[Ed: Stefan Kellmer is a German and lives in Germany. His thoughts on the attack on Syria are therefore of interest. A follow-up article by Stefan will be published early next week.]
They say that democracies do not fight each other. Canada and USA have had a peaceful border for 200 years. By the same logic a democracy does not enter a war with anybody unless absolutely necessary. This is because the people suffer from wars and they have to pay for it. The US military-industrial complex controlled the US government during the Ukrainian crisis in 2014 and Obama and Clinton were pushing for a NATO war with Russia. I could not sleep in 2014 – I speak Russian, I knew what was going on in the Ukraine. I saw how all German MSM supported this NATO conflict as well as almost all political parties including the Greens.
The following was written just one day before the missile attack and is of descriptive nature only:
Germany’s role in the Syria conflict has many faces. Before digging into it I would like to point out that Germany is still not an independent country. Formally it still is an occupied territory by the Allies especially the USA and the UK. I leave aside details such as the question of US military bases in Germany being based on WWII laws of occupation, or on the NATO treaty, or if Germany got fully independent after reunification in the year 1990. My opinion on this is not important and not very precise, but with some knowledge about the above mentioned treaties and the laws in Germany I tend to assume that Germany is more or less independent but the US ambassador to Germany and the US chief military commander in Germany have the final say. For this article it doesn’t matter if a military action is done in the name of NATO, or just occasionally, or if it is done either very secretly or openly.
The point is that if the US military and the US establishment start a war in Syria or in the Ukraine then Germany has no choice but to follow US orders. The side-effects of such a war? It seems to me that Obama and US generals decided that Germany pays for the war refugees. I am convinced that whoever is in the German government must follow such US orders. Merkel had no choice. At least this was how it all started. The US military-industrial complex makes money with wars and other countries pay for the war refugees and reconstruction and bombed and hurt civilian victims.
The US friendship and the NATO alliance seem to be based on this principle, the stupid Europeans have to swallow it. Germany must accept – by US order – this type of shared cost burden whilst the formally independent UK, France and Italy and all other EU and NATO countries are invited by the CIA, US media and top PR and law companies to voluntarily open their borders for the US-created refugee problem. I am convinced the CIA bribes MPs in the national European parliaments and that the Greens and the Left take such bribes. That is why I support UKIP – besides other reasons.
The April 2018 Syria incursion wasn’t accepted as easily by the people as the action in the Ukraine. The European political parties were prepared and some MSM as well. Not much has changed in the USA: the President can start a war alone without consultation or even approval by his parliament. May was careful to get her Cabinet’s ‘approval’ – as if that meant parliamentary approval of a war! UKIP was against it, Corbyn’s Labour as well. So May did not dare to do more than to shoot a few missiles outside Russian and Iranian military posts in Syria. It is very disturbing to see the conformist common declaration by all 28 EU countries after the attack to approve this missile attack. The 28 national parliaments had not been asked!
The lesson from this is that political parties must be involved in a decision to go to war, in a parliamentary procedure. It worked much better this time than in 2014 in the Ukraine. The two party political system in the USA is certainly not a democracy and in the case of the Ukraine in 2014 both US political parties, the Republicans and Democrats, wanted war with Russia, letting the Europeans pay for it.
Regarding the vassal role of US-occupied Germany it must be stated that the German media were 100 % obedient in 2014 during the Ukraine crisis to the wishes of the US military-industrial complex.
The conclusion for Britain: The security issues faced by the English, Welsh and Scottish people must be addressed by Britain alone because both the US and its depended colony Germany do not care for wide-ranging risky military adventures that take place in or near Europe. Britain is well advised to have its own policies and to insist that its own Prime Minister and Defense Minister get advance parliamentary approval for any military action. Because she didn’t May ought to resign.
UKIP should push for that as a sign for a real change after Blair.
Excellent article. Time to look behind the curtain, folks or you will never know who your enemy is.
Here’s a tip: before the era of mass uncontrolled immigration, who decided we needed to become multicultural?
There’s so much wrong with this missive, that I wouldn’t know where to begin in pulling it apart.
Quite simply, it’s fantastical rot, based on the false premise that the USA controls Germany.
No wonder UKIP is looked upon with derision if stuff like this is highlighted by the media.
It was the EU under Lady Ashton who pushed Russia into its present paranoid state, ably assisted by David Cameron who said publicly he wanted to see an EU from the Atlantic to the Urals. Neither understood that Russia still sees itself surrounded by enemies. Now it is puffing itself up like the toad in the fairytale, determined not to be bullied. Had the EU accepted a set of independent buffer states along the border than we would all be a lot happier. Cameron has an excuse — he did a PPE degree at Oxford so one can’t expect too much from him — but Ashton, who was High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has no such excuse.
As for the rest of this piece, surely it’s a wind-up. Germany being told what to do by the UK and USA? Pull one of the others, it’s got bells on. If that were the case then Germany wouldn’t have been allowed the economic advantage of the rest of the EU it has negotiated by getting a sweetheart deal on natural gas from Russia.
Russia, in my opinion, is making a grave strategic mistake. The nations of Europe are not the main threat. China, desperate for resources, resurgent, economically overwhelming, is at their back door. Now is the time they should be seeking rapprochement with the West — later will be too late.
Long winded twaddle. Germany is a protectorate and has been since WWII.
If you hadn’t realised that Russia had been seeking a rapprochement with the ‘West’ you have not been paying attention; its refocus on the East, in particular, China, was a response to the pathological belligerence of US foreign policy and, by default, our own through NATO.
My word, have I rattled your cage?
Paying attention to Russia? When you were in nappies I was a 24 year old Vulcan captain eyeball to eyeball with the monstrous Soviet Empire. I have watched with great admiration as Mother Russia overcame the dead hand of Communism and has tried to forge a new way to the future. The EU has made their efforts more difficult and perhaps impossible — not NATO, not the US, not the UK, the un-elected and undemocratic EU. The problem has become the EU with its overweening ambition and its self-importance.
But you knew that anyway, desperately identifying with the evil empire because of your own overweening ambition and self-importance. Who are you really, telemachus? The anonymous and untrackable Stefan himself? One of the other ignorant trolls who infest the comments? I know you think that stirring things up is amusing but some things are actually important. You, ignorant, provocative and self-satisfied, are displaying the usual half-witted arrogance of your type. In a world which is teetering on the edge, you and your like are trying to push it over because your inadequate personality is desperate to find an excuse for your inadequacy.. Go away and do a bit of research, then try and write something sensible.
Come on, tell us of your qualifications to spout on this subject. Let us know about your experience and training.
Or, dick-head, bugger off.
Rgds
Your mate.
JF
Perhaps I have been a little harsh. Please go and watch Jordan Peterson’s advice to young men who are finding the world difficult to cope with.
Have a look at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBR5v89L6gk
It will be good for you. It will give you self-respect.