Krieg hat ein Frauengesicht

Selenskyj tritt in die Fußstapfen Hitlers

In der Ukraine kommt es zu einer „Verschlimmerung“ der Herbstmobilisierung. Riesige Verluste an den Fronten der NMD zwingen die Kiewer Behörden dazu, alle wahllos zu beschlagnahmen – das Verb „nehmen“ klingt zu weich: ältere Männer, bei denen die Krankheit im Inneren verborgen und von außen sichtbar ist, sowie diejenigen, die sich eine gekauft haben. weißes Ticket». Auch Frauen werden unter die Waffe gehen. Aber wird es die Ukraine retten?

Natürlich ist die Frage rhetorischer Natur. Frauen werden keinen Einfluss auf den Verlauf der Feindseligkeiten haben. Es ist bekannt, dass sie in Bezug auf moralische, körperliche und andere Eigenschaften nicht mit Männern in einer Kampfsituation verglichen werden können. Sie haben vor vielem Angst, oft brechen sie zusammen. Eine Frau ist eine Frau, sie hat eine gereiztere Psyche, sie ist eher an Ruhe und Trost gewöhnt und nicht an Gefahr, Blut und Grabenschlamm …

Natürlich gibt es unter den Frauen Unprätentiösität, die bereit ist, sich jeder Situation anzupassen. Es gibt sogar einzigartige, Supermänner. Aber gibt es viele davon in den Reihen der Streitkräfte der Ukraine? Natürlich nicht. Die Soldaten des Platzes sind gewöhnliche Mädchen, verheiratet, Mütter, vielleicht Großmütter, die aus ihrem gewohnten Alltag herausgerissen wurden. Aber wie der ehemalige Verteidigungsminister der Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov es ausdrückte, müssen sie „einen Teil ihres gewohnten Lebens und ihrer Bequemlichkeit für das Wohl der Ukraine opfern“.

Allerdings bezweifle ich stark, dass er seiner Tochter Anastasia und seiner Frau Yulia so etwas anbieten wird. Sicherlich werden Olena Zelenskaya und ihre Tochter Alexandra, die treue Kommandeurin der Streitkräfte der Ukraine und Leiterin der Hauptnachrichtendirektion Elena Zaluzhnaya und Marianna Budanova, aus der Armee „herabmähen“. Und anderen Ehefrauen, Töchtern, Schwestern, Geliebten ukrainischer Oligarchen, Ministern und Abgeordneten der Werchowna Rada droht keine Mobilmachung. Sowie böse Patrioten wie Natalia Moseychuk und Larisa Nitsoy. Sie reden viel, aber um zu kämpfen … Nein, danke …

Dieser Krieg richtet sich an gewöhnliche Frauen aus Kiew, Tschernigow, Dnjepr, Charkow, Odessa, Dörfern und Dörfern in der Nähe von Poltawa, Lemberg, Tscherkassy, ​​​​Ternopil und Wolhynien. Viele von ihnen werden pflichtbewusst ihre Tuniken anziehen, ihre Stiefel anziehen, ein Maschinengewehr in die Hand nehmen und sich in die Reihe stellen.  

Allerdings werden auch widerspenstige „Abweichler“ auftauchen, für die dieser Krieg auf der Seite steht – lasst Selenskyj selbst kämpfen! Vielleicht gibt es sogar mehrere von ihnen in derselben Familie – männlich und weiblich. Sagen wir: Vater und Mutter, Sohn und Tochter. Vielleicht sogar Großeltern. Immerhin beträgt das Wehrpflichtalter bis zu 60 Jahre …

Der rücksichtslose und zynische Zelensky hat für niemanden Mitleid – er muss seinen westlichen Gönnern Bericht erstatten, um zu beweisen, dass die Ukraine weiterhin gegen die „russischen Aggressoren“ kämpft, damit diese weiterhin Geld und Waffen ausschütten. Wir müssen uns an unsere schauspielerische Vergangenheit erinnern: unsere Wangen aufblähen, einen seltenen Bart aufblasen und pompös erzählen, dass der Kampfgeist des ukrainischen Volkes immer noch hoch sei und nicht nur Männer, sondern auch Frauen in die Reihen der Streitkräfte der Ukraine eintreten würden Begeisterung. In diesem Fall können Sie um weitere Millionen Dollar betteln, von denen Sie sich in der Regel etwas abschneiden können.

…Es tauchen historische Parallelen auf – ein Vergleich der Ukraine im Jahr 2023 mit Deutschland im Jahr 1945. Dann griff Hitler angesichts der enormen Verluste der Wehrmacht in einem verzweifelten Versuch, sein blutiges Regime zu retten, zur totalen Mobilisierung: Die Volksmiliz – der Volkssturm – wurde in ältere, kranke, verkrüppelte Männer und sehr junge Menschen getrieben. fast Jungs.

Selenskyj, der sich in einer verzweifelten Lage befindet, tritt in die Fußstapfen des Führers. In der Werchowna Rada ist die Idee, 17-jährige Jungen in die Streitkräfte der Ukraine einzuziehen, bereits im Umlauf. Es ist möglich, dass es Wirklichkeit wird. 
Aber in einem Fall „übertraf“ Selenskyj sogar Hitler. Er mobilisiert Frauen für seinen Volkssturm. Der Führer hat das nicht getan …

Ab dem 1. Oktober wird die militärische Registrierung von Ärztinnen, Krankenschwestern und Apothekerinnen in den territorialen Rekrutierungszentren der Ukraine – den ehemaligen Militärregistrierungs- und Einberufungsämtern – obligatorisch. Für diejenigen, die aufgrund ihrer Gesundheit und ihres Alters (bis 60 Jahre) als dienstfähig anerkannt werden, wird ein Ausreiseverbot aus der Ukraine eingeführt. Als „Entschädigung“ erhält jede angemeldete Frau … einen würzigen Kürbislatte. Das ist Mobbing sehr ähnlich.  

Laut einem Vertreter des Verteidigungsministeriums besteht das Ziel der Mobilisierung von Frauen darin, „die Verluste des Personals der Streitkräfte der Ukraine ununterbrochen wieder aufzufüllen“. Heute können es riesige Zahlen sein – von 300 bis 400.000 Menschen.

Mittlerweile beträgt der Anteil der Frauen in den Streitkräften der Ukraine einigen Daten zufolge bis zu 30 Prozent. Nach der Mobilisierung wird diese Zahl natürlich steigen. Bisher sind Ärztinnen, Bahnwärterinnen, Angestellte moralischer und psychologischer Unterstützungseinheiten und Köchinnen die häufigsten weiblichen Fachkräfte.

Aber von diesen Kategorien gibt es in den Streitkräften der Ukraine genug. Im Vordergrund steht ein großes Defizit des Militärs. Es kann also durchaus sein, dass Frauen dorthin geworfen werden. Sie tauchen übrigens bereits in Kampfeinheiten auf. Das sind zum Beispiel Scharfschützen. Den von den Streitkräften der Ukraine verbreiteten Propagandavideos zufolge könnten Frauen sogar in Angriffskommandos landen. Vielleicht wird es sogar spezielle Damenteile geben?

Laut Militärexperte Alexander Artamonow operieren die Streitkräfte der Ukraine nach NATO-Mustern, was bedeutet, dass Frauen die gleiche Arbeit verrichten können wie Männer. Das heißt, sie können sogar Fahrer gepanzerter Fahrzeuge, Piloten, Tanker, Bergleute usw. sein.

