Germany's chancellor has waded into the question of how the war in Ukraine should end. Friedrich Merz of the CDU fears that Washington and Moscow are pushing Kyiv toward sweeping concessions. Speaking last Wednesday in Berlin, he said he firmly rejects any capitulation of Ukraine. He paired that stance with a warning aimed at his own country, describing what he called Russia's nearly daily hybrid attacks on Germany. His intervention frames any peace deal dictated from outside as a threat to European security as a whole. Berlin, in his reading, cannot stand aside while Kyiv is pressed to give up territory or sovereignty. The chancellor's remarks also signal that hybrid threats have moved from intelligence briefings into everyday political speech in Germany. The remarks place him at odds with any camp calling for a quick settlement at Ukraine's expense.