Es ist ein Jammer, dass die Dummköpfe so selbstsicher sind und die Klugen so voller Zweifel. Bertrand Russell
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franko711 retweeted
Let’s go through the peace deals Zelenskyy rejected.
• Istanbul agreement, 2022
Ukraine needed to refuse NATO accession, reduce the army, Russia would withdraw from the Kyiv reg., possibly from the Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions. At that point the scale of destruction was still limited and the number of dead was far lower. In April 2022 Zelenskyy declined the deal.
• End of 2022
Russian forces withdrew from part of the Kherson region. Zelenskyy traveled to meet Biden and, acc. to my sources, later confirmed by Mr. Blinken in the New York Times, persuaded the WH to continue the war. The precise terms of any proposed deal remain unknown, but sources indicate there was readiness to declare at least a ceasefire.
• Beginning of 2023
Through unofficial channels between the United States and Russia, an understanding took shape: Putin agreed to withdraw to the borders that existed before the full-scale invasion—freeing nearly everything conquered that year—in exchange for Ukraine’s refusal of NATO accession and recognition of Crimea as Russian. Zelenskyy and Yermak refused. Since then nearly a million people have been killed or wounded, several million have become refugees, parts of the Kharkiv, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk regions have been occupied, more of Zaporizhzhia has been taken, Kherson lies in ruins, the Chernihiv and Sumy regions face constant shelling, Kyiv itself has become almost a front-line city, the energy system has been destroyed, businesses cannot operate, exports have stalled, and the country is degrading.
• July 2024
An arrangement that began with an energy ceasefire, modeled on the Istanbul understandings and mediated through the Middle East. While negotiations were under way, Zelenskyy also planned the Kursk operation, which ultimately disrupted all the arrangements.
• March 2025
After the Oval Office clash between Trump and Zelenskyy, European leaders gathered in London in early March. The British government stated that a number of options were on the table and that Ukraine had to choose. As always, nothing came of it.
Whether Putin was prepared each time to implement any agreements remains unknown, yet on several occasions he carried out what he had promised. Does this remove his responsibility for the deaths, the horrors, and the destruction in Ukraine? No.
But the country is degrading, the state apparatus is degrading, and corruption finishes what Putin’s missiles, drones, and bombs did not destroy. Inhumanity has effectively become a state strategy and a national ideology promoted at every turn.
Ukraine simply cannot win this way—there are neither economic, nor demographic, nor any other grounds for it. Therefore, if Zelenskyy does not agree to a deal with realistic terms now, Ukraine will be forced to capitulate. And that is deeply alarming, because it can actually cost the country its independence and sovereignty.
franko711 retweeted
Diese Entwicklung, die Flucht der🇩🇪Industrie in die USA, verdanken wir nicht Putin, sondern einzig und allein der Politik von Merkel, Ampel und Merz. Allein DAFÜR verachte ich sie zu tiefst, da sind unkontrollierte Massenmigration, Mrd. für Selenskij&Co noch gar nicht inkludiert.
franko711 retweeted
Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
franko711 retweeted
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.
The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
franko711 retweeted
Was genau hat jetzt Putin damit zu tun?
Kleine Nachhilfe in Geschichte:
Der Aufstand wurde mit Hilfe der kommunistischen Sowjetunion niedergeschlagen.
Diese bestand aus Russland, Ukraine, Weißrussland, dem Baltikum, Kasachstan usw.
In keinem dieser Länder gibt es noch Kommunismus.
(ebensowenig wie es hier noch Faschismus gibt, weshalb Rückschlüsse von Taten Deutschlands während des Faschismus auf die heutige Regierung nicht sehr zielführend sind)
Der Kommandeur der Sowjetischen Truppen in Ungarn, welcher ohne Rücksprache mit Moskau den Schießbefehl gab, Generalleutnant Pjotr Laschtschenko, war übrigens Ukrainer.
Der Stabschef welcher den Einsatzplan vor Ort erarbeitete, Oberst Malaschenko, ebenfalls.
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franko711 retweeted
Schröder, ehemaliger Kanzler, LEGT DIE WAHRHEIT OFFEN: „Frieden sabotiert!
Schröder äußert sich: „Warum der Krieg endlos in die Länge gezogen wird. Es ist das größte Skandalon unserer Zeit: Während täglich Menschen in der Ukraine sterben, Städte in Trümmern liegen und die Energiepreise in Europa durch die Decke gehen, wird Frieden systematisch verhindert. Nicht durch Zufall, nicht durch Missverständnisse – sondern durch absichtliche Sabotage hinter verschlossenen Türen.“
Der ehemalige Kanzler Gerhard Schröder, enthüllt in einem sensationellen Interview, wie historische Chancen, den Krieg zwischen Russland und der Ukraine zu beenden, absichtlich sabotiert wurden.
