Monday, March 18, 2024

German Lawmaker Speech To Bundestag On Ukraine Excoriates The Insanity Of Warmongers

 by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, 18 March 2024

For decades now Germany, with good reason perhaps, had been averse to becoming involved in foreign wars and until at least halfway through 2023 was quite equivocal on matters concerning the war in Ukraines, sending weapons, money and humanitarian aid to Kiev but refusing to join the outrigh condemnations of Russia led by the USA and UK. In the latter stages of last year however, something changed.

Though it was obvious to any objective observer that Ukraine could not possibly win the war, and by any reckoning had already suffered a crushing defeat and was only continuing to fight instead of seeking a negotiated settlement because its NATO allies would not allow the Kiev regime to inflict such a huge embarrassment on their efforts to weaken Russia but means of a proxy war.

It was probably the realisation that Ukraine could not win that prompted leaders in Washington DC, London, Paris and Berlin to escalate the ir rhetoric, calling for more advanced weapons including tanks, fighter - bomber aircraft and even long range ballistic missiles to be given to the Ukrainian military. Not everybody was on board with that, in fact as calls for escalation increased, so did opposition to the war and demands from centrist politicians to urge Ukraine to seek a way out and NATO leaders to tone down the threats of escalation and direct intervention.

Sahra Wagenknecht a leading membersof Germany's Left Party (Die Linke), has recently formed Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice. Last week she gave a stirring, courageous speech in the Bundestag (German national assembly,) warning the German government against following other along the path to war with Russia. A handful of European leaders are urging escalation, saying 'we' cannot allow Ukraine to lose. France's Little Napoleon, Emmanuel Macron has even talked of sending Western troops to Ukraine to fight on the front line as a viable 'option'. 

"Have you all lost your minds?" Wagenknecht asked the elected members of the Bundestag. She also said in her speech: "The Scholz government has already crossed one red line after the other. In the meantime we reached the point where German Air Force officers calmly debate how to destroy Russian targets with German cruise missiles..." She continued, "The scandal is that we have reached a point where it has become normal to have such debates."

Wagenknecht went on: "Our grandiose military experts from the Greens have been telling us for two years now what 'game changer' we have to deliver next so that Ukraine can win this war." The hawks "dream" about using German missiles to "destroy ministries in Moscow," she said. "And when the pope speaks out against this madness, saying that Kiev should negotiate rather than drive the country to suicide, he was called a 'Putin troll'." She then emphasized, "The whole world outside the German political bubble knows that Ukraine cannot with this war. For a long time there has been no winning in Ukraine. There has only been.. bloody dying day in and day out. And Taurus missiles won't change any of that."

She is right of course, no matter how many Taurus missiles and Leopard 2 tanks Germany sends or Storm Shadow missiles and Challenger tanks UK sends or how many F16 planes and Abrams tanks the USA sends, Russia can match them. And far from weakening Russia all the western leaders have achieved is to weaken their own alliance while shifting geopolitical power to the east and strengthening the already formidable alliance of Russia, China and Iran.

It is time to get out of this war, but having used Ukraine as a proxy to absorb the punishment and count casualty numbers western voters would never have countenanced, the west now owes it to Ukraine to ensure the outcome, though it will involve losses of territory and assets, is not too ruinous.

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‘We’re Not At War With Russia,’ Germany's Chancellor Scholz tells Warmongering French Ouanqeur Macron
Though Macron's recent posturing as a reincarnated Napoleon by calling on his fellow European leaders to send troops to fight alongside the Ukrainian military may have been nothing more than an ill - advised attempt to deflect attention from online conspiracy theories that his wife Brigitte is, or was at some time in the past, a man, the ploy, if that is what it was, has backfired.

Total Defeat Of Ukraine By Russia Is Only A Matter Of Time
Financial Times columnist and founder member of the Vobblyvoddymyr Zelensky piano playing penis fan club, Gideon Rachman has a talent for stating the obvious which he displays in a recent article on the state of play in the Ukrainian conflict 'Ukraine and its backers need a credible path to victory - archived. As the Financial Times is behind a paywall with no monthly allocation of free articles, below is a sommary of the most importyant section:

Is The West About To Abandon Ukraine?
n a fresh interview with Germany's national television service ARD on Saturday (2 December,) NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned viewers to prepare for for more "bad news" from Ukraine. Asked for his opinion on whether the situation will worsen for Ukrainian as winter sets in, after the much hyped summer counteroffensive turned into a catastrophic failure he responded, "Wars develop in phases.

