»... the test launch of Russia’s new Sarmat ICBM, which sets new records for speed, distance, destructive force of its MIRV warheads and, surely most important, imperviousness to all known and projected anti-missile systems in the West. Part of the invulnerability of the Sarmat is a function of its range, which extends to every point on planet Earth. Sarmat’s trajectory can be set as best suits its undetectability. For example, it can hit the USA by approach via the South Pole, thereby evading American tracking systems, which look to attack from the Northwest. The Sarmat’s 7 or 15 nuclear warheads can each also evade ABM systems and head for target at hypersonic speeds.
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In his words of congratulations to the designers, project developers, and manufacturers of the Sarmat, President Putin stressed the importance of the new armaments as Russia’s dissuasion directed against those in the West who would threaten the country militarily. Is anybody listening?«
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»They call for an immediate cut-off of gas supplies to Europe, to an embargo on export of titanium and other essential raw materials for advanced industrial production in the West. One alternative to these cruel and devastating moves against Europe would be to try it all out first on Japan, which has been a fervent enforcer of the trade war on Russia and even in the past few days publicly came out in support of the Azov ultranationalists, by removing them from the list of global terrorists. Russia should impose a total commercial embargo on Japan, beginning with hydrocarbons and extending into all spheres, such as fishing concessions. Moreover, Russia should position tactical nuclear weapons and other significant armaments on the Kurile Islands as a firm reminder of who owns these territories now and forever.«
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»... the broader context of the ongoing vicious Information War. The United States and the United Kingdom are conducting precisely such a hands-off operation due to their animal fear of confronting Russia in a kinetic war. Moreover, it is the only kind of war they have any chance of winning, for all that is worth.
... for reasons of military secrecy, the Russians are divulging very little about their troop concentrations and immediate plans.«
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»The European Union “leadership” is doing its best to hold up its end in this regard. If three days from now the EU member states follow the stern instructions of Gauleiter von der Leyen and reject the Russian demand to pay for their gas in rubles purchased on the domestic Russian market, then economic mayhem will follow. That damned fool, a gynecologist by education, is telling the whole EU what to do in a vital area of commerce. Her position amounts to an unbelievable usurpation of powers by a warmonger. The West is pointed straight down, like that Boeing 737 that crashed in China last week. Straight down and accelerating.«
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»My point in sharing these details is the following: royal patronage sets the Queen Elisabeth Musical Competition apart from the likes of the Metropolitan Opera or the Munich Philharmonic. It is much better insulated from day to day politics than other cultural institutions in Belgium as well, dependent as they are on state funds to survive.«
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»Ukrainian migration to Poland has been going on in great numbers for the last several decades. It was driven by economic considerations above all. Like the Baltic States, Bulgaria and Romania, post-Soviet Ukraine experienced rapid and destructive de-industrialization, which was worsened with each policy shift of their governments away from Russia, which was their longstanding export market and towards the European Union, which had little need for their industrial goods which were, in all cases manufactured according to different technical standards from those set by Brussels. All of these countries have seen loss of their able-bodied populations to Europe and to the U.K. amounting to as much as 25% of overall population.«
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»This is where India can yet play a determining role for our common welfare: by directing the emerging New World Order towards multipolarism.In doing so, India would be reestablishing the preeminent position in global politics which it enjoyed way before it had the economic wherewithal and other power attributes that it possesses today. Along with Yugoslavia, it was for decades the leader of what was designated the Nonaligned Nations.«
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»The surprise was the behavior of the “moderator,” who spoke in the most heated, shrill manner and who proceeded to interrupt and crush the one voice ahead of me, a Chinese, who tried to explain the formally neutral position of the PRC on the Ukraine conflict and his country’s sympathy for the security concerns of Russia vis-à-vis NATO that underlie the ongoing military operation to demilitarize Ukraine.«
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»Grund der Auseinandersetzung ist für Scholz die gescheiterte Verschmelzung der Gegner im Kalten Krieg in einer neuen, gemeinsamen Ordnung nach 1990. Die aus Sicht der ehemaligen Westmächte unabdingbare NATO-Integration des wiedervereinigten Deutschlands wurde zur Blaupause des späteren Roll-Outs des westlichen Bündnisses in ganz Ostmittel- und Osteuropa. Schon vor 2000 warnten Russlandkenner in den USA vor einem Konflikt mit Russland; die Vorbehalte wurden überhört. Optimisten waren sogar der Ansicht, Russland würde sich der US-Hegemonie unterordnen. Wie sich zeigen sollte, ein fataler Fehler.«
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»Aber auch Sicherheitsinteressen Russlands rechtfertigen nicht den Einsatz militärischer Mittel.«
Dann hat der Alt-Bundeskanzler dem nicht zugehört was Putin über die in der Ukraine seit 2014 eingesetzten [para-]militärischen Mittel festgestellt hat. Schröder ist eben kein Hammerstein [https://amzn.to/3vfW44A].
Der Krieg und das damit verbundene Leid für die Menschen in der Ukraine muss schnellstmöglich beendet werden. Das ist die Verantwortung der russischen Regierung.
Viel ist in den vergangenen Jahren über Fehler und Versäumnisse im Verhältnis zwischen dem Westen und Russland gesprochen worden. Und es gab viele Fehler – auf beiden Seiten. Aber auch Sicherheitsinteressen Russlands rechtfertigen nicht den Einsatz militärischer Mittel.
Und mit Blick auf die Zukunft gilt, dass jetzt bei notwendigen Sanktionen darauf geachtet wird, die verbliebenen politischen, wirtschaftlichen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Verbindungen, die zwischen Europa und Russland bestehen, nicht gänzlich zu kappen. Denn diese sind - trotz der gegenwärtig dramatischen Lage – die Basis für eine Hoffnung, die wir alle haben: dass ein Dialog über Frieden und Sicherheit auf unserem Kontinent wieder möglich ist.
