Schuldenkrise legt unbeholfene Regierungsführung und Kriegskurs der USA offen
US-Präsident Joseph Biden spricht mit dem Mehrheitsführer im Senat, Chuck Schumer, und dem Minderheitenführer im Senat, Kevin McCarthy, am 9. Mai 2023 im Weißen Haus über die Schuldenobergrenze. (Foto: The White House / public domain)
Wegen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen den beiden Parteien, schwacher Regierungsführung und enormer Militärausgaben, in die Höhe getrieben von einer Mentalität des Kalten Krieges, sind die USA nun nicht mehr in der Lage, ihre Schulden zurückzuzahlen, ohne sich dafür neues Geld zu leihen.
Die US-amerikanische Finanzministerin Janet Yellen warnte, den USA drohten am 1. Juni erstmals in ihrer Geschichte ein Zahlungsausfall, wenn die Anhebung der Schuldenobergrenze scheitere. Der US-amerikanische Präsident Biden sagte seine Reise nach Australien und Papua-Neuguinea ab und kehrte nach Hause zurück, um Gespräche über die Anhebung der Schuldenobergrenze zu führen.
Parteipolitische Auseinandersetzungen
Seit Jahresanfang haben Politiker beider Parteien der Gegenseite Angebote zur Anhebung dieser Grenze gemacht, scheiterten aber an parteipolitischen Auseinandersetzungen. Die Republikaner boten zwei Optionen zur Lösung der Schuldenkrise an, nachdem die Regierung im Januar die gesetzliche Schuldengrenze von 31,4 Billionen US-Dollar erreicht hatte. Die von ihnen vorgeschlagenen Gesetzesentwürfe waren an die Bedingung geknüpft, die Staatsausgaben zu kürzen. Das lehnen die Demokraten ab. Sie bestehen auf einer bedingungslosen Anhebung der Schuldenobergrenze.
Die Schuldenobergrenze ist ein gesetzlicher Grenzwert, der die Aufnahme von Krediten durch die US-amerikanische Regierung begrenzt. Der Anstieg der Verschuldung veranlasst den Kongress immer öfter dazu, die Schuldenobergrenze anzuheben – seit 1997 schon 22 Mal.
In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten sind die Staatsschulden der USA exponentiell gestiegen. Als die USA im Oktober 2001 den Krieg in Afghanistan begannen, belief sich der Schuldenstand auf 5,8 Billionen US-Dollar. In den letzten 22 Jahren hat er sich fast verfünffacht.
Auch das Verhältnis der Schulden zum BIP ist exorbitant geworden. Unter den Regierungen Clinton und Bush Jr. lag die Schuldenquote bei unter 70 Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts. Mit der Großen Rezession von 2008 stieg die Schuldenquote auf über 100 Prozent. Sie steigt weiter. Im Jahr 2020 erreichte sie einen historischen Höchststand von 128 Prozent.
Festhalten an militärischer Hegemonie
Schulden stehen in engem Zusammenhang mit Einnahmen und Haushalt. Der Haushalt zeigt die Prioritäten der US-amerikanischen Regierung und ihre Bereitschaft, die Finanzen in Ordnung zu halten – oder nicht. Die wichtigsten Ausgaben, von hoch bis niedrig, tätigt die US-amerikanische Regierung in den Feldern Sozialversicherung, Medicare, Medicaid, Militär, Bildung, Zinsen, Steuergutschriften, Veteranen und Ernährung.
Parteipolitische Differenzen über Prioritäten bei den Ausgaben hindern die Regierung daran, Ausgaben zu kürzen. Die Demokraten bestehen auf der Beibehaltung der Sozialversicherungsleistungen und der Mittel für Medicare, während die Republikaner eine Kürzung der Ausgaben für das Militär ablehnen. Da Zinsen, die bereits 8,8 Prozent der jährlichen Ausgaben ausmachen, an die Kreditgeber gezahlt werden müssen, bleiben aus Sicht der US-amerikanischen Politiker nur die Bereiche Bildung, Steuergutschriften, Veteranen und Ernährung für Ausgabenkürzungen übrig.
Die US-amerikanische Regierung leidet auch unter einer schwachen Regierungsführung und Verschwendungssucht. Laut einem Bericht des Government Accountability Office vom Mai 2022 belaufen sich die „finanziellen Vorteile“, die sich aus der Verringerung von Fragmentierung, Überschneidungen und doppelter Arbeit der Regierung von 2011 bis 2022 ergeben, auf insgesamt 552 Milliarden US-Dollar. Der Bericht beschönigt die Verluste als eingesparte „finanzielle Vorteile“. Was ist mit dem Geld, das in den Jahren davor verschwendet wurde?
Anstatt ihre Schulden umzustrukturieren und ihre Ausgabegewohnheiten zu ändern, halten die USA an ihrer militärischen Hegemonie fest.
Der Haushalt des US-amerikanischen Verteidigungsministeriums für das Finanzjahr 2023 beläuft sich auf über 770 Milliarden US-Dollar, mehr als die Hälfte des Gesamtdefizits des Finanzjahrs 2022.
Die USA haben bis 2021 etwa 750 Militärstützpunkte in rund 80 Ländern eingerichtet. Die Errichtung neuer Stützpunkte in Übersee ist ungebrochen. Anfang dieses Jahres haben sich die USA den Zugang zu vier weiteren Militärstützpunkten in den Philippinen gesichert.
Wer bezahlt diese Erweiterung? Und wer profitiert davon? Es ist klar, dass der größte Teil der Ausgaben an den militärisch-industriellen Komplex geht und nicht ein Cent davon dem durchschnittlichen US-amerikanischen Steuerzahler zugute kommt.
En presencia del sector empresarial, el alto representante europeo sostuvo que la isla «acabará siendo la Mallorca del Caribe».
El alto representante de la Unión Europea (UE) para Asuntos Exteriores y Política de Seguridad, Josep Borrell, desarrolla esta semana su primera visita en el cargo a la isla de Cuba, desde donde ofreció unas declaraciones controversiales.
“Las oportunidades para el desarrollo empresarial son enormes […] estoy seguro de que [Cuba] acabará siendo —permítanme la comparación— la Mallorca del Caribe“, afirmó Borrell en reunión con el sector de pymes en referencia a la isla española que ha impulsado su economía sobre la base del turismo.
Posteriormente, tomaron la palabra algunos empresarios. En su oportunidad, el cofundador de la empresa Auge, Oniel Díaz Castellanos, enfatizó que no los alienta ser “referencia o comparación con otra ciudad”.
“No queremos ser la ciudad referencia alumbrado contra una tercera ciudad o un tercer país, queremos ser La Habana del Caribe, queremos ser La Habana del mundo. Esa es nuestra pretensión”, manifestó.
“Jardín racista” de Borrell
En abril pasado, el ministro ruso de Exteriores, Serguéi Lavrov, criticó en conferencia de prensa en Nueva York el “racismo” esbozado por el alto representante de la UE, quien ha comparado a Europa con “un jardín” y al resto del mundo con “la jungla”.
“Todas esas reclamaciones sobre, tal y como dijo Borrell, el ‘jardín’ con el cual se entiende Occidente, rodeado de jungla, además de ser racismo y nazismo, reflejan una filosofía que es dañina para toda la humanidad, incluidos los predicadores de esa filosofía”, dijo.
Rusia impide atentado ucraniano contra instalaciones nucleares
El Servicio Federal de Seguridad de Rusia impidió un atentado terrorista contra instalaciones de energía nuclear en el territorio nacional organizado por los servicios de seguridad ucranianos.
Kissinger’s Fairy Tales for Idiots
Davor Slobodanovich Vuyachich
Kissinger’s idea of bringing peace by having Ukraine join NATO is as crazy as the thought of putting out a fire with kerosene.
