Germany's Scholz call to Putin, "ending Western isolation over Ukraine":
In a phone call that was swiftly criticised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Scholz urged Putin to pull his forces out of Ukraine and begin talks with Kyiv that would open the way for a "just and lasting peace", the German government said.
That worked well.
Putin's response to all of the talk of "negotiations" https://t.co/N3E8QDJb3m
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) November 17, 2024
Mick Hartley 
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