A quick war

A quick war
Joe Biden and some European politicians are in a hurry to escalate the conflict with Russia before Donald Trump takes over the White House.

Imagine you were looking forward to World War III – and then the political leadership changes and the war no longer takes place! Many are pinning their hopes on Donald Trump to quickly end the Russia-Ukraine conflict or at least avert the danger of a major war. What seems like a nice idea from our point of view seems to be driving the fear sweat on the foreheads of some people – especially in the arms industry and in the war-affiliated circles of Western politics. Joe Biden, the president who has not been fully mentally present for quite some time and who is allowed to occupy the White House as a bar for a few more months, now seems to be doing everything he can to prevent peace at the last minute, so to speak. Once the killing has begun, it will be difficult even for Donald Trump not to act according to the usual logic of war. The coming weeks are a highly dangerous phase in world history.

by Uwe Froschauer

[This article posted on 11/26/2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.manova.news/artikel/schnell-noch-krieg.]

Mr. Trump, please call Mr. Putin and tell him to hold off until you are in office to end the war. I know that life is no bed of roses, but I would still like to see you, Mr. Trump, punish all the warmongers who have provoked and caused this war in Ukraine and are keeping it going, especially the Deep State. The devious Biden administration and its still-vassals in Europe, who are lashing out wildly, will try to provoke Mr. Putin into taking an ill-considered step. You may be able to prevent that – you have announced that you will be able to end the war in a short time. You will be judged by your actions. Taking action against mainly British, French, German and US warmongers is the order of the day.

Provocation is and always has been the tool of the stupid. In this respect, it is not surprising that power-hungry people like Annalena Baerbock, Anton Hofreiter, Friedrich Merz, his likely new defense minister Roderich Kiesewetter, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, as well as Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and other unscrupulous warmongers who accept the death of millions of people are provoking.

The spiral of escalation

On November 17, 2024, Joe Biden gave the go-ahead for the use of extensive Western weapons for Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory. Specifically, it is about the use of ATACMS missiles (Army Tactical Missile Systems, short-cell tactical ballistic war system of the US Army), particularly in the Kursk region. The reason is supposedly the North Korean weapons and troops that the Russians are deploying there. Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister and Putin hater, who is also gambling with the lives of Europeans and is not exactly blessed with foresight, welcomed Biden's move.

This bunch of US and European warmongers, who want to put Donald Trump and Europe in front of an irreversible escalation of the Ukraine conflict, belong in the garbage dump of history. War is a crime – warmongers are criminals! Warmongers who prefer war to possible negotiations are serious criminals!

In addition, Biden approved the delivery of “anti-personnel mines” to Ukraine. You know: anti-personnel mines designed to kill or injure people. It is not the people who decide on their delivery and use who are to be killed, but the innocent mine or cannon fodder selected or forcibly recruited for this purpose.

War means young people who do not know each other and do not hate each other shooting at each other because old farts who do know each other and hate each other want it that way. The mines are “very important” to stop the advance of the Russian army in eastern Ukraine, said Ukrainian President Selenskyj on November 20, 2024.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz continues to block and does not want to deliver any Taurus cruise missiles. That's a good thing, at least! He also spoke on the phone with Vladimir Putin, possibly to remove Germany from the list of Russian targets. As much as I welcome the possible traffic light break, I have to say under the circumstances that Scholz as Chancellor would be the lesser evil compared to Friedrich Merz, who in his hubris would like to give Russia an ultimatum and, like the other warmongers, send missiles.

According to the Institute for War Studies (ISW), Ukraine attacked the Russian headquarters for the Kursk counteroffensive on the night of November 19-20. According to the Russian account, Ukraine launched several long-range missiles at targets in Russia. According to ISW findings, the Russian-North Korean headquarters in the city of Marjino was “successfully” attacked with Storm Shadow cruise missiles and combat drones. The General Staff in Kiev confirmed an attack on a Russian ammunition depot near the city of Karachev.

Russia has stationed approximately 50,000 troops near Kursk, including about 10,000 from North Korea. The Russian ambassador in London, Andrei Kelin, said on Thursday, November 21, in an interview with the Sky News channel, that Great Britain is now “directly involved in Russia's war with Ukraine”. This missile attack from Kiev is “not possible without the support of Great Britain and NATO”.

With the foolish permission of the elderly US President Joe Biden to fire Western missiles at Russian territory, which was welcomed by European warmongers such as Keir Starmer and Annalena Baerbock, the world has taken a significant step closer to the Third World War. Thanks to all warmongers for that! You are so out of line!