In October 2019, the online edition of Progressnews.ge published the article “The Dissolution of the Soviet Union was the Biggest Crime of the United States — Henry Kissinger is Disappointed with Capitalism”, which quotes an alleged statement by Henry Kissinger, the 56th U.S. Secretary of State and 7th U.S. National Security Advisor, from which it could be concluded that the experienced politician, diplomat, political theorist, and geopolitical advisor, in the later years of his life, repented of his role in the destruction of the Soviet Union and that he fondly recalls the Soviet way of life. “A Soviet individual was able to find happiness in things as simple as jeans, toilet paper, and smoked sausage and was living a complete life. We corrupted them and opened them a door to a world in which, behind the glittering seductions, the cruel laws of capitalism hide… We only had sex, while they had true love. We only had money, while they had pure human gratitude, and this relates to all spheres of life. Of course, nobody can call me an admirer of socialism, as I am a Western individual with a Western mindset; however, I believe that the Soviet Union was giving birth to a true new human. One can label such humans as homo soveticus. This human was one step above us, and I honestly regret that we destroyed this sanctuary. It may be our biggest crime ever” — these are the words that the article attributed to Kissinger. However, it soon turned out to be a joke, and a Russian one at that.
Namely, Progressnews.ge carelessly transferred an article from the Russian satirical source Panorama.pub, considering it to be authentic. The original humorous article was written a year earlier in the spirit and manner characteristic of the traditional school of Russian satire, whose deciphering and correct understanding require not only a certain level of intelligence but also a good knowledge of the Russian mentality. So it is not surprising that this cute work, for which the author did not want to take credit by avoiding signing it, easily fooled the Progressnews editorial staff. Henry Kissinger was, beyond any doubt, a brilliant man of exceptional intelligence who, if he had been interested, could have easily penetrated into the all undoubted advantages of the Soviet way of life, and then he would really have been able to say something similar to what the satirical article attributed to him. Unfortunately, the man who in the White House was called simply “the K” but with awe and in whispers, a Teflon man for all seasons, even at the end of his long life full of intrigues, secrets, action, and excitement, remained consistent and one of the greatest enemies of modern Russia, as he was also the fierce foe of the Soviet Union, and as he only could, taking into account his German-Jewish roots, would most certainly be a determined adversary of the Russian Empire. Kissinger has simply always been a natural opponent of everything that is Russian of all times and spaces. Russia will undoubtedly remember him long after his death as one of the most intelligent, cunning, and therefore most dangerous opponents it has ever had, but of course, this will not prevent the witty Russians from continuing to make jokes about all that in the future.
Decades after the political death of the 37th President of the USA, Richard Nixon, under whom Kissinger served as the U.S. Secretary of State from September 1973 to January 1977 and probably one of the most powerful men ever to hold that office, “the K” remained a presence in American public life as a figure of immense authority whose opinion had a powerful influence not only on the course of national foreign policy but also on political turmoil in other countries. However, all this does not mean that he was inevitably and at the same time a moral authority; on the contrary, he was anything but that. It seems that the psychological phenomenon known as “identification with the aggressor” shaped Kissinger’s political character to a great extent and made him as ruthless in the international affairs in which he was involved as the Nazis were — the same villains that he himself, in 1938, as a teenager, fled to the USA with his family and at whose criminal hands 13 members of his family perished. In his long political career, Kissinger, in a manner characteristic of the Nazis, had little or no respect for the lives of innocent people, especially in countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia, where his only legacy was his contribution to the genocide of innocent civilians. Despite all that, for his participation in the negotiations for the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam, Kissinger received no less than the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, which is one of the most controversial awards of this prize ever since peace did not come until two years later. On the same occasion, Le Duc Tho, a Vietnamese politician who participated in these same negotiations, refused to receive this prestigious award and thus became the only person who ever refused to receive it, but he therefore preserved his dignity and honor in front of the Vietnamese and world public. Kissinger not only did not contribute to the end of the Vietnam War but, in fact, wholeheartedly fueled it and was directly responsible for crimes such as the illegal bombing of Cambodia, which he managed to hide not only from the American public but also from Congress. As a pragmatic and cruel Machiavellian, one might even say, as a man whose mentality closely resembled that of the cold-blooded desk killers who were responsible for the Holocaust, Kissinger is one of the American politicians who most contributed to the birth of American militant hegemony, imperialism, and neo-colonialism — an ideology that still completely defines American foreign policy today. He not only mysteriously survived the Watergate affair politically, although he was eventually forced to resign as U.S. Secretary of State, but also became increasingly influential over time, and his rise continued over the following decades. Although he was heavily involved in, or exactly because he was part of, a whole series of American dirty wars and covert operations around the world, from Southeast Asia to the Middle East to Chile, Kissinger remained the éminence grise of the American deep state until today, when, at the age of 100, he still feels the need to deal a painful blow to those he perceives as the enemies of the USA.
The outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, which was caused by a coup directed by the CIA, gave Kissinger the opportunity to publish an article in the prestigious “Washington Post” in March 2014 in which he emphasized that Ukraine has the right to a “European future”, but that it should not join NATO, which he had also claimed years before. At the same time, he claimed that Ukraine must retain “sovereignty” over Crimea, although he certainly knew very well the circumstances under which this ethnically purely Russian territory was separated from Russia and given to Ukraine on February 19, 1954, by the self-will of the Ukrainian Khrushchev and for his personal political interests. We shouldn’t forget that at that time, Ukraine was simply an administrative unit of the USSR, not an independent state, which it would become for the first time in its history only in 1991. However, in his eight-hour interview for “The Economist” that Kissinger gave at the end of April of this year and which was published on May 17, Kissinger went a step further in his elegant, cunning, and pseudo-intellectual Russophobia, which may not have a personal nature at all but is simply an expression of his need to continue to act as a loyal ideologue and unofficial mouthpiece for what many call the gerontocratic Zionist-Anglo-Saxon plutocratic elites who are at the very center of the power structures of the American deep state. This interview is more than a voluminous read stretching over fifty pages, so here it is only possible to comment on its most interesting details regarding Russia and its unwanted military conflict with the collective West.
First of all, “the K” has, perhaps expectedly, changed his earlier opinion on Ukraine’s membership in NATO, if it has ever been his honest opinion at all and not only a part of a typical American tactic of achieving seemingly unattainable goals gradually and in stages, in processes that sometimes last for decades. Let’s suppose, however, that Kissinger had previously clearly seen how such a brutal provocation of Russia, such as the arrival of NATO at Moscow’s doorstep, could be dangerous for world peace, and that for some reason he was now deprived of his earlier, correct political instinct. Kissinger now not only does not call for responsible prudence but also openly criticizes the European leaders who, precisely out of caution, which is healthy and commendable, are hesitating about Ukraine’s membership in NATO. Kissinger makes it clear that it is inadmissible even to simply return things to the state before February 24, that is, before the beginning of the Russian Special Military Operation. This is, one would say, something that, according to him, cannot satisfy the current American ambitions, and he openly calls it the wrong way to end the war. Ukraine must be part of NATO in order to become a knife edge in the hands of the collective West on Russia’s bare neck. The cunning “Teflon Don” of the American deep state justifies the change of his attitude in relation to this more than serious and sensitive issue concerning the survival of all humanity, even with his supposed concern for the best interests of Russia: “If I talked to Putin, I would tell him that he, too, is safer with Ukraine in NATO”.