The War In Ukraine Is Entering A Significant Phase - SitRep
With all the other troubles in the world its easy to overlook the news from Ukraine which suggests that conflict is entering a a crucial phase as the western allies find it inceasingly difficult to keep up with Kiev's demands for cash, weapons and ammo. Big Serge has a rather long situation report on Substack and it will not make happy reading for the Zelensky fan club in the west:

Game Over For Zelensky - NATO andEU Officials Urge Ukraine To Seek Peace
As this blog predicted early last month, following the catastrophic failure of Ukraine's 'counter offensive' to push Russian troops out of their country, American and European leaders who have previously been solidly behind the doomed Ukrainian war with its powerful neighbour, are rapidly going cool on their pledges of unlimited support for puppet - president Zelensky and his far - right masters.

Ukraine's Military Commander Admits Counter - offensive Has Failed And The Battlefield Position Is Stalemate
Since Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine, back in February 2022, those of us who questioed the Russia bad, Ukraine goood narrative have been targeted by torrents of abuse hurled by pseudo - patriots and armchair soldiers, and called a 'Kremlin stooges', Russian agents', 'Putin supporters', and enemies of freedom. When anybody suggested that Russia's aim was not to conquer the whole of Ukraine and from there wage war on the rest on continental Europe ...

Ukraine Too Corrupt To Join The EU Says Former EU Leader Juncker
Former EU Commission President and world class oenophile Jean-Claude Juncker, stated this week in unusually blunt terms that are perhaps a sign of the times, that Ukraine is not ready to join the EU due to its being "corrupt at all levels of society," the former European Commission president, said in unusually blunt language during an interview with Germany’s Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper this week.

There Is Only One Way Ukraine Can End The War
As Ukraine's much hyped counterattack has failed to achieved the and momentum that hoped for by American and NATO leaders including President Volodymyr Zelensky who admitted it was "slower than desired", and a range of soldiers interviewed by BBC and Sky News television reporters t on different parts of the long (probably too long given the depletion of Ukrainian military manpower,) frontline have blamed minefields laid by Russian troops for that delay. Well as is often said, in any wartruth is the first casualty.

Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline
So whodunnit? Sabotage of undersea gas pipe will escalate tension and move the world closer to nuclear war, but who is behind it, Russia in a bid to put more presure on Europe, Ukraine in an attempt to drag NATO into direct action, or the USA using a CIA false flag event to advance its own agenda.

Has Putin Has Pushed Europe Into Economic Depression, Hyperrinflation and Currency Collapse?
Though it was entirely predictable and indeed had been expected for some time, the news over the weekend that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which feeds gas from Russia to northern Europe via The Baltic route had been shut down completely by The Kremlin in retaliation for the continued financial and military support given by NATO and EU member states to Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. The European Commission, governing body of the EU, immediately put the community on something close to a war footing, ...
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Is Russia Selling Its Oil To The World Through An Obscure Egyptian Port?
As this blog predicted when NATO and EU member states shot themselves in the foot by reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with sanctions that prevented Russia from selling oil, gas and vital raw materials to the countries that needed them most, the NATO and EU member states, the Russians have had no problems finding alternative customers for their gas and oil and no problem getting oil into the world's commodity markets through the back door.

Jingoistic Western Triumphalism Will Not End The War In Ukraine Or Cripple Putin, But It Is Crippling Western Nations

As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Russia steps up its economic war against the west and in particular The European Union, claims made recently by the idiotically 'woke' leaders of Europe's main economic and military powers that the West has a once-in-a–generation chance to severely weaken Russia’s capabilities, both militarily and geopolitically, look increasingly hollow. Putin's critics have cited 'Western unity' as one of the main reasons why Russia will be economically destroyed and politically humiliated when the Ukraine's military finally claim victory.

European Union Is Again Close To A Meltdown As Eurozone Economy Collapses
Once more we return to the political instability and economic fragility of the European Union as the conflict in Ukraine combined with loonytoons Climate Change mitigation policies, the failure of 'sustainables' to meet ever increasing demand for electricity, fod shortages and rampant price inflation put economic and social pressure on governments of member states ...

