Have the Germans learned anything since 1933? We are about to find out, now that they face a choice they have bent over backwards to avoid.
Will the Germans dutifully obey U.S. diktat on sanctions (and suffer economic-collapse-mit-frostbite this winter)? Or will they rise out of several post-World War II decades of vassalage; deal independently with Russia; and open the spigot for Nord Stream 2?
It is now clear that the saboteurs, who on Sept. 26 attacked the Baltic pipelines from Russia to Germany, thought they had denied Germany the more sensible (spigot) option. But (surprise, surprise), they screwed up.
A day before the sabotage I noted: "On the sanctions front, German politicians may not be able to resist turning on the spigot to North Stream 2, lest the European economy and the European people freeze this winter."
This, of course, was no secret to the sabotage’s intellectual authors (almost certainly Berlin’s NATO allies – whether in Washington, London, Warsaw, or Vilnius). That the Germans had come to a similar conclusion is suggested in what journalist Pepe Escobar reported just three days after the sabotage; namely, that the Germans and Russians had been holding secret talks to find some way out of Germany’s dilemma. According to Pepe:
"Diplomatic sources confirm that Berlin and Moscow were involved in a secret negotiation to solve both the NS and NS2 issues. So they had to be stopped – no holds barred."
Twists and Turns
On Oct. 6, Escobar put it succinctly in his Nord Stream 2 Offers Germany a Date with Destiny:
"The twists and turns of the Nord Stream 2 (NS2) saga have yielded yet another stunning game-changer.
"It started with Gazprom revealing that the Line B string of NS2 is intact … and may ‘potentially’ be used to pump gas to Germany.
"Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak followed up, with a caveat: restoration of the whole system … is possible, and "requires time and appropriate funds". But first, in Russia’s order of priorities, the perpetrators must be conclusively identified.
"Subsequently in Vienna, attending the OPEC+ meeting, Novak remarked the Russian Federation is "ready to supply gas through the second line of Nord Stream 2. This is possible if necessary".
"So we know it’s possible. ‘Necessary’ will depend on a political decision by Germany."
Can Germany Behave Like An Adult?
German Chancellor Scholz and Foreign Minister Baerbock are the latest incarnation of what Raimond Pretzel (pseudonym Sebastian Haffner) observed in 1933 as a young German lawyer in training to become a judge in Berlin. Is there, among German politicians, a lingering lack of what Pretzel called "breeding”?
Pretzel wrote:
“The sequence of events is wholly within the natural range of psychology, and it helps to explain the inexplicable. The only thing that is missing is what in animals is called ‘breeding’. This is a solid inner kernel that cannot be shaken by external pressures and forces, something noble and steely, a reserve of pride, principle, and dignity to be drawn on in the hour of trial. It is missing in the Germans.
“As a nation they are soft, unreliable, and without backbone.
“That was shown in March 1933. At the moment of truth, when other nations rise spontaneously to the occasion, the Germans collectively and limply collapsed. They yielded and capitulated, and suffered a nervous breakdown.
“The result of this millionfold nervous breakdown is the unified nation, ready for anything, that is today the nightmare of the rest of the world.”
When Oliver Pretzel found his father’s record of events in Berlin, he published it (giving the English translation the title “Defying Hitler). Oliver added at the beginning a short poem that Peter Gan wrote in 1935. Seems relevant today. Following is an English translation:
“But first the most important thing:
What are you doing in these great times?
Great I say; for times see great
to me, when each man, driven
half to death by the era’s hate,
and standing in the place he’s given,
Must willy-nilly contemplate
no less a thing than his own BEING!
A little breath, a second’s wait
May well suffice — you catch my meaning?
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. His 27-year career as a CIA analyst includes serving as Chief of the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch and preparer/briefer of the President’s Daily Brief. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
Germany was much better off with Angela Merkel as their chancellor. She never caused tension with Russia like her NATO counterparts did.
Well she actually is an adult, so there’s that ;-)
“Can Germany Behave Like An Adult”
Well, our Foreign minister has already stated that she puts the welfare of the Ukraine above her Voters in Germany, the rest of the Scholz government are doing everything which the USA & the EU want, destroying the German economy in the process so that NATO can have it’s proxy war with Russia.
What more should the German government do, to appear ‘Adult’? The only thing left is to literally come out and impose a Special Tax for the furtherment of the Endsieg in the Ukraine.
As much as I am against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, I do not feel that it is Germanies duty to commit national suicide just so that NATO gets another member on the border to Russia.
Germans don’t control Germany any more than the Americans control
America. The governments work for the globalists.
Germany works for the United States of America at present.
and the United States of America works for Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWKN-B4Lv9w
BOO BOO BOOB
Who are these people, these groups that are willing to bring the entire world to nuclear collapse.
I am infuriated realizing that not only do we have some of the most corrupt people running the US government , our very lives are (so to speak) in their hands.
You’re only just now realizing that? August 6, 1945 should have been a clue.