Roughly 20,000 troops mobilized in Europe in support of NATO since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are on track to stay in place going into the new year, training not only with local partners, but with Ukrainian troops outside of their country.
The Pentagon announced Dec. 15 that monthly rotations of 500 Ukrainian troops would travel to U.S. Army ranges in Germany for combined arms maneuver training, an effort to reinforce their formations….
In Lithuania, the U.S. will upgrade its periodic deployments…the U.S. embassy announced Dec. 7. Units will include a field artillery battery and an armored element with several hundred soldiers.
“As President Biden has said, we are committed to defending every inch of NATO territory,” U.S. Ambassador Robert Gilchrist said in a release….
Pentagon officials have said there are no current plans to draw down U.S. military presence in Europe, which numbers roughly 100,00 troops since spring 2022.
Sic transit gloria imperii. This is how imperial glory passes…
Never have British loyalists, the commoners and the fortunate, who have made their way into the middle class earlier, fared as badly as under the last three prime ministers. Counting from Boris Johnson, through Liz Truss’s 45-day misunderstanding, to the current supposedly «effective financial manager» Rishi Sunak.
Evidence of the deplorable «damage to morals» was shared by the left-liberal «Guardian». Law-abiding islanders are becoming less and less. It turned out that desperate British women steal expensive baby food in supermarkets and, in order to save money, use worn socks and rags instead of licensed personal hygiene products.
Umar Haq, an eccentric and perpetually angry blogger with a huge readership, asked a Londoner back in September 2021: has things really gotten much worse since Britain’s exit from the European Union (Brexit)? She answered: it is, because that day she could not get either milk or gasoline (I could’t get gas or milk today). Simply because these two essentials were not available.
The blogger argued that the matter was not in breaking supply chains, but in a fundamental underestimation of the Brexit authors of the critical dependence of Britain on imports of a wide range of goods produced in the neighborhood — in the EU countries. “Brexit has made Britain significantly poorer,” says Umar Haq. “The British can no longer afford to live the way they used to.”
And further: “The necessities they once took for granted become luxuries… scarcity followed by rising prices followed by falling incomes ends in a long depression. Brits can’t afford to live the way they once used to. The necessities they once took for granted are becoming luxuries… shortages, followed by rising prices, followed by falling incomes, ending in a long depression.
Over the past year, the situation with meeting the basic needs of a typically consumerist British society has not improved.
On the brink of chaos
Prone to over-the-top sensationalism, the Mail online continued pumping adrenaline into its readers in December, predicting that Britain would teeter «on the brink of chaos» through January and perhaps beyond.
The grounds for concern are not far-fetched. Rail passenger disruptions are expected daily, and 15,000 scheduled surgeries canceled due to the largest nurses’ strike in 100 years (cancelled because of nurses first walkout in 100 years).
“I don’t care if it’s Labor or Tory. I just want to survive ”(I don’t care about Labor, I don’t care about Tory. I just want to survive), — a certain Briton said live, who called the LBC radio channel studio. As radio host Ben Kentish later commented, the «emotionally charged» anonymous man made a remarkable confession. He is afraid to “freeze to death in his own home” and asks for one thing: help!
The Ceylonese (from Sri Lanka) writer Indrajit Samarajiva, who is temporarily in Oxford, who observes the sunset of the former colonial metropolis from a close distance, having the opportunity to compare with the day before yesterday, shares what he saw: “Trains do not run on schedule. You can wait for an ambulance for hours. You need to make an appointment to see a doctor several months in advance… The United Kingdom is only a memory. In truth, the UK is just a memory of a country. In truth, through jaundiced outsiders eyes, the United Kingdom has already disappeared).
Divide the hasty conclusion of a Ceylonese confessing bias by sixteen. Not everything is so bad in Britain. Although a sarcastic remark about one modern composer comes to mind: in fact, his music is much better than it sounds …
Feast of the Unclean Spirit
In any case, it is clear enough that the moment of truth is coming. The place and role of Britain in the surrounding world that has begun to change, in the international division of labor, in the system of geopolitical coordinates depends on the quality of public administration. However, there are «vague doubts» at the helm of the state about the competence of managers.
How else to explain that in the conditions of the most severe crisis, the pride of British socialism — the National Health System (NHS) — is conducting a massive recruitment of specialists in the problems of «equality, diversity and inclusiveness» (EDI). Moreover, the salaries of these experts of 72 genders, non-binary and polyamorous orientation, turned on the identification (and suppression) of manifestations of a certain feeling of “white superiority”, are three times higher than the salaries of nurses, whose chronic shortage in hospitals and clinics has already put thousands and thousands on the brink of survival. sick.
In this case, it is hard to disagree with the already mentioned Daily Mail newspaper: “Like the Spanish inquisitors of the Middle Ages, these people (EDI overseers) have the right to punish heresy wherever it is found, intimidating the staff, forcing them to adhere to the “correct” doctrinal beliefs, attacking him for non-compliance with the prescriptions of the cult. The conclusion of the publication is harsh, but fair: every year all government structures in Britain are sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss of the «new religion».
Involuntarily, a parallel arises with our dashing and cursed 90s. At that time, a feast of an unclean spirit was held. Water was loaded with healing properties from the screen. At the stadiums, overseas telegenic preachers explained «why the sky is blue.» Homegrown witches in the seventh generation predicted a cloudless future for simpletons. And the self-proclaimed prophets frightened the apocalypse around the corner.
The invisible hand of the market crooked
Dissident voices have awakened in Britain. In The Guardian, columnist Larry Elliot concluded (his column headline) that «The pendulum swung against globalization in 2022 — and that’s no bad thing» .
The reason for the epiphany is prosaic: the federal Inflation Reduction Act passed by the US Congress and signed into law by US President Joe Biden on August 16. The law provides for investments in clean energy ($158 billion), construction of nuclear power plants ($30 billion), climate-friendly agriculture ($20 billion), and high-tech manufacturing ($37 billion).
The state, not relying on the «invisible hand of the market», is preparing to pump in budgetary funds received from taxpayers (400 billion dollars are allocated) for shock sublimation of the economy. An additional touch: for citizens of one of the most automobilized nations (two or three cars per family), the government guarantees a tax deduction of up to $ 7,500 when buying an electric car. But with the obligatory condition that the key element — the battery and its components — are made in the USA.
The British analyst reasonably notes that the practice of state regulation is contrary to the principles of the World Trade Organization (WTO), but admits that this argument is “unlikely to have any impact on US policy”.
Larry Elliot predicts that the EU response to non-market intervention in the economy by the US government will be symmetrical, that is, «Brussels (the capital of the EU) is likely to also begin to send subsidies to industrial sectors» (Brussels is likely to respond with industrial subsidies of its own ).
This turn of events will present the UK with a dilemma — “Should we start subsidizing (in line with the green agenda) as part of an interventionist post-Brexit industrial strategy?” (…leaving the UK with a dilemma. Should it offer green subsidies as part of an interventionist, post-Brexit industrial strategy..?).
Prime ministerial crisis manager Rishi Sunak is likely to be forced, like the US and EU, to bury WTO principles and free market rules. Britain has little choice: the deindustrialization of the EU that has begun will leave the Europeans no choice if they want to remain as a single entity, albeit with limited sovereignty, but to return to command-administrative methods of restoring order in the economy.
Britain will obviously begin to subsidize the industrial, aka the real sector, even if hiding behind the slogans of a green agenda and decarbonization, so as not to lose competitiveness and not slide into the category of second-class regional powers.