What surprises me is that the people of Europe and elsewhere accept this. Okay, it's just about our lives. If there is something really important, you might leave your couch, right – but not for the possible end of the world as we know it, right? I fear that most people are unaware of the implications of the latest developments caused by Western warmongers.

Russia has made it clear that a red line has been crossed and that NATO is directly waging war with Russia, since the ATACMS missiles launched from HIMARS launch pads, as well as the British Storm Shadow missiles, are operated by NATO technicians and not Ukrainians. Russian President Vladimir Putin already warned that in such a case – which has now occurred – NATO would be “at war with Russia.”

Russia's response to the US missile attack was not long in coming. Moscow has described the use of long-range weapons as an escalation of the conflict and has lowered the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons in its own nuclear doctrine. Putin signed a decree approving an updated doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons. The following is a translation of the most important contents of the text from Telegram:

"The state policy of nuclear deterrence is defensive in nature. It aims to maintain nuclear forces at a level sufficient for nuclear deterrence, and guarantees the protection of the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state, as well as deterring a potential adversary from aggression against the Russian Federation and/or its allies.
The Russian Federation regards nuclear weapons as a means of deterrence and considers their use an extreme and mandatory measure . It is making every effort to reduce the nuclear threat and prevent a deterioration in interstate relations that could lead to military conflicts, including nuclear ones.
The Russian Federation provides nuclear deterrence against a potential adversary. This includes any individual state or military coalition (bloc, alliance) that the Russian Federation regards as a potential adversary and that has nuclear weapons and/or other weapons of mass destruction or conventional armed forces with significant combat capability.
Nuclear deterrence is also guaranteed against any state that provides territory, airspace and/or sea space under its control, as well as resources for the preparation and execution of aggression against the Russian Federation.
The aggression of a single state of a military coalition (a bloc, alliance) against the Russian Federation and/or its allies will be regarded as an aggression by the entire coalition (bloc, alliance).
The aggression of a non-nuclear-weapon state against the Russian Federation and/or its allies with the participation or support of a nuclear-weapon state will be regarded as a joint attack.
The decision to use nuclear weapons is made by the President of the Russian Federation."

In plain language, this means that Putin has authorized the use of nuclear weapons. I hope it's just saber-rattling and Putin doesn't lose his composure, which the Western whiners lack.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock appeared unimpressed by Russia's revised nuclear weapons doctrine. Putin is playing on fear, which has become clear time and again since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, said Baerbock, in her cluelessness and naivety after a meeting of several European foreign ministers in Warsaw.

“We will not be intimidated, no matter what new things are trumpeted around.”

I object to the word “we”, Ms. Baerbock. You may be unimpressed by the decisions and statements of politicians far superior to you - I am not! You and your fellow warmongers are playing with the lives of European people with such modest statements. Have you ever heard of the term “spiral of violence”? Or is it missing from your apparently limited vocabulary? You have absolutely no business in the office you hold and will hopefully soon disappear from the political scene. You are endangering my daughter's life. Please leave!

Kyiv is on high alert due to an expected Russian counterstrike. An air strike on Kyiv is expected. Ukrainian public television reported, citing diplomatic sources, that a major retaliatory strike with combat drones and ballistic missiles is expected.

It has become dicey. Who would have thought it! Some institutions in Kiev have already closed. In addition to the US Embassy, the Spanish, Italian and Greek embassies have also closed to the public for security reasons.

Andrij Kowalenko, an official of the Ukrainian Security Council, said on Telegram:

“In the Russian Federation, aircraft and missile stocks are ready for firing at strategic airfields and in warehouses. Ships too. This has been reported before.”

Kowalenko renewed his call for people in Ukraine to “react to air alerts”.

On Thursday morning, November 21, the time had come. According to Ukrainian reports, Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile – without a nuclear warhead – at the city of Dnipro in Ukraine for the first time since the war began. In my opinion, this was a warning shot from Moscow with the message that Russia can also act differently.

What would the inexperienced and arrogant German Foreign Minister like to tell the people of Dnipro now – that Putin is just “bragging”? The launch of this rocket is also your doing, Ms. War Minister! According to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, Russia intercepted two cruise missiles of the Storm Shadow type launched by Ukraine.

“Two British-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles, six US-made Himars-type reactive missiles and 67 drones were shot down by air defense,” the Russian military said in a statement on Thursday.

