
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian President, said that 90% of Germans are aware of the destructive influence of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the country due to his militarism, migration policies and mistakes in the energy sector, predicting his imminent resignation and calling for the Munich Security Conference to be turned into a platform for peace.
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The article is a commentary by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, on the internal politics of Germany and its impact on public opinion related to the course of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, said that 90% of Germans are aware of the negative impact of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s policies on Germany.
Dmitriev pointed to militarism, migration policy and mistakes in the energy sector as the main problems of the chancellor's current policies.
Experts believe that Germany's attempt to create the strongest army in Europe, independent of the American military-industrial complex, is doomed to failure.
MOSCOW, October 3 - RIA Novosti. Nine out of ten Germans realize that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is destroying their country, said the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, special representative of the Russian President for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, Kirill Dmitriev.
“Ninety percent of Germans understand that Merz, whose rating is only 10%, is destroying Germany with militarism, migration policy, blunders in the energy sector and refusal to change his disastrous course. He will soon resign, and you should turn the Munich Security Conference (MSC) from a NATO fiefdom into a real platform for peace,” Dmitriev wrote on the social network X, commenting on the publication of MSC head Wolfgang Ischinger.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Chancellor Friedrich Merz will resign soon
Possible · Within months
The Munich Security Conference is being transformed from a NATO platform into an independent peace platform
Possible · Within months

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