The assumed level of simple-minded naivety or idiocy required to believe such nonsense, which Kissinger expects from the Russian side, to whom, in fact, he is publicly addressing this message, could be much more offensive if it were not a brazen threat nicely wrapped in false benevolence. Namely, Kissinger is suddenly “worried” that Ukraine, which has been armed to the teeth by the collective West with the most advanced weapons, as he himself admits, but does not have adequate strategic experience, that is, responsibility or even brains, if it does not join NATO, could make decisions on its own territorial pretensions, where he obviously talks about the territories of Russia and possibly Belarus. “So, for the safety of Europe, it is better to have Ukraine in NATO, where it cannot make national decisions on territorial claims”, says Kissinger, and the threat in his words is more than obvious. In short, Kissinger expects the Kremlin to start seeing the Nazi regime in Kiev as a beast that will tear Russia apart unless NATO keeps it firmly on a leash of thick chains that symbolize the obligations each member has in relation to this criminal military alliance. Kissinger confidently predicts, in fact trying to deceive us, that after some successful Ukrainian offensive, the Russian Federation will lose all its territories that were part of Ukraine in the past and where the Russian population absolutely dominates, but that it could happen that it will keep Sevastopol, perhaps referring to the whole of Crimea or even only that city, and states that it would be unsatisfactory not only for Moscow but also for Kiev and calls it a “balance of dissatisfaction”. This alludes to the blasphemous idea that, in Kissinger’s opinion, it could be a possible epilogue of the war that Russia should consider quite an acceptable compromise. The truth is, of course, quite different and much worse. For the Americans, Ukraine itself, without full access to Crimea, is not worth much because only with dozens of planned military bases on this peninsula could they control the Black Sea and neutralize the Russian navy and military aviation. The article published by Ben Hodges, a retired general of the United States Army, in the British “Telegraph” in April of this year unequivocally indicates that the main goal of the Ukrainian war is full American control of Crimea, which would be a springboard for the continuation of their mindless version of “Drang nach Osten”.
Russia cannot allow the loss of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Luhansk People’s Republic, Kherson Oblast, and Zaporozhye Oblast, and especially cannot afford to lose Crimea at any price, not even the highest. Likewise, the entry of Ukraine into NATO would represent an absolutely unacceptable level of threat to the basic security of the Russian Federation, which is out of the question even at the cost of Washington, London, and Brussels having to disappear in clouds of radioactive dust. Not only that, but Russia cannot and will never give up its original intention to completely destroy the armed forces of the Kiev regime, no matter how many western weapons are poured into them, and it will carry out the denazification of its western neighbor to the very end. The war will continue until the current criminal regime in Kiev is ousted from power and replaced by a set of Ukrainian politicians who will ensure the long-term conduct of a responsible and peaceful policy in relation to Ukraine’s neighbors and its own population, bearing in mind above all ethnic Russians, as well as Ukrainians whose mother tongue is Russian or who are believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is in canonical unity with the Moscow Patriarchate. If by any chance Kissinger was on the Russian team and not the American one, as an experienced geopolitical advisor, strategist, and person of brilliant intelligence, he would have thought exactly the same way and would have known that Russia will not and must not give up on its intentions. As a survivor of the Holocaust, no matter how loyal he is to America, which gave him everything: prestige, influence, power, and wealth, it is absolutely immoral and shameful that Kissinger, like the rest of the collective West, turns his head in relation to all the crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis committed against Russian civilians from 2014 until today. It was these crimes that gave full legitimacy to the Russian Special Military Operation, which the Russian leadership decided on even though it was fully aware that it was an obvious American trap. Wanting to protect Russian civilians at all costs, Russia entered into a proxy war with NATO and the rest of the collective West because it simply had no other choice.
Ignoring the abundance of documentation, articles, videos, photographs, and other material that clearly testify not only to the real existence and active operation of Ukrainian Nazi organizations and their military units with all their more than recognizable iconography but also to the terrible crimes they committed, it is inadmissible for someone whose family members themselves suffered under those same symbols of pure evil — no matter how flexible Kissinger had to be to survive as an American politician. Pragmatism similar to that which existed in the ranks of the members of the Sonderkommando — Jews who became collaborators of the Nazis in the death camps from the lowest and most selfish motives — does not serve the honor of any members of the global Jewish community, no matter how pro-Western they might be. Nazis who kill Russians can’t be better than Nazis who killed Jews in the past! Nazis led by a Jewish president can’t be better than any other Nazi either. Nazis are always just Nazis and nothing better than that, and Kissinger should gather enough moral resolve and courage to say so publicly because we all know he is wise enough to be aware of all this. When he said in his interview for “The Economist” about Ukraine that it is now “a major state” and called his Jewish tribesman Zelensky an “extraordinary leader”, Kissinger humiliated himself the most. As a man of high intellectual qualities and with a PhD from Harvard, it is simply impossible that he can honestly have any positive opinion about Zelensky, which means that even at such a late age he is forced to lie and unnecessarily compromise his name. It is more than clear to everyone that the Ukrainian president enjoys only the apparent, artificial, and insincere respect of the Western political elites, who finance him only in order to cause as much harm to Russia and kill as many Russians as possible. Why does the Western mainstream media not report on the anti-war protests of ordinary Europeans and Americans who openly despise Zelensky as a scoundrel, a drug addict, and a man who brought them only poverty and insecurity with his endless begging and lists of demands? Even the Western elites will one day, willingly and with relief, get rid of Zelensky once his expiration date has expired, and that time is approaching. A poor comedian, now the main actor of a horror reality show in Ukraine, who came to power by promising peace and stability to his compatriots, only to bring them destruction, death, and war with no end in sight, is deeply despised by the Ukrainians themselves, and you can be sure that every fair election in Ukraine would clearly demonstrate that.
Zelensky will in the near future certainly have the opportunity to kneel before the Russian president and beg him for forgiveness, as he promised the voters in the election campaign that he would do when he becomes the president of Ukraine, but the question is whether Kissinger, who has devoted his whole life to the art of diplomacy, will, regardless of the fact that he is a fierce enemy of Russia, have enough time to save his professional honor, which, as a historical figure, he should certainly strive for. Does Kissinger, who was given so much influence by God and thus even more responsibility, want to be remembered as a notorious warmonger who, in addition to his numerous other crimes from the past, towards the end of his life, recklessly and selfishly helped to condemn younger generations to the horrors of nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare, thus leaving them without a future? No one should think for a moment that World War III will not be absolutely terrible in every possible way, and that is why all people of influence should do everything in their power to prevent it from ever happening. At least intimately, and out of a sense of intellectual pride if nothing else, “the K” would have to have far more understanding of the Russian strategic way of thinking. Even Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose country is a member of the European Union and NATO, has repeatedly warned that a nuclear power such as Russia should not be cornered under any circumstances. How then is it possible that a man of enormous geopolitical experience like Kissinger does not see what is obvious to many other western politicians, experts, analysts, and journalists? If the current leaders of the collective West, for understandable reasons, find it difficult or impossible to tell the truth about the war against Russia, what prevents Kissinger from saying publicly what every person in this world with at least an average IQ knows? Russia did not expand towards Warsaw, Bucharest, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, or London, but beyond any doubt, it was NATO’s aggressive expansion towards the Russian borders that brought humanity one step away from global catastrophe.
So Kissinger’s idea of bringing peace by having Ukraine join NATO is as crazy as the thought of putting out a fire with kerosene. Similarly, the unforeseeable but inevitable consequences of Finland’s completely unnecessary entry into the North Atlantic Alliance are yet to be felt and could range from the unpredictable to the absolutely terrifying. Russia did not threaten Finland in any way, nor did it have any interest in doing so because there are more than enough problems on many other sides of the enormous Russian frontiers. Elementary logic forces us to understand that Russia most certainly wanted a peaceful and stable, demilitarized border with Finland and that Finnish politicians, with their humble and slavish obedience to the U.S., have brought their nation into the most dangerous situation since its existence without any good reasons. That extremely crude provocation turned Finland into a Russian priority target, whose military bases and cities will be the first to be wiped out from the face of the earth in the event of any open military hostilities between Russia and NATO because they represent an immediate and great danger to the survival of the largest state in the world. If anyone thinks that this claim is exaggerated, they should study the Russian nuclear doctrine again. What threatens Russia the most at this moment are definitely the U.S. missile bases in Poland and Romania, because we all know that their role is not defensive and that they were not built in fear of Iran, but that they are offensive combat systems whose purpose is a surprise attack on Russia. From these threatening military bases, Moscow and St. Petersburg could be hit by American hypersonic missiles in just a few minutes, and Russia would not be able to defend its two largest cities. Therefore, without any further warnings, the Kremlin already has the full legal right, if not the obligation, to reduce these bases to a cratered lunar landscape with its Kinzhals and other hypersonic weapons carrying conventional warheads. However, Moscow refrains from making such and similar decisions because the Russian leadership, unlike the American one, is moral and responsible, which does not mean that Russian patience will not run out at some completely unexpected moment. Although the Russian leadership knows very well that it is at war with NATO, it is aware of the magnitude of the military forces at its disposal, which is why it still does not show great concern. The Russian armies will continue to destroy the armed forces controlled by Kiev, but if the conflict drags on, Russia could begin a completely different way of warfare that would be much more Soviet-like and could have very similar outcomes. After all, the Soviet model of warfare with million-strong armies, massive missile strikes, epic tank assaults, hundreds of sun-blocking fighter planes, and warfare deep behind enemy lines had already proven its effectiveness against the Nazis of the past.
