Thirty years ago, Germany was reunited, thanks to the common sense and generosity of Moscow. Thirty years later, the political sons of Helmuth Kohl, grandsons of those who invaded the USSR in 1941, are debating sending German tanks to fight Russia. And the fight will take place in Ukraine, one of the main theaters of the great massacre unleashed by Germany at the time.

by Rafael Poch de Feliu

"Leopard" is now the name of these tanks that will walk on the ruts left years ago by these "Tigers" and "Panthers", on the bones of more than twenty million Soviet "sub-humans" (Untermenschen) . If someone had said in October 1990, in the midst of a reunification celebration, that in a generation German tanks would set foot on this land again, he would have been taken for a madman. But this is precisely what will be decided on January 20 at the base in Ramstein, Germany, where the "contact group on Ukraine" will meet, under the leadership of the United States.

The “Leopards” being German, it is up to the German government to decide whether the tanks it has sold to its European partners can be transferred to Ukraine. " To refuse to do so would be an unfriendly act towards Poland and Ukraine. “, can we read in Handelsblatt.

The Greens and the Liberals in the government coalition are asking for the green light for the transport of the tanks. The political, media and international pressure is intense and irresistible for the timid Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

« Russia's conduct in this war resembles in many places the war of annihilation of the SS and Wehrmacht against the Soviet Union. says Green politician Jürgen Trittin. " It is a war of annihilation like that waged by Hitler's Germany on Soviet and especially Ukrainian soil between 1941 and 1944. agrees his Christian Democrat colleague Roderich Kiesewetter. Arms company lobbyists are going wild. Wolfgang Ischinger, former ambassador and former president of the Munich Security Conference, one of the most famous, calls for the organization of a “war economy” in Germany.

« Ukraine fires as much ammunition in one day as we produce here in six months, we must take the initiative and ask European arms companies to produce more arms and ammunition, it is not only to supply tanks, but also ammunition for artillery, missiles, drones, air defense systems and much more, but we need political priorities so that the industry has guidelines He says.

The European Parliament also calls for the creation of a consortium of countries with "Leopards" in their armies to send them to Ukraine, on the initiative of the Greens. " Finland and Poland ask for it » explains Green MEP Reinhardt Bütikofer, and it is not a question of sending a few tanks, but of a " support for Ukraine that will lead to a qualitative change in the situation on the battlefield ».

The European Parliament, which on October 6 already called for the dispatch of heavy tanks to Ukraine, demands, plain and simple, a victorious tank battle against Russia in Ukraine. Kohl's children and the grandchildren of those who were defeated at Stalingrad, who make up the German coalition government, are again sending tanks to fire on the Russians? These people have lost all memory and restraint. Final and definitive point of Germany's historical responsibility. But there is something even more serious.

What is happening in Europe right now is sheer madness. Have they gone mad? To understand the question, it is necessary to explain NATO's historical "battle plan" in Europe during the Cold War.

With the USSR having conventional numerical superiority, the Soviet plan in the event of war was to " reach the Passage de Calais in 48 hours by a massive barrage of tanks on the Warsaw Pact troops stationed on the front line. To slow this process and give the Americans time to land their reinforcements on the continent, the Western plan was to use tactical nuclear weapons against the armored mass of the adversary. These weapons were invented by the United States in the late 1950s, first as nuclear bombs, then as artillery munitions and nuclear missiles, and deployed in Europe.

Moscow followed them, always belatedly, as it did for other American inventions (the intercontinental missile, submarines and strategic aviation, multiple-head missiles, the militarization of space, etc... ) and today has some 1900 tactical nuclear weapons.

What would Russia do if she was overwhelmed by the great victorious wave of modern Western tanks that the European Parliament demands to be launched against her? With their usual cynicism, the commentators and pundits parading on Russian television channels do not hide it: if only a few dozen tanks are sent, the movement will be anecdotal, but if the offer is massive, Russia will what the West planned to do to avoid being overwhelmed by Warsaw Pact tanks during the Cold War, they say. With German tanks firing at Russians again, the Kremlin's dubious historical analogy of a new "great patriotic war", with which the Russian elite is galvanizing its population, would be confirmed. Does the West understand what all this means?

President Biden ruled out any supply of offensive weapons to Ukraine for this reason in March. " The idea that we are going to send offensive equipment to Ukraine, with American planes and tanks, pilots and crews, is called World War III “, he had then declared. In May, Mr. Biden himself wrote in the New York Times than " we do not encourage or allow Ukraine to attack beyond its borders ". And still in June, French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed: “ we are not going to war, so we have decided not to supply certain weapons, especially fighter planes and tanks ". Seven months later, the situation has radically changed: we are not saying to kyiv: do not attack the Russians (outside your territory), said the Times of london quoting a US government spokesperson. For now, they will send tanks, then, why not, planes and missiles, and finally soldiers, says the German MP for Die Linke, Sevim Dagdelen, according to whom " sending arms is the ticket to war, the ticket to world war XNUMX ».

For Ukraine to “win” this war and get Crimea back, NATO must go to war. This is precisely what the government in kyiv, the Poles and the Balts want.

« The Ukrainians do not want a ceasefire, it only strengthens the Russians, sending modern missile systems and tanks is a prerequisite for an armistice writes Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun in a column in Die Welt. Arms industry lobbyists play down the issue: By supplying tanks to a nation under attack, no one becomes a participant in the war under international law (…) the fear of escalation risks should not become a kind of fearful self-deterrence says Ischinger.

The former German ambassador and defense industry lobbyist doesn't think it's necessary to bring Ukraine into NATO. With the Western military aid it receives including the United States and the United Kingdom since 2014, Ukraine will be by far the best trained, best equipped and strongest military power in Europe “, he predicts. " Ukraine is on the right track in this direction “, he notes. But will Russia agree to it? Will she, not Putin but any Russian leader, be satisfied with the prospect of seeing a Ukraine transformed by the West into " the strongest military power in Europe to turn against her along her border? Didn't it justify its invasion of Ukraine last year precisely on this ground?

While no one is talking about negotiation, the message that escalation is not to be feared and is even the way to peace is being broadcast with mad vigor. " The best way to avoid a confrontation with Russia in the future is to help Ukraine repel the invader now agree former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in their op-ed for The Washington Post January 8.

Erich Vad is a former brigadier general who, between 2006 and 2013, served as military policy adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In an interview published by the German magazine Emma on January 16, this convinced Atlanticist soldier said the following:

« In eastern Ukraine, in the Bakhmut region (Artiomovsk was its Soviet name, which the kyiv government canceled, for "Artyom" Sergeyev, Reuben and his ancestors – Rafael Poch de Feliu Bolshevik leader and founder of the Donetsk Soviet Republic during the civil war against the Whites and the foreign-supported Ukrainian atamans), the Russians are clearly advancing. They will probably have completely conquered the Donbas in no time. It is enough to take into account the numerical superiority of the Russians over Ukraine. Russia can mobilize up to two million reservists. The West can send 100 “Marder” and 100 “Leopard” armored vehicles. They will not change the overall military situation. And the most important question is how to overcome such a conflict against a nuclear power – by the way, the strongest nuclear power in the world! – without entering a third world war. And that's exactly what politicians and journalists in Germany don't think about ».

source: Rafael Poch de Feliu

Translated by Estelle et Carlos Debiasi for El Correo de la Diaspora

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