Own report) – The power struggle escalates between Washington and Berlin for the dominating position in Eastern and Southeastern Europe and is impacting the dispute over Ukraine’s reconstruction. Whereas the EU Commission had initially claimed leadership in that country’s reconstruction, Washington is now arguing that Brussels lacks the necessary “political and financial heft” to do so. The United States must therefore assume the leadership. Meanwhile, in Poland the USA is superseding an initiative being promoted by Berlin to create a European air defense system, at the same time, establishing Poland as a hub for the proliferation of US nuclear technology in Eastern and Southeastern Europe – at the expense of the French nuclear industry. The USA is using the Three Seas Initiative to begin to transform Eastern and Southeastern Europe into another market for US liquified gas. This regional project comprises twelve nations between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas and was launched by Poland and others in 2015 at Washington’s suggestion. This initiative runs counter to German interests in the region.
(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.
· Mounir Satouri (Greens/EFA, EELV) · Jordi Solé i Ferrando (Greens/EFA, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya) · Diana Riba i Giner
"Germany and Spain have both remained silent publicly on this invitation to join nuclear exercises. However, we are surprised to see that, without any real public debate on the nuclear stakes of this program, they are engaging in an industrial partnership for the FCAS. This Franco-German-Spanish project is the largest armament project of the century. First estimates are of the range of €100 billion of public funds. Already in the 2021-2024 phase (1B), these States will spend €3.5 billion (only for the FCAS); a cost shared equally among them."
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die Bundesregierung (CDU/CSU–SPD), vertreten durch die Bundeskanzlerin Dr. Angela Merkel (CDU),
wegen ihrer rechtlichen und politischen Mitverantwortung für den völkerrechtswidrigen US-Drohnenkrieg, der über die Satelliten- und Datenrelais-Station der US-Airbase Ramstein in der Pfalz abgewickelt wird. Es ist die größte Militärbasis der USA im Ausland mit knapp zehntausend Militärs und Zivilbediensteten. Von hier, also von deutschem Boden aus, werden bewaffnete Drohneneinsätze im Nahen und Mittleren Osten sowie auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent gesteuert.
The 20 US nuclear bombs that are stationed at Germany’s Büchel Air Base have become so unpopular, that mainstream politicians and religious leaders have joined anti-war organizations in demanding their ouster and have promised to make the weapons a campaign issue in next year’s national elections.
Aufruf des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB) zum Antikriegstag 2020 Seit 1957 wird am 1. September mit dem Antikriegstag an die Schrecken des Ersten und Zweiten Weltkriegs sowie an die schrecklichen Folgen von Krieg, Gewalt und Faschismus erinnert. Der DGB-Aufruf zum Antikriegstag 2020 steht unter dem Motto: "Nie wieder Krieg! In die Zukunft investieren statt aufrüsten!"
No other European city suffered more in World War II than Leningrad under siege, when over a million people lost their lives. Russian literature delivers a rich testimony of the events which have been all but forgotten by the West. Only a few works, though, also do the disaster aesthetic justice. By Oleg Yuriev, sign and sight
According to Hitler's secret orders No. Ia 1601/41 from 22 September 1941 on "The Future of the city of Petersburg":
1."The Führer has decided to erase the city of Petersburg from the face of the earth. After victory over the Soviet Union there will not be the least reason for the continued existence of this large city. Finland has also announced that it has no interest in the continued existence of this city, which lies on its new borders. (…)
3. It has been suggested that the city be surrounded securely and levelled with continual air raids and artillery of every calibre. If this results in the city's capitulation, should it be rejected?" On 8 November 1941 Hitler explained in a speech that the enemy would be "starved out" in Leningrad. The report registers "thundering applause".