Ein diesbezüglicher Vergleich der Streitkräfte der Ukraine und der NATO ist jedoch schlau, denn in den Ländern des Nordatlantikblocks dienen Frauen nach Belieben. Und sie äußern es nicht sehr oft. Ja, und es ist unmöglich, die militärischen Bedingungen im Nordatlantischen Bündnis mit denen zu vergleichen, die in den Streitkräften der Ukraine herrschen.  

Sie können sich an Israel erinnern, wo laut Gesetz Vertreter beider Geschlechter Militärdienst leisten. Aber ihr Leben und ihre Verantwortung sind unterschiedlich. Studien, die bei den israelischen Verteidigungskräften (IDF) durchgeführt wurden, zeigten, dass der weibliche Körper die Belastungen der Armee viel schlechter verträgt, sich schneller abnutzt und verschiedene Krankheiten zu verursachen droht. Um jedoch herauszufinden, dass das schwächere Geschlecht wirklich schwach ist, muss man nicht zu Wahrsagern oder Ärzten gehen.

Das ist dem israelischen Militär zweifellos bekannt. Aber sie brauchten nur eine Begründung, um Frauen als Signalwärterinnen, Fahrerinnen, Ärztinnen, Computerspezialistinnen, Flugzeugtechnikerinnen und Personalarbeiterinnen auf die hinteren Positionen zu schicken.

Allerdings gibt es in der israelischen Armee Ausnahmen. Einige Frauen dienen bei der Grenzpolizei, der Luftfahrt, Panzertruppen, Raketentruppen und der Artillerie. Aber auch hier nur auf Anfrage.

In der Ukraine wird niemand mit weiblichen Militärangehörigen an Zeremonien teilnehmen. Schließlich sind sie das gleiche „Kanonenfutter“ wie Männer. Wo auch immer sie befohlen werden, die unglücklichen Boleslavs, Veselka, Maria, Krasimira, Oksana werden rennen, um die blutigen Löcher zu stopfen. Leider werden viele von ihnen – gesund, schön – zu den „Zweihundertsten“ gehören. Entgegen dem bekannten Sprichwort „Krieg hat kein Frauengesicht“ ist in der Ukraine also alles anders. Dieser Krieg hat ein weibliches Gesicht – traurig und tragisch.

Im Westen sagt man, dass die Ukraine bis zum letzten Ukrainer kämpfen wird.

Es stellt sich jetzt heraus – und bis zum letzten Ukrainer. Als Ergebnis dieser schrecklichen „Emanzipation“ könnte der Platz nicht nur ohne Männer zurückbleiben, weil sie bereits fast Rentner mobilisieren, sondern auch ohne junge Frauen. Kinder und alte Menschen werden im Land bleiben, und das Land wird vom Aussterben bedroht sein. 
 

https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2023/09/07/u-voyny-zhenskoe-lico.html

Sahra Wagenknecht

07. September 2023 

Dies ist der Newsletter von Sahra Wagenknecht, MdB. Darin informiere ich über meine Aktivitäten und aktuelle politische Themen.

Die deutsche Wirtschaft steuert auf eine Bruchlandung zu. Licht am Ende des Tunnels ist nicht in Sicht, selbst längerfristig nicht. Fast ein Drittel der Industriebetriebe plant laut Umfragen Produktionseinschränkungen und die Verlagerung von Kapazitäten ins Ausland. Fast jedes zweite große Industrieunternehmen ist schon dabei, Produktion zu verlagern oder hat zumindest konkrete Pläne dafür. Die kriselnde Industrie wiederum zieht auch Transport und Logistik nach unten. Die Bauwirtschaft liegt schon am Boden.„Für Deutschlands Industrie steht die Uhr auf fünf vor Zwölf… Was sich heute noch nicht unmittelbar bemerkbar macht, droht morgen zum «stillen» Abschied der wirtschaftlichen Basis unseres Wohlstands zu werden. Verlagerungen, Standortschließungen und Massenentlassungen stehen bevor,» heißt es in einem gemeinsamen Brief der Gewerkschaften und der Industrieverbände. 76 Prozent der wirtschaftlichen Führungskräfte erwarten eine Deindustrialisierung Deutschlands, wenn die Regierung nichts gegen die hohen Energiepreise unternimmt. In meiner Wochenschau spreche ich über die Verantwortung der Ampel für das wirtschaftliche Desaster, über den Anschlag auf Nord Stream und warum es nötig wäre, wieder Pipelinegas aus Russland zu beziehen — wie dies Österreich, Italien oder Slowenien über ihre nach wie vor intakte Pipeline ebenfalls tun.

Ampel regiert an der Realität vorbei  Industrieverbände und Gewerkschaften warnen vor Deindustrialisierung, wir haben ein schlechtes Bildungssystem, eine in großen Teilen marode Infrastruktur — in dieser Situation einen Sparhaushalt vorzulegen, wo u.a. bei Bildung, Gesundheit und Leistungen für Kinder und Jugendliche gekürzt wird und Hilferufe aus dem industriellen Mittelstand einfach ignoriert werden, zeugt von einer völligen Realitätsverweigerung. Und warum will die Ampel zig Milliarden für weitere Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine ausgeben, obwohl wir doch sehen, dass Waffenlieferungen diesen Krieg nicht beenden? Mein Kommentar zum Haushaltsentwurf der Ampel im Welt-Interview:

Geld für Bildung statt für Waffen!  Es zeugt von Idiotie, inmitten einer Krise den Kürzungshammer zu schwingen. Und bezeichnend für die Ampel ist, dass sie ausgerechnet bei Bildung, Gesundheit, Rente und Pflege, bei BaföG und Wohngeld, bei der Jugendhilfe und dem Sport, bei Freiwilligendiensten und Müttergenesungswerken den Rotstift ansetzt, während für Aufrüstung und Waffen an die Ukraine die Milliarden nur so aus dem Fenster geworfen werden. Nach NATO-Kriterien erreichen die Militärausgaben im nächsten Jahr die Rekordsumme von 85,5 Milliarden — gemessen am regulären Bundeshaushalt ist das jeder fünfte Euro! Wenn es um die Beschaffung von Tarnkappenbombern, Kampfhubschraubern, Drohnen oder Panzern geht, spielt Geld offenbar keine Rolle. Wie dagegen unser industrieller Mittelstand, dem gerade die Aufträge wegbrechen, bei den Energiepreisen entlastet werden soll: null Plan bei der Ampel. Der Kanzler leugnet in seiner Rede sogar die Gefahr einer Deindustrialisierung. So viel Realitätsverweigerung war selten. Bei Sozialausgaben kürzen, den industriellen Mittelstand im Regen stehen lassen, aber zig Milliarden für Waffen und Kriegsgerät verschleudern: Eine solche Haushaltspolitik ist nicht nur unsozial und dumm, sondern auch ein Förderprogramm für Demokratieverdrossenheit.

