Current Concerns, No. 14&15

by Willy Wimmer, former Parliamentary Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Defence and Vice President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

The EU leaders have learned nothing from their visit to Ypreson the occasion of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The Russian ultimatum means Rambouillet II, and when do you think the attack will take place?

Recent studies of a North German Foundation have clearly shown that the support
of the German population for the martial course of the Federal Government,
the Federal President, the EU and NATO towards Russia is very small. This
is what the deputy chairman of the CSU and Munich Member of Parliament, Dr
Peter Gauweiler, pointed out in his seminal speech to the graduates of the Bundeswehr
University in Hamburg. The decision of the European Union, presented
by the discontinued European models Barroso and van Rompoy will increase
this aversion for more than good reasons.
Has the time come again to threaten states with ultimatums just like the one against
Serbia in 1914?
Russia, the European Union claims, would have to engage in substantive negotiations
on the “peace plan” of the Ukrainian President within 72 hours. And if not,
we will fire back from 5:45 a.m. on?
It seems as if the European Commission and the European Council in Brussels,
represented by the aforementioned gentlemen, has gone completely crazy and
want to plunge the continent into absolute misery. You do not have to visit Ypres
with its cemeteries reaching to the horizon to find out the fateful aspects of this language
and this attitude.
It has been 15 years now, since NATO has “successfully” followed this path by
forcing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia via the so-called “negotiations” in
Rambouillet, under all circumstances and in violation of the so-called “Vienna Convention”,
to take up international negotiations in order to agree to a NATO dictate
that meant marching through Yugoslavia. For Belgrade to understand this absolutely
right, NATO had submitted plans that corresponded to those of Adolf Hitler
against Yugoslavia during the Second World War up to the last detail. Rambouillet
was – and we now know all too well – only a pretext for the war that would follow
with bombs on Belgrade a few weeks later. As for the war in Yugoslavia, NATO
had taken the nefarious detour via the dead of Racak, the blame being put on the Serbs
by the disastrous American OSCE Representative William Walker in Pristina.
Are now the targeted economic sanctions the intermediate step before the trouble
is going to start? Is it not sufficient that the United States have already inflicted all
that damage to Iraq, Syria and the entire Middle East thereby providing the region
with a huge fuse? Is the war against Russia needed, after all? After the Olympic
war of Georgia against Russia you have to have the impression that it has become
the fashion to strike out in the shadow of international sporting events. Will the political
Europe now completely reverse the Olympic spirit according to which during
such events as we currently have in Brazil, peace and tranquil minds have to prevail?
And why is Russia now given an ultimatum and threatened with economic
sanctions? Why does the German Chancellor not go down on her knees before the
“German Bundestag”? Why – and there it would belong – does she not tell the ladies
and gentlemen in the plenary session of the German Parliament, and thus the German
public, where she sees the reasons which justify such behavior against a European
neighbor, who 25 years ago granted the Germans the way to our country’s
national unity? What in God’s name is going on in a Chancellor’s mind who has
taken her oath on the welfare of the German people? Was it not her inconstancy
that prevented an association agreement with Ukraine on a flimsy pretext two years
ago? Only because of the lady with blond hair coil who most Germans do not want
to see in the role of having even the slightest influence on our German matters? The
Chancellor obviously takes the administrative path via Brussels so that she does
not have to tell the Germans the truth and deny all of us an answer to our questions.
We have already become accustomed to the NATO Secretary General
raving about in the worst way and “agitating” against Russia at every possible
opportunity; or what else would you call his tales? If there are or should be
things, that due to Russian actions on the Ukrainian-Russian border give rise
to further inquiry, then one single question should be raised: Why does neither
NATO, why does neither the EU, why does neither the Chancellor nor the Foreign
Minister call on the OSCE which has been provided for such cases? Praise
the British, who at the same time have also made public their own way as a
new outpost of Europe. Brussels beats the drums for economic sanctions and
thus increases the danger of war in Europe, Cameron simultaneously has contracts
between BP and the Russian Rosneft signed worth gigantic billions. Of
course, neither London nor the commanders in Washington will prevent Europe
from pushing the European Union further into disaster. Nothing else is the
EU’s ultimatum to Russia. •
(Translation Current Concerns)