Russian Long Range Missile Test Fuels Nuclear War Fears As NATO Pushed Ukraine To Escalate Conflict
Russia tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile yeserday, the Satan II has a range of 10,000 miles and can devastate an area of 250,000 square kilometers according to military experts. Bizarrely commentators in mainsteam and online news services portrayed this as a sign of weakness by Russia, though the same people cheered when Joe (Dementiaman) Biden threratened a nuclear response if Russia crossed his 'red lines' in Ukraine ...

We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis
Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.

Boris and Biden Can't Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis
With typical arrogance and condescension towards the people who elected them Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and their respectiive presstitutes are trying to spin the energy crisis Europe and North America are currently facing as somehow being linked to the conflict in Ukraine and therfore blame is being attactched to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe such unmitigated bollocks? ...

Even If The War In Ukraine Ends, Sanctions Will Stay - So How Bad Will The Food Crisis Get?
Western leaders, desperate to show their own countries they were taking a firm stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, were quick to impose economic sanctions ... so quick in fact that they acted before they had though things through. While freezing Russia out of the global finance system they have exacerbated the wests energy crisis, while Russia's retaliatory ban on raw materials (fertiliser) exports will create extra problems on top of those we already had ...

Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter
While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...

EU Vows To Retaliate if Nord Stream Gas Pipeline Blasts Were Sabotage - But against whom, the USA?
Yesterday's shocking news that the Nord Stream 1 & 2 gas poipelines between Russia and Germany immediately triggered speculation about who is responsible, but as the facts emerge the knee jerk blaming of Russia has failed to convince because the attack bears all the halllmarks of a false flag event engineered by the usual suspects ...

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Sunday, March 17, 2024

The Big Lie About The Ukraine Conflict Spun By Western Propagandists That Is Leading To World War Three

 

The current situation in the conflict between Ukraine – serving (while being demolished) as a proxy for the West – and Russia, is exposing the lies of western propaganda.


Picture: nyt.com


Since the official beginning of the war between Ukraine and Russia in Fabruary 2022 we condumers of news in the liberal democracies (?) have been fed a constant but evolving narrative, first that Ukrane was winning, the Russian military was in disarray and Ukraine only needed more money and weapons from its western allies to embark on a final push for total victory and the recovery of all te territory it controlled prior to the real start of the war back in 2014.

Last year (2023) the narrative changed, Ukrainian progress had stalled, the Russians had dug in behind easily defensible lines and more money and weapons were needed from Ukraine's western allies to help the Ukies regain the initiative and continue pushing Russian forces out of Ukrainian territory.

Now the narrative has changed, aircraft, long range missiles and NATO troops on the ground and yet more money are needed to save Ukraine and prevent Russia advancing through Poland to The Baltic and through The Balkans into southern Europe.

But propaganda narratives apart, what is the true situation Russia now has the upper hand on the battlefield, Ukraine has been crushed militarily and economically as well as its huge battlefield body count having torn the country apart socially. No matter what and how many advanced weapons are donated thanks to the largesse of European and American taxpayers, Russia's current position is so strong Moscow could potentially accelerate its recent advances to achieve an overall military victory soon. That assumes of course that it was always Russia's intention to conquer the whole of Ukraine, a claim often made by warmongers in the west though there is no evidence to support it.

In fact The USA and its NATO allies are being forced to accept Ukraine is effectively beaten and only western support and urging are enabling to Kiev regime to continue the fight. this As Foreign Affairs magazine put it, in an article titled “Time is Running Out in Ukraine,” Kiev and its allies and supporters “are at a critical decision point and face a fundamental question: How can further Russian advances […] be stopped, and then reversed?” 

It is beyond the limits of possibility that Russia's gains can be reversed, but the fact that influential figures in Washington, London, Berlin and Paris are asking the question is an acknowledgment that time is up for the West and Ukraine – and the war is only continuing because to admit failure and expose the propaganda lies would be too much of an embarrassment for the USA and NATO.

In spite of all that unwelcome reality Ukraine is not yet ready to ask for negotiations to end the war on terms acceptable to Russia or is not being allowed to do so by the western powers. Acceptance of Russia's terms would be difficult for Kiev, the regime would have to give up the Donbas region of eastrn Ukraine and Crimea and accept their country will never be a NATO member. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, reiterated in an important recent interview that Moscow remains open to negotiating a settlement, not on the basis of “wishful thinking” but, instead, proceeding from the realities “on the ground.”.