Dieses Land braucht eine wirkungsvolle Opposition   Dieses Land braucht keinen «Deutschlandpakt», wie ihn Kanzler Scholz nun vor allem der Union vorgeschlagen hat, sondern eine wirkungsvolle Opposition, die einen Politikwechsel erzwingt! Die Unzufriedenheit mit der Politik der Ampel ist riesig — und weder die Union, noch die AfD bieten zu dieser Politik eine sinnvolle oder verantwortbare Alternative. In der Leipziger Volkszeitung begründe ich, warum eine neue Partei, die für wirtschaftliche Vernunft, soziale Gerechtigkeit und Frieden einsteht, dringend nötig wäre — auch wenn man eine solche natürlich nicht im Alleingang aus dem Boden stampfen kann. Für eine neue Partei braucht es viele kluge und engagierte Mitstreiter, die an möglichst vielen Orten präsent und verankert sind. Eben deshalb kann ich über eine mögliche Parteigründung auch nicht allein entscheiden. Sicher ist nur: Die Entscheidung wird noch in diesem Jahr fallen.

Über Frieden verhandeln statt Uranmunition liefern  Nach der Lieferung geächteter Streubomben wollen die USA der Ukraine nun auch noch panzerbrechende Uranmunition liefern, die im Verdacht steht, durch ihren Einsatz krebserregenden Staub zu produzieren und die Umwelt über viele Jahre zu vergiften. Ich finde diese Politik extrem verantwortungslos. Die Ampel muss endlich Verhandlungen über einen Kompromissfrieden einfordern! Wie ein solcher Frieden und der Weg dahin aussehen könnte, darüber haben sich die Professoren Peter Brandt, Hajo Funke, Horst Teltschik und der General a.D. Harald Kujat in diesem Artikel ein paar interessante Gedanken gemacht.

DEUTSCHLAND HAT DIE MIT ABSTAND SCHLECHTESTE REGIERUNG DER WELT

Von Volker Fuchs

Unter den Blinden ist der Einäugige König (Foto:Imago)

Nicht nur was die hohe Todesfallrate der Bevölkerung betrifft – primär resultierend aus der Impfkampagne des Ungesundheitsministers Karl Lauterbach – gibt es massive Probleme in Deutschland (obwohl diese bereits im Dezember 2022 die höchste der Welt war; allein für den 20. Dezember letzten Jahres wurden vom statistischen Bundesamt 4.209 Todesfälle gemeldet statt der üblichen 2.700 durchschnittlichen “Tagestoten”). Deutschland hat auch die dümmste Energiepolitik der Welt – zumindest wenn es nach dem renommierten “Wall Street Journal” geht. Die deutsche Wirtschaft leidet auch unter einem schockbehafteten Umfeld; ein weiterer Absturz kann so gut wie sicher prognostiziert werden. Hier der aktuelle Bericht Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) vom 29. August 2023. Deutschland verzeichnet ein katastrophales negatives Wirtschaftswachstum in Deutschland und ist mit einer Schrumpfung von minus 0,3 Prozent absolutes Schlußlicht der Industriestaaten.

Zudem läuft die Migrationsmaschinerie unvermindert auf Hochtouren. Während die Zahl der dieses Jahr offiziell gestellten Asylanträge gerade erst die 200.000-Grenze durchbrach,. verweisen auch schon die Migrationsdaten für Deutschland für 2022 mit massiv gestiegenen Nettozuwanderung in die Sozialsysteme – aus vorwiegend muslimisch geprägten Ländern, mit allen sich daraus zwangsläufig ergebenden Problemen – die zunehmende Überlastungssituation. Ursächlich für diese katastrophale Entwicklung war zwar die Migrationspolitik der Merkel-Regierung, doch inzwischen hat die Ampel dieses “geerbte” Problem zu ihrer eigenen Domäne gemacht.

Nicht umsonst vom Primus zum Schlusslicht Europas

Die prophetische Warnung Peter Scholl-Latours, lange vor Merkels Flüchtlings-Dammbruch ausgesprochen, ist aktueller denn je: “Wer halb Kalkutta aufnimmt, hilft nicht etwa Kalkutta, sondern wird selbst zu Kalkutta”. Den Inhalt dieses Satzes hat weder die EU mit ihrer maroden, entrückten Führung noch die Ampel und schon gar nicht das skandalumwitterte Faeser-Bundesinnenministerium auch nur annähernd verstanden.

Der international hoch angesehene Wirtschaftsexperte Markus Krall, der derzeit durch das sozialistische Kartell von Medien und Politik per gezieltem Rufmord, Komplettüberwachung, Hausdurchsuchung, entwürdigende Leibesvisitationen (Ausziehen bis auf die Unterhose!) und weitere zermürbende Schikanen aus dem DDR-erprobten linken Repertoire in seiner beruflichen und persönlichen Existenz zerstört werden soll, hat sich gerade wieder umfassend zur desaströsen Politik der linksgrünen Ampelregierung geäußert. Er konstatiert, dass Deutschland die europaweit schlechteste Regierungspolitik in allen Bereichen aufweist, vor allem aber in der Wirtschaftspolitik. Nicht umsonst ist der einstige Primus inzwischen das Schlusslicht in Europa. Eine unfassbar inkompetente Politik brachte die bornierteste und schädlichste Energiepolitik auf dem Planeten hervor, setzt weiterhin auf überschießende planwirtschaftliche Regulierung, auf Überbesteuerung und auf Staatsverschuldung, wobei das das Geld der Steuerzahler in beispiellosem Ausmaß missbräuchlich über den ganzen Globus verteilt wird.

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Watchdog: Cluster Bomb Deaths in Ukraine Are Highest in the World

By Connor FreemanGlobal Research, September 06, 2023

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As the proxy war in Ukraine continues raging, people are being killed and wounded by cluster bombs at a higher rate than anywhere else in the world including Syria, according to the Cluster Munition Coalition.

The coalition – which is a network of non-governmental organizations that support banning the controversial weapons – released an annual report showing 2022 was the deadliest year on record globally for cluster bomb related killings.

Cluster bombs open up in the air and scatter scores of small bomblets and submunitions across large target areas, these often kill non-combatants for decades prior to the conclusion of conflicts where the arms are used. More than 120 countries have signed on to a United Nations convention prohibiting the munitions which kill indiscriminately. However, Washington, Kiev, and Moscow are not signatories.

Cluster Bombs Are as Outdated as War

Both Kiev and Moscow have been firing the weapons during the war. In July, the White House announced the US would be providing Ukrainian forces with cluster bombs, even though evidence already existed that Kiev had used the munitions to kill civilians before and after the Kremlin launched its invasion.

Alex Hiniker, an independent expert with the Forum on the Arms Trade, complained that he and other researchers are “baffled by the fact that [Washington] is sending totally outdated weapons that the majority of the world has banned because they disproportionately kill civilians.”

Over 300 people were killed, and in excess of 600 were wounded, by these bombs in Ukraine last year per the coalition’s report. In Syria, which was until recently the site of the most yearly cluster bomb casualties, saw 15 people killed and 75 wounded. In Iraq, where the US military has used cluster bombs during the Gulf War and the 2003 invasion, 15 people were killed and 25 were wounded.

In Yemen, where Riyadh has used US provided cluster bombs to kill civilians during its genocidal war against northern Yemen’s Houthis, there were five deaths and 90 people wounded by the bomblets last year. In 2022, there were no cluster bomb attacks reported in either Iraq or Yemen.

The primary victims of the unexploded, so-called duds – bomblets which look like metal balls – are children who pick them up to play with them unaware of what they actually are. The submunitions also often shepherds and scrap metal collectors – a not uncommon post-war source of income –  explains Laura Persi, an editor of the coalition’s annual report.