Russische und ukrainische Delegationen trafen sich in Istanbul. Ein Abkommen schien in greifbarer Nähe: Neutralität für die Ukraine, Sicherheitsgarantien und eine Lösung für den Donbass-Konflikt.
Doch dann kam der berüchtigte Besuch des britischen Premierministers Boris Johnson in Kiew. Laut Schröder und anderen Quellen überbrachte Johnson eine klare Botschaft des Westens: „Kämpft weiter, wir stehen hinter euch – mit Waffen, Geld und politischer Unterstützung.“
Ein Friedensabkommen? Vom Tisch.
Die Eskalation war beabsichtigt. Gerhard Schröder, der Putin seit Jahren persönlich kennt und einer der letzten westlichen Staatsmänner war, die echte Diplomatie betrieben, spricht von einem „System zur Verlängerung des Krieges“. „Es geht nicht um Freiheit oder Demokratie“, sagt er weiter. „Es dreht sich um geopolitische Macht, um Russland um jeden Preis zu schwächen und um Milliarden an militärischen Gewinnen. Jeder, der von einem Waffenstillstand spricht, wird als Putin-Apologet hingestellt. Das ist keine Demokratie mehr, das ist eine Diktatur der öffentlichen Meinung.“
Die Beweislage, die Schröder und investigativer Journalismus zusammentragen, ist vernichtend. Interne Memos des US-Außenministeriums, durch Whistleblower geleakt, zeigen, dass es bereits im März 2022 klare Anweisungen gab, keine Verhandlungen zu unterstützen, die Russland „belohnen“ könnten. Schröder nennt es „moralische Selbstentwaffnung“: Deutschland, einst die treibende Kraft hinter der Ostpolitik, wurde zum Vasallen amerikanischer Interessen. Besonders explosiv ist die Rolle der NATO-Erweiterung. Schröder weist darauf hin, dass Warnungen aus Moskau bereits auf dem Gipfel in Bukarest 2008 ignoriert wurden. Putin betrachtete den Beitritt von Georgien und der Ukraine als existenzielle Bedrohung. Statt Kompromisse zu suchen, gingen die Provokationen weiter: Militärmanöver an der russischen Grenze, Waffenlieferungen und die Ausbildung ukrainischer Truppen durch westliche Spezialeinheiten.
„Das war kein Verteidigungsbündnis mehr“, sagte Schröder, „das war ein aggressives expansionistisches Projekt.“ Hinter den Kulissen florierte ein Netzwerk aus Think Tanks, Waffenlobbyisten und neokonservativen Hardlinern. Namen wie der von Victoria Nuland, die eine zentrale Rolle bei dem Putsch auf dem Maidan-Platz 2014 spielte, tauchen wieder auf. Milliarden Dollar an US-Hilfe flossen nicht nur in die Ukraine, sondern auch zurück in die Taschen amerikanischer Unternehmen. Raytheon, Lockheed Martin und andere Waffengiganten buchten Rekordgewinne. Inzwischen frieren deutsche Familien, weil die Nord-Stream-Pipelines – ein Projekt, an dessen Verhandlungen Schröder maßgeblich beteiligt war – in die Luft gejagt wurden. Bis heute gab es keine echte Untersuchung.
Schröder geht noch weiter. Er berichtet von geheimen Treffen, in denen hochrangige westliche Vertreter offen zugaben, dass ein schneller Sieg für die Ukraine unrealistisch sei. Dennoch wurde die Erzählung vom „Kämpfen bis zum letzten Ukrainer“ aufrechterhalten. Zehntausende junge Männer starben in sinnlosen Offensiven wie jener bei Charkiw oder im Donbass. Zivilisten in Donezk und Luhansk, die seit 2014 unter Beschuss stehen, wurden in den westlichen Medien systematisch ignoriert. „Das ist keine Voreingenommenheit, das ist Propaganda“, sagt Schröder bitter.
franko711 retweeted
I'm old enough to remember Ukraine before February 2022. Before the great PR makeover. Before billions in British public money started flowing. Before the swastikas were quietly airbrushed out of the picture and yesterday's neo-Nazi problem became today's inconvenient history.
Back in January 2015, Ross Kemp travelled to Ukraine for his Extreme World documentary series, investigating the rise of the far right and the Azov Battalion, including its neo-Nazi elements and symbolism.
This was British mainstream television, not Russian propaganda.
Funny how quickly history gets rewritten when the geopolitical interests change and the public chequebook comes out.
Of course, Ukraine's corruption, extremist movements and internal divisions didn't magically disappear in February 2022. But suddenly, mentioning what British journalists had openly reported for years was enough to get you branded a Kremlin sympathiser.
Well, here's Ross Kemp reporting from Ukraine in 2015, long before the political rebranding.
