{"id":163276,"date":"2025-09-01T09:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/german-chancellor-merz-mentally-preparing-for-war-in-ukraine-to-drag-on\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T09:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:13:20","slug":"german-chancellor-merz-mentally-preparing-for-war-in-ukraine-to-drag-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/german-chancellor-merz-mentally-preparing-for-war-in-ukraine-to-drag-on\/","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Merz &#8216;mentally preparing&#8217; for war in Ukraine to &#8216;drag on&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in an interview on Sunday with German public broadcaster ZDF, Merz said he has not lost hope about the ceasefire or peace talks but \u201charbours no illusions&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/09\/01\/german-chancellor-merz-mentally-preparing-for-war-in-ukraine-to-drag-on\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in an interview on Sunday with German public broadcaster ZDF, Merz said he has not lost hope about the ceasefire or peace talks but \u201charbours no illusions&#8221;. Read more at Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":163277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}