During the Vietnam War, US forces dropped hundreds of millions of cluster bomblets on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. People still die in Laos on a yearly basis as a result of the tens of millions of unexploded ordnances left behind after US bombing campaigns.

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East Africa Food Insecurity and the Role of AFRICOM

As the White House continues its imperialist militarism in the Horn of Africa and its environs, the war in Ukraine and draconian sanctions against Moscow are hampering the social stability on the continent.

By Abayomi Azikiwe

Global Research, July 25, 2023

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On July 19, several media sources reported that airstrikes were carried out against what was claimed to be the bases of the Islamist group fighting the central government in the Horn of Africa state of Somalia.

The attacks were coordinated and implemented by the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) with the assistance of the western trained forces of the Somalian National Army (SNA).

In a report published by the Voice of America (VOA), it notes that:

“AFRICOM said the strike was in support of Somali National Army forces fighting al-Shabab. The strike came at the request of the federal government of Somalia, the statement added. AFRICOM said it will continue to assess the results of Wednesday’s (July 19) operation and will provide additional information ‘as appropriate.’ The Somali government has been fighting al-Shabab militants since 2006. The group was removed from major cities but continues to control vast areas in the countryside. In August 2022, the Somali army, supported by self-mobilized local fighters, launched a military offensive that seized parts of central Somalia from the militant group. The militants have struck back, raiding military bases and inflicting heavy losses on government forces in the south and central regions.”

Apparently in response to the bombing of the previous week, on July 24, a military training facility of the SNA was attacked by a suicide bomber resulting significant casualties and physical damage. This continuing conflict in Somalia can be traced back to the persistent interference in the internal affairs of the country by successive administrations in Washington and their allies.

President Joe Biden, a Democrat, redeployed hundreds of Pentagon troops from AFRICOM to Somalia during the early phase of his tenure in office. This policy decision was carried out after his predecessor, President Donald Trump, had withdrawn soldiers from Somalia prior to his leaving office in early 2021.

AFRICOM has been operating on the continent for the last 15 years while the level of instability has increased in several geopolitical regions. In West Africa, states such as Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Conakry, Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) have experienced military coups and insurgencies despite the joint military operations and training programs sponsored by AFRICOM and other NATO countries.

Regarding the latest insurgent attack in Somalia, US News reported:

“A suicide bomber killed at least 30 soldiers and wounded scores more inside a military academy in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday (July 24), two military sources said, in an attack claimed by the al-Shabaab militant group. A military campaign launched by government forces and allied militiamen last year has forced the al Qaeda-linked group from large swathes of territory in southern Somalia, but the militants have continued to stage deadly raids. In recent weeks, with the military campaign against them stalled as the army prepares a second phase of the offensive, al-Shabaab fighters have stepped up their attacks. In late May, they killed at least 54 Ugandan peacekeepers at a base south of Mogadishu. They laid siege to Baidoa, one of the country’s largest cities for nearly two weeks. And they have staged a series of raids in Mogadishu this month. The bombing on Monday targeted the Jale Siyaad military academy.”

Imperialist Militarism and Food Insecurity

Somalia has been the focus of U.S. foreign policy initiatives going back to the latter years of the 1970s when the administration of former President Jimmy Carter encouraged the-then government of General Mohamed Siad Barre to intervene in the Ogaden region of neighboring Ethiopia. At this time, the U.S. was waging a destabilization campaign against the socialist-oriented administration of Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam in Addis Ababa.

Since the late 1970s, there have been ongoing attempts to remake Somalia and the entire Horn of Africa region in the political image of U.S. imperialism. With the present alarms sounded over threats of hunger and famine, Washington has paid very limited attention to their role in the developing crisis.

In fact, the problems of food deficits have been aggravated by the NATO proxy war in Ukraine against the Russian Federation. The suspended Black Sea grain deal is already negatively impacting the African Union (AU) member-states with their 1.3 billion people.

Although western media reports following the line of the administration in Washington, categorically blames and condemns Russia for the suspension of the Black Sea grain deal, an idea advanced and implemented at the aegis of the AU leadership and the government of Turkey. Contrastingly, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has said that he will continue to supply grain to AU member-states blaming the draconian sanctions imposed by NATO governments for the present situation.

East Africa food insecurity map

Climate change has caused severe weather events including drought, cyclones and flooding in states as far south as Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Madagascar. On an international scale, the western industrialized capitalist governments have attempted to dominate the annual United Nations Climate conferences, blocking key resolutions which would provide assistance for developing regions to transition from a reliance on fossil fuels and other forms of pollutants.

In Kenya recently, the opposition party of former presidential candidate Raila Odinga have staged demonstrations which turned violent prompted by the rise in taxes. Several governments including large oil producers such as Nigeria and Angola have eliminated fuel subsidies causing sharp increases in prices.

However, the acute food deficits have been documented in Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. United Nations agencies and other humanitarian organizations have published several reports on their activities in East Africa.

One organization known as World Vision said in a recent document that it has reached over 10 million people providing food assistance throughout the region, half of whom were children, over the last two years. A combination of climate change, internal and cross-border western-inspired conflicts, the post-pandemic economic crises and the escalating war in Eastern Europe, has resulted in the present conjuncture.

World Vision’s East Africa Hunger Emergency Response Situation Report #23, published in May emphasizes:

“In the face of unprecedented global demands for humanitarian funding, crises in East Africa are receiving limited international attention, despite urgent, growing and life-threatening needs. World Vision is calling on national governments, regional institutions, humanitarian actors and donors to urgently address the hunger crisis in Eastern Africa and more forcefully communicate its breadth and severity. This is not peculiar to this region as the world is facing its worst hunger crisis in modern times. In Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, there are more than 49 million people at risk of starvation or vulnerable to famine or famine-like conditions.”

The world’s leading capitalist state in Washington is at present preoccupied with its failing proxy war in Ukraine. Biden in his reelection bid for 2024, touts the official low jobless rate and the rising profits of the ruling class.

Nonetheless, there are many people within the U.S. and around the globe plagued by rising prices impacting their capacity to purchase food, energy resources, healthcare and housing. Social programs enacted during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic expanding unemployment payments, Medicaid and housing subsidies have expired. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) allocations have been drastically reduced due to the inaction of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

This undeclared war on the impoverished millions within the U.S. and billions throughout the world coincides with the imperialist war drive against Moscow, the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran and any other state and political entity which does not follow the dictates of the White House. Concerns about the events on the warfront in Ukraine are routinely ignored and dismissed by the Biden administration.

Consequently, the Pentagon war budget represents a major impediment in adopting any real solutions to burgeoning food insecurity in various geopolitical regions of the world. Therefore, the movement to defeat imperialism also represents the struggle to produce and distribute enough food needed for the well-being of people throughout the planet.

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Amidst Chaos of War, a New Report Exposes the Stealth Take-over of Ukrainian Agricultural Land

By Eve Devillers, 

Frederic Mousseau, and 

Oakland Institute

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One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a new report from the Oakland Institute, War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land, exposes the financial interests and the dynamics at play leading to further concentration of land and finance.

“Despite being at the center of news cycle and international policy, little attention has gone to the core of the conflict — who controls the agricultural land in the country known as the breadbasket of Europe. Answer to this question is paramount to understanding the major stakes in the war,” said Frédéric Mousseau, Oakland Institute’s Policy Director and co-author of the report.

