Why doesn’t Germany leave NATO and instead join the Russian-led Collective Treaty Security Organization?
I ask that question with semi-seriousness.
In a quite stunning submission to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression, Chancellor Olaf Scholz abandoned his Western allies on Tuesday. Scholz did so by breaking from the sacrosanct post-World War II principle of democratic sovereignty — namely, the principle that democratic governments have the sovereign, inalienable right to make policy in the best interests of their people.
It bears specific relevance to the Ukraine crisis. After all, Russia is demanding that Ukraine and the rest of NATO commit, via treaty or another legally binding document, that Ukraine will never be allowed to join NATO. While Ukraine’s membership in the alliance is not a serious prospect at present, the Biden administration has rightly insisted that neither the United States nor NATO nor Ukraine can be expected to agree to a timeless legal commitment to that effect. To do so would subjugate democratic sovereignty to the whim of the aggressor. It would be to shred everything that the post-World War II order stands for and what so many sacrificed for.
History would suggest that a 21st century German chancellor would have more respect for this principle.
Alas, no.
Just consider what Scholz told German reporters following a press conference with Putin on Tuesday. The New York Times’s Anton Troianovski posted the pool report of Scholz’s quote.
After leaving the Kremlin tonight, Scholz had a separate news conference with German-speaking reporters. In it, he made it clear that he was seeking to formalize Ukraine’s non-membership in NATO as a way of averting war: pic.twitter.com/o1nHHUI7WD— Anton Troianovski (@antontroian) February 15, 2022
Scholz’s meeting with Putin was never a good idea. But this quote is truly something else. Indeed, let’s not mince words. Scholz has offered a clear-cut betrayal not just of Ukraine but also of Germany’s supposed commitment to the Western values of freedom and democracy. The chancellor has now thrown his support behind Putin’s demand for a legal mechanism to ensure that Ukraine’s people and those of other NATO member-states not be allowed to set their own future foreign relations as they choose. It is at once pathetic and immoral.
Still, it is predictable. Germany’s disinterest in the democratic international order is now defining. It’s a pattern that has been borne out by three successive German chancellors. Gerhard Schroder laid the framework for Russia’s energy extortion of Europe, then prostituted himself to that effort. Facing Putin, recently departed Angela Merkel always ultimately put trade before European security. And now we have Scholz.
President Joe Biden might insist Germany is a reliable ally, but Germany’s own leader has proved it is anything but.
How Putin must chuckle.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/olaf-scholz-betrays-ukraine-and-the-west
“After leaving the Kremlin tonight, Scholz had a separate news conference with German-speaking reporters. In it, he made it clear that he was seeking to formalize Ukraine’s non-membership in NATO as a way of averting war”
You can’t get any more treacherous than this. The Krauts finally show the world they are against human rights and democracy. The author is correct by saying this joke country should leave NATO and join the CTSO.
Washington should sanction, pressure the fuckers until they stop their bullshit. Alternatively we should pull out our troops from Germany, including myself.
Now that the Krauts have shit on the US and every other decent country, it’s time to stop this pipe forever.
A REAL president would do all those things and more. But, you can forget any of that, Mike. Biden has no brains and no pride. He never had any and in his old age, never will. One day, I will piss and shit on his grave…
Looks like the Senate are in the same boat as Biden.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/15/senate-poised-to-settle-for-symbolic-rebuke-as-russia-sanctions-talks-fizzle-00009096
That should work out ok for Ukraine. Germany and France FINALLY come clean, after years of lies and trickery, that they are Kremlin assets.
Which only confirms what we all know. Ditto Italy, Hungary and non-Nato Austria.
What to do? Simple : the Budapest signatories, covertly preferably, agree to plug all the gaps in Ukraine’s security during the transition period from now to being a nation whose armed forces are fully capable of deterring putler without needing to fire a shot.
Germany has turned itself into a whore … a whore that walks the streets of oppression and malfeasance to service its pimp, the crime syndicate called mafia land.
If the Europeans and Biden had any pride, which they don’t, and foresight, which they don’t, they would make this trash country pay a very high price for its despicable way it kicks democratic principles with its jackboots, like throwing the krauts out of NATO and the EU.