Merkel admits Minsk 2014–15 peace accord was a time-buying feint - UK Column News

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-9th-december-2022
- RT: Merkel has admitted deception over Minsk peace deal (in an interview with Zeit magazine)
- Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's reaction:
“This testimony directly stated that everything done in 2014 and 2015 had one goal: to divert the view of the world community from real problems, to play for time, to pump up the Kiev régime with weapons, and lead the matter to a big conflict. It is legitimate evidence of foul play to submit to the International War Crimes Tribunal [set up by Russia].”
- Vanessa Beeley analysis: Given that this is a German admission, and specifically a Merkel admission, the timing suggests a desire for rapprochement with Russia
- Volodymyr Zelensky is officially the Time Person of the Year, with the Spirit of Ukraine the official co-beneficiary of the accolade
- Patrick Henningsen analysis: Why is the famed British war zone doctor David Nott on the Time cover with the Taupe T-shirted One?
- Background—Royal School of Medicine: Dr David Nott in conversation
- Clip: Syria Relief—Dr Nott doing his thing in the last war zone
- Patrick Henningsen commentary: The trouble with Dr Nott's medical heroism is that he only operates on NATO's allies, not on its victims
- Daily Mail: Dr Nott ‘hell beyond hell’—Syria snipers target unborn children
- Vanessa Beeley commentary: Dr Nott has a long and questionable media track record—his main feat, a decade ago, was to produce medical imaging of a perfectly-formed bullet inside a foetus' intact head within an intact womb, which was quickly debunked by professionals as a kinetic triple impossibility
- Facebook bans Patrick Henningsen's 1938 Time Person of the Year cover graphic (one of many pastiches done in response to the award)—thou shalt not draw Hitler comparisons