‘There was no promise not to enlarge NATO’
Robert Zoellick, the U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the end of the Cold War, says Vladimir Putin’s claims about Ukraine are part of a disinformation campaign
Michael von der Schulenburg was a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and worked for over 34 years in many war zones around the world in a leading role in UN peace missions. He is candidate for the Bündnis Sahrah Wagenknecht at the forthcoming European Elections [9,6,]
This could have been the European Union’s hour to take greater responsibility in showing a peaceful way out of the Ukraine war. After all, it was unresolved conflicts in Europe that caused humanity to descend into the catastrophe of two World Wars. Europe should not again be the source of such a human disaster and therefore accept it historic responsibility by taking a reconciliatory approach to the Ukraine war. After all, this is the first war in human history in which nuclear arms play a strategic role and any miscalculation could bring an apocalypse on humankind that is unimaginably greater than anything we know from the two World Wars.
Det tyska initiativet för vapenstillestånd
3 april, 2023
Vi har tidigare informerat om det mycket breda tyska fredsinitiativet för att få till stånd ett vapenstillestånd i det upptrappade ryska folkrättsstridiga anfallskriget mot i Ukraina. Undertecknarna av initiativet, vilka har stark förankring i det tyska socialdemokratiska partiet och den tyska fackföreningsrörelsen, uppmanar förbundskansler Scholz att samman med andra viktiga stater undersöka förutsättningarna för att få till stånd nödvändiga fredsförhandlingar och få ett slut på dödandet, upptrappningen och de närmast oöverblickbara risker som är inbyggda i en eskalation av kriget.
(Own report) – The United States is consolidating its activities to arm and train Ukrainian armed forces in a new command in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim. According to reports, the final decision on the command’s establishment is imminent. It will integrate all current structures, also including multinational structures, involved in direct military support for Ukraine. The US armed forces would thus even formally be in command and Germany would be bolstered as a hub for military activities of all NATO members in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. A strategy apparently being still being applied in Ukraine, was designed in Germany by the US Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR) headquartered in Stuttgart-Vaihingen – the Resistance Operating Concept (ROC), with focus on underground warfare against occupying troops, drawing on historical examples, such as NATO’s Stay Behind concepts. It integrates the civilian population into the combat and provides for special forces’ operations.
Deniz Yücel und andere fordern indirekt Flugverbotszonen über der Ukraine. Dadurch macht sich der Journalist und PEN-Präsident gemeinsam mit anderen Akteuren zur Vorhut einer unverantwortlichen Leichtfertigkeit. Diese Haltung bedroht den militärischen und den sozialen Frieden. Mit dem öffentlichen Brechen von Tabus wird einer undenkbaren Politik der Weg geebnet. Ein Kommentar von Tobias Riegel.
Bernd Johann, Deutsche Welle 23.02.2014 "Above all, Ukraine needs a dialogue that facilitates a political new beginning. The opposition, which has effectively taken power in Ukraine, now has to prove the changes it has introduced can lead to a national reconciliation. Only then can a democratic transformation take place. One can only hope that politicians in Ukraine's East, who have supported Yanukovych, are also ready for a new start."
"About 6,200 German companies are engaged in Russia, some of them very strongly," Anton Boerner, head of the BGA exporters' body, told the Dortmunder Ruhr Nachrichten newspaper in an interview published on Friday. "For them, economic sanctions would be a real catastrophe." Germany's "wise men" council of economic advisers said on Thursday the Ukraine crisis was the biggest threat to global growth, and especially Germany, because of Russia's importance of an energy exporter. The BGA said last week that while a trade conflict would be damaging for Germany, "for the Russian economy it would be life-threatening." Bilateral trade with Russia, which totals about 76 billion euros, fell last year.
The ex-chancellor also launched a broadside against the European Commission, charging that it should dabble less in world politics, of which he said "most commissioners understand very little".
BERLIN, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said on Wednesday that his country should become a European country under the newly elected President Petro Poroshenko. Visiting Yatsenyuk was invited to a dinner by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at her Chancellery in Berlin, according to a statement posted on the website of the German government. Merkel told Yatsenyuk she was glad that the presidential election was held in Ukraine, and a result was already achieved in the first round of the ballot. Yatsenyuk said the security situation in Ukraine was still complicated, saying all countries, in particular Russia, should fulfill their international obligations. The goal, he stressed, is that Ukraine would become a European country with its new president. Preliminary official results showed that Poroshenko, a 48-year- old billionaire and independent politician, led Sunday's presidential election in Ukraine with a vote share of 53.7 percent.