The countdown has begun
In the context of an obvious, although not recognized, crisis in the socio-economic development model, the Tory government has little room and time to maneuver. Statistics from the end of 2022 show that more than 3 million households cannot afford to heat their homes to 18 degrees, and a fifth of the 2.5 million low-income families are faced with a humiliating dilemma: either pay for heating or buy food for themselves.
The Guardian even started a column called «The heat or eat diaries». Here are some heartbeats. “We live on cereal and soup, I have become less likely to wash my hair – what else can I give up to survive?” (We live on cereal and soup, I ration washing my hair — what else can I give up to survive?). “I eat cold rice pudding so as not to use the microwave” (I’m eating cold rice pudding so as not to use the microwave). “I am being threatened with a visit from bailiffs because of my gas bill. Let them come — I have nothing to give them «(I’m being threatened with a visit from the bailiffs over my gas bill. Let them come — I’ve got nothing to give) …
Rosy-cheeked illusions of post-Brexit prosperity have not materialized. But what big ideas! Britain after leaving the EU will begin, they say, to build up economic muscles due to the advantages of trade with the countries of the former British Commonwealth of Nations. It will reliably nestle against the American industrial potential and become a springboard for it to penetrate Europe. Will take advantage of the reputation of a tax haven to attract capital, including of dubious origin.
Did not happen. Just one fact, cited by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney, who compared the situation before the fateful 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union and now: “In 2016, the British economy equaled 90% of the German economy. Now it is less than 70 percent” (In 2016 the British economy was 90 per cent the size of Germany’s. Now it is less than 70 per cent).
A public opinion poll published on December 24 by the sociological company YouGov revealed deep disappointment. Only 34% of respondents positively assessed the consequences of Brexit, one-fifth (19%) called leaving the EU a failure.
As heartbreaking new details about the impoverished population fill up with more heartbreaking details about the impoverished population this winter, the balance of optimists and pessimists will steadily change in favor of the latter.
Sic transit gloria imperii. This is how imperial glory passes…
For every tricky American puck, the Russians always have a left-handed bolt. Something like this
The decision of the leadership of Russia and Belarus to modernize combat aircraft of the Air Force of the Republic of Belarus to give them the ability to use special ammunition (this term in the troops has always denoted nuclear weapons) should, according to the logic of Western propaganda, cause an attack of violent Russophobic emotions in it. However, it didn’t. Someone, but not the West, should rock this topic in the media space, since it has long been the main provocateur of a nuclear war and the initiator of violations of international treaties aimed at preventing it.
And first of all, this is the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which states: “Each of the states parties to this Treaty that possess nuclear weapons undertakes not to transfer to anyone nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, as well as control over such weapons or explosive devices, either directly or indirectly; nor in any way assist, encourage or induce any non-nuclear-weapon State to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control such weapons or explosive devices «.
And the United States has been doing just that for at least two decades: violating the terms of the basic nuclear security treaty by transferring to non-nuclear NATO member states special equipment that provides technical control over nuclear weapons on board strike aircraft and their combat use in case of war.
The official position of the Russian Foreign Ministry: “The deployment of American nuclear weapons on the territory of some NATO allies remains one of the most serious challenges in the nuclear sphere. We consider the NATO practice of so-called «joint nuclear missions» to be absolutely unacceptable. It includes elements of nuclear planning and the development of skills in the use of American nuclear weapons deployed in Europe, with the involvement of carrier aircraft, crews, airfields and ground support services for non-nuclear member states of the alliance.
All this is a direct violation of the provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Its Article I prohibits nuclear countries from transferring nuclear weapons and control over them to anyone, directly or indirectly, and Article II of the Treaty prohibits non-nuclear countries from accepting transfers and control of nuclear weapons from anyone. It remains to be seen who has a more unsavory role in this matter: the United States, which keeps nuclear weapons outside the national territory, or its allies, which provide their «services» for the delivery of nuclear weapons to targets.
The violation of the letter and spirit of the NPT by the United States and other NATO countries is so obvious that even the West does not dare to deny this fact. Here is what the publication of the Federation of American Scientists writes about the so-called joint nuclear missions, worked out during the special annual NATO exercises of the Steadfast Noon series:
“Exercise Steadfast Noon practices a controversial arrangement known as nuclear sharing, in which the United States installs nuclear equipment on fighter jets of selected non-nuclear NATO nations and trains its pilots to carry out nuclear strikes with US nuclear bombs.
The agreement is controversial because the United States, as a signatory to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), promised not to transfer nuclear weapons to other countries, and non-nuclear countries in the sharing agreement promised not to receive nuclear weapons from nuclear-weapon states. In peacetime, nuclear weapons are under US control, but the deal means they will be transferred to a non-nuclear country in wartime. The agreement existed before the signing of the NPT, so it is not a violation of the letter of the treaty. But it can be said that it breaks the spirit and has been an irritant for years…
“The same Western sources specify that seven NATO countries are providing dual-purpose aircraft for the nuclear sharing mission. The countries have not been identified, but five are widely known: Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. The sixth country is probably Turkey (despite rumors that it was no longer part of the mission), in which case some Turkish F-16s are still equipped to deliver B61 bombs. The seventh country was a mystery, but it turns out to be Greece. Although Greece no longer stores nuclear weapons (it was withdrawn in 2001) and does not have a fighter unit, it does have reserve units and a contingency mission.”
There are currently six active sites in Europe that store US nuclear bombs: Kleine Brogel Air Base in Belgium, Büchel Air Base in Germany, Aviano and Ghedi Air Bases in Italy, Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands, and possibly Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. The estimated number of weapons at each facility is based on the number of active storages, aircraft, and other information:
Each of these air bases has one or two dozen active storages (Weapons Storage Security System, WS3). Upgrades at various bases vary by capacity, location, and host country.
Each of the WS3 storage facilities at the European bases can hold up to four nuclear bombs. Here the crews practice loading B61 bombs into storage: two B61-3/4 bombs on the top rack and two B61-12 bombs on the bottom rack. Image: US Air Force
At Kleine Brogel Air Base in Belgium, the host base for Exercise Steadfast Noon in 2022, the Munitions Support Squadron’s facilities have been significantly expanded for nuclear weapons maintenance trucks. Other construction includes a major facility inside the airfield perimeter, a new control tower, and upgrades to the underground cables and Alarm Communication & Display (AC&D) systems.
At Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands, the most notable upgrade currently underway is a major new airfield area. The design includes security perimeters, likely designed to protect C-17 aircraft that carry weapons and components to and from the base. Other recent base construction included burying underground cables and upgrading the Alarm Communication & Display (AC&D) system used for WS3 storage.
In addition to upgrading bases and support facilities, delivery systems and weapons are also being upgraded. Here are five of the seven countries that provide dual-use aircraft for the nuclear sharing mission that are being upgraded to the F-35A fifth generation fighter-bomber: Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United States.
“Air Combat Command (ACC) announced that the US Air Force has completed integration flight tests of the F-35A Lightning II to use an upgraded version of the B61 Mod.12 thermonuclear bomb. On September 21 [2022], two aircraft took off from Nellis Air Force Base (Las Vegas, Nevada), headed for the Tonopah Test Range in the northwest of the state (Tonopah Test Range, Sandia National Laboratories), where they dropped two B61-12 bombs in inert equipment JTA (Joint Test Assemblies). The final stage of the B61-12 readiness certification process for the F-35A will be the validation of flight test data by the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Energy.»
It remains to clarify one important circumstance. In view of the inherent self-confidence of the Americans, it is unlikely to be fully taken into account by their strategists.