In Kissinger’s interview with “The Economist”, it is obvious that he is well aware of how close we are to World War III and offers his various demagogic and completely useless solutions about how it could be avoided, but for some unknown reason, he is focused mainly on a possible military conflict between China and the USA, which he openly says would have the potential to destroy humanity: “We’re in the classic pre-World War One situation, where neither side has much margin of political concession and in which any disturbance of the equilibrium can lead to catastrophic consequences”. For unknown reasons, Kissinger completely ignores the risks of a full military conflict between NATO and Russia — the superpower with the largest arsenal on the planet with over 6,000 nuclear warheads — just as he turns a blind eye to the fact that NATO’s aggressive expansion is the main cause of the war in Ukraine. For those who really want peace in Europe, the solution is obvious, logical, and very simple. Instead of expanding NATO, a buffer zone should have been created that would safely separate the Russian Federation from NATO members. That buffer zone would consist of Finland, Poland, the Baltic republics, Ukraine, and Romania. With the joint guarantees and supervision of China, the EU, Russia, and the USA, these countries could even be part of the European Union, including Ukraine, but not NATO or any other military alliance, not even any kind of European joint military forces, nor could they host U.S. or any other foreign military bases because they would commit to permanent military neutrality and partial demilitarization. In turn, these countries could have privileges in trade exchange with the same powers that would guarantee them tightly controlled military neutrality, which would surely lead to the great economic prosperity of the buffer zone. It is still not too late for this or a similar solution to be put into practice, and then the USA, Russia, the EU, and China, after securing peace, could work together to rebuild Ukraine, which would, of course, have to renounce the militaristic Nazi junta that ruined the country, and its political system would be returned to the state it was in before Euromaidan. The problem is that NATO is in the hands of irresponsible lunatics who want war at any cost and completely ignore the very realistic risks of a sudden outbreak of nuclear war.
Finally, let’s mention that in this interview, Kissinger commented with a touch of irony on Sino-Russian relations, alluding that they are insincere. “I have never met a Russian leader who said anything good about China. And I’ve never met a Chinese leader who said anything good about Russia, they are sort of treated with contempt”. What else could be expected from the creator of Triangular diplomacy, also known as the Kissinger Doctrine, the essence of which was to make China quarrel with the USSR, or today with modern Russia? However, the old fox again made a fundamental mistake because his way of political reasoning was outdated. First of all, although the Americans had a lot to offer Chairman Mao’s China in the 1970s and even later, modern China no longer really needs them, and even if it were not so, the Chinese leadership is aware that the Americans cannot be trusted when making long-term strategic geopolitical deals. Precisely on the basis of the fate that befell Russia, which had Western guarantees that the expansion of NATO would not happen, the Chinese recognize the uncontrollable American desire for aggressive expansion throughout Asia and can easily imagine American military bases on their borders. “Until the agreement between Putin and Xi at the Olympic Games, when Xi stated his opposition to NATO expansion—I don’t think any Chinese leader had expressed a view on European evolution before this. Xi must have known that Putin would go into Ukraine. That is a serious Chinese commitment”, remarks Kissinger with displeasure, but the question is whether he understands the essence of this kind of Chinese devotion to Russia. Unlike the U.S., Russia is a reliable partner that truly respects China and offers partnership and alliance without blackmailing China or making heavy demands. In addition, the Chinese are no longer ready to tolerate attempts by the U.S. and the EU to talk to them from a position of strength. Finally, the Americans are seriously mistaken if they think that the wise and patient Chinese will ever forgive them for the bombing of their embassy in Belgrade on May 7, 1999, under the guise of NATO aggression against Serbia. That terrible night, at 11:45 p.m., the Americans took the opportunity to hit the Chinese embassy building, obviously a civilian and not a military target, with three devastating missiles, causing havoc and bloodshed. Three innocent Chinese citizens were killed in that barbaric attack, and many others were wounded. NATO later hypocritically expressed regret for the unfortunate “incident”, justifying it with outdated maps, but no one believed them. It was clear to all that this crime was not a mistake but a deliberate, premeditated, and malicious show of power and an attempt to intimidate the most populous nation on the planet. Much to the regret of the U.S., China did not understand the American message in the way expected. The Chinese did not back down one bit, but they also refrained from rash and ill-advised actions and boldly continued to strengthen their economy and armed forces. Today, when China is far more powerful than the U.S. in every possible way, it also reserves the right to, if it wishes, take revenge on the Americans in a way, time, and place of its own choosing. In any case, May 7, 1999, remains an infamous historic date that will be remembered for the fact that on that fateful night, it was Kissinger’s doctrine, his life’s work, that was blown to smithereens.
The biggest Americangeopolitical nightmare is certainly the creation of a strong military-political alliance of China, Russia, and Iran. In the last years of his life, Zbigniew Brzezinski, probably the greatest of all Russophobes of all time and space — their champion, ideologue, and, as we can see, prophet — repeatedly warned the American public about this threat. Brzezinski, a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist, pointed out to his colleagues that “the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an ’antihegemonic’ coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances”. American General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the end of March this year, also presented to the American public the danger of the same scenario that will represent a huge problem for the USA in the years to come. That alliance, which is logical and therefore so easily predictable, would be expected to be joined by numerous other countries in Eurasia, the Greater Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. In fact, it is a process that is already largely built on the foundations of organizations such as the Shangai Cooperation Organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, BRICS, and the Eurasian Economic Union. Surely fully aware of this, Kissinger, whose persistence is nonetheless worthy of respect, says in an interview that he is “very enthusiastic” when he talks about India’s foreign policy and “close relations” between India and the U.S. At the same time, Kissinger expresses deep “concern” about the alleged threats China poses to India and offers his solution. “I agree with strengthening India militarily with respect to its conflict with China”, declares Kissinger as if he was called to deal with that problem and as if New Delhi is asking him personally or from Washington for approval to strengthen its military forces. The arrogant collective West is completely unable to understand that the ancient Asian nations that were literate more than 5,000 years ago will never again allow themselves to be duped by the collective West, nor will anyone succeed in putting the shackles of neocolonialism on them again. The Sino-Indian border dispute in which the Americans place so much hope is, in relation to the scale of the mutual benefit of the cooperation of the two most populous nations on the planet, truly trivial, and no doubt in the near future it will be easily overcome.
The reality is such that it is probably very difficult for Kissinger to speak about it completely honestly because he is fully aware of the total failure of American diplomacy, not only in Eurasia but on a global level, which is why he is deprived of the right to enjoy his retirement in peace. India and China are now partners in the SCO and BRICS and on the way to becoming allies, and the U.S. can’t do anything about it. With the narrative from the 1970s, Kissinger and the gerontocrats he represents certainly no longer have the diplomatic, intellectual, financial, or military potential to drive a wedge between these countries, especially not between Russia and China. What is most tragic in the whole story is that the Western geopolitical planners are not able to understand that it was precisely they who, with their aggressive and arrogant recklessness, initiated the creation of a large anti-Western bloc that cannot be stopped any longer. With their aggressive, hysterical, almost panicked, and increasingly clumsy diplomatic initiatives and other actions in international affairs, they only accelerate that process. It was exactly the proxy war of the collective West against Russia in Ukraine that sent the rest of the planet, like shock waves, the last and most serious warning that they must unite if they want to survive. We all knew a long time ago that the Americans, the leaders of that Western flock of misguided sheep, couldn’t be trusted, didn’t we? All that remains for them is to continue entertaining us with their diplomatic fairy tales for idiots while we enjoy watching their powers fade.