The Kiev regime’s inflexibility is not surprising, since the clown Zelensky snubbed an offer to negotiate a peace deal based on acceptance of Donbas' independence and a binding pledge that Ukraine would not be admitted to NATO membership, in talks brokered by Turkey's President Erdogan in the spring of 2022, Zelensky has gambled everything on demanding more and more support from the west to enable him to deliver the promised victory. 

So where Ukraine could have come out of the war scarred but intact, it has now been crushed while there is no way to Zelensky or his team can survive politically or physically. The catastrophic defeat they have brought on their country by leasing it out as cannon fodder in the Washington - NATO proxy war while lining their pockets with misappropriated funds from western aid dontations and selling on armaments donated by the west to various rebel and revolutionary groups will certainly cost them their lives.

Ukraine's fate it its own problem now. However the West’s strategy is in tatters because many nations including the USA, UK, France and Germany have plunged themselves into financial crisis and burdened their taxpayers with huge costs in supporting the war, and leaders cannot figure out how to spin the failure of its support for this war. Russia has not been isolated politically, in fact support from Moscow among African and Asian nations has grown; its military has become stronger, putting its economy on a war footing has shown that the country can produce the weapons and ammunition to outgun the west, and the same is true of its economy, with the west's sanctions having proved laughably easy to circumvent.

 

 

To put the case bluntly, the West is facing not only Ukraine’s probable defeat, but also its own strategic defeat. The situation, while not a direct military rout (as in Afghanistan in 2021) amounts to a severe political setback. The failure to put NATO troops into the front line in response to Zelensky's demands prove NATO military leaders understand that while their combined forces could probably defeat Russia, direct conflict would certainly result in Chinese action in defence of its ally thus triggering World War Three.

The Western failure in Ukraine is a disaster. Unlike the rout of American and allied forces in by a bunch of tribal warriors in Afghanistan, the West will not be able to simply walk away from the mess it has made in Ukraine. This time, the geopolitical repercussions will shift the balance of power further to the east. he costs very high.The economic costs of this will be enornous and will be felt for many generations because the west will have revealed itself as weak and too fearful to defend its interests.

 

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There Is Only One Way Ukraine Can End The War
As Ukraine's much hyped counterattack has failed to achieved the and momentum that hoped for by American and NATO leaders including President Volodymyr Zelensky who admitted it was "slower than desired", and a range of soldiers interviewed by BBC and Sky News television reporters t on different parts of the long (probably too long given the depletion of Ukrainian military manpower,) frontline have blamed minefields laid by Russian troops for that delay. Well as is often said, in any wartruth is the first casualty.

Ukraine’s Long-Term Plan To Blow-Up The Kakhova Dam Exposed
Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed the Nova Kakhovka dam blast on Wednesday for the first time, charging that it was a "barbaric act" of the Ukrainian government and its military forces. Ukraine has in its turn blamed Russian forces for blowing up the huge dam which holds back 18 cubic kilometers of water, along with the hydroelectric power plant, and President Volodomyr Zelensky condemned “Russian terrorists”. Russian officials claimed the dam was damaged by Ukrainian military strikes.

Gigantic Nova Kakhova Dam in Ukraine Blown Up - Each Side Blames The Other As The War Grinds On
A day after Ukraine's much-heralded counter-offensive appears to have failed, almost before it had even begun, a major dam in the Russian-occupied region of Kherson is suddenly bombed, prompting mass evacuations as floods spread across the region. Both sides accuse each other of the attack that puts tens of thousands of homes at risk and might even threaten the safety of Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

Washington Leaks Show Ukraine Has Lost The War (And Expose The Dishonesty Of Western Governments And Media)
The leaked U.S. intelligence documents recently published in western mainstream media have exposed the extent to which pro - war propaganda suggesting Ukraine was winning the war is now seen to be a US & NATO led effort to weaken Russia and effect regime change. It looks more likely some western governments are facing regime change as citizens, tired of sky - high energy costs, soaring food prices, and of being lied ...

