
BlackRock, Ukraine, and the Davos Gang
As for the agenda of those who seek to profit from suffering and misery thanks to their high political and media connections, we must wake up before it is too late.
As for the agenda of those who seek to profit from suffering and misery thanks to their high political and media connections, we must wake up before it is too late.
Chancellor Scholz may have received guarantees from the U.S. that it would send its M1 Abrams tanks, which persuaded Berlin to follow suit with its Leopards.
Berlin made itself unpopular by refusing to send Ukraine its German-made Leopard II tanks, and forbidding any NATO allies that have them from doing so as well.
Kissinger explained that he had previously opposed NATO membership for Ukraine out of fears that it would cause the situation that has now unfolded. But circumstances have changed.
Until now, all battle tanks that have been delivered to Ukraine—from Poland and the Czech Republic—have been of Soviet design. The Challenger 2, however, is the main tank of the British army.
The promotion of Gerasimov makes it possible to restore the primacy of authority to the ministry of defence, an office vigorously criticised by nationalists.
The international politics of this conflict are messy and complex, but from a nationalist—indeed, from a merely human—perspective, it is impossible not to admire Ukrainians for their courage, their tenacity, and their very survival.
The international pressure on Germany was so strong that the promise to deliver tanks was made before the exact terms of the delivery had been decided.
Even before Vladimir Putin’s announcement, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhaïlo Podoliak described a possible truce as a “cynical trap” with an “element of propaganda.”
Fighting has been going on since May in the area mainly besieged by the mercenaries of Russia’s Wagner Group, and both sides attach more importance to the area than its real military value.