No Russian bots. No Kremlin script. Just the history they would rather you didn't remember.
franko711 retweeted
«Europa tötet die Ukraine»: US-Ökonom Jeffrey Sachs fordert Ende der Nato – und rechnet im EU-Parlament mit der westlichen Kriegspolitik ab weltwoche.de/daily/europa-to…
franko711 retweeted
Wir müssen lernen, Realitäten als Realitäten anzuerkennen. Viele von uns wollten bis zum 24. Februar 2022 nicht wahrhaben, dass Russland die Ukraine großflächig überfallen würde. Doch es gibt Staaten, für die Krieg und Gewalt normale Mittel sind, eigene Interessen durchzusetzen.
franko711 retweeted
Applebaum (wife of MI6 officer and Polish foreign minister Sikorski)
Has mastered the art of projection. Zelensky has banned 11 opposition parties, alonside elections, Ukraine has banned the use of the Russian language, Religion, and literature.
Shes the worst kind of liar.
franko711 retweeted
Zelensky warns that 20 million Ukrainians could go to Europe if Ukraine falls.
*** Only last week, we were told by the political-media establishment that claiming Russia is winning is dangerous Russian propaganda that must be purged from our societies.
franko711 retweeted
I know several former Soviet dissidents, such as Edward Lozansky, who moved to the United States, where he worked with former American presidents. Lozansky asked me if I could produce some recorded online lectures on geoeconomics. I asked my university here in Norway, but they were opposed to the idea because it could cause a lot of problems. I told Lozansky that I could not contribute, as recording online lectures for an American-Russian university established to improve relations between Russia and the West would give Norwegian journalists too much ammunition for smears and to threaten the reputation of my university.
What is the purpose of articles like this? What exactly have they managed to catch me out on? This is a continuation of six years of intimidation since I returned to Norway. Always go after the person, never the argument. Make life as difficult as possible for your opponent, and do it publicly, so that everyone stays in line.
My great crime is arguing that Russia considers NATO expansion an existential threat, something that should be entirely uncontroversial given the extensive documentation supporting this position. Why do I believe it is important to acknowledge this? Russia will use force to push NATO back, and for Ukraine, this means that without a diplomatic solution that takes Russian security concerns into account, Russia will seize strategically important territory and destroy the remaining infrastructure so that Ukraine cannot be used by NATO as a front line. If I am right, NATO's policies will lead to the destruction of Ukraine and potentially to a nuclear war between NATO and Russia.
It is not easy to determine whether I am right, because debate in Norway has been criminalized by labelling dissenting voices as “Russian propaganda.” Unfortunately, arguments and evidence no longer matter in Norway today, where we are only allowed to discuss the supposed evil intentions of those who disagree with us. The freedom of academic discourse must be restricted because all dissent is dismissed as an attempt to “legitimize” the enemy.
In the past, we had journalists who discussed the security concerns of the opposing side. Today, we have journalists who investigate those who discuss the security concerns of the opposing side. How can we improve our own security in Norway when we are not even allowed to discuss the security concerns of Russia, China, Iran, and other countries of that kind? When acceptable debate is reduced to a narrative of a struggle between good and evil, weapons become the path to peace, while diplomacy and mutual understanding are portrayed as weakness and betrayal.
The punishment for academic dissent in Norway is endless personal attacks and derogatory name-calling. Journalists and NGOs affiliated with the state repeatedly contact my employer. Every time I am invited to give a talk, the event is cancelled. Journalists only email me to demand that I respond to accusations without providing any serious justification for them. Journalists investigating me in search of something they can use against me recently gained access to my university records. The only thing they had to use against me was that I had asked about producing some online lectures for Lozansky on political economy. Other recent articles about me have focused on my request to reduce my position at the university to 80% after journalists complained about my outside activities, as well as fake news claiming that I congratulated Putin on the election victory.
I do not believe it is a coincidence that "An Enemy of the People" was written by one of our own, Henrik Ibsen. Outside Norway, there are academic debates in which opposing arguments are presented without vicious personal attacks. Outside Norway, there is political opposition in which every member of parliament is not required to support arms shipments to a war and boycott diplomacy. Outside Norway, there are diplomats who believe in diplomacy and journalists who believe in journalism.
My advice to young Norwegian academics in security studies or political economy who argue for positions that are not supported by the political and media bubble is this: Get out of the country.
franko711 retweeted
Obama’s CIA coup in Kiev in 2014 toppled Viktor Yanukovych. Poroshenko's regime (2014-2019) began attacking Donbas, the ethnic Russian region historically close to Russia. After 2014, Ukraine turned against Russia, the Orthodox faith, and the shared history of the two peoples.
Campaigning as the "peace candidate" in 2019, promising to unite the ethnically divided former Soviet Republic, Zelensky won a landslide election. Once elected, however, under the thumb of Biden and the Banderites, he sacrificed his country in the NATO war against Russia.
