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.. das Beste am Norden .. sind die Quallen .....>>>>>> ... werde Deutschlandretter und wähle AfD ....
Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Reiche verwies auf den russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine. "Alte Gewissheiten sind verschwunden", sagte sie. Aufrüstung sei nicht nur sicherheitspolitisch geboten, sondern auch eine wirtschaftliche und technologische Chance für Deutschland.“
Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Reiche verwies auf den russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine. "Alte Gewissheiten sind verschwunden", sagte sie. Aufrüstung sei nicht nur sicherheitspolitisch geboten, sondern auch eine wirtschaftliche und technologische Chance für Deutschland.“
Koennten vielleicht erste Rueckzugsgefechte der USA sein, weil sie nicht in einen jahrelangen Zermuerbungskrieg gegen Russland wegen der Ukraine hineingezogen werden wollen ?
Die Mehrheit der US Amerikaner wuerde die Ukraine nicht einmal auf der Landkarte finden.
Fuer die meisten US Amerikaner hat die Ukraine in ihrem Alltagsleben keinerlei Bedeutung, warum dann also weitere Milliarden an US-$ mitten im Praesidentschaftswahlkampf nach Kiew rueberschieben ?
Duerfte bei vielen US Amerikanern auch nicht gut ankommen, zumal das Weisse Haus die Korruption in der Ukraine immer mehr als Problem ansieht:
Politico: Das Weiße Haus ist besorgt über das Ausmaß der Korruption in der Ukraine
02.10.2023, 14:17 Uhr
Autor: Alexey Lapshin
Quelle:Mitarbeiter der US-Präsidialverwaltung seien besorgt über das Ausmaß der Korruption in der Ukraine, was dazu führen könnte, dass der Westen sich weigere, Kiew zu unterstützen, schreibt die Zeitung Politico am 2. Oktober unter Berufung auf ein Regierungsdokument, das ihr zur Verfügung steht.
Gleichzeitig umreißt das Dokument auch die Ziele der Vereinigten Staaten in der Ukraine - sie bestehen angeblich in der Privatisierung von Banken, der Ermutigung der Armee der Republik, die NATO-Protokolle anzupassen, und dem Kampf gegen die Korruption.
"Die Wahrnehmung von Korruption auf höchster Ebene kann das Vertrauen der ukrainischen Öffentlichkeit und ausländischer Führer in die Regierung [der Ukraine] untergraben", heißt es in dem Artikel. Es wird darauf hingewiesen, dass das Thema Bestechung in der Ukraine in den Vereinigten Staaten seit langem Anlass zur Sorge gibt, aber das Ausmaß des Problems wurde nach Beginn der Sonderoperation "heruntergespielt".
Zuvor hatte US-Präsident Joe Biden einen vorläufigen Haushalt unterzeichnet, der keine Hilfe für die Ukraine enthält. Dieses Dokument wird es der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten ermöglichen, weitere 45 Tage zu arbeiten und eine Suspendierung zu vermeiden.
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Leaked U.S. strategy on Ukraine sees corruption as the real threat
A report obtained by POLITICO details specific plans to reform Ukrainian institutions and warns Western support may hinge on cutting corruption.
By NAHAL TOOSI
10/02/2023, 05:00 AM EDT
Quelle:Biden administration officials are far more worried about corruption in Ukraine than they publicly admit, a confidential U.S. strategy document obtained by POLITICO suggests.
The “sensitive but unclassified” version of the long-term U.S. plan lays out numerous steps Washington is taking to help Kyiv root out malfeasance and otherwise reform an array of Ukrainian sectors. It stresses that corruption could cause Western allies to abandon Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion, and that Kyiv cannot put off the anti-graft effort.
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Vor 6 Monaten konnte ich solche Berichte in den Mainstreammedien der USA noch nicht lesen.
Koennte vielleicht ein 1. Indiz fuer ein Umschwenken der USA in der Ukrainepolitik sein ?
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” –Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope (1966)
Habe den ehemaligen Verteidigungsminister UKs Ben Wallace jetzt im Daily Telegraph gelesen.
Der haelt Russland fuer so geschwaecht, dass er den Krieg in der Ukraine jetzt sogar weiter befeuern moechte.
Er meint, dass der Westen den Krieg gewinnen koenne !
Ukraine is winning. Now let’s finish the job
As the counteroffensive breaks down the Russian lines, Britain must make sure the West stands firm.
BEN WALLACE
1 October 2023 • 9:00pm
Quelle:Whisper it if you need. Dare to think it. But champion it you must. Ukraine’s counteroffensive is succeeding. Slowly but surely, the Ukrainian armed forces are breaking through the Russian lines. Sometimes yard by yard, sometimes village by village, Ukraine has the momentum and is pressing forward.
The men and women of the Ukrainian army are, once again, proving to us in Nato how much we have underestimated them. First, the Establishment doubted their ability to defend their nation from the initial Russian invasion. Too many states waited to see which way the wind would blow. The groupthinkers, with their computers and “Russia experience”, calculated that they could only hold on for a few weeks.
Having been proved wrong, they switched their pessimism to the counteroffensive. But they failed to grasp the importance of the human factor. They failed to spot in the Ukrainians the same spirit we possessed in 1939. They failed to recall Alan Turing’s quote that “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” They failed to understand that, in war, the most precious commodity of all is hope.
Since the summer, Ukraine has again been learning on the job. Its forces are adapting tactics, absorbing lessons, and making the best of the equipment we have all gifted them.
