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The ‘Russian Military Build-Up’
There is some concern about a 'Russian military buildup' near Ukraine.
But before we all panic we probably should take a look at previous similar headlines.
Since the 2014 U.S. led coup in the Ukraine the 'Russian military buildup' has happened during spring, summer, fall and winter each and every year.
- NATO following "very closely" Russia's military buildup, including in Crimea – Stoltenberg – UNIAN, January 5, 2021
- NATO Chief Says Ministers To Discuss Russia's 'Military Buildup' – RFERL, November 30, 2020
- 'Significant buildup' of Russian military forces in Crimea – Washington Examiner, June 12, 2019
- Are the Russians Coming?: Russia’s Military Buildup Near Ukraine – FPIR, February 25, 2019
- Ukraine Asserts Major Russian Military Buildup on Eastern Border – NY Times, Dec 15, 2018
- What’s Putin up to? The Russian military buildup in Europe raises tension. – Military Times, December 13, 2017
- Why Putin Is Escalating Russia’s Military Buildup – Huffpost, September 2, 2016
- Russian Troop Buildup Along Ukraine Border Raises War Fears – VOA, August 4, 2016
- Putin’s Military Buildup in the Baltic Stokes Invasion Fears – Bloomberg, July 6, 2016
- Russian military buildup on Ukraine border hurting ceasefire: NATO – CTVNews, April 23, 2015
- In pictures: Russian military build-up near Ukraine – BBC, April 11, 2014
- What do we know about Russia's troop buildup on Ukraine's border? – CNN, April 2, 2014
- Ukraine accuses Russia of military buildup at its border – CTVNews, March 12, 2014
It is not just near the Ukraine where a 'Russian military buildup' is happening. The same can be said about the Arctic.
- U.S. Warns Of Russian Arctic Military Buildup: “Who puts missiles on icebreakers?” – HighNorthNews, May 27, 2020
- Russia's Military Buildup in Arctic Has U.S. Watching Closely NBC News, April 30, 2017
- Russia's Arctic Military Buildup in One Map – Popular Mechanics, January 26, 2017
- Russia's military buildup in Arctic plays into global strategy – UPI, August 18, 2016
- Russia’s Military Build-Up In The Arctic – ValueWalk, April 1, 2015
- US Lawmakers: Russia's Military Build-up in the Arctic 'Disturbing' – Military.com, March 12, 2015
It is also in Syria where a Russian military buildup happens and let's not forget the Far East.
In fact, there is a 'Russian military buildup' wherever one looks and at all times.
h/t Malinka
since some people asked about the situation in germany, i’m more than happy to provide my point of view, which in no way should be considered as representative. i’m over 40 and live in the capital Berlin for more than 20 years now, which makes my everyday life experience as well as my political take on most things totally different from, say, someone living in Munich, or Cologne, or…. pretty much almost any other part of Germany, really.
the general political situation is this: for more than 15 years now, a coalition of two self acclaimed “peoples parties” – the “christian” conservatives with a majority and the social democrats. until 20-30 years ago the former undoubtedly were the conservative right, while the latter saw itself as moderate left. also about 30 years ago, the green party started slowly to gain some influence and momentum and even was in power as a junior partner together with the social democrats for a few years at the end of the 1990s. initially the green party was a mix of pacifists, late hippies, “tree huggers”, christians who wanted to protect creation and so on. there was always a bellcurve-appropriate and more extreme left and right party, as well as a liberal one, but the “peoples parties” mostly called the shots in the last decades.
what happened? the moderate left moved to the right (or the center, as they call it) and started to promote neoliberal positions and agendas in the late 90ies, much like labour under tony blair in the UK. the “christians” moved to the center, somewhat, while also pushing neoliberal agendas. “real” conservatives say the moved to the left, but since no one seems to know and understand anymore what left and right means, you can file that under “bs (huge pile)”. the treehuggers meanwhile turned out to be even more pro-neoliberal, much much less pacifist than ever expected, almost not left at all (even though people who hate them of course claim that they are) and most of all seem to hate russians and especially putin more than any party ever after WWII. and to make it even more complicated and boring, there is a relatively new party, calling themselves “the alternative for Germany”, who embrace voters from the whole spectrum who are disappointed from their usual parties, mostly on the right and far right, but not exclusively. funnily enough, this party also has a neoliberal mindset, but they either hide it better or people just don’t notice because they’re either too busy calling them Nazis because they’re right from the center, or they’re too busy defending them and call all other people idiots and stupid ultra leftist and antifa. oh yeah, we also have a formerly genuine left party, which gets less significant by the day because instead of calling the system on its bs and being a real opposition, they mainly adopted to the pseudo-progressive, pseudo-liberal identity politics invented and aggressively pushed on the whole western world by the american pseudo left liberals – and try to push them here.
