RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺 MERZ TURNS AFD HECKLING INTO A DIRECT ATTACK ON PUTIN’S FEAR OF DEMOCRACY Friedrich Merz 🇩🇪 was repeatedly interrupted by AfD lawmakers while defending continued German support for Ukraine. He stopped, reset, and made the argument again. For four and a half years, Merz said, Ukraine has been fighting for its survival while Russia itself was never threatened by NATO, the European Union or Germany. “We support Ukraine, and we will continue to support Ukraine. Because they are also defending our freedom.” Merz then accused the AfD of performing a “grotesque reversal of perpetrator and victim” by portraying Russia as the threatened party. His centra

🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺 MERZ TURNS AFD HECKLING INTO A DIRECT ATTACK ON PUTIN’S FEAR OF DEMOCRACY

Friedrich Merz 🇩🇪 was repeatedly interrupted by AfD lawmakers while defending continued German support for Ukraine.

He stopped, reset, and made the argument again.

For four and a half years, Merz said, Ukraine has been fighting for its survival while Russia itself was never threatened by NATO, the European Union or Germany.

“We support Ukraine, and we will continue to support Ukraine. Because they are also defending our freedom.”

Merz then accused the AfD of performing a “grotesque reversal of perpetrator and victim” by portraying Russia as the threatened party.

His central argument went further.

According to Merz, the real danger Putin sees is not NATO expansion or a military threat from Germany. It is the political example of a democratic Ukraine moving toward the European family.

“The only thing that truly threatens Russia and Putin is the radiance of democracy.”

Merz told the AfD that they understand this perfectly well, yet continue to side with Russia when the issue is also the defense of European freedom.

The interruption was meant to derail him. Instead, it gave Merz the opening to define the dispute in the starkest possible terms: Ukraine’s democratic trajectory itself is what threatens Putin’s model of power.

— @WW3finalboss Sep 12, 2026