Russia Will Never Recover From War In Ukraine Claim Zelensky Fan Club As Russia Continues to Crush Ukrainian War Effort
An inside page headline in yesterday's (1 April 2023) Daily Telegraph claims 'Russia will never recover from this devastating collapse,' though the article below it does not quite make clear exactly what collapse the writer is talking about. The Telegraph has been unashamedly pro Ukraine, Zelensky worshipping and Russophobic in its coverage since day one of the war and the article was not an April Fool joke

Ukraine: Who Is Winning And Losing In The Economic War
One year ago today, to provide a legal framework for Russian military support to Donetsk and Luhansk which would take the form of a military incursion into Ukrainian territory on February 24, the Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed executive orders to recognize the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lunhansk People's Republic as independent countries

Talk of Sending Fighter Planes to Ukraine Is Madness
President Zelensky’s warmongering speech to the UK Parliament yesterday unequivocally and unashamedly made the case for starting World War 3 in order to polish the oversized ego of this little clown with the piano playing penis when he demanded that Nato-grade fighter jets to be sent to Ukraine.

Ukraine End Game: As Bakhmut Falls Real Reporting Vies With Propaganda In Western Media
Ever since Russia crossed the Ukrainian border and launched its 'Special Military Operation' almost a year ago now, everyday in western news media we have watched, heard and read that Ukraine was winning the war - Russia was losing ten soldiers for every Ukrainian casualty, Russian troops were incompetent brutes, Russian military hardware did not work and the Russians were running out of missiles, bullets and everything else.

Status Report On That War Thing In Ukraine: Nordstream to Bakhmut, electricity and water - December 2022


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Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline
So whodunnit? Sabotage of undersea gas pipe will escalate tension and move the world closer to nuclear war, but who is behind it, Russia in a bid to put more presure on Europe, Ukraine in an attempt to drag NATO into direct action, or the USA using a CIA false flag event to advance its own agenda.

Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline
So whodunnit? Sabotage of undersea gas pipe will escalate tension and move the world closer to nuclear war, but who is behind it, Russia in a bid to put more presure on Europe, Ukraine in an attempt to drag NATO into direct action, or the USA using a CIA false flag event to advance its own agenda.

An Energy Crisis In Tandem With A Food Crisis On Top Of An Economic Crisis And A War. This Cannot End Well
As politicians in North America and Europe try to deflect from their own failure that have contributed to the current plethora of crises by blaming Russia and Vladmir Putin for all the current problems, while the war in Ukraine is a contributory factor in each, the real blame lies closer to home.

Soros Encourages Obama Administration To Further Interference In Ukraine

While western leaders continue to pose as the guys with white hats in the confrontations with Russia and China, hacker collective CyberBerkut has leaked some hacked documents which show Russia is not behind the escalation of provocation, but the guys in black hats who really run western governments, led by George Soros.

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Saturday, March 16, 2024

‘We’re Not At War With Russia,’ Germany's Chancellor Scholz tells Warmongering French Ouanqeur Macron


Picture: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talks to French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference in Berlin, March 15, 2024 © AP / Ebrahim Noroozi via RT

 
Though Little Emmanuel's recent posturing as a reincarnated Napoleon by calling on his fellow European leaders to join France in sending troops to fight alongside the Ukrainian military in the war with Russia may have been nothing more than an ill - advised attempt to deflect attention from online conspiracy theories that his wife Brigitte is, or was at some time in the past, a man, the ploy, if that is what it was, has backfired.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz used a public announcement to remind the French president that EU member states that have supported Ukraine throughout the conflict are not at war with Russia. The statement came as the leaders of Germany, France and Poland met in Berlin on Friday to show solidarity after their recent disagreement over Macron's belligerent demand for NATO boots on the ground support for the Kiev regime as its military forces continue to take a hammering from Russian artillery.

During a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the chancellor stated that most EU countries stand firmly behind Ukraine and that allied help would continue for “as long as it takes.”

“It is also clear that we are not at war with Russia,” Scholz added.

The statement comes after a major rift between Paris and Berlin over the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine andand deployment of troops on the ground in the Donbass region.

Scholz has thus far refused to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine in order to avoid further escalating a conflict with Russia. This is understandable because the German economy has taken a huge hit due to economic sanctions on trade with Russia cut off supplies of Russian gas which much of Germany's manufacturing industry depended on to remain competitive with imported goods manufactured in the far east.

France,  on the other hand, has been sending Kiev its SCALP-EG cruise missiles, which are already being used by Ukraine and are roughly equivalent to the Taurus. Macron’s recent insistence that NATIO “cannot exclude” the possibility of sending soldiers to aid Ukraine in its conflict with Russia has also drawn criticism from other NATO states along with Germany. Such provocative speeches and the supply of advanced weapons can only affect Ukrainian soldiers and civilians adversely. In spite of a constant stream of propaganda from Washington, London and European capitals suggesting Russia has run out of weapons, Moscow has not yet used anything like the full force of its military and air power against Ukraine.