Two years later, December 2021, Biden rejected Putin’s proposed mutual security accord that would have left “neutral” Ukraine intact. Biden told Putin, “Russia doesn’t say who can join NATO.” Once again, as in Minsk I and II, legitimate Russian security concerns were brushed aside.
According to ex-Biden adviser Amanda Sloat, senior director for Europe on the National Security Council, #Ukraine could have avoided war in December 2021 with one step: “Ukrainian declaration of neutrality,” she said, “would have prevented the destruction and loss of life."
franko711 retweeted
Alan Watson (@DietHeartNews) : « Le coup d’État de la CIA orchestré par Obama à Kiev en 2014 a renversé Viktor Ianoukovytch. Le régime de Porochenko (2014-2019) a commencé à attaquer le Donbass, la région ethniquement russe historiquement proche de la Russie. Après 2014, l’Ukraine s’est retournée contre la Russie, la foi orthodoxe et l’histoire partagée des deux peuples.
Se présentant comme le « candidat de la paix » en 2019, promettant d’unifier l’ancienne république soviétique divisée ethniquement, Zelensky a remporté une élection écrasante. Une fois élu, cependant, sous la coupe de Biden et des Banderistes, il a sacrifié son pays dans la guerre de l’OTAN contre la Russie.
Deux ans plus tard, en décembre 2021, Biden a rejeté l’accord de sécurité mutuelle proposé par Poutine, qui aurait laissé l’Ukraine « neutre » intacte. Biden a dit à Poutine : « La Russie ne décide pas qui peut rejoindre l’OTAN. » Une fois de plus, comme à Minsk I et II, les préoccupations légitimes de sécurité russe ont été balayées d’un revers de main.
Selon l’ancienne conseillère de Biden Amanda Sloat, directrice senior pour l’Europe au Conseil de sécurité nationale, #Ukraine aurait pu éviter la guerre en décembre 2021 en un seul pas : « La déclaration de neutralité ukrainienne », a-t-elle dit, « aurait empêché la destruction et la perte de vies. »
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Cherchez la cause des causes.
Hippocrate, médecin (-460 -370)
NOTRE CAUSE COMMUNE, c’est d’apprendre à instituer nous-mêmes la puissance politique qui nous manque pour nous défendre contre les puissants du moment.
ici, par exemple, DEVENIR CONSTITUANTS nous rendrait capables d’écrire nous-mêmes — et de faire appliquer nous-mêmes — l’article de constitution qui dirait :
Article 1.1 — Pas de guerre, ni d’agression extérieure armée, sans référendum.
Article 1.2 — Ceux qui ont voté oui à la guerre doivent aller la faire eux-mêmes, au front et pas à l’arrière, sans aucune possibilité d’exemption ou de remplacement. »
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Obama’s CIA coup in Kiev in 2014 toppled Viktor Yanukovych. Poroshenko's regime (2014-2019) began attacking Donbas, the ethnic Russian region historically close to Russia. After 2014, Ukraine turned against Russia, the Orthodox faith, and the shared history of the two peoples.
Campaigning as the "peace candidate" in 2019, promising to unite the ethnically divided former Soviet Republic, Zelensky won a landslide election. Once elected, however, under the thumb of Biden and the Banderites, he sacrificed his country in the NATO war against Russia.
Two years later, December 2021, Biden rejected Putin’s proposed mutual security accord that would have left “neutral” Ukraine intact. Biden told Putin, “Russia doesn’t say who can join NATO.” Once again, as in Minsk I and II, legitimate Russian security concerns were brushed aside.
According to ex-Biden adviser Amanda Sloat, senior director for Europe on the National Security Council, #Ukraine could have avoided war in December 2021 with one step: “Ukrainian declaration of neutrality,” she said, “would have prevented the destruction and loss of life."
franko711 retweeted
Wenn ich Merkel zitiere, ist das dann auch russische Propaganda?
Sie sagte selbst, das Minsker Abkommen habe der Ukraine Zeit gegeben, stärker zu werden. Und ich frage mich: Welche Chancen auf Frieden wurden in diesen Jahren genutzt, welche verspielt? Wer hat welche Entscheidungen getroffen, und wer muss heute mit den Folgen leben?
Ich kann diese Aussagen nicht lesen und anschließend so tun, als hätte die Vorgeschichte dieses Krieges erst im Februar 2022 begonnen. Schon gar nicht, wenn immer weitere Menschen sterben und ihre Familien mit diesem Verlust allein zurückbleiben.
Genau deshalb habe ich Reden, Dokumente und Quellen zusammengetragen und aufgeschrieben, warum ich diesen Krieg für vermeidbar halte. Lest selbst nach und prüft meine Schlussfolgerungen. Und wenn ihr findet, dass diese Fragen mehr Menschen erreichen müssen, teilt den Artikel.
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