No chance. Governments of major EU countries are full of Russian agents of influence and people blackmailed by KGB, which these days is more active abroad than during the cold war and the west is a real sitting duck in this area. Merkel herself comes from East Germany, being a university employee she must have had some contacts with Stasi and Stasi files ended up in Moscow. Even If her “contacts” were rather meaningless, these documents would destroy her career.
Merkel herself comes from East Germany, being a university employee she must have had some contacts with Stasi and Stasi files ended up in Moscow. Even If her “contacts” were rather meaningless, these documents would destroy her career.
Pretty much all of the current leaders of Europe now would have been ambitious young adults during late Soviet times. They would have played the political game to get ahead. I don’t doubt Putin has piles of blackmail on them.