Chancellor Scholz and the French president met privately before the three-way talks on Friday to clear the air, after weeks in which the two very publicly disagreed over their Ukraine strategy.

Germany, France and Poland are among Ukraine’s key allies. Germany has become Ukraine’s second-biggest supplier of military aid after the US and is stepping up support this year.
 
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Is The West About To Abandon Ukraine?
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Though it was entirely predictable and indeed had been expected for some time, the news over the weekend that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which feeds gas from Russia to northern Europe via The Baltic route had been shut down completely by The Kremlin in retaliation for the continued financial and military support given by NATO and EU member states to Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. The European Commission, governing body of the EU, immediately put the community on something close to a war footing, ...
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Friday, March 15, 2024

Germany Running Out Of Money, Debt Levels Exploding - The Price Of War, Open Borders And Net Zero?

15 March 2024

 


German Finance Minister Christian Lindner attends the cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

 

An urgent warning about the state of Germany's finances has been given by Finance Minister Christian Lindner, the most senior office holder of the FDP party in the German government. Lindner has bluntly told the government that state borrowing are growing out of hand, and the government urgently needs to reduce spending and implement austerity measures. The other coalition members, the Social Democrats (largest party in government,) and The Greens are both spendthrift lefties so dispute over spending is only expected to escalate, with ever increasing deficits causing open clashes among the three-way left-liberal coalition running the country. 

This is causing panic in the Brussels headquarters of the European Union because should the coalition collapse the Eurosceptic AfD are likely to become the largest party in the new Bundestag, which would mean a right of centre government opposed to the EU's globalist ambitions governing Europe's largest naion and most powerful economy. With negotiations for the 2025 budget about to open, much is at stake. 

However, the picture has been complicated after the country’s top court stymied a move by the SDP and The Greens, ruling that the government could not shift €60 billion in money earmarked for the coronavirus crisis to other areas of the budget, with the court noting that the move was unconstitutional. 

That was the trigger for the current government crisis, when the pro - business FDP demanded financial responsibility and sought to cut the budget in a number of areas, including the removal of subsidies to the country’s farmers. Those cuts had already led to mass protests when hundreds of slow moving tractors brought Berlin and other cities to a standstill and highlighting how completely out of touch with the public mood the government is. 

The situation remains unresolved and could flare up again any time. 

Lindner, whose party is floundering in the polls, having lost support among the rural population and the working class because as coalition members it was forced to support unpopular policies put forward by its much larger partners, is desperate to create some distance from the leftist elements in the government and save his party from electoral obliteration. The finance minster says the financial picture facing Germany is dire, and that the budget shortfall will only grow in the coming years if measures are not taken to rein in spending. 

Unfortunately a major factor weighing against the FDP is the problem of mass immigration. With an Open Borders policy having been inherited from the previous government uncountable numbers of economic migrants and 'asylum seekers' flooding into the country. Illterate, uneducated, unskilled, culturally alien and both unable to speak any German and unwilling to learn they are unemployable and must be supported by the nation's already overloaded welfare system. 

Another element in the government's financial problems has been the rise in energy prices due to EU 'nrt zero' policies and the loss of cheap imports of gas from Russia due to the war in Ukraine and the subsequent economic sanctions imposed by NATO on trade with Russia.

Having been the first to declare its committment to 'net zero' by closing coal fired power stations while simultaneously shutting down its nuclear program under pressure from The Greens (who are apparently against any reliable form of electricity generation,) Germany now looks like being the first to ditch its net zero commitments?

 Things are not going well in Germany’s bid to reach net zero by 2045, five years earlier even than Britain’s own unrealistic target. For months, the German government has been trying to devise a way to save its heavy industry from high energy prices which are sending production fleeing to Asia. Last year, chemicals giant BASF announced that it would invest in a new £10 billion plant in China, due to the cost of energy. This is hitting the jobs market and putting further pressure on the welfare budget

“In an unfavorable scenario, the increasing financing deficits lead to an increase in debt in relation to economic output to around 345 percent in the long term,” reads the Sustainability Report released by Herr Lindner's office. “In a favorable scenario, the rate will rise to around 140 percent of gross domestic product by 2070.”

Under EU law, Germany must limit its debt levels to 60 percent of economic output, but to achieve that would require dramatic savings. 

