After Russia invaded Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ordered to send weapons to Ukraine, breaking his coalition government’s short-lived policy of not sending arms into a war zone.
Scholz’s arming of Ukraine has depleted the German military’s stockpiles, prompting him to announce a plan for German defense contractors to send weapons to Kyiv directly. Despite the effort, members of Scholz’s government are frustrated with him for not acting fast enough to get heavier weapons into Ukraine’s hands.
Germany has sent missiles and artillery into Ukraine, but Kyiv is seeking heavier artillery, tanks, and armored vehicles. Ukraine hasn’t been happy with Berlin’s actions since the war started and even went as far as rejecting a visit from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Scholz has also slowed a European Union plan to boycott Russian gas since Germany is extremely reliant on Russian energy. Members of Germany’s coalition government, which is comprised of Scholz’s Social Democrats, the Free Democratic Party, and the Greens, are speaking out against his actions, arguing that the war will drag on longer if Ukraine doesn’t get more weapons.
“The longer this war drags on, and the closer Putin gets to a victory, the greater the danger that further countries will be invaded and that we then end up sliding into an extended, de facto third world war,” said Anton Hofreiter, the head of European affairs in Germany’s parliament and a member of the Greens.
At this point, the US and most other NATO members have abandoned the idea of diplomacy with Russia as a potential avenue to end the war in Ukraine. Scholz is one of the very few Western leaders that has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin since Russia invaded.
In March, Bloomberg reported that France and Germany favored negotiations with Russia while most other NATO members were against the idea. Scholz’s stance on diplomacy could be another reason why Ukraine is not happy with Berlin, and why the German chancellor is coming under domestic pressure.
So we re-enact WWII but with lots and lots of nukes. Why doesn’t the US even talk to Putin? This is John Adams-style diplomacy of moral superiority — he was kicked out of France as insufferable. This remains the US attitude toward the rest of the world.
Do the idiot Greens actually think Ukraine has a chance to win?
It is truly baffling how many people seem to live an alternate non-reality echo chamber of anti-Russian hysteria. I can’t help thinking of William Casey’s famously infamous quote:
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” – William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
… not to mention Karl Rove’s famously arrogant “We create our own reality…”
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Western weapons notwithstanding, Ukraine is a military nothingburger, while Russia is a world leader in military capability, military experience, advanced military technology, and perhaps most important, reality-based governance.
Zelensky may have the best (((media advisers))) and (((speech writers))) the world has to offer, but he’s little more than a Hollywood version of Baghdad Bob.
Interesting times.
It is truly baffling how many people seem to live an alternate non-reality echo chamber of anti-Russian hysteria. I can’t help thinking of William Casey’s famously infamous quote:
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” – William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
… not to mention Karl Rove’s famously arrogant “We create our own reality…”
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Western weapons notwithstanding, Ukraine is a military nothingburger, while Russia is a world leader in military capability, military experience, advanced military technology, and perhaps most important, reality-based governance.
Zelensky may have the best media advisers and speech writers the world has to offer, but he’s little more than a Hollywood version of Baghdad Bob.
Interesting times.
James W. Carden told us so: “The Greens are imitating all the worst features of American liberal internationalism.” and “To no one’s surprise, Baerbock’s promise to support Kyiv come-what-may and her promise to scrap the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has won her praise from American neoconservatives.” Dated: JUNE 30, 2021 from:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/germanys-greens-are-in-trouble-good/
He also wrote: “Stop Biden’s Neocon Nominee (Victoria Nuland) To The State Department” on JANUARY 14, 2021 https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/stop-bidens-neocon-nominee-to-the-state-department/
If someone can say, “I told you so,” it’s James W. Carden!