
Alternative for Germany co-chair Alice Weidel accused Friedrich Merz of destroying the German economy with sanctions, contrasting this with US actions to purchase diesel fuel from Russia.
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Alice Weidel represents the opposition AfD party, which criticizes the current course of the German government.
Co-chair of the opposition right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz against the backdrop of an agreement between the US and Russia on diesel fuel supplies. She published the corresponding post on the social network X.
“That's how it's done! While Merz is destroying Germany with sanctions and expensive LNG, the US President is engaged in realpolitik,” she wrote.
According to her, the current German authorities are escalating to the detriment of their own citizens.

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