A huge obstacle to succeeding in that is Germany’s rapidly aging population, with a debt explosion on the horizon as more and more citizens reach retirement age while tax revenues shrink and the social welfare system grows, in part due to the country’s exploding immigrant population. 

 Lindner’s partners, the Greens and Social Democrats (SPD), are loath to cut spending further, as this will harm their electoral chances. In fact, Labor Minister Hubertus Heil is pushing for a new pension package that will add billions to the country’s debt, which remarkably, Lindner also supports. While both the SDP and Greens are financially naive socialists who believe debt problems can be solved by simply printing more money the only reason the FDP would support it is that the party will be wtped out in an election. 

The SPD has called for the removal of the country’s debt ceiling to enable funding of large investment projects, however, the FDP ran on a campaign of keeping the brake in place. It can only be removed if the coalition government votes accordingly, and the FDP is determined it will not vote to remove the brake. 

“It must be clear: you cannot buy growth with new debt,” FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr told Swiss newspaper NZZ. “Instead, we have to initiate structural reforms to address the economic policy failures of the Union-led federal governments.”

The FDP wants to cut taxes and reduce regulations, a move sharply rejected by the Greens and SPD.

“The budget discussions will be much more strenuous compared to 2024 – perhaps even the most difficult that I have experienced so far in my time as a parliamentarian,” said SPD leader Lars Klingbeil.

It looks as if whatever happens Germany may be electing a new government later this year.&nbs

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 14 March, 2024, Egbert Nohbakkon.


Geert Wilders makes a point (Picture: cdn.dnaindia.com


Geert Wilders, leader of the victorious Freedom Party in last November's Dutch General Election has been forced to give up his efforts to form a coalition that could command a majority in the Netherlands' state assembly and now accepts he will not be the next prime minister of the Netherlands after talks based on him leading the next government were unsuccessful.

In a public statement the Party for Freedom (PVV) leader revealed he has no chance of gaining the support needed from minor parties in order to lead a new center-right administration. Wilders has agreed to step back and let somebody else lead the new government for the greater good of the country.

“I would like a right-wing cabinet with less asylum and immigration, and with the Dutch at number one but I can only become prime minister if all parties in the coalition support it. That was not the case,” Wilders wrote in a series of posts on X. He continued, “The love for my country and its voters is greater and more important than my own position.”

Talks held over the past few days between the four parties with which Wilders has been seeking to form the next Dutch government, his own PVV, the current governing People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). which was the biggest loser in the election, the populist Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB), and the recently-formed New Social Contract (NSC) a party which bears all the hallmarks of having been cobbled together in the corridors and coffee bars or EU headquarters in Brussels. Such a stitch up would not be unusual, several EU member states currently have governments appointed by the EU Commmission after Brussels intervened following elections, to prevent Eurosceptic and anti - immigration parties becoming part of governing coalitions

Wilders did not disclose the details of the discussions, only confirming that there was not unanimity in favor of him replacing the outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, an ardent Eurofederalist who advovates for member states surrendering their sovereignty to the central bureaucracy. However, RTL‘s political reporter Fons Lambie claimed that the NSC, led by former Christian Democrat Pieter Omtzigt, proved to be the stumbling block for the outspoken conservative politician.

“For the NSC party, the idea of ​​’Prime Minister Wilders’ was a nightmare. It was already highly uncertain, but it seems that the final push was given in recent days,” Lambie wrote.

The Telegraaf reported on Tuesday that a tentative agreement had been reached between the four coalition party leaders that none of them would hold the office of prime minister, instead forming an extra-parliamentary cabinet comprising other politicians and non-politicians who are experts in their fields.

The four party leaders would continue as MPs in the Tweede Kamer – the lower house of the Dutch bicameral parliament.

It is understood that no firm candidate has yet been agreed upon to lead the next Dutch government.

“The bottom line is that someone is being sought with a right-wing, center-right profile who is acceptable to the parties and has enough political experience to save this special cabinet. It is not yet clear where that search will end,” Lambie reported.

Wilders, whose party won a landslide victory in the November election and has only seen its stock continue to rise in the polls during coalition talks, remained upbeat about his prospects of one day leading the country, suggesting that he is aware the current situation has been engineered by anti - democratic elements in the EU

“Don’t forget: I will still become Prime Minister of the Netherlands. With support from even more Dutch people. If not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow. Because the voices of millions of Dutch people will be heard!” he wrote on X.