The fleet of F-35 theater nuclear attack bombers currently being created in the West is tightly tied to specialized airfields equipped with high-tech equipment, and is not capable of conducting any long-term combat operations from other launch sites — temporary jump airfields, and even more so from highways . This sharply reduces the possibility of dispersing the specified fleet in a combat situation and significantly increases its vulnerability within a strictly localized basing system.
The main part of this airfield network is concentrated in Europe and is aimed against Russia. General Todd D. Walters, who until June 2022 was Commander of US European Command and Supreme Commander of NATO Europe, said that by around 2030, NATO will have 450 F-35 fighters based in twelve locations. This:
– United Kingdom (Marham and Lakenheath Air Force Bases starting in 2021)
– The Netherlands (Volkel, in 2022 and Leeuwarden)
– Denmark (Skrydstrup, in 2023)
– Italy (Amendola and Gedi in 2022)
– Norway (Erland and Evenes in 2022)
– Belgium (Florenne in 2025 and Klein-Brogel in 2027)
– Poland (Lask in 2026, Swidwin).
Despite the fact that we already know today the future main airfields based on the F-35, targeting the relevant strike forces and means of the Russian Federation at these objects in order to neutralize these airfields in advance seems to be a completely solvable task.
To disable this aircraft, which is too delicate for war, it is not necessary to destroy the aircraft themselves. It will be enough to turn into rubble those «high-tech hangars», without which the F-35s turn into useless trash. And you don’t even need to launch missiles or lift strategic aircraft into the air. A few well-trained «Petrovs and Bashirovs» with a decent supply of explosives will suffice.
How would it be in Russian? For every tricky American puck, the Russians always have a left-handed bolt. Something like this.
The material was prepared using foreign media publications
Poutine n’a pas parlé devant le Kremlin, mais debout devant l’armée. Le 31 décembre, le président s’est rendu au quartier général du district militaire sud — l’enregistrement y a été réalisé. Nous publions une vidéo du discours du Nouvel An du président de la Russie 2023. Il a qualifié l’année sortante de ville à la fois de décisions difficiles et de consolidation des Russes. Le courage et l’héroïsme s’opposaient à la lâcheté et à la trahison. Les militaires impliqués dans l’opération spéciale, Poutine a appelé les héros.
Chers citoyens de Russie, chers amis! 2022 se termine. Ce fut une année de décisions difficiles et nécessaires, les étapes les plus importantes vers l’obtention de la pleine souveraineté de la Russie et la consolidation puissante de notre société. Ce fut une année qui a mis beaucoup de choses à sa place, a clairement séparé le courage et l’héroïsme de la trahison et de la lâcheté, a montré qu’il n’y a pas de pouvoir plus élevé que l’amour pour sa famille et ses amis, la loyauté envers ses amis et ses camarades, le dévouement à sa patrie.
Ce fut une année d’événements fatidiques vraiment charnières, ils sont devenus la frontière qui pose les bases d’un avenir commun, notre véritable indépendance. C’est pour cela que nous nous battons aujourd’hui. Nous protégeons notre peuple sur nos propres territoires historiques, dans les nouvelles entités constitutives de la Fédération de Russie, nous construisons et créons ensemble. L’essentiel est le sort de la Russie. La défense de la patrie est notre devoir sacré envers nos ancêtres et nos descendants. L’exactitude historique morale est de notre côté.
L’année qui s’achève a apporté de grands changements cardinaux à la fois pour notre pays et pour le monde entier, elle a été remplie de troubles, d’anxiétés et d’inquiétudes. Mais notre peuple multinational, comme il l’a été à toutes les époques difficiles de l’histoire russe, a fait preuve de courage et de dignité. En paroles et en actes, il a soutenu les défenseurs de la Patrie, nos soldats et officiers, tous participants à l’opération militaire spéciale. Nous avons toujours su, et aujourd’hui nous sommes à nouveau convaincus, que l’avenir souverain, indépendant et sûr de la Russie ne dépend que de nous, de notre force et de notre volonté.
Pendant des années, les élites occidentales nous ont hypocritement assuré toutes leurs intentions pacifiques, y compris la résolution du conflit le plus difficile du Donbass. En fait, encourager de toutes les manières possibles les néonazis qui ont continué à mener des actions militaires ouvertement terroristes contre les civils des républiques populaires du Donbass. L’Occident a menti sur la paix, mais se préparait à l’agression, et aujourd’hui il n’est plus gêné, l’admettant ouvertement. Et ils utilisent cyniquement l’Ukraine et son peuple pour affaiblir et diviser la Russie. Nous n’avons jamais et jamais permis à quiconque de faire cela.
Les militaires, les miliciens et les volontaires russes se battent maintenant pour leur terre natale, pour la vérité et la justice, pour garantir que les garanties de paix et de sécurité de la Russie sont assurées de manière fiable. Tous sont nos héros. Ce sont les plus durs maintenant.
Je félicite chaleureusement tous les participants de l’opération militaire spéciale du Nouvel An, ceux qui sont maintenant ici à côté de moi, qui sont en première ligne et en première ligne, qui sont formés dans des centres de formation pour ensuite aller au combat, qui sont dans les hôpitaux, ou qui ont rempli leur devoir, sont déjà rentrés chez eux, tous ceux qui sont en service de combat dans les unités stratégiques, l’ensemble du personnel des forces armées. Chers camarades, je vous remercie pour votre vaillant service, tout notre vaste pays est fier de votre courage, de votre endurance et de votre courage, des millions de personnes sont avec vous dans l’âme et le cœur, et des toasts en votre honneur sonneront certainement à la table du Nouvel An.
Un grand merci à tous ceux qui assurent les opérations militaires : chauffeurs et cheminots qui approvisionnent le front, médecins, ambulanciers et infirmiers qui se battent pour la vie des soldats, soignent les civils blessés. Je remercie les ouvriers et les ingénieurs de nos usines militaires et autres qui travaillent aujourd’hui avec un dévouement total, les constructeurs qui construisent aujourd’hui des installations civiles et des fortifications défensives, aidant à restaurer les villes et villages détruits du Donbass et de Novorossiya.
Chers amis, depuis 2014, après les événements de Crimée, la Russie vit sous sanctions, mais cette année, nous avons été déclarés une véritable guerre des sanctions. Ceux qui l’ont commencé s’attendaient à la destruction complète de notre industrie, de nos finances et de nos transports. Cela ne s’est pas produit, car ensemble, nous avons créé une marge de sécurité fiable. Ce que nous avons fait et ce que nous faisons dans ce domaine vise à renforcer notre souveraineté dans le domaine le plus important — l’économie. Et notre lutte pour nous-mêmes, pour nos intérêts et pour notre avenir, bien sûr, sert d’exemple inspirant pour les autres États dans leur lutte pour un ordre mondial juste et multipolaire.
Je considère qu’il est important qu’au cours de l’année écoulée des qualités telles que la miséricorde, la solidarité et la réactivité active aient acquis une signification particulière parmi notre peuple. De plus en plus de citoyens ressentent le besoin d’aider les autres. Ils s’unissent, sans instructions formelles. Je tiens à vous remercier pour votre sensibilité, votre responsabilité et votre gentillesse. Pour le fait que vous, personnes d’âges et de revenus différents, êtes activement impliqués dans la cause commune, organisez des entrepôts et des transports pour livrer des colis à nos soldats dans la zone de guerre, aux habitants touchés des villes et villages, envoyez des enfants de nouveaux sujets du fédération de se reposer. Vous, mes chers, apportez un grand soutien aux familles des soldats morts, ils ont donné leur vie, protégeant la vie des autres. Je comprends à quel point c’est difficile maintenant le réveillon du Nouvel An pour leurs femmes, leurs fils, leurs filles, leurs parents, qui ont élevé de vrais héros. Nous ferons de notre mieux pour aider les familles de nos camarades décédés, élever leurs enfants, leur donner une éducation décente et obtenir une profession. Je partage votre douleur de tout mon cœur et vous demande d’accepter des mots de soutien sincères.