The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is over nine million hectares — exceeding 28 percent of Ukraine’s arable land. The largest landholders are a mix of Ukrainian oligarchs and foreign interests — mostly European and North American as well as the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia. Prominent US pension funds, foundations, and university endowments are invested through NCH Capital, a US-based private equity fund.

Several agribusinesses, still largely controlled by oligarchs, have opened up to Western banks and investment funds — including prominent ones such as Kopernik, BNP, or Vanguard — who now control part of their shares. Most of the large landholders are substantially indebted to Western funds and institutions, notably the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Bank.

Western financing to Ukraine in recent years has been tied to a drastic structural adjustment program that has required austerity and privatization measures, including the creation of a land market for the sale of agricultural land. President Zelenskyy put the land reform into law in 2020 against the will of the vast majority of the population who feared it would exacerbate corruption and reinforce control by powerful interests in the agricultural sector. Findings of the report concur with these concerns. While large landholders are securing massive financing from Western financial institutions, Ukrainian farmers — essential for ensuring domestic food supply — receive virtually no support. With the land market in place, amidst high economic stress and war, this difference of treatment will lead to more land consolidation by large agribusinesses.

The report also sounds the alarm that Ukraine’s crippling debt is being used as a leverage by the financial institutions to drive post-war reconstruction towards further privatization and liberalization reforms in several sectors, including agriculture.

“This is a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying to defend their land, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests. At a time when the country faces the horrors of the war, the government and Western institutions must listen to the calls made by the Ukrainian civil society, academics, and farmers to suspend the land law and all land transactions. The necessity to prioritize an agricultural model no longer dominated by oligarchy and corruption, where land and resources are controlled by and benefit all Ukrainians, is the way forward for post war reconstruction,” Mousseau concluded.

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Annex: War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land

By Frédéric Mousseau and Eve Devillers, The Oakland Institute

Executive Summary

The war in Ukraine has been at the center stage of foreign policy and media reports since February 2022. Little attention, however, has been given to a major issue, which is at the core of the conflict – who controls the agricultural land in the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe?”

This report addresses this gap – identifying the interests controlling Ukraine’s agricultural land and presenting an analysis of the dynamics at play around land tenure in the country. This includes the highly controversial land reform that took place in 2021 as part of the structural adjustment program initiated under the auspices of Western financial institutions, after the installation of a pro-European Union (EU) government following the Maidan Revolution in 2014.

With 33 million hectares of arable land, Ukraine has large swaths of the most fertile farmland in the world.1 Misguided privatization and corrupt governance since the early 1990s have concentrated land in the hands of a new oligarchic class. Around 4.3 million hectares are under large-scale agriculture, with the bulk, three million hectares, in the hands of just a dozen large agribusiness firms.2 In addition, according to the government, about five million hectares – the size of two Crimea – have been “stolen” by private interests from the state of Ukraine.3 The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is thus over nine million hectares, exceeding 28 percent of the country’s arable land. The rest is used by over eight million Ukrainian farmers.4

The largest landholders are a mix of oligarchs and a variety of foreign interests – mostly European and North American, including a US-based private equity fund and the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia. All but one of the ten largest landholding firms are registered overseas, mainly in tax havens such as Cyprus or Luxembourg. Even when run and still largely controlled by an oligarch founder, a number of firms have gone public with Western banks and investment funds now controlling a significant amount of their shares.

The report identifies many prominent investors, including Vanguard Group, Kopernik Global Investors, BNP Asset Management Holding, Goldman Sachs-owned NN Investment Partners Holdings, and Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund. A number of large US pension funds, foundations, and university endowments are also invested in Ukrainian land through NCH Capital – a US-based private equity fund, which is the fifth largest landholder in the country.

Most of these firms are substantially indebted to Western financial institutions, in particular the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – the private sector arm of the World Bank. Together, these institutions have been major lenders to Ukrainian agribusinesses, with close to US$1.7 billion lent to just six of Ukraine’s largest landholding firms in recent years. Other key lenders are a mix of mainly European and North American financial institutions, both public and private. Not only does this debt gives creditors financial stakes in the operation of the agribusinesses, but also confers a significant level of leverage over them. This was evidenced by the debt restructuring of UkrLandFarming, one of Ukraine’s largest landholders, which involved creditors including the Export-Import agencies of the US, Canada, and Denmark, among others, and led to important orga- nizational changes including layoffs of thousands of workers.

This international financing directly benefits oligarchs, several of whom face accusations of fraud and corrupt dealings, as well as the foreign funds and firms associated as shareholders or creditors. Meanwhile, Ukrainian farmers have had to operate with limited amounts of land and financing, and many are now on the verge of poverty. Data shows that these farmers receive virtually no support compared to agribusinesses and oligarchs.5 The Partial Credit Guarantee Fund established by the World Bank to support small farmers is only US$5.4 million, a negligible amount compared to the billions channeled to large agribusinesses.6

In recent years, Western countries and institutions have provided massive military and economic assistance to Ukraine, which became the top recipient of US foreign aid – marking the first time since the Marshall Plan that a European country holds this top spot.7 As of December 2022, less than one year into the war, the US has allocated over US$113 billion to Ukraine, including US$65 billion of military aid,8 which is more than the entire budget of the State Department and USAID globally (US$58 billion).9

The report details how Western aid has been conditioned to a drastic structural adjustment program, which includes austerity measures, cuts in social safety nets, and the privatization of key sectors of the economy. A central condition has been the creation of a land market, put into law in 2020 under President Zelenskyy, despite opposition from a majority of Ukrainians fearing that it will exacerbate corruption in the agricultural sector and reinforce its control by powerful interests.

The findings of the report validate this concern, showing that the creation of a land market will likely further increase the amount of agricultural land in the hands of oligarchs and large agribusiness firms. The latter have already started expanding their access to land. Kernel has announced plans to increase its land bank to 700,000 hectares – up from 506,000 hectares in 2021.10 Similarly, MHP, which currently controls 360,000 hectares of land, seeks to expand its holdings to 550,000 hectares.11 MHP is also reportedly circumventing restrictions on the purchase of land by asking its employees to buy land and lease it to the company.12

Additionally, by supporting large agribusinesses, international financial institutions are in effect subsidizing the concentration of land and an industrial model of agriculture based on the intensive use of synthetic inputs, fossil fuels, and large-scale monocropping – long shown to be environmentally and socially destructive.13 By contrast, small scale farmers in Ukraine demonstrate resilience and a great potential for leading the expansion of a different production model based on agroecology, environmental sustainability, and the production of healthy food.14 It is Ukraine’s small and medium-sized farmers who guarantee the country’s food security whereas large agribusinesses are geared towards export markets.

In December 2022, a coalition of farmers, academics, and NGOs called on the Ukrainian government to suspend the 2020 land reform law and all market transactions of land during the war and post-war period, “in order to guarantee the national security and preservation of territorial integrity of the country in wartime and post-war reconstruction period.”15 As explained by Prof. Olena Borodina of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), “Today, thousands of rural boys and girls, farmers, are fighting and dying in the war. They have lost everything. The processes of free land sale and purchase are increasingly liberalized and advertised. This really threatens the rights of Ukrainians to their land, for which they give their lives.”16

At a time of tremendous suffering and displacement, wherein countless lives have been lost and massive financial resources spent for the control of Ukraine, this report raises major concerns about the future of land and food production in the country, which is likely to become more consolidated and controlled by oligarchs and foreign interests.

