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A rift in the alliance? Trump’s Ukraine peace plan and Germany's response

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November 28, 2025

"Russia’s wish list"- that’s how many in Washington and Berlin labelled Washington’s initial 28-point plan toward peace in Ukraine, when it first became public. DW’s Nina Haase and Michaela Küfner discuss with Dominik Tolksdorf (DGAP) how a total sell-out of Europe was prevented, and how deep this latest crack in US-German relations now runs in the transatlantic alliance.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro

02:05 28-point plan

05:00 Behind the scenes

07:50 Criticism

12:15 Friedrich Merz

15:06 Betrayal?

17:35 Frozen Russian assets

27:50 US-German relations

28:37 End

 

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