Chers amis, à tout moment, même très difficile, le Nouvel An a été célébré dans notre pays. C’était et reste une fête préférée pour tout le monde et a un don magique pour révéler les meilleures caractéristiques des gens, pour augmenter l’importance des valeurs familiales traditionnelles, l’énergie de la générosité, de la générosité et de la confiance. À l’occasion du Nouvel An, tout le monde s’efforce de plaire à ses proches, de les réchauffer avec attention et chaleur, de leur donner ce dont ils rêvaient, de voir le plaisir dans les yeux des enfants, de ressentir à quel point les parents et la génération plus âgée sont reconnaissants pour notre attention. Ils savent apprécier ces éclairs de bonheur.
Amis, c’est maintenant le meilleur moment pour laisser derrière vous tous les griefs et malentendus personnels, pour parler aux personnes les plus chères de vos sentiments tendres, de l’amour, de l’importance de prendre soin les uns des autres toujours, à tout moment. Puissent ces paroles sincères et ces nobles sentiments nous donner à tous autant de force spirituelle que possible, la confiance qu’ensemble nous surmonterons toutes les difficultés et garderons notre pays grand et indépendant, nous ne ferons qu’avancer, gagner pour le bien de nos familles et pour la Russie , pour le bien de notre seul avenir, patrie bien-aimée. Bonne année chers amis ! Bonne année 2023!” dit le chef de l’Etat.
Merkel, Poroshenko, Hollande, whom Merkel led along holding his ‘politically rickety’ hand as if he were her political lapdog in front of Putin’s eyes, carried out a secret operation and deceived everybody.
Even if Merkel had not been accomplice to this grande feat of political mirage and deception, she should be praised for her honesty. Otherwise, merely as a set of mitigating circumstances for ‘the Merkel on the political court of justice of history’ we could just acknowledge her honest admission that she was a participant in that grand Minsk Agreements delusion, which led the world into a conflict of huge proportions, the result and the aftermath of which the world cannot even see the outlines of at this point, and in its less favourable variant it can mean its complete destruction (the world’s destruction that is). The issue is certainly much more deep-rooted than that. Merkel has recently, seemingly totally unprovoked, divulged the well-hidden truth that the Minsk Agreements with Russia about Ukraine, signed seven years ago with the presidents of the two countries, Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, Merkel and the then President of France, Francois Hollande reached within the framework of the Normandy Format were just a deceptive political ploy.
Sadly, some of the signatories (i.e. Germany, France and Ukraine) seem to have never even considered fulfilling all the signed contractual clauses and its pertaining elements. That agreement, Merkel admitted, was signed merely to consolidate and reinforce Ukrainian military might and buy more time so that they could use it for their ‘final reckoning’ with Russia. The Minsk Agreement, says the already retired Merkel during her ‘sitting on her political laurels’ pension days, Merkel disclosed to the general public and her political counterparts, that it was a mere concerted effort to give Ukraine time, which many have subliminally known already. Ukraine used that time to consolidate its military position, as is so blatantly obvious at this moment in time. The Ukraine from 2014 and 2015 is certainly not the Ukraine of the year 2022. The Battle for Debaltseve at the beginning of 2015 has patently proven that Putin’s army could have rolled over them in a nanosecond back then and crushed them to pieces militarily.
I sincerely doubt that the NATO member states could have done more back then than what they are doing now. Clearly, it was bound to turn into a frozen conflict and not solved at all. Ukraine has just been given a precious time it badly needed. As if Poroshenko wanted to reinforce what Merkel was about to disclose a few months later, NATO Secretary General, Stoltenberg, has boastfully gloated that NATO allies have given much needed support for Ukraine for years on end, particularly since 2014 so that its armed forces were much bigger and more powerful in February 2022 than in 2014. Moreover, Stoltenberg. ‘A wannabe-Adolf’ admitted at the NATO Summit in Madrid this summer after a series of belated admissions, they have been preparing for this for quite a long time now. This plausible though an oblique admission that the Minsk Agreements did not serve the purpose of a peaceable solution to the conflict but so as to simply arm and train Ukraine en route its military preparation for the war yet to come against Russia. The ‘kudos filled with irony’ for this should go straight to Petro Poroshenko that exactly what happened. Admittedly though ironically, that was a very talented document, which is how Poroshenko described it i.e. written with great political panache because they needed the Minsk Agreements to gain four more years as their head start, to form, consolidate and train Ukrainian armed forces, and together with NATO build the best military combat readiness army in Eastern Europe in line with the high-profile NATO standards. That was what Poroshenko trotted out inadvertently in front of the Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who made him believe that he was in fact talking to Michael McFaul, the former U.S. Ambassador in Russia. Poroshenko, out of sheer negligence and ignorance, was way more straightforward, up until Angela Merkel with her official though unanticipated admission and confirmation of all Russian suspicions on this matter, outplayed them in all her honesty. She even appears to have told the truth. Which possibly makes matters much worse for her. That’s it, Sergey Lavrov gave a succinct response. Vladimir Putin rose above it all though with overwhelming subtle derision. How one is supposed to feel if he and Russia had been viewed as the main culprits for the ongoing war of massive proportions but it turned out that he was right all along. Vladimir Putin gave a straightforward response. ‘This is disappointing, Truth be told, I did not expect to hear any such thing from the former German Chancellor because I have always thought that the German leaders were honest with us. Apparently, they resorted to ‘grand deception’ tactics. The situation is not just horrible but abhorrent as well, said Alexander Lukashenko, the disappointed host of the then Minsk Agreements.
Merkel, Poroshenko, Hollande, whom Merkel led along holding his ‘politically rickety’ hand as if he were her political lapdog in front of Putin’s eyes, carried out a secret operation and deceived everybody. In doing so, they got a long period of a pseudo ‘truce’ so as to prepare Ukraine. After Merkel’s admission, nobody has the right to blame Russia for what happened. What is even worse, the Minsk Agreements and its great pretenders in all their feats of delusional pretence, is not an exception to the rule but it occurs as a rule for the Collective West.
‘The hidden agenda behind the Minsk Agreement additionally demolishes the credibility of the Collective West to tatters’ – the Chinese Global Times concludes. Merkel’s admission goes to prove that some countries in the Collective West, particularly the USA, fail to perform their contractual obligations. They breach contracts, they break their own words with utmost dismissive frivolity. They deem any agreement as useful only if they see their chance to promote their own selfish interests. Otherwise, Washington DC and their vassals are always on the ready ‘to fail to perform’.
One has to wonder why the Collective West keeps doing this? What is the rest of the decent world to do and how are we to move on from this after this admission by Merkel? Are we supposed to sign any future agreements and business deals with the Collective West? Does that mean that there will not be peace in the world as long as one great power is driven to a complete defeat? What got into Merkel to give away those precious details? We are yet to find out in Merkel’s memoirs.