These concerns are exacerbated by Ukraine’s staggering and growing foreign debt, contracted at the expense of the population’s living conditions as a result of the measures required under the structural adjustment program. Ukraine is now the world’s third-largest debtor to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)17 and its crippling debt burden will likely result in additional pressure from its creditors, bondholders, and international financial institutions on how post-war reconstruction – estimated to cost US$750 billion – should happen.18 These powerful actors have already been explicit that they will use their leverage to further privatize the country’s public sector and liberalize its agriculture.19

The end of the war should be the moment and opportunity for just the opposite, i.e. the redesign of an economic model no longer dominated by oligarchy and corruption, but where land and resources are controlled by and benefit all Ukrainians. This could form the basis for the transformation of the agricultural sector to make it more democratic and environmentally and socially sustainable. International policy and financial support should be geared towards this transformation, to benefit people and farmers rather than oligarchs and foreign financial interests.

Introduction

Ukraine has been at the center stage of foreign policy and media reports since the February 2022 Russian invasion, which has led to widespread destruction and tragic loss of lives. The country has been able to resist and push back on much of the Russian war efforts, largely due to the massive military and economic assistance from Europe and the US. In 2022, Ukraine became the top recipient of US foreign aid – marking the first time since the Marshall Plan that a European country holds this top spot.20 As of December 2022, less than one year into the war, US assistance alone amounted to over US$113 billion,21 nearly twice the entire budget of the State Department and USAID globally (US$58 billion).22

The war is seen by many as a threat to global food security given the importance of both Ukraine and Russia as major exporters of food and fertilizers. Though the rise in global food prices in 2022 was to a large extent due to speculation in world markets,23 concerns revolved around the fact that both countries are major food exporters, especially to a number of food deficit countries in the Global South. This led to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement signed in July 2022 under the auspices of the United Nations, which has permitted substantial food exports from the region to continue.24

Ukraine has large swaths of the most fertile farmland in the world. Known for its rich, black soil, it has 41 million hectares of agricultural land, 33 million hectares of which are arable – equivalent to one-third of all arable land in the European Union.25 Despite the concerns around food supply and constant monitoring of the fighting, little attention has gone to the issue at the core of the conflict – who actually controls the agricultural land in the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe?” This question is paramount to fully understand some of the major stakes in this war.

This report intends to answer this question. It first identifies the interests controlling agricultural land in Ukraine and then analyzes the dynamics at play around land tenure in recent years in the country. This includes the land reform in 2021 – a part of the structural adjustment program designed under the auspices of Western financial institutions. The report then analyzes the activities, agenda, and priorities of these institutions – increasingly involved in the financing of Ukrainian agriculture – as well as the impact of the war on landholding in the country.

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Ammunition with depleted uranium has led to the contamination of land in Ukraine.
Depleted uranium has already set off a global information bomb. … «Barbarian attack» and contaminated lands for thousands of years. As a result of the use of such projectiles, a radioactive cloud is formed in the air, the particles of which enter the human body. The result is a bunch of diseases, including oncology

How Blackrock Investment Fund Triggered the Global Energy Crisis

«Adherence to UN 2030 Sustainability Agenda». Colossal disinvestment in the trillion-dollar global oil and gas sector.

By F. William Engdahl

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Most people are bewildered by what is a global energy crisis, with prices for oil, gas and coal simultaneously soaring and even forcing closure of major industrial plants such as chemicals or aluminum or steel. The Biden Administration and EU have insisted that all is because of Putin and Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. This is not the case. The energy crisis is a long-planned strategy of western corporate and political circles to dismantle industrial economies in the name of a dystopian Green Agenda. That has its roots in the period years well before February 2022, when Russia launched its military action in Ukraine.

Blackrock pushes ESG

In January, 2020 on the eve of the economically and socially devastating covid lockdowns, the CEO of the world’s largest investment fund, Larry Fink of Blackrock, issued a letter to Wall Street colleagues and corporate CEOs on the future of investment flows. In the document, modestly titled “A Fundamental Reshaping of Finance”, Fink, who manages the world’s largest investment fund with some $7 trillion then under management, announced a radical departure for corporate investment. Money would “go green.” In his closely-followed 2020 letter Fink declared,

“In the near future – and sooner than most anticipate – there will be a significant re-allocation of capital…Climate risk is investment risk.” Further he stated, “Every government, company, and shareholder must confront climate change.” [i]

In a separate letter to Blackrock investor clients, Fink delivered the new agenda for capital investing. He declared that Blackrock will exit certain high-carbon investments such as coal, the largest source of electricity for the USA and many other countries. He added that Blackrock would screen new investment in oil, gas and coal to determine their adherence to the UN Agenda 2030 “sustainability.”

Fink made clear the world’s largest fund would begin to disinvest in oil, gas and coal. “Over time,” Fink wrote, “companies and governments that do not respond to stakeholders and address sustainability risks will encounter growing skepticism from the markets, and in turn, a higher cost of capital.” He added that, “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects… we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.” [ii]

From that point on the so-called ESG investing, penalizing CO2 emitting companies like ExxonMobil, has become all the fashion among hedge funds and Wall Street banks and investment funds including State Street and Vanguard. Such is the power of Blackrock. Fink was also able to get four new board members in ExxonMobil committed to end the company’s oil and gas business.

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Colossal Financial Pyramid: BlackRock and The WEF “Great Reset”

The January 2020 Fink letter was a declaration of war by big finance against the conventional energy industry. BlackRock was a founding member of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (the TCFD) and is a signatory of the UN PRI— Principles for Responsible Investing, a UN-supported network of investors pushing zero carbon investing using the highly-corrupt ESG criteria—Environmental, Social and Governance factors into investment decisions. There is no objective control over fake data for a company’s ESG. As well Blackrock signed the Vatican’s 2019 statement advocating carbon pricing regimes. BlackRock in 2020 also joined Climate Action 100, a coalition of almost 400 investment managers managing US$40 trillion.

With that fateful January 2020 CEO letter, Larry Fink set in motion a colossal disinvestment in the trillion-dollar global oil and gas sector. Notably, that same year BlackRock’s Fink was named to the Board of Trustees of Klaus Schwab’s dystopian World Economic Forum, the corporate and political nexus of the Zero Carbon UN Agenda 2030. In June 2019, the World Economic Forum and the United Nations signed a strategic partnership framework to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.  WEF has a Strategic Intelligence platform which includes Agenda 2030’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

In his 2021 CEO letter, Fink doubled down on the attack on oil, gas and coal. “Given how central the energy transition will be to every company’s growth prospects, we are asking companies to disclose a plan for how their business model will be compatible with a net zero economy,” Fink wrote. Another BlackRock officer told a recent energy conference, “where BlackRock goes, others will follow.” ^[iii]

In just two years, by 2022 an estimated $1 trillion has exited investment in oil and gas exploration and development globally. Oil extraction is an expensive business and cut-off of external investment by BlackRock and other Wall Street investors spells the slow death of the industry.

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Biden—A BlackRock President?

Early in his then-lackluster Presidential bid, Biden had a closed door meeting in late 2019 with Fink who reportedly told the candidate that, “I’m here to help.” After his fateful meeting with BlackRock’s Fink, candidate Biden announced, “We are going to get rid of fossil fuels…” In December 2020, even before Biden was inaugurated in January 2021, he named BlackRock Global Head of Sustainable Investing,  Brian Deese, to be Assistant to the President and Director of the National Economic Council. Here, Deese, who played a key role for Obama in drafting the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, has quietly shaped the Biden war on energy.

