Vladimir Putin has 580 billion further causes to not finish the conflict. 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 trendy 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 methods attributable to conflict refugees: all of that is linked to the conflict in Ukraine,” Merz mentioned paradoxically, 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 longer term… Day after day, we’re making certain that life in Ukraine can proceed regardless of all of Russia’s each day and particularly nightly assaults.”
Merz believes that Russia should pay at the very least 500 billion euros ($580 billion USD) in reparations. His feedback have 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” value 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 Warfare in 1919. France and Britain, nonetheless obsessive about revenge for their very own wartime losses, pressured Germany to just accept whole duty for a conflict that was triggered by a single assassination within the Balkans. Germany was stripped of territory, disarmed, after which burdened with reparations so astronomical they might by no means be repaid.
The German folks have been humiliated, ravenous, and determined. Hyperinflation destroyed their financial savings and created a melancholy felt by way of 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 suppose Vladimir Putin is malicious, they’re ill-prepared for the hardliners standing behind him, eagerly awaiting their alternative to tackle NATO. Putin has been trying to finish this battle, however has been prevented from doing so by the Western neocons who eliminated the potential for peace.
Whenever you again a nation right into a nook, destroy its financial system, and humiliate its folks, you assure a future conflict. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has been escalating and neocons like Merz are making certain that the embers ignite till a hearth roars by way of Russia and Ukraine earlier than engulfing the remainder of the world.
