Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin’s “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she could have done more to prevent Brexit.
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FILE - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin, look on as Putin's dog Cony walks past, during the meeting in Putin's residence in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007. FILE - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and British Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands after a news conference following a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 29, 2015. File - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pictured with light and shadow at the Meseberg palace near Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014.
The previous year, she recounts Putin pointing to wooden houses in Siberia and telling her poor people lived there who “could be easily seduced,” and that similar groups had been encouraged by money from the U.S. government to take part inin which he turned away from earlier attempts to develop closer ties with the U.S.
There was no such warmth with Trump, who had criticized Merkel and Germany in his 2016 campaign. Merkel says she had to seek an “adequate relationship ... without reacting to all the provocations.”when Merkel first visited the Trump White House. Photographers shouted “handshake!” and Merkel quietly asked Trump: “Do you want to have a handshake?” There was no response from Trump, who looked ahead with his hands clasped.
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