Welcome to 1941: Germany declares War on Russia in WW2 Remix
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Welcome to 1941: Germany declares War on Russia in WW2 Remix
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German Greens party leader Annalena Baerbock, a former medal-winning trampolinist and current German Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared war on Russia at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on January 25. US and EU officials have previously distanced themselves from declarations of open war against Russia, preferring to play a proxy game in the background.
“And therefore I’ve said already in the last days – yes, we have to do more to defend Ukraine. Yes, we have to do more also on tanks,” Baerbock said on Tuesday. “But the most important and the crucial part is that we do it together and that we do not do the blame game in Europe, because we are fighting a war against Russia and not against each other.”
Unsurprisingly, Annalena Baerbock is a 2020 graduate of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leader’s program. The WEF has an ongoing PR campaign to flood the center stage of world politics with fresh nubile faces.
The following day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz formally announced that after weeks of stalling and frustrating negotiations, Berlin has agreed to send two battalions of Leopard 2 A6 tanks to Ukraine.
In a statement, the German government said it would first send one company of 14 tanks to Kyiv, with further plans to send up to 88 tanks from its own inventory.
Germany has declared war on Russia in the past. In fact, the German declaration of war on Russia on August 1, 1914, is considered the beginning of hostilities in World War 1. And in the second world war, Hitler had the long term goal to conquer Poland and expand eastwards to claim Lebensraum im Osten (room to live in the east), by attacking and defeating Russia in a single, one-front war.
And as Sir John Halford Mackinder famously hypothesised in 1906: Whoever wants to rule the world must first rule the world island (Eurasia) and whoever wants to rule the world island must rule the Heartland (Russia). And furthermore, the gateway to conquering Russia is the Ukraine. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (The more that things change, the more they stay the same.)
With profound doublespeak, Foreign Minister Baerbock puts the tanks on the board, announcing the King’s Knight Opening in her speech to the EU: “President Putin wants to drag Europe back to a past dominated by power politics where states can trample on individual rights in the pursuit of imperial glory. Where rulers depose of their citizen’s lives like pawns in geopolitical chess games.” Or maybe it’s Queen’s pawn sacrifice if Poland can be egged into tossing some tanks into the mix.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said, enthusiastically, that his country was prepared to build a “smaller coalition” of countries that would send in tanks, if German refused to pony up. He elaborated with a straight face, saying that “Evidence of the Russian army’s war crimes can be seen on television and on YouTube.” What better place would you look for evidence of war crimes than television and YouTube?
President and used car salesman Joe Biden upped the ante and offered 31 Abrams tanks for the war effort. Russian ambassador to America, Anatoly Antonov said, “An analysis of the entire sequence of Washington’s actions shows that the Americans are constantly raising the bar of military assistance to their puppet government. This is especially clear when the Russian armed forces gain new victories and confidently liberate the territory of Russia from the Nazi threat.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, responded by pleading Jewish, claiming his top officials consistently reject any association with Nazism, despite persistent and verifiable accounts of the fascist Azov battalions in the Ukraine who are embedded within the Ukrainian National Guard:
Zelensky seemed desperate in a gathering of 50 defense ministers at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Friday.
“I could thank you hundreds of times, and it would be absolutely just and fair, given all that we have already done,” Zelensky said at the time. “But hundreds of thanks are not hundreds of tanks,” he added, not understanding that it’s the thought that counts in billion dollar weapons gifting.
Not to be left out of the party, Canada jumps on the tankwagon and donates 4 German-made Leopard tanks to the Ukraine war effort. Canada has 82 Leopard 2 tanks in various states of operability, but due to contractual obligations with Germany, Canada needed to first ask permission from Germany to send them to the Ukraine. Imagine the irony of nations asking Germany’s permission to use their tanks in the run up to World War III.
The Kremlin is unconcerned, however, with NATO escalation. According to cocky Russian ambassador Antonov, “If a decision to transfer to Kiev M1 Abrams is made, American tanks without any doubt will be destroyed as all other samples of NATO military equipment.” Time will tell if he is correct.
Meanwhile, Zelensky pointed out to all the world that there’s no business like the war business. With unabashed frankness, he said in a video address to a meeting of the National Association of State Chambers in Boca Raton, Florida, “It is already clear that this will be the largest economic project of our time in Europe;” referring to Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction.
“We have already managed to attract attention and have cooperation with such giants of the international financial and investment world as BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. Such American brands as Starlink or Westinghouse have already become part of our, Ukrainian, way,” he said.
After the tanks, comes the F-16’s: Lockheed Martin announced it will be “ramping production on F-16s.” A shiny new F-16 Viper costs roughly $70 million, and costs $22,450 an hour to operate. Lockheed Martin doesn’t mention who will be footing the bill, but the prudent plan would be for BlackRock, et al, to loan Ukraine a gazillion dollars, guaranteed by the US taxpayers. This in turn, will ensure that Ukraine is owned lock, stock and barrel by US corporate interests (if it isn’t already).
It would seem sheer madness to escalate the conflict by dragging multiple nations into the war zone, but madness is the order of the day.
Regardless of his politics, this quote from Pope Francis seems poignant:
“… War is madness. Whereas God carries forward the work of creation, and we men and women are called to participate in his work, war destroys. It also ruins the most beautiful work of his hands: human beings. War ruins everything, even the bonds between brothers. War is irrational; its only plan is to bring destruction; it seeks to grow by destroying.
Greed, intolerance, the lust for power … are the motives underlying the decision to go to war, and they are too often justified by an ideology; but first there is a distorted passion or impulse. Ideology is presented as a justification and when there is no ideology, there is the response of Cain: ‘What does it matter to me? Am I my brother’s keeper?’ War does not look directly at anyone, be they elderly, children, mothers, fathers. ‘What does it matter to me?’”
~ Homily at Military Monument of Redipuglia, Gorizia, Italy, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, Sept. 13, 2014
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