Putin and Merkel: A Prolonged Standoff or a Diplomatic Dead-End?

From Reuters

"The channels of communication with Putin will remain open, but Berlin is girding for a long standoff, akin to a second Cold War. "I think we need to prepare ourselves for a prolonged conflict in which Russia will use all the means at its disposal," Norbert Roettgen, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the German Bundestag and a member of Merkel's conservative party, told Reuters".

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