield, you know, the soldiers on soldiers.
02:09But you could also say that, too, with the cities.
02:11The cities are being hit also.
02:13So it's a terrible, terrible thing.
02:14One – somebody said – oh, no, Ben. Did I hear the word – because I think it's the biggest scandal maybe in the last hundred years in this country.
02:24So when I hear that word, I think it has to be discussed because the fake news will try and, you know, hide it, and we can't do that.
