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André Brochu's avatar

Thank you for your commentaries and analysis of current events. Many hestitate to say it but I call

a spade a spade. Olaf Scholz is a social fascist and willing comprador for the hegemon. The only credible party in Germany today is BSW led by Sarah Wagenknecht based on antimilitarism and

social reform. As far as countries painting targets on their backs here in Scandinavia Sweden and

Finland will allow the establishment of US bases, in total 32. Thus in a conflict with the Russian Federation there are 32 legitimate targets to be destroyed by conventional or tactical nuclear

weapons. As Mearsheimer would say we are in deep kimchi.

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Bo Bogheim's avatar

I live in south Sweden and one of those bases is only 30km from where I live.

This airforce base is ca 500km from Kaliningrad oblast across the Baltic Sea.

Close to it is also the biggest naval base in Sweden, scarying neighborhood....

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Geoff Fischer's avatar

I am ignorant of German politics but the Sarah Wagenknecht phenomenon has caught my interest. On the one hand her eponymous party seems to indicate a personal ego that will either be her undoing or, even worse, could end in a cult of personality. On the other hand it could be evidence of a very honest realism. Ideologies and "political principles" are all very well but we have learned that in the end the personal qualities of our leaders count for more than their espoused principles. Might a new more democratic world be collectively governed by those who have personal followings, rather than by parties, factions and other forms of political conspiracy? That is one of the principles of our own indigenous politics which we call "rangatiratanga". So long as you have other principles of accountability and grass roots control which restrain your rangatira from becoming "fuhrer" in the manner of Adolf Hitler (we do) then it is a very good system of governance. It will be interesting to observe the progress of Sarah Wagenknecht and the BSW. Is she on the path to rangatiratanga, fuhrerprinzip or obscurity?

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Michael David Morrissey's avatar

It's much worse than in the 80s: see Theodore Postol's warning and explanation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH7LT1bIdpY.

As for the idiot Scholz: https://morrissey.substack.com/p/i-sing-not-of-olaf-glad-and-big.

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Billy C's avatar

The US and its European puppets strut and pose as defenders of democracy but suppress actual debate over crucial issues like this insane missile deployment. I hope BSW grows in Germany! Here in the US, alternative left parties are much weaker, only appearing on the national scene to run presidential candidates every 4 years, but I hope that the student protesters and others in action for Palestine will bring their passion and commitment to build an influential organized left from the grass roots that already exist.

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exexpat's avatar

True. The Morgenthau Plan is finally coming into action. Most German’s have no idea what’s coming. They simply don’t want to be disturbed in their Comfort Zone they experienced for the past 75 years.

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Arild's avatar

It was quite disgusting to see the assassin Vadim Krasikov get off the plane in Moscow tonight, where Putin was waiting on the runway and hugging him like a brother.

- This shows that Russia is a criminal regime. He hugs a convicted murderer who was caught with blood on his hands, Sir Bill Browder says.

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钟建英's avatar

Very worrying how a government can compromise the security of its own people. I am worried for Taiwan, Australia, Philippines, etc.

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