They take UK equipment and achieve success rates far beyond expectations. I remember visiting a secret location abroad, but outside Ukraine, as we prepared Ukrainian soldiers on how to use StarStreak air-defence missiles. They had a week to train on a system we take months to master. A British sergeant pointed to a young Ukrainian, barely out of his teens. “He won’t let go of the simulator, and he won’t stop training until he never misses,” he said. That young man went on to down two Russian attack helicopters.
When hope is combined with the right equipment, there is no stopping Ukraine. It is our duty to keep that hope going and to back it up with funding and equipment until the job is done. That was why the British NLAW anti-tank missiles were so important. They showed that Russian armour could be stopped. And stop them they did, in the hundreds on the road to Kyiv.
We have a chance to help finish this. The Russian army is cracking. Ukraine has learnt new tactics to overcome horrendous minefields, and the Storm Shadow strikes are devastating Russian HQs. We are witnessing the beginnings of the battle for Crimea.
We need to give Ukraine the support it requires to see this war to the end. As defence secretary, I was so often confronted with reasons not to – mainly by people who wouldn’t know the difference between one end of a rifle and the other. Time was wasted having to overcome institutional inertia. We should be proud of our Chief of the Defence Staff and military leaders who demonstrated not just leadership within Whitehall, but internationally.
Before I left office, I asked the PM to match or increase the £2.3 billion pledged to Ukraine this year, to add to the £4.6 billion we have spent already. The UK is no longer the biggest European donor – Germany is.
This war can be won. Vladimir Putin is failing. Just as the human emotion drives Ukraine to success, it is also the inescapable flaw in Putin and his criminal regime. Romance, ego and revenge drove Putin to cross into Ukraine and it will be his undoing. His army has lost more than 2,500 tanks, 6,500 armoured vehicles and nearly 300,000 dead or injured. Not a single commander who led the major Russian units into Ukraine is still in place.
Putin is desperately grasping at the final two things that can save him – time and the splitting of the international community. Britain can do something about both. We must help Ukraine maintain its momentum – and that will require more munitions, ATACMSs and Storm Shadows. And the best way to keep the international community together is the demonstration of success.
Ukraine can also play its part. The average age of the soldiers at the front is over 40. I understand President Zelensky’s desire to preserve the young for the future, but the fact is that Russia is mobilising the whole country by stealth. Putin knows a pause will hand him time to build a new army. So just as Britain did in 1939 and 1941, perhaps it is time to reassess the scale of Ukraine’s mobilisation.
Let us not pause for one day. Let us see this through. The world is watching to see if the West has the resolve to stand up for our values and the rules-based system. What we do now for Ukraine will set the direction for all of our security for years to come.
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Ben Wallace is a former Secretary of State for Defence
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Da Bezahlschranke ganzer Artikel hier:
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Ich weiss nicht, was der gute Mann geraucht hat, aber den Stoff moechte ich auch jetzt haben !
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” –Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope (1966)
Die EU-Fuehrer sind im Moment hypernervoes und veraengstigt, weil die USA abspringen koennten ?
Dazu habe ich einen aktuellen lesenswerten Artikel in der britischen The Times:
EU ministers visit nervous Kyiv as US pauses aid for Ukraine
Europe pledges ‘rock-solid’ support before symbolic meeting
Bruno Waterfield, Brussels
Monday October 02 2023, 5.00pm BST, The Times
Quelle:European Union foreign ministers are holding a “historic meeting” in Kyiv today for talks on support to Ukraine that have been overshadowed by a US funding freeze on aid to the country.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign affairs chief, stressed that, amid political difficulties in the US Congress over financing for Ukraine, the EU’s support would be rock solid. “We are facing an existential threat. Ukrainians are fighting with all their courage and capabilities, and if we want them to succeed, we must give them better weapons, and faster,” he said.
Borrell added: “I am hopeful that this decision is not final and that the US will continue to support Ukraine.”
Congress passed an emergency spending bill on Saturday to extend government funding for the next month, averting a federal shutdown, but financing for aid to Ukraine was not part of the deal.
Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, said that Kyiv was in talks with the Republicans in Washington as well as President Biden to unblock aid to Ukraine.
“We are now working with both sides of Congress to make sure it does not repeat again under any circumstances,” he said. “We do not feel that US support has been shattered because the US understands what is at stake, which is much bigger than just Ukraine. It is about stability and predictability for the world and therefore I believe we will be able to find necessary solutions.”
Biden acknowledged the lack of new funding for Ukraine, but vowed that America “will not walk away” from supporting the embattled country.
The decision to convene a European “foreign affairs council” in Ukraine, a country that is at war and outside the EU, is unprecedented. Talks at a summit in Spain later this week will discuss Ukraine’s future membership of the bloc.
“We are convening a historic meeting of EU foreign ministers here in Ukraine, candidate country and future member of the EU,” Borrell said. “We are here to express our solidarity and support to the Ukrainian people.”
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“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” –Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope (1966)
Wie gesagt, Politico zitiert ja die Nato, daß eine weitere Waffenlieferung die Sicherheit der Nato gefährden würde. Ich gehe davon aus, daß die Nato nicht ihre neuesten Waffen liefern wird, um nicht quantitativ und qualitativ blank zu sein.
Der Russe wartet darauf, daß die Ukraine schwach ist. Sun Tzu schreibt in seinem Buch "Die Kunst des Krieges":
Zitat von Sun Tzu, Die Kunst des Krieges
Die einen sagen, dass die Ukraine zusammen mit dem Westen den Krieg gewinnen koenne ( Ben Wallace), waehrend andere sagen, dass Russland faktisch schon gewonnen habe ( Douglas McGregor / Scott Ritter ).
Offen gesagt, blicke ich gar nicht mehr durch.
Ich weiss wirklich nicht, was ich noch glauben soll ?
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” –Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope (1966)
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