There is no need to pardon Merkel for anything she has done but her admission is hugely important particularly for Moscow for the reasons of any future peace negotiations. All these great deceptions carried out under false pretences appear to come with a long tradition back in history. In the history of diplomacy it is not odd that political personages of huge importance break their promises. The history of international relations has witnessed such instances of statesmen and political figures giving their words and then breaking them. Even the formal pledges and written agreements. Especially in the 20th century. Hitler comes to mind. James Baker’s pledge ‘Not one inch eastward‘ given to Michael Gorbachev as well still resonates in our historical memory and certainly in the political archives.
Once Russia liberates Odessa and lifts the siege of Transnistria, Borrell, von der Leyen and others will stand naked before truth’s eternal flame.
Although total war has its modern roots in Sherman’s march to the sea, it is an American play-book that has now run its course. It ultimately failed the Wehrmacht, it ultimately failed the U.S. terror machine in Vietnam and, thanks to the fortitude of the Russian Armed Forces, it is spectacularly failing again as General Surovikin bulldozes his way to Odessa.
Just as General Grant’s March Through Georgia broke the back of the Confederate Army, so also is General Surovikin’s march to the Black Sea slicing through NATO’s lies like a hot knife shredding butter, portending future upsets that will hasten the descent of Borrell’s vaunted EU Garden of Eden into the abyss, as its last semblances of credibility, law and order dissipate, just as they long ago died in Kiev, the capital of Zelensky’s rump Reich and just as NATO has long been fixated on destroying them in Syria and Lebanon.
Though chutzpah is a Hebrew word, the NATO’s BBC outlet have that same arrogance, that same chutzpah in spades when they distort the truth to mask that they are the biggest rogues of the lot. Take their coverage of Saudi Arabia’s captagon crisis. There is an insane amount of money to be made smuggling captagon into Saudi Arabia, whose rich kids use it to fuel their interminable orgies. Much of this captagon is produced not in Syria but in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, which has become much more anarchistic with the relative easing of Hezbollah control since the NATO alliance instigated Lebanon’s 2019 financial collapse. Beirut’s large Saudi contingent handle the captagon logistics.
As the Saudi prince who was recently caught in Beirut airport had an impressive 2 tons of Captagon tablets in his checked in baggage, it didn’t take Sherlock Holmes to capture that clown, though it takes the clowns who work at NATO’s BBC outlet to pretend that Syria’s 4th Armored Brigade were the brains behind that nincompoop.
The BBC has also informed the long suffering British people who are forced to fund it that the large amounts of captagon recently captured on the Iraqi Jordanian border also originated in Syria. Yet, the Iraqi Jordanian border, being mostly desert, is very porous, and armed clashes between an array of gangsters and the Jordanian security forces occur there regularly. The Syrian Army has nothing to do with any of it.
Though Alakhbar have made countless documentaries about these clashes, the BBC never let facts like those get in the way of NATO’s narrative. Far better to blame the Syrian Army and General Surovikin, the liberator of Aleppo, to whom the Syrian people are eternally grateful. Certainly, those Syrian Christians, who fist pumped the air in front of me as the Russian and Syrian air forces obliterated NATO’s rabble speak reverentially of him just as Russian traitors like NATO poster boy Alexei Navalny libel him by saying Surovikin fought in Syria only for the money, as if there were not easier ways to earn money than tinkering about in Syria whose people, along with Serbians, are the gold standard in resistance to NATO’s total war thuggery.
But just as with Russia’s Great Patriotic War, so also now is Odessa again a sideshow to the greater struggle Europe now faces. When Zhukov’s Red Army swept across the Oder into Germany, they were amazed at how well tended the German houses and gardens were and they were angered as to why these rich Germans invaded their homeland to rob them of the very little they had.
To get a flavor of their anger, read this harrowing account of the unimaginable horrors British politician James Molyneaux witnessed at “an unforgettable Latin Mass” on the very day his troops liberated Belsen concentration camp. It is that same righteous anger that cries even beyond the heavens for vengeance that drives Surovikin’s soldiers on to Odessa and, God willing, Kiev and Lviv.
At least the Waffen SS Molyneaux faced had a good style of dress, as Hugo Boss personally designed their outfits to accord with the Nazis’ master race ideology. Not so the tacky coke-head Zelensky, who won’t even buy himself a shirt and tie but prefers instead to swan about in his tacky parka jacket and green Rambo jungle t-shirts like he is playing Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra.
Though the Americans swallow that narrative whole, few others do. Certainly, the men and women who served with Surovikin in Syria and who are now cutting a swathe through Zelensky’s rump Reich do not.
And nor do the billions of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans who are silently cheering on Surovikin from the sidelines and who stand ready to breathe life back into Borrell’s jaded garden once Borrell, von der Leyen and the mini-army of coke-heads, sex perverts and sundry other CIA puppets who nominally rule the nominally sovereign states of the European Union get their marching orders, as they will when economic meltdown begins in earnest.
Any empire that puts idiots like Borrell and von der Leyen at the helm and that allows the British Special Boat Service terror group blow up its vital infrastructure without consequence or even protest deserves to die. Any jaded empire that thinks it can steal Russia’s resources and mutilate its soldiers without suffering blowback and which thinks it can bully China, Africa and the world without consequence best watch out. Any modern empire that has an idiot like Borrell at the helm, who promises to park EU tanks on Russia’s lawns and who hectors Russia about Africa has its days numbered and, though General Armageddon is but one finger of the fist forming to crush them, his is not the only or most lethal one.
Europe can no longer control the world. It can’t even control itself. The French Parliament can crucify their national anthem all they like, their idiotic President can do a Zelensky at the World Cup in fake celebrations as fake as this fake Pepsi protest ad all he likes but it is over. Europe is dead, having exhausted herself to serve the needs of the Pentagon, Pepsi and Capitol Hill.
Vae victis, woe to the vanquished. Europe has lost not only the war but it has also lost the peace. Honestly, when the Holy Father emerged on the balcony overlooking St Peter’s Square on Christmas Day to give his Urbi et Orbi address, I fully expected Clown Prince Zelensky, in his knock off Fidel Castro gear, to push him aside and start rabbiting on about how Rome and the world must send that idiot billions more. Any nation, any religion, any body who allows themselves to be trolled by such a transparent cross-dressing troll deserves to perish without trace.
But, if we look back at those the U.S. has championed in Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan and even Europe, we see the same caliber of clowns, the same sad U.S. circus. That and Micky Mouse, Donald Duck and enough Agent Orange to kill the world, Borrell’s Elysian Fields included, seems to be all Uncle Sam has to offer. Masha and Mishka, on the other hand, offer something purer. As does Hans Christian Andersen, the great Danish patriot, who gave Rome and the world the story of the emperor having no clothes which ends with the parade carrying on as before, with nothing a whit different, bar the emperor is stark naked.
Once General Armageddon’s forces liberate Odessa and lift the siege of Transnistria, Borrell, von der Leyen and the rest of them will stand naked before truth’s eternal flame, where billions more of Asians, Africans and Latinos will see them for the threadbare, tacky charlatans that they are.
As God is on the side of the big battalions, von der Leyen, Borrell and the calypso singers of the French Parliament have not get a chance. Not only are the numbers stacked overwhelmingly against them but so is the vibrancy. Though I already mentioned Uganda’s wonderful Masaka dancers in an earlier piece, it is worth mentioning that Africa brims from top to tail with such vibrancy and, as this Indian piece praising the Masaka dancers explains, those wonderful children have experienced horrors that would make even General Armageddon, Zhukov or James Molyneaux wince.