On Thursday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised address that the use of Western missiles against Russian territory had given the conflict in Ukraine ‘elements of a global character’. He said the Western states that had authorized the use of US and European missiles on Russian soil were responsible. He threatened attacks on those Western arms suppliers to Kiev whose missiles were used against Russian territory. He said Moscow had the right to use its “weapons against military installations of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our installations.” The Ukrainian attacks with Western missiles on Russia had failed. “Our air defense systems have repelled these attacks.” The ‘targets that the enemy had apparently set himself were not achieved’. Moscow is ‘prepared’ for any scenario. ‘We have always preferred and are now prepared to resolve all disputes by peaceful means, but we are equally prepared for any development of events.’ ‘Those who doubt it are mistaken.’ There will ‘always be a response’.

And these are not empty threats, Ms. Baerbock, as you might believe in your infantile imagination.

The unscrupulous warmongers want to put Europe and Trump in front of an irreversible escalation of the Ukraine conflict. How low do you have to go morally to reach this low human level?

Who is the real aggressor?

Dear readers, if Putin does take a momentous step, please consider who pushed him to do so, as well as to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022: the US under the “democratic” Biden regime and its warmongering European vassals. It is not who takes the first step, but who pushes for that step, that is the real aggressor: in the Ukraine conflict, that was undoubtedly the US.

The war did not begin with the unacceptable Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, but with the US-orchestrated Maidan coup in 2014, as the former Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, also correctly noted.

In a broader time frame, the Ukraine conflict was already emerging in the 1990s, when NATO broke its promise not to expand NATO eastward. At the time, the US Secretary of State said “Not an inch eastwards”. Despite repeated Western provocations through a continuous and pre-planned NATO expansion to the east, Russia remained calm until February 2022.

NATO has a defense budget twelve times higher than Russia's – today it should be called an attack budget and NATO an attack alliance – which means that Russia would have no chance in a war with conventional weapons. In order to continue to defend its interests, Russia could respond with nuclear weapons if provoked further by the West. The Western warmongers know this, and yet they continue to provoke. They are putting the lives of millions, if not billions, of people at risk, who would eventually fall victim to a nuclear Armageddon.

This should be clear to anyone who can count to three. Nevertheless, the population is not standing up and putting the architects of this potential world war in their place. Excuse me, dear people, but you have been completely conned by politicians, scientists and the media with Corona, although it became clear after a relatively short time that it was a “pandemic”. Do you want to be taken for a ride again in the “Ukraine case”?

Stand up at last and show the warmongers the red card! Go demonstrating, you have the right to do so, and do everything to eliminate structures that counteract peace and democracy in Germany and Europe. Article 20, paragraph 4 of the Basic Law gives you the right to fight the unlawful warmongers.

Parties that insist on further arms deliveries and the use of missiles against Russia, parties like the CDU/CSU and the Greens that do not want to resolve the conflict in Ukraine through diplomatic channels at the negotiating table, will not be eligible for election on February 23, 2025. Don't give history-forgetting warmongers a chance! Think of yourselves and your loved ones – the warmongers don't!

The EU has changed from a peace union to a war union. In 2012, the EU was still honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time, the Nobel Committee justified its decision with the stabilizing role of the EU in transforming Europe “from a continent of wars to a continent of peace”.

Meanwhile, the EU – which has now become a removable appendix of the USA – has developed into a war union under the leadership of the bellicose and, in my opinion, unprincipled EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, which unfortunately even Viktor Orbán's pacifist efforts could not change. Unfortunately, the hawks are in the majority in the European Parliament. Can you actually have a Nobel Prize taken away again? If so, it should be done in the EU.

Should Putin abandon his composure in the face of the latest developments, the warmongers will stand up and say: We told you so, Putin is a maniac! The damned warmongers want to absolve themselves of the enormous guilt that they have ultimately incurred through their repulsive actions – possibly inspired by the pursuit of power and possessions – by making such blinding statements. The unscrupulous may succeed in doing so. Should one or the other warmonger still have a shred of conscience, hopefully his fatal decisions will give him sleepless nights and possibly cause him to mutate from a hawk into an angel of peace.

One request, Mr. Putin: Don't do these nefarious warmongers the favor of possible rashness, that's what the warmongers are waiting for. Please stay calm! Then it will also be possible - possibly with the help of US President-elect Donald Trump - to put a stop to the work of these unscrupulous people. Let's see if Trump's words are followed by action.

The real reasons for the Ukraine conflict

In a study published in 2019, the US think tank RAND concluded that Russia is not aggressive – much to the displeasure of political decision-makers in the US, who apparently cannot live without an enemy in their sick world view. The US did and does everything it can to weaken Russia and the EU. Admittedly, they were very successful in this by provoking this war – at least as long as the servile followers of NATO countries support them in this slaughter. The nightmare of the USA is a strong Eurasia, which must be prevented by all means. In particular, Russia's raw materials and Germany's technological knowledge should not come together – in my opinion, one of the main reasons for the Ukraine conflict and the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines.