NATO: Aircraft Strength
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China Will Burst NATO’s Inflated Delusions
Natasha Wright
The situation will in all likelihood turn sour even more because NATO cannot stop its woeful warmongering and waging endless wars.
We are living in turbulent times indeed. Vital volumes of history are being written right before our very eyes.
You may have noticed that “Dr Doom” is sending out doom-and-gloom messages yet again. Fortune reported back in April that Nouriel Roubini (aka Dr Doom) is warning of painful stagflation caused by a new Cold War with China and the balkanization of the global economy.
Al Jazeera also reported on Roubini’s downcast views, saying, “the world is headed for dark times in the next 20 years.”
No wonder Dr Doom, who leapt to financial stardom by predicting an economic catastrophe in 2008, is now warning the world that the conflict between the United States and China is simmering – and surely not only in the area of economics.
However, the global situation is so frighteningly serious that it will most surely crescendo into a double-dip recession for a plethora of other factors as well as from the prevailing sentiments in the Pentagon predicting a forthcoming war with China.
We are living through truly turbulent times. There are countless politically crucial things happening globally that boggle the mind. If one remembers the events only this January when Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary-general, visited Japan and Korea, one can sense, to paraphrase Shakespeare, “something rotten in the state of NATOstan”.
During the course of both fleeting visits, Stoltenberg pledged to foster bilateral relations due to the historic challenges that NATO is dealing with, such as the war in Ukraine. He went on to brag that NATO already has established liaison offices globally, the main ones in New York and Vienna, and particularly indicative is the one in Ukraine. At its foundation at the inception of the Cold War in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization comprised 12 nations set up at the behest of the U.S. The military bloc now comprises 31 members and is increasingly appointing itself with a global role.
As a reminder, NATO already has permanent liaison offices in the following countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. A proposed Japan office caused considerable commotion.
NATO claims to be based on the right of states to determine their own foreign policy and to exercise collective self-defense. Despite lofty claims of upholding “democratic values”, the U.S.-dominated military alliance has been strong-arming a number of countries to join without their populations exercising a democratic mandate by holding referenda.
NATO likes turning its alleged allies into geopolitical dwarves held at gunpoint, regardless of their size or geography. Claims by the military bloc – that opening a regional liaison office in East Asia is merely an indicator of changing global security environment – sound euphemistic.
Some political analysts have observed that if NATO meanders into Asian affairs it will likely bring Russia and China even closer together. Ironically, the expansionism of the U.S.-led military bloc brings with it self-fulfilling prophecies. The global insecurity it incessantly warns about is of its own perception and making.
Nevertheless, Beijing is fully aware that if NATO places its head in a crouching tiger’s mouth, then one day it might get bitten off.
NATO has already brutally provoked the war in Ukraine, yet now the U.S.-led military vehicle wants to expand to the Far East. Its solicitous focus on Japan is particularly alarming given the vile history of Japanese genocidal aggression toward China.
That is a toxic thorn for China stuck into Asia and it will be therefore pulled out, according to the Global Times. The news outlet can be seen as reflecting the thinking of the political leadership in Beijing. The Chinese are thus fully aware of NATO’s encroaching thorns and they will not be sleep walking into disaster.
The Global Times continued: “Japan should not forget that while the Meiji Restoration made it richer and stronger, it also brought about the Westernization of Japan and its policy of leaving Asia and entering Europe, which at one time made the desire for empire extremely strong. The madness of pursuing Asian hegemony and sphere of influence led it to become a militaristic war-mongering demon, which brought deep disaster to Asian countries.”
Moreover, the Global Times’ editorial warned: “Japan wants to introduce NATO into Asia for its security. However, Japan’s security can never be achieved by relying on the military support of the U.S. or NATO. In fact, the more closely Japan cooperates with the U.S. or NATO militarily, the less it will obtain the security it wants, and the less likely it will be able to change its image as a geo-strategic dwarf.”
Don’t you just love how Beijing is calling a NATO spade a spade? “The sewage of the Cold War,” is how the Global Times referred to the U.S.-led military bloc.
And all that comes in perfect unison with Moscow’s increasingly contemptuous views of NATO as a threat to world security.
Lest we forget, the United States has instigated the vast majority (80 per cent) of the 200 or so armed conflicts that are estimated to have occurred globally from the end of World War Two until 2001. If we include the post-9/11 decades up to the present, the American responsibility for global violence might be as high as 90-95 per cent. And this is for a nation whose population is only 4.25 per cent of the globe. How utterly nefarious and condemnable is that odious record?
Shall we now mention some significant military mathematics? The Economist reports on research comparing military power of the U.S. vs China. The U.S. military budget is four times bigger than that of China. But the Chinese Navy surpassed the U.S. Navy as the biggest in the world sometime around 2020. The Pentagon continues using euphemisms, such as it considers China a “pacing challenge”.
The dilemma that appears to exasperate Western military commanders is whether China can continue on the same path and expand its military capacity to challenge the U.S. hegemony, or whether China’s relative power might be reaching its peak. The shipbuilding industry requires exorbitant investment since it requires a booming industrial base. The dilemma for the U.S. is its economic stagnation and the number of its warships are declining, in contrast to a sharp increase in the number of Chinese ships.
As for the total number of military vessels from aircraft carriers to submarines, frigates and destroyers, China surpasses the U.S. by a ratio of 390:296. It is forecast that China will have 400 warships in the next two years whereas the number of American ones will decrease to around 290. The ones which have fallen into obsolescence are to be written off. The Chinese advantage stems from having the biggest shipbuilding industry in the world. Some 44 per cent of all the ships built worldwide in 2021 were from Chinese yards.
China and its military forces are currently fully focused on Taiwan whereas the U.S. forces are scattered around globally in over 800 bases owing to untenable hegemonic ambitions. China has pledged to reclaim Taiwan if necessary by force, so tensions are running high on both sides.
Time though works in Beijing’s favor.
In the long run, the situation will in all likelihood turn sour even more because NATO cannot stop its woeful warmongering and waging endless wars.
Henry Kissinger, Statesman, Centenarian, War Criminal
Declan Hayes
Let’s look at his rap sheet to get a grasp of how he and his have drowned the world with the blood of the innocents.
So, Henry Kisisinger has done it. He has emulated Vietnam’s legendary General Võ Nguyên Giáp by reaching 100 years of age and not out. Congratulations! Happy birthday! Roll out the red carpet and give him a 100 gun salute! Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light….
But after all that superficial 4th of July, Apple Pie, Disneyland tinsel, go look at that guy’s rap sheet to get a grasp of how he and his have drowned the world with the blood of the innocents.
NATO awarded this bastard its 1973 Nobel Peace award for helping to end the Third Indo-China War, that led to independence for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In point of fact, it was not Kissinger’s alleged diplomacy but the heroic armed forces of Vietnam, led by the inestimable General Giáp, and armed and abetted by the Soviet Union and China, that ended that unremitting genocide the United States and its coalition of the willing (the United States, the ANZAC criminals, France, South Korea, the Philippines, Germany, Taiwan, Malaysia, Italy and Singapore) waged against the women of children of My Lai and tens of thousands of other Vietnamese villages, hamlets and towns. If Kissinger is hale and hearty enough to still opine on matters like Ukraine, then he is fit enough to swing for his culpability in America’s mass use of chemical and biological weapons in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. If he lived like a dog, then he should have no complaints about being hanged like one.
And, after hanging him over Indo-China, Kissinger should be dug up and hanged again over Chile, where he and his Chicago school of economic hit-men orchestrated the overthrow of Allende, the pauperisation of the Chileans and the installation of the CIA trained fascist butcher Pinochet.
Och sure that was so long ago, would you not leave the old war criminal alone to enjoy his old age, something that bastard denied so many millions of others? Chile and Vietnam are so yesterday.