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Many of the problems afflicting Britain and its European neighbours and transatlantic cousins appear to be related to what in the recent past has been called The Theraputic Society, Nanny State and paternalistic liberalism. As government (and with it the amount of tax we pay) grows, corporate industry and private business is increasingly coming to resemble the public sector, ruled less by economic rationality than by an intrusive bureaucracy functioning increasingly like an HR department.

Concepts like profit and dividends and values like commitment to quality have become alien in thisd environment; replaced by concerns about Diversity,Inclusivity and Equality; Environmental Social Governance goals; staff welfare and mental health issues and the instruction to “just be kind”.

What is driving this explosion of worklessness. Many of those now receiving incapacity benefits rather than working for wages have been diagnosed as disabled because of mental health conditions, particularly depression. The number of Personal Independence Payment claims based on psychiatric illness rising over 50pc since 2019. Some 1.3 million people now fall into this category and as well as generous benefits are gettin medication and talking therapy when the most effective cure for their condition is a good kick up the arse.

As well as the rise in numbers of people permanently disabled by mental health issues, psychiatric illnesses account for over a quarter of all sick leave in the large organisations.

In the HR state, attempts to shift people into employment are frowned upon as unkind, even though work can be beneficial for mental health problems in the same way as a good kick up the arse can.. And so the taxpayer continues to fork out for workers who don’t work, public services decline, and the tax burden grows.

Once you start to see the growing power of Just Be Kind culture, it soon becomes obvious that it has permeated all levels of society. It’s in the way we speak to each other, with normal, everyday interactions increasingly governed by rules on what ideas and opinions may 'trigger' a sensitive listener, or what level of rudeness incurs civil or criminal liability.

Rather than taking offence – with the implication that we can choose how to respond, including shrugging ill-judged words off – the idea that we are actually harmed by insensitive language has been firmly planted in the minds of many people. And the HR state intervenes to protect us, even to the extent of telling us what we are offended by. Judges are handing out jail sentences to people who are rude online of simply fail to use a person's preferred pronouns, juries and tribunrals are handing massive payouts to those offended by their colleagues at work.

It doesn’t matter if that offence is given with good reason. Demanding adequate performance from highly paid civil servants and employees is out. And getting rid of employees isn’t always an option either: in one notable case, a judge found in favour of an employee complaining about being let go after taking 808 sick days and picking up £96,000 in sick pay).

It is a common misconception that more laws mean greater protection. Legislation has become increasingly complicated and ambiguous for employers. There comes a point when the added benefit is questionable and must be outweighed by the burden which it places on business. This is especially the case for small and medium sized employers who may not have a specialist, in-house HR function staffed by people whose job is to be aware of all the issues surrounding workplace interactions.

In the past twenty years there has been a continuous flow of new employment and human rights laws passed ranging from the new Agency Workers Regulations, the Age Discrimination Regulations to European case law on rights to accrue holidays even while on long term sick leave. New employment legislation is estimated to have added £70 billion per annum to costs for businesses over the last decade.’

The costs of employing people and doing business is bankrupting businesses, and yet the government has confirmed at least 10 new (HR) laws for 2024’

We, along with several other major economic powers have elections to appoint a new governments later this year though because these people are products of the university system and are advised by those who have spend  their entire lives detached from reality in the cocoon of the scholarly environment, will the new lot do any better that the ones who created the current mess. We the voters know what to do of course:

It is necessary to curtail major areas of government spending: welfare, health, education and defence. Emergency cuts, or at least freezes, in welfare benefits and public sector pay are imperative, the kind of measures seen recently in struggling central European countries. We must abandon virtue signalling policies like 'net zero', open borders immigration and the funding of foreign wars. 

 If welfare benefits are not pegged to wage increases then there will be no incentive to work and more people, though able bodied, will claim disability status due to mental health issues.

Longer-term reforms that reduce the scope of government are needed. A new government could start by tackling public sector pensions (a liability of over £1 trillion), move on to welfare reform and then health and education,  cutting waste, terminating the jobs of diversity officers, sensitivity advisers and racial awareness tutors, and getting rid of the costly bureaucrats who compile statistics to justify these expenditures.

And let’s not forget regulation. Removing red tape – for example, the new gender pay audits – would reduce the government payroll while lowering costs for businesses. But no-one running for high office will have the testicular fortitude to do any of this, so they in turn will be removed…..and so will the next ones and so on until someone gets the message.

 

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