/ world today news/ Last Sunday, the third Advent was celebrated in Germany. This is the name given to the four weeks before Christmas, during which believers wait for the holiday and prepare for its arrival. Alas, as often happens in recent years, there were some incidents.
As reported by Bild, in Dresden, a man refused to show a ticket to travel on the train leading to the airport, pushed a police officer, then pulled out a knife and began threatening law enforcement officers. Then he grabbed a fire extinguisher, broke the glass and barricaded himself in the toilet.
The stop was cordoned off, the passengers were evacuated, and as a result, special forces had to intervene to calm the insurgent.
Despite the fact that Germans, as I have already said, have long been accustomed to the increased excitability of various types of inappropriate people in the pre-Christmas period (are demons pestering them or what?), the incident itself seemed too strange: the fine for traveling without a ticket is not so great, that he would brandish a knife for him and end up in a real prison.
But as soon as one circumstance of the case is clarified, any questions like “why?” and “for what” they disappeared by themselves – the homeless passenger turned out to be a 47-year-old citizen of Ukraine. And here, as they say, adequacy cannot be expected.
Recently, in our expert community, it has become common to talk about the fatigue of the West with Ukraine, accumulated in less than two years of the Ukrainian crisis. And generally speaking, it is.
If we are talking about Germany, then the word “fatigue” may not fully convey the full depth of the “almost Ukrainian” emotions of the average German. Here the expression “distancing themselves” would be more appropriate.
But if one can sympathize with the ordinary burgher suddenly burdened with the cares of a distant and uninteresting country, then as regards the local establishment, here the boomerang principle is obvious.
At one time, the German leadership personally participated in the creation of the current Ukrainian monster and is now paying for the sins of the past.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded in 2013 that Kiev decide on the further vector of development of international relations – either friendship with Russia and the Customs Union, or European association with the ephemeral but tempting prospect of joining the EU.
Nowadays, no one remembers that Merkel needed to make Ukraine a choice (the reason is only Frau Chancellor’s personal ambitions, not the interests of German or European business), and the fact that it was her harsh conditions that became the starting point of the Euromaidan and the tragic and bloody events that followed it, which lasted for a whole decade.
The same Merkel, together with Steinmeier, for many years carefully closed their eyes to what is happening in Donbas, without even trying to call on Kiev to fulfill the Minsk agreements.
As the then head of the German government later admitted, this was done deliberately to buy time to prepare Ukraine for a full-fledged war with Russia.
By the way, many of us underestimate the destructive effect of Merkel’s 16-year rule on Germany, the EU and Ukraine. But in vain. Scholz is still a long way from that. However, that is a topic for another conversation.
Today, we have to admit that the Germans do not like to admit their mistakes (the results of the Second World War are a separate case), and therefore, instead of repenting of their Ukrainian sins, they are trying with all their might to distance themselves from the Ukrainian conflict, acting on the principle “far from hearts”.
And now, in the German press and in the words of German politicians, a rather noticeable cooling has begun to appear, hinting that it is time to finish with Ukraine and, in general, its future fate is none of our business.
Thus, the other day, the new German ambassador to Russia, Alexander Lambsdorff, said that the West, it turns out, does not aim to fight to the “last Ukrainian” and generally seeks to find a way to a peaceful settlement that will satisfy all parties as soon as possible.
And the popular and influential publication Die Welt published an article by the correspondent Sasha Lenartz “Have you lost Kiev yet?”, in which the author describes the military and domestic political situation in Ukraine in very gloomy tones.
“Winter is just around the corner. The counteroffensive appears to have failed. Allies are tired. And since the beginning of November at the latest, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has a new opponent, which is not necessarily expected: his own Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny,” writes Lenartz, adding that “the dispute between the President and the Commander-in-Chief shows that the united front in Ukraine is falling apart “.
“And any doubts expressed in Kiev about Ukraine’s prospects for success are amplified in the corridors of European and American government headquarters.”
Even the usually extremely optimistic (regarding the successes of the West and their satellites) Deutsche Welle sadly stated that Ukraine is on the verge of defeat, and Zelensky’s situation is on the verge of fatal, and all because of Zaluzhny’s popularity among the people.
It is clear that none of these publications would have appeared in the media if the general political and, as a consequence, informational trend both in Germany and in the West in general had not turned away from Ukraine.
Even the recent interview of the mayor of Kyiv Vitaly Klitschko to the Swiss newspaper “20 Minutes”, published in German (!), in which the former boxer scolded the Zelensky regime for corruption, failures on the front and total lies, became part of the general information campaign of the German authorities who have very close ties to Klitschko dating back to his time in Germany.
So all this is by no means a coincidence. In addition, the Germans initially did not want to interfere in the Ukrainian adventure and at the first stage in every way sabotaged the supply of weapons and ammunition.
But as soon as the risk appeared that under the influence of the British the Poles would take the leadership of the EU (as many thought six months ago), Berlin sharply declared itself in support of all initiatives of Washington, began to behave like a diligent student and defended the title of “beloved European wife of the United States,” bypassing Warsaw. And then, somehow, all the Polish talk of reparations suddenly died down perfectly….
The icing on the cake in the attempt to distance himself from the Ukrainian problems were the statements of German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who reminded on the ZDF channel that Berlin and Kiev are not even allies and that the Germans have no ally duty to help Ukraine (but then added that will continue to help anyway, but as they can), as well as the current Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who used all his eloquence to explain to the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, that Germany does not intend to donate additional money to the European Union’s fund for buying weapons for Ukraine, saying that the Germans have already sacrificed too much for Kiev and too much for Ukraine.
It’s true, of course. And they willingly destroyed entire branches of their own industry by first refusing to launch Nord Stream 2 and then completely allowing the Americans to blow it up. However, this is still the same boomerang effect.
In essence, the United States is now doing to Germany what Merkel did to Ukraine. That is, they force you to choose: either/or. After the Maidan, Ukraine had no choice. Just like Germany today.
And the saddest thing is that the similarities between the two countries do not end there. Both are equally interested in good and even friendly relations with Russia, built on the basis of mutually beneficial cooperation. Both are now deprived of such an opportunity. Deprived only of their own stupidity.
Translation: SM
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