to sum it up: there are about 5-6 parties, each claiming to have an original program and agenda, while in reality there’s only nuances distinguishing them from each other. ALL of them are or (will) act neoliberal in the end. while in the US people have no choice between 2 parties, we here have no choice between those 5-6 parties. and two dozen completely insignificant ones, just for appearances.
as i see it, a very, very, very huge part of all the politicians here are either involved in, part of, or at least indoctrinated by trans-atlantic networks and think tanks. and if they’re not indoctrinated they still do their bidding because of career chances in active politics as well as after their active time, when they get offered a nice job on the board of directors of some multinational crime syndicate. see: it’s not really corruption if no cash changes hands. only promises of career and huge cash in the future are made, if they behave correctly and act properly… and mostly, they do. and there’s also a lot of real corruption taking place, don’t you worry. Oh btw, almost the whole media is in it too, the private ones as well as the public ones. it’s an open secret, or it would be, if anyone cared.
well, about two years ago when the whole fridays for future thing started, i was convinced that the green party will at least be part of the next government (which we will vote for in about 6 months). now i even think it’s possible they’ll become senior partner (and providing the chancellor, successor of Merkel), together with the “christian” conservatives as junior.
i think that because i’m convinced that was the plan for years all along anyway. the whole “great reset” idea is much older as it seems today. the idea of a “green capitalism” has been around at least since the 1990ies (remember Al Gore?), maybe even longer. the powers that be just needed time to adjust everything properly and wait until public opinion shifted their way, meanwhile setting and building up and installing the right people to become “the leaders of tomorrow”.
while the “christian” conservatives have been the trans-atlantic teacher’s pet for decades, they are the face of the old, fossil fueled capitalism. the greens are the new favourites because they promise a better world with much less carbondioxide and animal cruelty, more windmills and solarpanels and much much more money for EVERYONE! well everyone who has the money to invest in new green technologies anyway.
SOOOOO… to get back to the topic at hand: Russia, Ukraine, Biden, Nord Stream II
most of our politicians are super relieved that after that Trump-Nightmare finally there are “democrats” in power again, they are easier to sell as good people to the unwashed masses. the trans-atlantic channels are open again and our puppets are eager to do the bidding of their masters again.
since at least 6 years, probably longer, msm here are unleashing a massive and relentless campaign against russia and especially putin. and i know for a fact that it has seeped in. a lot of ppl who think they can think buy all that crap with malaysian airlines, skripal, novitschok, navalny and of course putin being the devil himself (figuratively). but even more dangerously: since most ppl today are paralyzed by neverending covid lockdowns and all the fearmongering and real existential threats, they dont have the time and/or strengths to think about stuff that happens outside their immediate frame of everyday experience.
oh yeah, did i mention that the green party is also the fiercest opponent of nord stream II? only problem is: since nuclear power and coal power have to go, we need gas to complement the “green” energy sources for a few decades at least. but nevermind that – russia is evil, putin is evil, therefore nsII is evil too and has to be stopped! the price: we have to buy the super clean american fracking gas, which smells like freedom, probably tastes like it too, gets delivered by a neat little armada of supertankers and only costs 30% more! well, at first at least. later, as soon as we’re completely dependent on it, i’m sure the price knows no limits… sounds like quite the conundrum to a normal person, you’d think – but not for them, surprisingly. they really prefer the expensive dirty gas, contradicting everything their party allegedly stands for. while probably almost all politicians are dirty liars, they are the biggest ones, and the most bigotted.
to sum up once more: ppl here are paralyzed and dont think about political issues beyond covid atm. they are bored and disappointed by the government, which probably leads to a green-led coalition 6 months from now. IF a war would break out in the meantime, about 95% of the ppl here would be totally surprised. almost all politicians, ESPECIALLY the green party, would back up NATO and the US and support any of their moves. Nord Stream II would die immediately. the rift between EU and Russia(+China) would become so deep that it would take decades to repair it, if ever again.
oh, and since it came up somewhere: the german military is a sad joke, the minister of “defence” (some female carreer politician out of some german backwoods) is an even bigger and much, much sadder joke. as of now, the german military could never face any involvement in a conflict between russia and ukraine, and quite frankly it really shouldn’t. After killing millions and millions of russians (mostly civilians) in the last century, germans should never ever again set foot on russian soil with a gun in their hand. if they ever do, i’m outta here.
PS: got to go sleep now, i’d be happy to read or answer comments 10+ hours from now.
Posted by: xototox | Apr 4 2021 0:37 utc | 179
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