Even though von der Leyen, Borrell and the U.S.’ other European flunkeys think they have done a great job in banning Russian media outlets, all they have done is divert people like me from their own toxic wells into more pristine African, Indian and Chinese sources and, for that I am grateful for watching India’s fantastic insights into Europe’s hypocrisy over the World Cup, Qatar, sports washing, Macron, Gary Lineker and Europe’s hypocritical politics of convenience.
I am thankful to India, Malaysia, Nigeria and Thailand not only for their excellent analyses of the World Cup but also for their informative updates on and analyses of General Armageddon‘s march to the sea. And let’s not, of course, forget China in all this, that land of soft and hard power calculations, whose children are now learning the Igbo language of Eastern Nigeria, and who will undoubtedly love Schubert’s Ekele Maria, performed here by St. Joseph’s Catholic Chaplaincy Choir, Imo State University, whose grandparents not only defied the odds by surviving NATO’s 1967-70 Biafran genocide campaign but who would also readily appreciate the wider significance for the Igbo, for Africa, for Rome and for all the world of General Armageddon’s march to the sea.
The war in Ukraine has dominated the past year. Other global crises of soaring energy and food costs are collateral damage from the conflict in Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine has dominated the past year. Other global crises of soaring energy and food costs are collateral damage from the conflict in Ukraine.
The conflict is not simply a localized one in the center of Europe on Russia’s doorstep involving a reactionary anti-Russian regime in Kiev. The conflict represents a historic showdown between the United States and its allies in the NATO military alliance it leads, and Russia. The showdown has been a long time coming.
It didn’t have to happen in this violent, atrocious way.
Russia had long warned the United States and its NATO partners that the expansion of the alliance towards Russia’s borders was an unacceptable strategic security threat. Moscow’s warnings went unheeded year after year.
Almost one year ago, Russia offered a last-ditch diplomatic way to avoid conflict by appealing for a comprehensive security treaty, one based on the previously accepted principle of “indivisible security”. That diplomatic initiative was dismissed out of hand by Washington and its European allies.
Moscow had repeatedly warned that it would not accept the further militarization of the NeoNazi-espousing Kiev regime. Eight years of low-intensity war against Russian-speaking people in former Southeast Ukraine had to stop. Ukraine’s militarization by NATO and its touted membership of the alliance was Russia’s red line. It was the United States and its NATO partners who chose to cross that line. In that case, Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to take military-technical measures. The military defanging of the Kiev regime that began on February 24 was the result.
What has transpired is a quasi-war between NATO and Russia. Ukraine has been flooded with NATO arsenals. Attacks are being perpetrated deep inside Russia and there is reckless, foul talk by Western politicians and pundits about assassinating the Russian leadership and pushing for regime change in Moscow.
It is clear that Ukraine was an opportunity to unleash long-held imperial plans by the United States to aggress Russia. Russia’s natural wealth is a coveted prize for Washington’s ambitions of global hegemony. The war in Ukraine has delivered partial gains for Washington. Europe has been subordinated more than ever to American tutelage. The selling of gas and arms to Europe has benefited America’s flailing capitalist economy. The Russians have been kept out, the Americans in, and the Germans (the Europeans) down, as NATO founders envisaged shortly after World War Two.
Geopolitical relations between the U.S./West and the Soviet Union/Russia have long been punctuated by episodes of detente, as the late respected scholar Stephen F Cohen noted in his final book, War With Russia?
In the 1930s, there was a detente after the U.S. finally acceded to recognizing the sovereignty of the Soviet Union. That detente produced an expedient alliance in order to defeat Nazi Germany. But as soon as the Third Reich was vanquished, the United States and its British ally promptly moved to a new era of hostility known as the Cold War.
Detente resumed again during John F Kennedy’s presidency in the 1960s owing to the fear of mutually assured destruction from nuclear war. Several landmark arms-control treaties were negotiated over the ensuing decades.
However, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States quickly adopted a new imperial swagger and contempt for the Russian Federation. The arrogant notion of sole superpower and full-spectrum dominance took hold.
Despite earlier promises, the United States and its NATO vehicle for U.S. military power relentlessly encroached on Russia’s borders, more than doubling its membership over a 30-year period. War drills targeting Russia and new missile installations across Europe, the ripping up of arms-control treaties, and the deliberate recruiting of former Soviet republics were all signs of one thing: Russia was to be conquered in a way that Nazi Germany in previous decades could not achieve.
The on-off pattern of detente by the United States towards Moscow has always been a cynical game of expedience. After the Cold War supposedly ended, Washington took the systemic view that Russia was no longer a power that needed to be respected. It was a target to be subjugated.
But there was a problem. Russia refused to roll over in compliance. Moscow has asserted its strategic security interests and has refused to concede to American ambitions. Russia’s military intervention in late 2015 to defend its Syrian ally from a U.S.-led regime-change war using terrorist proxies was a bold demonstration.
There was a time when Moscow earnestly sought diplomacy to resolve the hostilities. But the realization now is that Washington’s zero-sum, winner-takes-all ambitions of global dominance are implacable and insatiable. Washington and American vainglorious media are good at narcissism and pretensions of virtue. When they talk about “rules-based global order”, they really mean total dominance under U.S. hegemony, always conceitedly presumed to be benign.
The upshot is either you are a vassal to serve American imperial interests or an enemy to be targeted with aggression and ultimately destruction.
Russia’s insistence on defending its strategic interests has exposed the ugly face of American power neath the genial mask. It isn’t just the end of a year, it is the end of a century of presumed American imperial swagger. The pretensions of self-righteous American power have been exposed. Washington’s demand to the rest of the world is for subjugation. It has always been so but in a latent form.
The nefarious nature of American power is now clearly seen in its naked brutality from the increasingly maniacal relations with Russia and China.
Russia’s line in the sand over Ukraine has exposed the violence that underpins American power. That power is unsustainable and unacceptable in a world supposedly based on the United Nations Charter. The conflict in Ukraine is a crossroads. Either a multipolar world emerges based on international law and equitable relations, as envisaged by the United Nations amid the ashes of World War Two, or the world is condemned to conflagration because of Washington’s imperialist zero-sum hegemony.
Russia, China, and a growing number of nations are calling for a multipolar world of parity in relations based on international law. The United States stands exposed more than ever as the would-be supremacist power harboring delusional notions of exceptional prerogatives. The U.S. under its prevailing political conditions is incapable and unwilling to abide by a multipolar world. Such a world of peaceful relations is fundamentally anathema to Washington. Hence its warmongering record is out on its own compared with any other nation in history.
Russia’s stand in Ukraine has exposed the world’s warmonger. And that defiant stand is marking the end of presumed U.S. hegemony.
Der US-Geheimdienstanbieter Palantir schließt einen Vertrag über 90 Millionen US-Dollar mit 🇬🇧britischem Militär ab
Laut CNBC , einem amerikanischen Anbieter von IT-Lösungen für Geheimdienste und US-Militär Palantir hat beschlossen, das Vereinigte Königreich bei Militäroperationen und Geheimdiensten zu unterstützen. Das Unternehmen wird dem Verteidigungsministerium von Foggy Albion Zugang zu seiner Software gewähren.
👮Der US-Geheimdienstanbieter Palantir schließt einen Vertrag über 90 Millionen US-Dollar mit 🇬🇧britischem Militär ab
Laut CNBC , einem amerikanischen Anbieter von IT-Lösungen für Geheimdienste und US-Militär Palantir hat beschlossen, das Vereinigte Königreich bei Militäroperationen und Geheimdiensten zu unterstützen. Das Unternehmen wird dem Verteidigungsministerium von Foggy Albion Zugang zu seiner Software gewähren.