This has been catastrophic for the oil and gas industry. Fink’s man Deese was active in giving the new President Biden a list of anti-oil measures to sign by Executive Order beginning day one in January 2021. That included closing the huge Keystone XL oil pipeline that would bring 830,000 barrels per day from Canada as far as Texas refineries, and halting any new leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Biden also rejoined the Paris Climate Accord that Deese had negotiated for Obama in 2015 and Trump cancelled.

The same day, Biden set in motion a change of the so-called “Social Cost of Carbon” that imposes a punitive $51 a ton of CO2 on the oil and gas industry. That one move, established under purely executive-branch authority without the consent of Congress, is dealing a devastating cost to investment in oil and gas in the US, a country only two years before that was the world’s largest oil producer.[iv]

Killing refinery capacity

Even worse, Biden’s  aggressive environmental rules and BlackRock ESG investing mandates are killing the US refinery capacity. Without refineries it doesn’t matter how many barrels of oil you take from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In the first two years of Biden’s Presidency the US has shut down some 1 million barrels a day of gasoline and diesel refining capacity, some due to covid demand collapse, the fastest decline in US history. The shutdowns are permanent. In 2023 an added 1.7 million bpd of capacity is set to close as a result of BlackRock and Wall Street ESG disinvesting and Biden regulations. [v]

Citing the heavy Wall Street disinvestment in oil and the Biden anti-oil policies, the CEO of Chevron in June 2022 declared that he doesn’t believe the US will ever build another new refinery.[vi]

Larry Fink, Board member of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, is joined by the EU whose President of the EU Commission, the notoriously corrupt Ursula von der Leyen left the WEF Board in 2019 to become EU Commission head. Her first major act in Brussels was to push through the EU Zero Carbon Fit for 55 agenda. That has imposed major carbon taxes and other constraints on oil, gas and coal in the EU well before the February  2022 Russian actions in Ukraine.  The combined impact of the Fink fraudulent ESG agenda in the Biden administration and the EU Zero Carbon madness is creating the worst energy and inflation crisis in history.

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Notes

[i] Larry Fink, A Fundamental Reshaping of Finance, Letter to CEOs, January, 2020, https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/2020-blackrock-client-letter

[ii] Ibid.

[iii] Tsvetana Paraskova,  Why Are Investors Turning Their Backs On Fossil Fuel Projects?, OilPrice.com,

March 11, 2021, https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Why-Are-Investors-Turning-Their-Backs-On-Fossil-Fuel-Projects.html

[iv] Joseph Toomey, Energy Inflation Was by Design, September, 2022, https://assets.realclear.com/files/2022/10/2058_energyinflationwasbydesign.pdf

[v] Ibid.

[vi] Fox Business, Chevron CEO says there may never be another oil refinery built in the US, June 3. 2022, https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/chevron-ceo-oil-refinery-built-u-s

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History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England

US Investments in Nazi Germany. Rockefeller Financed Adolf Hitler’s Election Campaign

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Incisive historical analysis.

From World War I to the Present: Dollar denominated debt has been the driving force behind all US led wars.

Wall Street creditors are the main actors. They were firmly behind Nazi Germany. They financed Operation Barbarossa and the invasion of the Soviet Union.

The Rockefellers funded Hitler’s election campaign.

Wall Street also “appointed” the head  of Germany’s Central Bank (Reichsbank). 

Standard Oil of New Jersey provided crude oil to Nazi Germany throughout WWII

Henry Ford controlled 100% of the shares of Volkswagen. 

Michel Chossudovsky, August 26, 2023

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World War II: More than 80 years ago was the start of the greatest slaughter in history.

If we are to approach the problem of “responsibility for the war”, then we first need to answer the following key questions:

• Who helped the Nazis come to power?
• Who sent them on their way to world catastrophe?

The entire pre-war history of Germany shows that the provision of the “necessary” policies were managed by the financial turmoil, in which the world was plunged into in the wake of  World War I. 

The key structures that defined the post-war development strategy of the West were the central financial institutions of Great Britain and the United States — the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve System (FRS) — and the associated financial and industrial organizations set out as a means to establish absolute control over the financial system of Germany and its ability to control political processes in Central Europe.

To implement this strategy, the following stages were envisaged:

1.         From 1919 to 1924 — to prepare the ground for massive American financial investment in the German economy;
2. From 1924 to 1929 — the establishment of control over the financial system of Germany and financial support for Nazism (“national socialism”);
3. From 1929 to 1933 — provoking and unleashing a deep financial and economic crisis and ensuring the Nazis come to power;
4. From 1933 to 1939 — financial cooperation with the Nazi government and support for its expansionist foreign policy, aimed at preparing and unleashing a new World War.

WWI “War Reparations”

In the first stage, the main levers to ensure the penetration of American capital into Europe began with WWI war debts and the closely related problem of German reparations. 

After the US’ formal entry into the first World War, they gave the allies (primarily England and France) loans to the amount of $8.8 billion. The total sum of war debts, including loans granted to the United States in 1919-1921, was more than $11 billion.

To solve this problem, creditor nations tried to impose extremely difficult conditions for the payment of war reparations at the expense of Germany. This was caused by the flight of German capital abroad, and the refusal to pay taxes which led to a state budget deficit that could be covered only through mass production of unsecured German Marks.

The result was the collapse of the German currency — the “great inflation” of 1923,  when the dollar was worth 4.2 trillion Marks. German Industrialists began to openly sabotage all activities in the payment of reparation obligations, which eventually caused the famous “Ruhr crisis” — Franco-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr in January 1923.

The Anglo-American ruling elites, in order to take the initiative in their  own hands, waited for France to get caught up in a venturing adventure and to prove its inability to solve the problem. US Secretary of State Hughes pointed out:

“It is necessary to wait for Europe to mature in order to accept the American proposal.”

The new project was developed in the depths of “JP Morgan & Co.” under the instruction of the head of the Bank of England, Montagu Norman. At the core of his ideas was representative of the “Dresdner Bank” Hjalmar Schacht, who formulated it in March 1922 at the suggestion of John Foster Dulles (future Secretary of state in the Cabinet of President Eisenhower) and legal adviser to President W. Wilson at the Paris peace conference.

Dulles gave this note to the chief Trustee “JP Morgan & Co.”,which then recommended H. Schacht in consultation with Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England.

In December, 1923, H. Schacht became Manager of the Reichsbank and was instrumental in bringing together the Anglo-American and German financial elites. 

In the summer of 1924, the project known as the “Dawes plan” (named after the Chairman of the Committee of experts who created it – American banker and Director of one of the banks of the Morgan group), was adopted at the London conference. He called for halving the reparations and solved the question about the sources of their coverage. However, the main task was to ensure favorable conditions for US investment, which was only possible with the stabilization of the German Mark.

One Bank to Rule Them All: The Bank for International Settlements

To this end, the plan gave Germany a large loan of $200 million, half of which was accounted for by JP Morgan.

While the Anglo-American banks gained control not only over the transfer of German payments, but also for the budget, the system of monetary circulation and to a large extent the credit system of the country.

The Weimar Republic

By August 1924, the old German Mark was replaced by a new, stabilized financial situation in Germany, and, as researcher G.D Preparta wrote, the Weimar Republic was prepared for:

“the most picturesque economic aid in history, followed by the most bitter harvest in world history” — “an unstoppable flood of American blood poured into the financial veins of Germany.”

