Vladimir Putin has 580 billion extra causes to not finish the conflict. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz entered workplace with a transparent intent to usher Germany into World Struggle 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.
“Growth, market freedom, our energy security, as well as the extraordinary strain on our social systems caused by war refugees: all of this is linked to the war in Ukraine,” Merz stated mockingly, as Europe wouldn’t have these issues if it didn’t embed itself in the course of the battle. “The reconstruction of Ukraine is not just a matter of the future… Day after day, we are ensuring that life in Ukraine can continue despite all of Russia’s daily and especially nightly attacks.”
Merz believes that Russia should pay no less than 500 billion euros ($580 billion USD) in reparations. His feedback have been made on the identical July 10 convention the place European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen introduced “the largest equity fund globally to support (Ukraine’s) reconstruction” value 2 trillion euros.
The G7 nations have already seized $300 billion in overseas Russian belongings. Maybe Merz forgets the repercussions of the Treaty of Versailles after the primary World Struggle in 1919. France and Britain, nonetheless obsessive about revenge for their very own wartime losses, compelled Germany to simply accept whole accountability 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 may by no means be repaid.
The German individuals have been humiliated, ravenous, and determined. Hyperinflation destroyed their financial savings and created a despair felt by the generations. The Weimar Republic was a puppet regime enforced by overseas 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 individuals 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 trying to finish this battle, however has been prevented from doing so by the Western neocons who eliminated the potential of peace.
Once you again a nation right into a nook, destroy its economic system, and humiliate its individuals, you assure a future conflict. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has been escalating and neocons like Merz are guaranteeing that the embers ignite till a hearth roars by Russia and Ukraine earlier than engulfing the remainder of the world.