If only they were. Leaving to one side the tens of thousands of Vietnamese babies who are born with congenital diseases as a result of Kissinger spraying Monsanto’s Agent Orange on their grandmothers and even forgetting that Kissinger’s Yankee mates this very day oppose Chinese aid to Cambodia, a country whose people they unmercifully slaughtered with the active help of their media shills, Kissinger’s neck must still answer for his complicity in the crimes of Pakistan, whose military, led by the United States, committed the most unspeakable outrages in Bangladesh, East Pakistan, which was the Donbas of its day, and which these gangsters are now perpetrating in Pakistan itself.
And then there is Israel, with whom Kissinger directly colluded not only against Egypt, Jordan and Assad’s Syria in the Yom Kippur war, but where he also colluded against POTUS Nixon. If that is not another hanging offence, what is?
Let’s momentarily forget, if we can, the hanging hyperbole and look at Kissinger the man if we can assume, for the sake of argument, he is a man and not the anti-Christ incarnate. Although many others before him, from at least the time of Cardinal Richelieu, had the ear of the king, it is fair to say that Kissinger’s control of Nixon was a turning point for the worst in the affairs of man. Kissinger, often with Nixon’s connivance and as often without, manipulated the Beltway’s movers and shakers to a degree that the world had previously not witnessed and people are still being slaughtered in Donbas, in Pakistan and in Latin America as a result.
Out were the self-made politicians, folk like Eisenhower, Kennedy, de Gaulle, Harold Wilson and Willy Brandt, who had excelled, as often as not in the field of battle, but always under their own steam, owing favours to no one. In were the mandarins, the Yes Prime Ministers, snivelling wretches like Kissinger, who owed their prominence to backroom deals and favours cut, thanks to the Epsteins and other shadowy king makers of the Beltway’s netherworld.
Let’s look at the U.S. military to illustrate this important point. There are currently 39 active duty four-star officers in the uniformed services of the United States: 13 in the Army, 3 in the Marine Corps, 10 in the Navy, 12 in the Air Force, 1 in the Coast Guard, 2 in the Space Force, and none in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
This bloated number, which is far in excess of what the Yanks had at the height of the Second World War, is explained by the Kissinger effect, creeping Jesuses like Kissinger playing their own game, rather than playing for Team America. The objective of the top brass is not to win wars, to defend America or any such thing but it is to enrich themselves and the defence companies they will be parachuted into upon retirement.
The same goes for the Beltway’s movers and shakers, those creeping Jesuses who have inherited Satan’s relay baton from Kissinger and who, like him, consider American domestic and foreign policy, along with America’s piggy bank, to be their own personal plaything. If you look at those at the Beltway’s centre, anti-Christs like Victoria Nuland, Lindsey Graham and John Bolton, you can trace a slime trail via the Bush Presidencies all the way back to Kissinger and Nixon. Though America might periodically change its king, its permanent government of war mongers and piggy bank robbers stays firmly in place.
But what then of General Giáp? Wasn’t he too around almost forever? Yes, but Giáp was tested not once, but always against the Japanese, the French and the hated Americans. And, because each and every time he proved his mettle, he is, arguably, the most outstanding leader of the twentieth century.
Although Giáp might conceivably have liked to have ended his adult life, as he began it, as a history teacher in provincial Vietnam, fate dictated otherwise. Not so with the Beltway’s creeps, Kissinger’s droppings, who have to this very day to see a war they did not like or profit from.
So, as the world’s hypocrites salute this degenerate’s 100th birthday on May 27th, let’s first of all remember the millions of Cambodians, Laotians, Vietnamese, Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians, Palestinians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Chileans who died the most horrible of deaths because of this conniving creep, and then let’s also say an Ave for the millions of others whose lives were sacrificed on the altars of Blair, Bush, Clinton, Obama and Kissinger’s other criminal clones.
How the West was Lost… Kiev Regime Pimping Russian Oil and Gas is Ultimate Grift that Spells Downfall for Western Backers
The oil and gas scam, like the whole war and weapons scam, and the charade of the West “defending Ukrainian democracy”, will be the undoing of the Kiev regime.
A report in the Washington Post this week (inadvertently) highlights the incorrigible corruption and unscrupulous nature of the Kiev regime. The Nazi-loving regime is not only doomed by its own depravity. Its toxic sting may well take its Western backers down with it.
The Post article by David L Stern was headlined: “Despite war, Ukraine allows Russian oil and gas to cross its territory”.
Yes, that’s right, the regime that has been hectoring the rest of the world to stop buying Russian energy is continuing to milk its transit business.
Not only that, but the Ukrainian cabal headed by a so-called president, Vladimir Zelensky, has the audacity to demand that all other transit routes for Russian oil and gas to Europe be shut down. The Nord Stream pipeline under the Baltic Sea to Germany was covertly blown by the United States last September – much to the delight of Kiev. While a southern European route known as Turk Stream via Turkey to the Balkans is being targeted for crippling sanctions by the Kiev regime and its American backers.
The blatant objective here is to give Ukraine a privileged role as the sole transit route for Russian energy. And that means the Kiev regime corners a market in services from which it can earn billions of dollars a year. If that sounds a bit like the sordid business of pimping that’s because it pretty much is.
Historically, the Ukrainian territory was the dominant gas hub for Russian oil and gas reaching Europe, covering as much as 80 percent of total supplies. Pipelines crisscross the Ukrainian steppes. For various legitimate reasons, Moscow has long wanted to diversify its supply routes to the European market. Hence the construction of the Nord Stream and South Stream routes. One of Russia’s reasons was the instability and corruption of the Kiev regime that seized power in 2014 through a CIA-backed coup. That new anti-Russian junta not only glorified the past Nazi genocide against Russians, Poles, Jews, and others, but it also felt entitled to tap Russia’s vast oil and gas supplies en route to Europe.
Yet, the Western corporate media/propaganda services peddle the NATO distortion that Russia is guilty of using “energy as a weapon”. The reality is the Russians simply and rightly wanted to protect their trade and resources from the Banderite Bandits by diversifying away from this territory.
The geoeconomics of energy trade is a crucial factor in the current war in Ukraine, which is being fueled and escalated by NATO. The Kiev regime wanted to have a monopoly on transit routes and the United States wanted to knock out Russia as a competitor for energy exports to the lucrative European Union market of 500 million consumers.
The bitter and tragic irony is that Europe has been brought to its knees by this giant imperial scam. Partly because of elitist misleaders whose allegiance is to transatlantic imperialism and who are often imbued with visceral Russophobia. Fascism and Nazism lurk in the dark corridors of European power. See our recent interview.
This week, Germany’s economy – the driver of the European Union – officially went into recession largely because of soaring energy prices. The American overlords are laughing all the way to the bank. Washington has succeeded neatly in sacrificing Europe for its own selfish interests by selling expensive fuel and unprecedented volumes of weapons. (Ordinary Americans are as much a victim of the imperial vice as their European counterparts.)
All the while, the American rulers and their puppet regime in Kiev demand that Europe imposes ever-more self-defeating sanctions against Russia – sanctions that are not actually weakening Russia but rather are only rebounding like a wrecking ball on European economies.
Washington’s transatlantic flunkies like Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, Josep Borrell and Jens Stoltenberg sermonize about “cutting off finances for the Russian war machine”. Yet, here we have the supposed Ukrainian victim of Russian oppression doing business as usual. If Kiev had any principles (admittedly a ridiculous postulate), it would close down the oil and gas pipelines. But, no, the money is too irresistible for the corrupt regime.
For its part, Moscow would argue that it continues to supply oil and gas across Ukraine because it has contractual obligations to European states, such as Hungary, that pre-date the beginning of the conflict in February 2022.
The aforementioned Washington Post article anticipates the anomaly of the Western and Kiev narrative claiming “unprovoked aggression” by Russia while continuing to do business as usual. The newspaper admits the “bizarre optics”. But it displays contorted mental gymnastics to obscure the glaring and damning contradiction.
“But as surreal as it might seem,” the Post apologizes, “Ukraine insists that it has virtually no choice but to maintain its own commercial deals and has lobbied to preserve them, arguing that they provide some leverage over the Kremlin and help constrain where the Russian military carries out airstrikes.”