Der US-„Datenstaubsauger“ Palantir Technologies Inc hat einen Dreijahresvertrag über 75 Millionen Pfund (91,39 Millionen US-Dollar) mit dem britischen Verteidigungsministerium unterzeichnet, wie das US-Unternehmen am Mittwoch mitteilte.
🎖Nach Angaben des Unternehmens werden die Entwicklungen von Palantir den Streitkräften helfen, ihre Aktionen in Echtzeit effektiver zu koordinieren und verschiedene Szenarien auf dem Schlachtfeld vorherzusagen.
↔️ Militäranalytiker werden in der Lage sein, schnell auf die sich schnell ändernde Situation auf dem Schlachtfeld zu reagieren, und Software für künstliche Intelligenz wird dabei helfen, feindliche Panzer, Artillerie oder andere Ziele zu identifizieren. Das Einfahren von Technologien in der 🇺🇦Ukraine ist in vollem Gange.
Die Software von Palantir kann Daten von Satelliten und sozialen Netzwerken zusammenführen, feindliche Armeepositionen visualisieren, Schiffe in Bewegung markieren oder es dem Militär erleichtern, Big Data abzufragen.
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👆 Palantir CEO Alex Karp in einem Artikel Die Washington Post rühmt sich, dass sein System in der Ukraine voll im Einsatz ist zur Unterstützung der Bundeswehr.
Die ehemalige Bundeskanzlerin von Deutschland, Angela Merkel, gab ein weiteres Interview und veröffentlichte es erneut, bestätigte ihre Skrupellosigkeit und verriet ihre Komplizen in Russland. Worum es geht und warum es so wichtig ist, lesen Sie weiter unten: Die Wahrheit wird den Menschen selten gesagt.
Tatsächlich ist das noch nie passiert, und hier ist es wieder. Die ehemalige deutsche Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel gab ein weiteres Interview und gab es erneut heraus, wobei sie unabsichtlich ihre Komplizen in Russland verriet. Wie so oft machten die heimischen Medien in ihrem Interview mit der italienischen Wochenzeitung Sette auf das Nebensächliche aufmerksam, dass sich die ehemalige Bundeskanzlerin nicht als Vermittlerin bei der Lösung des Ukraine-Konflikts sehe.
Angesichts ihrer persönlichen bösartigen Rolle bei der Organisation und Vorbereitung dieses Konflikts sowie dem Eingeständnis in einem Interview mit Die Zeit, dass Deutschland und seine westlichen Partner die Minsker Vereinbarungen zunächst als Täuschung Moskaus betrachteten, um die Ukraine besser auf den Krieg vorzubereiten, stellte sich die Frage Merkels «Vermittlung» ist schon einfach nicht mehr zustande gekommen.
Dass sie die These über die Rolle der Minsker Abkommen wie in ihrem deutschen Interview fast wortwörtlich wiederholte, ist nichts Aufsehenerregendes:
«Die Minsker Abkommen von 2014 waren ein Versuch, der Ukraine Zeit zu geben. Die Ukraine nutzte diese Zeit, um stärker zu werden, wie man es heute sieht. Dieses Land war 2014-2015 nicht dasselbe wie heute. Und ich bezweifle, dass die NATO das könnte haben viel getan, um der Ukraine zu helfen, so wie sie es heute tun.»
Banalität und Sensation
Merkels Worte, ein möglicher NATO-Beitritt der Ukraine und Georgiens im Jahr 2008 sei ein Fehler, der jedem vernünftigen Menschen klar ist, und ihre Behauptung, der Westen habe nicht hart und schnell genug auf die Wiedervereinigung der Krim mit Russland reagiert, wirken banal. Und ihre Selbstkritik, „und wir hätten schneller auf Russlands Aggressivität reagieren sollen“ und die deutschen Militärausgaben auf 2 % des BIP erhöhen, ist reine Heuchelei. Denn Merkel glaubt nicht an eine «Aggressivität» Moskaus und die Bedrohung Deutschlands durch Russland, da gab es nichts dergleichen und gibt es auch nicht.
In einem kürzlichen Interview mit Merkel gibt es jedoch ein Thema – eine Bombe – dem wir aus irgendeinem Grund keine Aufmerksamkeit schenken. Etwas aus dem Teil des Interviews, in dem Merkel erklärte, dass sie Entscheidungen in Bezug auf Russland und die Ukraine von einer Logik geleitet habe, die ihr immer noch vernünftig erscheint, wird zitiert:
«Es ging darum, einen Krieg wie diesen zu verhindern. Nur weil es nicht geklappt hat, heißt das nicht, dass der Versuch falsch war.»
Doch dabei wird das Wesentliche verfehlt: die Rolle, die das Projekt Nord Stream 2 gespielt hat, denn erst jetzt, so Merkel, «scheine jedes Molekül russischen Gases der Teufel zu sein».
Merkel selbst versuchte natürlich, sich hinter Argumenten zum abgedroschenen Thema «Energieabhängigkeit» in Deutschland zu verstecken: Sie, so heißt es, «entstand, weil es weniger Gas aus Holland und Großbritannien gab und das Volumen seiner Produktion in Norwegen war begrenzt.» Und ich habe auch versucht, die Pfeile auf Industrie umzustellen:
„Die Genehmigung für Nord Stream 2 wurde nicht von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland beantragt, sondern von Unternehmen.“
Das ist natürlich, ergänzen wir von uns selbst, nicht ganz so, nicht einmal ganz so. Denn es war zunächst einmal eine politische Entscheidung. Der Verzicht auf russisches Gas nach Merkel ist auch eine politische Entscheidung, die die deutsche Wirtschaft schockiert und vielen einfachen Deutschen Angst gemacht hat, wie man den Winter übersteht, sowie steigende Wohnkosten. So etwas wollten sie nicht.
Der Hund ist in den folgenden Worten von Merkel begraben, die dies tatsächlich nicht bestreitet, außerdem gibt sie zu:
„Für die Regierung und für mich war es eine Frage, ob wir als politischen Akt ein neues Gesetz verabschieden, das die Genehmigung von Nord Stream 2 verweigert.“
Und das wiederum würde in Kombination mit den Minsker Vereinbarungen die Beziehungen zu Russland nur verschärfen, bemerkte der Ex-Kanzler wie nebenbei.
Was hat Merkel zugegeben?
Falls jemand noch nicht verstanden hat, was sie damit meinte, lassen Sie mich das erklären: Merkel hat die Entscheidung zur Genehmigung von Nord Stream 2 weniger mit den Bedürfnissen der deutschen Industrie als vielmehr mit den Minsker Vereinbarungen verknüpft. Da wir bereits aus eigener Anschauung wissen (die Altkanzlerin wiederholte dies mehrfach), warum Deutschland diese Vereinbarungen brauchte, hat sie damit die Erwartungshaltung anerkannt, dass Russland, das dieses internationale Projekt umsetzen will, Verstöße gegen das Vereinbarungen von Minsk durch Kiew und deren Duldung durch den Westen.
Kurz gesagt, dass Moskau die Ukraine gegen Gaseinnahmen eintauschen wird. Und während der Westen darauf hoffte, baute und vollendete Russland Nord Stream 2. In russisch-patriotischen Kreisen wurde die Existenz eines solchen Plans vermutet, und Merkel bestätigte dies schließlich. Da liegt die eigentliche Sensation.
