Vladimir Putin has 580 billion extra causes to not finish the warfare. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz entered workplace with a transparent intent to usher Germany into World Battle III. Not solely has Merz mobilized troops and the biggest navy spending bundle in fashionable European historical past, however he’s now demanding that Russia pay reparations amid an ongoing battle.
“Progress, market freedom, our vitality safety, in addition to the extraordinary pressure on our social programs brought on by warfare refugees: all of that is linked to the warfare in Ukraine,” Merz mentioned sarcastically, as Europe wouldn’t have these issues if it didn’t embed itself in the midst of the battle. “The reconstruction of Ukraine is not only a matter of the long run… Day after day, we’re making certain that life in Ukraine can proceed regardless of all of Russia’s day by day and particularly nightly assaults.”
Merz believes that Russia should pay at the least 500 billion euros ($580 billion USD) in reparations. His feedback had been made on the identical July 10 convention the place European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen introduced “the biggest fairness fund globally to help (Ukraine’s) reconstruction” price 2 trillion euros.
The G7 nations have already seized $300 billion in international Russian belongings. Maybe Merz forgets the repercussions of the Treaty of Versailles after the primary World Battle in 1919. France and Britain, nonetheless obsessive about revenge for their very own wartime losses, compelled Germany to just accept complete duty 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 via the generations. The Weimar Republic was a puppet regime enforced by international powers. That anger fermented into nationalism, and historical past repeated — because it all the time 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.
While 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 making certain that the embers ignite till a hearth roars via Russia and Ukraine earlier than engulfing the remainder of the world.