Likewise, the raw material deposits in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, estimated at 10 to 12 trillion dollars, are tempting and the power and property elites, invested in companies like BlackRock and Vanguard, would like to incorporate them. Their political puppets, such as Roderich Kiesewetter, also openly express this. In Ukraine, freedom and democracy were not at stake for a second – especially since Ukraine was never a democratic country. On December 23, 2023, Kiesewetter failed to mention the raw material deposits in the embattled Donetsk-Lugansk region in the “Bericht aus Berlin extra”. Europe is dependent on the lithium reserves there if it wants to “achieve the energy transition”.

“A possible compromise would mean giving up territory. And that would be a victory for Putin,“ says Kiesewetter. That is why the German government should deliver Taurus cruise missiles to Kiev. A soldier's heart speaks!

“If Ukraine disintegrates, the consequential costs will be much higher than if we go in much stronger now,” said Kiesewetter.

Well, at least he leaves no doubt about the true intention of his position. Perhaps securing raw materials is more important than avoiding further unnecessary bloodshed, isn't it, Mr. Kiesewetter? Among other things, it is about raw materials – no question about it – and they are not only found in eastern Ukraine, but also in Russia. The United States, in particular, wants a piece of the action.

"War

Do I get your land?

Do I get your water?

Do I get your oil?

And if you don't give it to me,

then there will be war,

then I'll take it!"

(Helga Schäferling, German social pedagogue)

Ukraine is not only an agricultural country with a large agricultural production, but also contains many minerals and metals in its soil. Of course, the power- and money-hungry warmongers know this. US Senator Lindsey Graham has called Ukraine a ‘gold mine’, which it undoubtedly is. The Ukrainian soil contains 117 of the 120 most commonly used minerals and metals. Of particular interest to industry are rare earths and lithium, which are crucial for the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources, as well as for IT and other technologies. These minerals and metals are needed, for example, for batteries, high-tech products, electric cars, wind turbines and solar panels.

The main supplier is China, but since our undiplomatic foreign minister and other inept people in the coalition government smashed a lot of Chinese porcelain – with labels like “dictator” for the Chinese boss and other tariff and non-tariff nonsense – Europe and especially Germany, with its still existing automotive industry, is struggling for alternative sources of lithium and rare earths.

Miriam Kosmehl of the Bertelsmann Foundation told ZDF television:

“Ukraine does indeed have important raw material deposits and rare minerals to offer us. (...) A victory over Russia would have an immensely positive impact on the economy in Germany and the EU.”

The problem for these materialistic vultures is that a good two-thirds of the raw material deposits waiting to be exploited are in Russian-occupied territory. You can't just hand them over to Putin, even if he does drop a nuclear bomb, can you, Mr. Starmer? People like British Prime Minister Keir Starmer even factor in a nuclear war to achieve their perverse goals. In my view, this is a sick mindset in which human dignity and human life have no place! For more on this, see here.

Conclusion

The USA under Biden with its imperialist, unipolar aspirations and its European vassals such as Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Ursula von der Leyen, Annalena Baerbock, Boris Pistorius, Anton Hofreiter, Roderich Kiesewetter are bringing war into the world. The USA is practicing what people like Kiesewetter, Merz, Baerbock and their ilk are accusing Russia of! NATO – aka the USA – has broken most of the agreements, not Russia. The USA, which, with 470 military conflicts since its existence, is unsurpassed at the top of the list of aggressors in world history, is the number one aggressor in the world. It is to be hoped that under Trump the hegemonic activities of the USA will be reduced to a tolerable level.

Even though I am not exactly a friend of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who condemned Joe Biden's permission to use the long-range weapons, I would still like to end this opinion piece by sharing his responses to this issue when asked by reporters on his flight back to Turkey from Brazil, where he attended the G20 summit:

“Not only do we think this decision is wrong, we do not endorse it. (...) Biden's move would be interpreted as a measure to fuel the war and ensure that it never ends, but spreads. (...) This move will not only escalate the conflict, but also lead to a stronger Russian response.”

He called on both Russia and Ukraine to exercise restraint.

When someone speaks the truth, it doesn't matter who says it.

Uwe Froschauer studied Business Administration at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he specialized in Business Psychology. He has worked as a business consultant, teaches seminars at vocational training institutions, is the author of several books and runs the blog wassersaege.com. His passion for worldwide travel has made him sensitive to the cultures and problems of other peoples. He is close to nature and loves animals and plants.