The more straightforward explanation is that the Kiev regime is an über grifter.
Zelensky and his cronies are even fingered by U.S. intelligence for having skimmed off at least $400 million from the $65 billion in military aid that has been plied over the past year courtesy of Western taxpayers. Zelensky is the embodiment of a Western psy-ops cut-out. The former comedian and actor is the face of a huge global racket in arms-dealing that profits the Western capitalist military-industrial complex while at the same time recklessly pushing the world towards an all-out war between nuclear powers.
Zelensky, the comedian-conman (billed as “president”), has managed to hoodwink Hollywood celebs, parliaments, prime ministers, presidents, royals and even the Vicar of Rome, as our columnist Declan Hayes critiqued in recent articles this week and last week. His video commercials incessantly pleading for more money and arms and his “GI Joe” act in military fatigues from central casting are becoming as tedious as they are threadbare.
As our columnist Declan Hayes points out too, Zelensky is only one of a whole host of Western politician-parasites who are exploiting and feeding off the public for their corporate masters. Almost every Western political leader in office today is a con artist who betrays democratic principles.
The Kiev regime has shown its true dirty colors in manifold ways. The persecution of the Orthodox Church, the renaming of streets to honor Nazi collaborators, the shuttering of opposition media and political parties in Ukraine, the unabashed calls by senior representatives for the killing of Russian leaders and extermination of ordinary Russian citizens… the list of profanity goes on.
Millions of Ukrainians have fled their country and are being put up rent-free across Europe not because of alleged “Russian aggression” but rather to escape the corruption of the Kiev regime – a regime that the American and European media declare to be “democratic” and worthy of hundreds of billions of dollars and euros in subsidies to prop up.
The United States and its imperial “Ukrainian project” have done immense damage to Europe as well as putting world security at grave risk.
The oil and gas scam, like the whole war and weapons scam, and the charade of the West “defending Ukrainian democracy”, will be the undoing of the Kiev regime. It might even be the eventual undoing of the Western regimes that have imposed this Kiev crime syndicate on the whole world.
Aesop’s fable of the frog and scorpion seems an apt metaphor for the bloated West and its incorrigibly nasty Kiev grifter.
BREITE RÜCKENDECKUNG VON LINKSSTAAT UND UN FÜR DIE LETZTE DEGENERATION
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Kaum ist zumindest der Freistaat Bayern – überraschend genug – endlich einmal entschlossen gegen die Klimaterroristen der „Letzten Generation“ vorgegangen, überschlagen sich die übliche linksextremen politischen Sphären und ihre medialen Domestiken mit Kritik: Am Mittwoch war bekanntlich auf Veranlassung der Münchner Generalstaatsanwaltschaft und des Bayerischen Landeskriminalamts eine bundesweite Razzia gegen die immer gefährlichere Endzeitsekte durchgeführt worden. Dies erfolgte nicht etwa aus behördlicher Willkür heraus, sondern als überfällige Reaktion auf unzählige Strafanzeigen aus der Bevölkerung heraus, infolge derer Ermittlungen gegen insgesamt sieben Beschuldigte im Alter von 22 bis 38 Jahren eingeleitet und 15 Objekte in sieben Bundesländern durchsucht worden seien, wie der bayerische Staatsschutz mitteilte.
Dabei gehe es um den Verdacht der Bildung beziehungsweise der Unterstützung einer kriminellen Vereinigung gemäß Paragraf 129 des Strafgesetzbuchs; eine an sich selbstverständliche und überfällige Maßnahme, die zuvor auch aufgrund der von Terrorverharmlosern und linksgrünen “Anbiedermännern” wie Verfassungschef Thomas Haldenwang behaupteten Unbedenklichkeit der irren Klimaspinner nicht riskiert worden war. Da die von US-Milliardären und globalistischen NGOs gesponserte „“ jedoch bislang auch noch mindestens 1,4 Millionen Euro an Spendengeldern in Deutschland gesammelt hat, die überwiegend auch für die Begehung weiterer Straftaten der Vereinigung eingesetzt werden, war wohl das Maß voll. Auch die Homepage der Gruppe wurde beschlagnahmt und abgeschaltet.
Wohlstandsverwahrloste Apokalyptiker
Auch wenn von einem Ende der staatlichen Beißhemmung gegenüber den Asphaltklebern und wohlstandsverwahrlosten Apokalyptikern nach wie vor keine Rede sein kann: So massiv ist bislang noch nie gegen die selbsternannten Klimaretter vorgegangen worden. Dementsprechend heftig fielen die Reaktionen von links aus; hier wurde praktisch alles an Empörung aufgeboten, was nach den tatsächlich rein willkürlichen, grotesk unverhältnismäßigen und auf dubiosen Anschuldigungen beruhenden Großrazzien “gegen Rechts” und gegen die “Reichsrollatoren” entlarvenderweise nicht zu hören gewesen war: So machte etwa der SPD-Rechtsexperte Horst Arnold prompt die Unschuldsvermutung geltend und redete von verwischter “Gewaltenteilung zwischen Exekutive (ausführende Gewalt) und Judikative (rechtsprechende Gewalt)”. Wenn Staatsanwaltschaft und Polizei als staatliche Behörden unter Verkennung dieser Prinzipien derart undifferenziert agierten, dann trügen sie “staatlicherseits zu einer Eskalation und weiter polarisierenden Weise zur Spaltung bei”, schwurbelte Arnold. Es komme darin “eine schändliche und unwürdige Positionierung zum Ausdruck“.
Damit nicht genug, faselte er auch noch von „staatlicher Hate Speech“, weil die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft auf der Webseite der „Letzten Generation“ kurzzeitig den Vermerk gesetzt hatte, dass diese „eine kriminelle Vereinigung gemäß § 129 StGB“ darstelle. Arnold kündigte auch eine schriftliche Anfrage an die bayerische Staatsregierung an. Offenbar pfeift die SPD so aus dem letzten Loch, dass sie sich bei verirrten Kids und Klimakriminellen einzuschleimen versucht, um hier noch Rückendeckung zu generieren. Derselben Versuchung konnten natürlich auch die Grünen nicht widerstehen: Die bayerische Fraktionsvorsitzende Katharina Schulze, bekanntliche eine weitere intellektuelle Großleuchte ihrer Partei, forderte Aufklärung darüber, wie es zu “diesem Tabubruch” kommen konnte und ob die Ermittlungen auf politische Weisung erfolgt seien. Sie besaß sogar die Dreistigkeit zu warnen: „Das Vertrauen der Bürgerinnen und Bürger in die Rechtsstaatlichkeit darf nicht verspielt werden“. Merke: Wenn also gegen kriminelle Gefährder ermittelt, die den Straßenverkehr blockieren und inzwischen schon Menschenleben auf dem Gewissen haben, dann untergräbt dies das Vertrauen in die Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Sinnhafter ließe sich die Perversion des grünen Weltbildes und Rechtsverständnisses nicht mehr ausdrücken.
Giga-Heuchelei der Grünen
Ausgerechnet Schulze ist dabei die Letzte, die einen Vertrauensverlust der Bürger beklagen sollte: Sie selbst hat nämlich maßgeblich zu selbigem beigetragen, als sie sich auf dem letzten Oktoberfest ausgelassen und maskenfrei feiernd in einem brechend vollen Bierzelt ablichten ließ – obwohl sie selbst kurz zuvor noch für eine Maskenpflicht im Fernverkehr bis April diesen Jahres gestimmt hatte. Mit dieser grüntypischen Giga-Heuchelei hat sie bei den Bürgern sicherlich mehr Empörung ausgelöst als die längst überfällige Razzia gegen die gemeingefährlichen Klimairren.
