By Daniel Matissek, Ansage.org
Authorized curtailment of the text by Christian Hamann
The West's self-destructive course towards Ukraine continues relentlessly and without any rationality. At its 75th anniversary summit, NATO decided to pump another 40 billion euros of military aid into this bottomless pit. It was also decided that arms aid to Ukraine and the training of its troops should be coordinated from Wiesbaden as of July 12, 2024; this is a hectic policy of fait accompli to sabotage any alternative to the escalation course. No fewer than around 700 employees are to be called upon for this, around 40 of them from Germany.
The aim is supposedly to "put security support for Ukraine on a permanent basis and thus ensure improved, predictable and coherent support".
The new British Labour Prime Minister has also seamlessly integrated himself into the war coalition, less than a week after taking office. Already on the way to the summit in Washington, he gave Ukraine permission to use British "Storm Shadow" long-range missiles with a range of over 250 kilometers at will to hit military targets in Russia - although of course ostensibly only for "defensive purposes" and "in accordance with international humanitarian law."
Flexible Response? That was Once Upon a Time
And finally, at the end of the NATO summit, it was announced that Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and other countries, with the support of the USA, would now begin delivering F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, which are to be deployed this summer. Although Ukraine was not formally invited to join NATO, there was talk of an "irreversible path" to joining. What this is about is clear: the preparations should be made as quickly as possible in order to finally be able to declare a NATO alliance case that would retrospectively legitimize the irresponsible pseudo-moral interference in a foreign conflict that has not been covered by the alliance's purpose up to now.
The war course is therefore continuing relentlessly. Not a single word was said about peace or ceasefire negotiations. The old principle of flexible response from the Cold War, as it was reflected in the NATO double-track decision, according to which armament efforts and increased vigilance always go hand in hand with the parallel, explicit willingness to negotiate peace, has been buried.
Neutralize Trump Preventively
The continuation of a war by a country that is not even a member of NATO is still the highest priority for the alliance, and it no longer even shies away from announcing quite openly that it will not be deterred by a return of Donald Trump to the White House - which is becoming increasingly likely given the mental and physical deterioration of a gerontical Joe Biden, which can now be witnessed in real time. His announcement that he wanted to end the war in Ukraine "in 24 hours" before taking office sent shock waves through the military-industrial complex. The war lobbyists and profiteers are therefore trying at all costs to prevent Trump from changing course within NATO and to ensure that irreconcilability with Russia is maintained.
The fact that this will inevitably be resolved by nuclear weapons at a certain critical point is either denied or dismissed as unrealistic in stupendous stupidity and blindness to history: No one will use nuclear weapons, they say wisely, because they will inevitably go down second.
Double Standards as a Benchmark
That is why they keep pouring oil on the fire: Now, in order to continue the war without a White House falling into Trump's hands, if necessary, the European NATO members are to be given "more responsibility", as it was euphemistically put. For Germany, this development means de facto that the risk of a Russian nuclear retaliatory attack on Europe - and of course especially on us here - is increased even further.
A NATO insider explained that basically only the sign on the door in Wiesbaden would change. If Trump gets serious and stops supporting Ukraine, "we'll replace the US generals there with French, German or British and carry on as before." The events taking place here are quite unbelievable and are being communicated quite openly: A US president - who is then elected by the majority of the people - is to be prevented from ending a war because it does not fit into the concept of powerful forces in the USA and the ruling political cabal of a Europe sinking into chaos, who want to "punish" Putin like a naughty boy and in doing so apply moral standards that are not only ignored by at least two dozen other warring states today (including many Western allies), but also by themselves. Something like this is unprecedented in post-war history. The selective intransigence towards Russia in particular because of behavior that is undoubtedly contrary to international law, while simultaneously ignoring all the other cases of oppression and military aggression makes the West totally unbelievable and especially anyone who considers military support for Ukraine to be a necessary obligation on Germany's part. Nothing could be more wrong.
Zero Point of Western Statecraft
The current reactions to the attack on the children's hospital in Kiev last week, which the Western media blame on Russia, show how confused the situation is - although there are at least considerable doubts about this theory in terms of the timing and nature of the attack (similar to the justified case of the alleged Russian authorship of the shooting down of MH17 ten years ago or even more so the blowing up of Nord Stream almost two years ago).
Well-founded doubts are of course immediately and categorically dismissed as Russian propaganda. That may be true, but there is no absolute certainty. It is impossible for an outsider to say who is lying here, but in fact there is more evidence for a false flag operation by Ukrainian units than for Russia as the responsible party.
The old phrase that the truth is the first victim of war is confirmed again and again. The fact that the impression is being spread in the West that only Russia is conducting propaganda and not Ukraine is in any case the biggest lie of all - but it is necessary in order to effectively conceal the history, causes and background of this war, which did not begin on February 24, 2022. Thus, the Ukraine war is heading towards the zero point of Western statecraft. Realpolitik and cool analyses of meaningfulness, benefit and proportionality have given way to a blind war course. Humanity has never been closer to world war and the crazy thing is that most contemporaries are not aware of this even today - just as they do not understand what dangerous persons are ruling us.