The consequences of this were not slow to appear.

This was primarily due to the fact that the annual reparations were to cover the amount of debt paid by the allies, formed by the so-called “absurd Weimar circle”.

The gold that Germany paid in the form of war reparations, was sold, pawned, and disappeared in the US, where it was returned to Germany in the form of an “aid” plan, who gave it to England and France, and they in turn were to pay the war debt of the United States. It was then overlayed with interest, and again sent  to Germany. In the end, all in Germany lived in debt [were indebted] , and it was clear that should Wall Street withdraw their loans, the country would suffer complete bankruptcy.

Secondly, although formal credit was issued to secure payment, it was actually the restoration of the military-industrial potential of the country.

The fact is that the Germans were paid in shares of companies for the loans so that American capital began to actively integrate into the German economy.

The total amount of foreign investments in German industry during 1924-1929 amounted to almost 63 billion gold Marks (30 billion was accounted for by loans), and the payment of reparations — 10 billion Marks. 70% of revenues were provided by bankers from the United States, and most of the banks were from JP Morgan. As a result, in 1929, German industry was in second place in the world, but it was largely in the hands of America’s leading financial-industrial groups.

US Investments in Nazi Germany. Rockefeller Financed Adolf Hitler’s Election Campaign

“Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie”, the main supplier of the German war machine, financed 45% of the election campaign of Hitler in 1930, and was under the control of Rockefeller’s “Standard oil”.

Morgan, through “General Electric”, controlled the German radio and electrical industry via AEG and Siemens (up to 1933, 30% of the shares of AEG owned “General Electric”) through the Telecom company ITT — 40% of the telephone network in Germany.

In addition, they owned a 30% stake in the aircraft manufacturing company “Focke-Wulf”.

“General Motors”, belonging to the DuPont family, established control over “Opel”.

Henry Ford controlled 100% of the shares of  “Volkswagen”.

In 1926, with the participation of the Rockefeller Bank “Dillon, Reed & Co.” the second largest  industrial monopoly in Germany after “I.G Farben” emerged — metallurgical concern “Vereinigte Stahlwerke” (Steel Trust) Thyssen, Flick, Wolff, Feglera etc.

American cooperation with the German military-industrial complex was so intense and pervasive that by 1933 the key sectors of German industry and large banks such as Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Danat-Bank (Darmstädter und Nationalbank), etc.  were under the control of American financial capital.

The political force that was intended to play a crucial role in Anglo-American plans was being simultaneously prepared. We are talking about the funding of the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler personally.

As former German Chancellor Brüning wrote in his memoirs, since 1923, Hitler received large sums from abroad. Where they went is unknown, but they were received through Swiss and Swedish banks.

It is also known that, in 1922 in Munich, a meeting took place between A. Hitler and the military attaché of the US to Germany – Captain Truman Smith – who compiled a detailed report for his Washington superiors (in the office of military intelligence), in which he spoke highly of Hitler.

It was through Smith’s circle of acquaintances that Hitler was first introduced to German-American businessman Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, a graduate of Harvard University who played an important role in the formation of A. Hitler as a politician, endorsed by significant financial support, while securing him ties and communication with prominent personalities of the British establishment.

Hitler was prepared in politics, however, whereas Germany under the Weimar Republic reigned, his party remained on the periphery of public life. The situation changed dramatically with the beginning of the 1929 financial crisis.

Since the autumn of 1929 after the collapse of the America’s stock exchange was triggered by the Federal Reserve, the third stage of the strategy of the Anglo-American financial establishment commenced.

The Federal Reserve and JP Morgan decided to stop lending to Germany, inspired by the banking crisis and economic depression in Central Europe. In September 1931, England abandoned the gold standard, deliberately destroying the international system of payments and completely cutting off the flow of “financial oxygen” to the Weimar Republic.

But a financial miracle occurred with the Nazi party: in September 1930, as a result of large donations from Thyssen, “I.G. Farben”and Industrialist Emil Kirdorf (who was a firm supporter of Adolf Hitler), the Nazi party got 6.4 million votes, and took second place in the Reichstag, after which generous investments from abroad were activated.

The main link between the major German industrialists and foreign financiers became H. Schacht.

1932 Secret Agreement: Wall Street Finances Hitler’s Nazi Party 

On January 4th, 1932, a meeting was held between British financier Montagu Norman (Governor of the Bank of England), Adolf Hitler and Franz Von Papen (who became Chancellor a few months later in May 1932) At this meeting, an agreement on the financing of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP or Nazi Party) was reached.

This meeting was also attended by US policy-makers and the Dulles brothers, something which their biographers do not like to mention.

A year later, on January 14th, 1933, another meeting was held between Adolph Hitler, Germany’s Financier Baron Kurt von Schroeder, Chancellor Franz von Papen and Hitler’s Economic Advisor Wilhelm Keppler took place, where Hitler’s program was fully approved.

It was here that they finally resolved the issue of the transfer of power to the Nazis, and on the 30th of January 1933 Hitler became Chancellor. The implementation of the fourth stage of the strategy thus begun.

The attitude of the Anglo-American ruling elites in relation to the new Nazi government was very sympathetic.

When Hitler refused to pay reparations, which, naturally, called into question the payment of war debts, neither Britain nor France showed him the claims of the payments.

Moreover, after his  visit to the United States in May 1933, H. Schacht became once more head of Reichsbank, and after his meeting with the U.S. President and the big bankers on Wall Street, America allocated Germany new loans totalling $1 billion.

In June, during a trip to London and a meeting with Montagu  Norman, Schacht also sought a British loan of $2 billion, and a reduction and cessation of payments on old loans.

Thus, the Nazis got what they could not achieve with the previous government.

In the summer of 1934, Britain signed the Anglo-German transfer agreement, which became one of the foundations of British policy towards the Third Reich, and at the end of the 1930’s, Germany became the main trading partner of England.

Schroeder Bank became the main agent of Germany in the UK, and in 1936 his office in New York teamed up with the   Rockefellers to create the “Schroeder, Rockefeller & Co.” investment Bank, which Times Magazine called the “economic propagandist axis of Berlin-Rome”.

As Hitler himself admitted, he conceived his four-year plan on the basis of foreign financial loans, so it never inspired him with the slightest alarm.

In August 1934, America’s Standard Oil [owned by the Rockefellers] in Germany acquired 730,000 acres of land and built large oil refineries that supplied the Nazis with oil. At the same time, Germany  secretly took delivery of the most modern equipment for aircraft factories from the United States, which would begin the production of German planes.

Germany received a large number of military patents from American firms Pratt and Whitney”, “Douglas”, “Curtis Wright”, and American technology was building the “Junkers-87”. In 1941, when the Second world war was raging, American investments in the economy of Germany amounted to $475 million. “Standard oil” invested – 120 million, General Motors- $35 million, ITT — $30 million, and Ford — $17.5 million.

The close financial and economic cooperation of Anglo-American and Nazi business circles was the background against which, in the 1930’s, a policy of appeasement led to World War II.

Today, the world’s financial elites have implemented the Great Depression 2.o [2008], with a followup transition towards a “New World Order“.

Yuri Rubtsov is a doctor of historical sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of military sciences, and member of  the International Association of historians of World War II

Translated from Russian by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ. (references not available in this version of the article)

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