Auch ARD und ZDF sprangen natürlich umgehend und rührend für die „Letzte Generation“ in die Bresche: In ausführlichen Berichten, von denen man etwa bei den zahllosen Messermorden oder aufgedeckten Terrorplänen von Migranten nur träumen könnte, wurde auf die Razzia eingegangen. Die “Tageschau” bot auf ihrer Webseite ein Interview mit dem „Protestforscher“ Saldivia Gonzatti, der die Razzia als „überzogene Entscheidung“ einstufte, weil damit die „gesamte Bewegung kriminalisiert“ werde. In einem ihrer typischen „Missgeschicke“ ließ die ARD wieder einmal unerwähnt, dass Gonzatti unter anderem bei den Grünen in Dortmund als Rechnungsprüfer tätig ist. Dafür durfte dann in den “Tagesthemen” Moderatorin Aline Abboud in einem Interview mit der Berliner Justizsenatorin Felor Badenberg als Anwältin der „Letzten Generation“ auftreten: “Wenn Menschen zu spät zu ihren Terminen kommen, das mag ja lästig sein, aber ist das denn ein Grund dafür, Razzien in sieben Bundesländern zu machen und zu prüfen, ob sie eine kriminelle Vereinigung sind?“, fragte Abboud scheinheilig – obwohl Badenberg sich ihrerseits bereits mehr als zurückhaltend zu den Klimaklebern geäußert hatte.
ARD und ZDF in “Höchstform”
Dass diese eine grundsätzlich kriminelle Vereinigung seien, schloss sie strikt aus. Und im ZDF-“Heute Journal” gab Moderatorin Mariette Slomka wie üblich genau vor, was die Zuschauer zu denken haben: “Tempo 100 auf der Autobahn und ein 9-€-Ticket – da gab es wahrlich schon Wilderes in der Republik”, sagte sie gönnerhaft zu den Forderungen der Klimasekte. Den pseudodemokratisch-sozialistischen „Gesellschaftsrat“(den die “allerletzte Degeneration” einsetzen will, um ihre wahnsinnigen Forderungen abzunicken), die lebensgefährlichen Folgen und die immensen Materialschäden der Straßenblockaden sowie die gigantische Zeit- und Geldverschwendung für deren Beendigung erwähnte Slomka wohlweislich mit keiner Silbe. Im folgenden – wie immer mehr als wohlwollenden – Beitrag kamen dann unter anderem die üblichen pseudowissenschaftlichen Verharmloser der “Letzten Generation” unwidersprochen und ausführlich zu Wort – und durften erklären, dass ihre Bewegung natürlich keinesfalls als kriminell einzustufen sei. Rauchen ist ungefährlich – gezeichnet Dr. Marlboro!
Und damit auch wirklich überhaupt keine Zweifel offen bleiben, lieferte das ZDF auch noch ein Interview mit dem Soziologen Matthias Quent, seines Zeichens Gründungsdirektor des Instituts für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft, das passemderweise in Trägerschaft der linksradikalen Amadeu-Antonio-Stiftung geführt wird. Quent warnte darin eindringlich, man treibe mit solchen Aktionen (gemeint war die Razzia) „friedliche Aktivisten in die Radikalisierung“. Dass diese – auf Schulungen und Lehrgängen konspirativ trainierte – Radikalisierung nicht der End-, sondern der Ausgangspunkt dieser Bewegung ist, wurde überall ausgeblendet.
Auch Guterres gibt sich die Ehre
Die links-mediale Phalanx schloss also die Reihen noch am Tag der Razzia. Und nochmals muss der Vergleich zu den polizeilichen Aktionen “gegen Rechts” gezogen werden: Als, mit gigantischem Bohai, die Razzien gegen die Schnabeltassen-Putschisten aus dem Reichsbürger-Milieu durchgeführt wurden und man der Öffentlichkeit den hanebüchenen Unsinn verkaufte, dass die größtenteils älteren Herrschaften unmittelbar vor dem Umsturz der Staatsordnung standen, war von solcher Skepsis gegen die Strafverfolgungsbehörden kein Wort zu hören, schon gar nicht beim ÖRR.
Die Rückendeckung für die “Letzte Generation” reicht jedoch über die Landesgrenzen hinaus; prompt machten sich auch die globalistischen Hintermänner der Klimakriminellen für ihre Schützlinge stark: Denn als ob die Rückendeckung des Linksstaates und seiner Propagandamedien nicht schon fatal genug wären, meinte nun sogar noch die UNO (!), sich zur Razzia in Deutschland einlassen zu müssen: „Klima-Aktivisten – angeführt von der moralischen Stimme junger Menschen – haben ihre Ziele auch in den dunkelsten Tagen weiterverfolgt. Sie müssen geschützt werden, und wir brauchen sie jetzt mehr denn je“, erklärte in gewohnt unerträglich-verlogenem Pathos der Sprecher von UN-Generalsekretär António Guterres, Stéphane Dujarric (von dem man eigentlich meinen sollte, er sei mit dem Ukraine-Krieg und zahllosen anderen Weltkrisen ausgelastet).
Institutionelle Verfilzung
Mit „wir“ sind hier in Wahrheit nicht die Menschen gemeint, sondern die globalistischen Drahtzieher des ganzen Klimawahnsinns: Von ihnen werden die Klimasekten als Fußtruppen nun tatsächlich dringender denn je gebraucht, da ihre Machenschaften im Zuge des Skandals um Robert Habecks geschassten Staatssekretär Patrick Graichen ans Licht gekommen sind. Dass hier ein gigantischer Moloch aus von Milliardären geförderten Stiftungen und NGOs ganze Staaten unterwandert hat, zeigt die Tatsache, dass es seit Dezember 2021 – also dem Amtsantritt der Ampel-Regierung – nicht weniger als 75 (!) Treffen zwischen der Leitungsebene des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums und Vertretern des Klimafilzes gegeben hat. Dies wurde nur durch eine Kleine Anfrage der Union bekannt, die die Bundesregierung auf 60 Seiten beantwortete.
So führten Habeck und seine Staatssekretäre nicht weniger als 13 Gespräche mit dem Freiburger Öko-Institut, 20 mit der Agora Energiewende, 34 mit dem BUND und acht mit der Stiftung Klimaneutralität. Habeck selbst gab sich dabei insgesamt 17-mal höchstpersönlich die Ehre. Die Abteilungen seines Ministeriums haben das Öko-Institut zwölfmal, die Agora 21-mal, den BUND 27-mal und die Stiftung Klimaneutralität dreimal konsultiert. Das Ministerium wurde umgekehrt 15-mal vom Öko-Institut, neunmal von der Agora und elfmal vom BUND kontaktiert. Meist ging es dabei um Stellungnahmen zu Gesetzesentwürfen oder Regierungsvorhaben.
Klimapropaganda auf Hochtouren
Diese Institute, Stiftungen und Verbände – als deren “militärischer Arm” die Klimabewegungen quasi agieren – wirken also aktiv und maßgeblich an Gesetzen der Bundesregierung mit – und das wahrlich nicht umsonst: Seit Ende 2021 gingen Aufträge in Höhe von rund 8,7 Millionen Euro allein an das Öko-Institut, dessen Projekte noch zusätzlich mit Zuwendungen von knapp zwei Millionen Euro gefördert wurden. Darunter waren so eminent “wichtige” Vorhaben wie das Projekt „KlimaAUSbildung“, das junge Menschen zu „Multiplikatoren“ im Bereich Klimaschutz schulen will. Kanonenfutter für die Klimakleber, quasi.
Während Deutschland also in Rezession, Wut und Verzweiflung versinkt, läuft die monströse Klimapropaganda-Maschine auf Hochtouren: Immer neue Irrsinns-Gesetze machen den Menschen das Leben zur Hölle, Medien und linke Parteien tun alles, um den verblendeten gemeingefährlichen Gesinnungstätern und faktischen Verbrechern der „Letzten Generation“ Persilscheine auszustellen und sie zu idealisieren – während die Bürger jeden Tag unter ihren Aktionen leiden. Im Hintergrund kungeln Ministerien mit durch Steuergelder gemästeten Organisationen Gesetze aus, die den bis aufs Blut geschröpften Menschen endgültig den Rest geben. Und wozu das alles? Für die Chimäre einer durch die Klimakrise angeblich vom Untergang bedrohten Welt.
Der Friedensstifter 