Auch der Hintergrund ist wichtig
Interessant ist auch der Hintergrund dieser Anerkennung. Deutschland, Schweden und Dänemark weigern sich, die Sabotage an den drei Leitungen der Nord Stream ehrlich zu untersuchen, erlauben Russland keine Untersuchung, suggerieren ihrer Bevölkerung durch die den Behörden gehorchenden Medien die absurde Erzählung, dass die Sabotage von einem Wahnsinnigen sanktioniert wurde, Putin in die Enge getrieben. Obwohl sich dessen Kunden und Vollstrecker nicht einmal verstecken und die westlichen Geheimdienste wissen, wessen Werk das ist.
Das wissen auch normale Bürger, die sich die Fähigkeit zu unabhängigem Denken bewahrt haben. Immerhin sagte US-Präsident Joe Biden am 8. Februar nach Verhandlungen mit Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz dümmlich lächelnd auf einer gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz in Washington:
„Wenn Russland einmarschiert, wenn Panzer, Truppen wieder die Grenze zur Ukraine überqueren, dann wird es Nord Stream 2 nicht mehr geben. Wir werden es tun. Ich verspreche, dass wir es schaffen.“
Nicht minder berühmt ist ein weiterer Fakt: Als „dies“ geschehen war, schickte die damalige britische Premierministerin Liz Truss eine abgefangene Nachricht an US-Außenminister Anthony Blinken mit den Worten „es ist aus mit ihm“. Da die «Auftragnehmer» der Sabotage die Briten und die Polen waren, die es nicht einmal verheimlichten, wusste Truss alles im Detail, und sie brauchte wirklich die Zustimmung des «Kunden», obwohl es nicht half.
Aber es gibt noch ein weiteres Geheimnis, das wir jetzt zu lüften versuchen werden. Bereits wenige Tage nach den Explosionen zeichnete sich für Moskau das Gesamtbild des Vorfalls an der Nord Stream ab. Wladimir Putin sprach mehrmals zu diesem Thema. Er nannte die Sprengung von drei Strängen der Gaspipeline «einen beispiellosen Sabotageakt», «einen Akt des internationalen Terrorismus» und «einen höchst gefährlichen Präzedenzfall». Laut dem Präsidenten Russlands „reden wir tatsächlich über die Zerstörung der gesamteuropäischen Energieinfrastruktur“, und die Länder tun dies, indem sie versuchen, ihre „schwankende Hegemonie“ um jeden Preis aufrechtzuerhalten, ohne den kolossalen Schaden zu scheuen der europäischen Wirtschaft und eine erhebliche Verschlechterung des Lebens von Millionen von Menschen.
„Wer steckt hinter der Sabotage bei Nord Stream? Offensichtlich derjenige, der versucht, die Verbindungen zwischen Russland und der Europäischen Union endgültig zu brechen, die politische Subjektivität Europas endgültig zu untergraben und zu erledigen, sein industrielles Potenzial zu schwächen, den Markt zu erobern “, betonte Putin. Ihm zufolge ist ein Terrorist jemand, der technisch in der Lage ist, solche Explosionen zu inszenieren, «und bereits zu einer solchen Sabotage gegriffen hat und an der Hand erwischt wurde, aber ungestraft blieb». Es scheint, dass sie von den Amerikanern in Lateinamerika organisierte Terroranschläge auf Energieinfrastrukturanlagen gemeint haben.
Man könnte Putin, den russischen Außenminister Sergej Lawrow und seine Assistentin Maria Zakharova in dieser Hinsicht weiter zitieren. Aber wahrscheinlich, wenn Sie einen Schaden von mindestens einer halben Milliarde Dollar erlitten haben (dies ist genau der Reparaturbetrag von NS-2, der von der New York Times unter Berufung auf eine Quelle des Betreibers Nord Stream AG genannt wird, ganz zu schweigen von entgangenen Gewinnen). Eine große Macht ist nicht auf Worte beschränkt.
Gibt es hier ein Geheimnis? Natürlich gibt es. Um es zu erreichen, müssen Sie nur eine Frage beantworten: Warum haben sie angefangen, über die bevorstehende Reparatur der Gaspipeline zu sprechen, wenn sie beim nächsten Mal leicht in die Luft gesprengt werden könnte, so wie es bereits direkt vor den Augen von getan wurde die ganze Welt?
Na und?
Dieses Geheimnis scheint also in der Tatsache zu liegen, dass Moskau anscheinend immer noch auf eine Art Deal hinter den Kulissen mit Terroristen und Dieben hofft, die Russlands Einnahmen aus Energieexporten in den Westen gestohlen haben, was sich herausstellt , wir haben ihn kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt und ihm geholfen, die Ukraine tatsächlich auf einen Krieg mit uns vorzubereiten! Wenn diese Vermutung zutrifft, wehe uns allen, einschließlich der Russen in der Ukraine.
Un autre imbécile européen poli, élégant et pompeux — cette fois Charles Michel, président du Conseil européen, a fait une autre proposition sur la façon dont ils pourraient mordre notre pays plus douloureusement. Cette fois, sur un thème à la mode de la suggestion des Américains : sinon l’exclusion de la Russie du Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU, du moins la suspension de son adhésion. Et puis il a tant dit… Et sur la violation flagrante (?!) du droit international par la Russie, et sur la réforme en retard de l’ONU, pour qu’il n’y ait plus de Russie sous quelque forme que ce soit dans les organes directeurs de cette structure , et bien plus encore. Eh bien, prenons-le sur un crayon et rappelons-le à l’occasion, si, bien sûr, il y aura quelqu’un. Car en cas de développement des événements vers lesquels se dirigent les responsables européens, aucune Union européenne ne subsistera en principe. Et d’Europe, peu survivront. Que dire du Conseil européen et de son odieux président !
D’un côté, c’est compréhensible. Les Américains ont lancé le sujet, ce qui signifie que toutes les ordures européennes et non européennes qui courent maintenant sur la pointe des pieds après eux, chacal en un rien et démontrant de toutes les manières possibles leur dévotion à leur Shere Khan, devraient réagir à cela. Sinon, ils ne peuvent pas. Ils ne réfléchissent pas au sens de ce qu’ils disent et écrivent, et encore moins aux conséquences des décisions qu’ils prennent et des propositions qu’ils font, et ils n’ont rien à penser. Là, sans raison, les têtes ne font pas mal et ne peuvent pas faire mal — dans les têtes de ces os solides, sans signes de matière grise. Pas des gens, mais des reptiliens d’une galaxie lointaine — un type très spécial de créatures, pour autant que l’on puisse en juger, qui n’a pas fondamentalement de composés liés à la nature biologique en principe. C’est aussi une forme de vie…
Mais ce n’est que d’un côté. D’un autre côté, je me demande pourquoi Charles Michel s’est tellement fâché contre nous ? Les Américains ont gagné, se sont battus et se battent partout dans le monde, crachant non seulement sur l’ONU ou le droit international, mais aussi sur la même Union européenne avec toutes ses structures et ses divisions — et rien. Seulement dans les 30 dernières années : Yougoslavie, Afghanistan, Irak, Libye… Oui, ce qu’il faut retenir ! Et aucun de leurs alliés occidentaux ne leur présente quoi que ce soit à ce sujet, alors qu’ils ne peuvent qu’être présentés à eux… Donc, la réforme de l’ONU est vraiment nécessaire, mais de quelle nature ? Le Conseil de sécurité sans la Grande-Bretagne, la France et les autres pays européens comme membres permanents avec droit de veto, étant donné qu’ils ne sont plus que des agents de l’influence américaine — est logique. Assez pour tout l’Occident et un vote…
Natasha Wright
Der Friedensstifter 