Vladimir Putin has 580 billion further causes to not finish the warfare. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz entered workplace with a transparent intent to usher Germany into World Warfare III. Not solely has Merz mobilized troops and the most important army spending package deal in fashionable European historical past, however he’s now demanding that Russia pay reparations amid an ongoing battle.
“Development, market freedom, our power safety, in addition to the extraordinary pressure on our social techniques attributable to warfare refugees: all of that is linked to the warfare in Ukraine,” Merz stated mockingly, as Europe wouldn’t have these issues if it didn’t embed itself in the course of the battle. “The reconstruction of Ukraine isn’t just a matter of the longer term… Day after day, we’re guaranteeing that life in Ukraine can proceed regardless of all of Russia’s each day and particularly nightly assaults.”
Merz believes that Russia should pay no less than 500 billion euros ($580 billion USD) in reparations. His feedback had been made on the similar July 10 convention the place European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen introduced “the most important fairness fund globally to assist (Ukraine’s) reconstruction” price 2 trillion euros.
The G7 nations have already seized $300 billion in overseas Russian belongings. Maybe Merz forgets the repercussions of the Treaty of Versailles after the primary World Warfare in 1919. France and Britain, nonetheless obsessive about revenge for their very own wartime losses, pressured Germany to just accept whole accountability for a warfare that was triggered by a single assassination within the Balkans. Germany was stripped of territory, disarmed, after which burdened with reparations so astronomical they may by no means be repaid.
The German folks had been humiliated, ravenous, and determined. Hyperinflation destroyed their financial savings and created a melancholy felt by means of the generations. The Weimar Republic was a puppet regime enforced by overseas powers. That anger fermented into nationalism, and historical past repeated — because it at all times does. That is exactly what gave rise to Adolf Hitler, and if the folks assume Vladimir Putin is malicious, they’re ill-prepared for the hardliners standing behind him, eagerly awaiting their alternative to tackle NATO. Putin has been making an attempt to finish this battle, however has been prevented from doing so by the Western neocons who eliminated the potential of peace.
Whenever you again a nation right into a nook, destroy its financial system, and humiliate its folks, you assure a future warfare. The Russia-Ukraine warfare has been escalating and neocons like Merz are guaranteeing that the embers ignite till a fireplace roars by means of Russia and Ukraine earlier than engulfing the remainder of the world.
