{"id":5692,"date":"2014-12-08T06:38:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2014-12-08T06:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T13:39:22","slug":"merkel-digs-own-grave-doubles-down-with-harsh-anti-russia-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=5692","title":{"rendered":"Merkel Digs Own Grave, Doubles Down With Harsh Anti-Russia Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"with-subtitle\">\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\"><\/h1>\n<div class=\"sub-title\">\n<ul>\n<li>This woman is simply insufferable<\/li>\n<li>How many more kindergarten bombings is she going to try to justify before the Germans give her the boot?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"view view-nodeid view-id-nodeid view-display-id-block_9 view-dom-id-13e6bfee0707f89bb85c625fd65ed59c\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\">\n<div class=\"item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/russia-insider.com\/user\/792\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/russia-insider.com\/sites\/insider\/files\/styles\/40x40\/public\/userphoto\/ibxu7uv6_400x400.jpeg?itok=-Zlr7wcB\" alt=\"\" \/>Daniele Pozzati<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"views-field views-field-field-topics\"><span class=\"field-content\"><span class=\"grayround\">OPINION<\/span><\/span> <\/span><span class=\"views-field views-field-created\"><span class=\"field-content\">5 hours ago | <\/span><\/span><span class=\"views-field views-field-totalcount\"><span class=\"field-content\"><span class=\"count500\">1168<\/span><\/span> <\/span><span class=\"views-field views-field-disqus-comment-count\"><span class=\"field-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/russia-insider.com\/en\/germany_politics\/2014\/12\/08\/08-12-30am\/angela_merkels_sunday_interview#disqus_thread\" data-disqus-identifier=\"node\/1643\">8<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"top likes\">\n<div class=\"fb-like fb_iframe_widget\" data-href=\"http:\/\/russia-insider.com\/germany_politics\/2014\/12\/08\/08-12-30am\/angela_merkels_sunday_interview\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"false\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"___plusone_0\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"IN-widget\"><span id=\"li_ui_li_gen_1418045503549_0\"><a id=\"li_ui_li_gen_1418045503549_0-link\"><\/a><span id=\"li_ui_li_gen_1418045503549_0-logo\">in<\/span><span id=\"li_ui_li_gen_1418045503549_0-title\"><span id=\"li_ui_li_gen_1418045503549_0-mark\"><\/span><span id=\"li_ui_li_gen_1418045503549_0-title-text\">Share<\/span><\/span><\/span><span id=\"li_ui_li_gen_1418045503616_1-container\" class=\"IN-right IN-hidden\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content col-xs-9\">\n<div class=\"view view-images view-id-images view-display-id-block_3 view-dom-id-deae7e2512cac3b8a794cfdbddd33ca6\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\">\n<div class=\"views-field views-field-rendered\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"views-field views-field-field-file-image-title-text\">\n<div class=\"field-content\">It seems she will do whatever Washington tells her to. Does she really believe it herself, or is she just stupid?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>As we reported last week, Angela Merkel has come under fire by her three predecessors \u2013 Schroeder, Kohl and Schmidt \u2013 over her uncompromising stance towards Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Those wondering how she will react to such criticism did not have to wait for long.<\/p>\n<p><em>Die Welt am Sonntag<\/em> has just printed an interview with her under the header: \u201eAngela Merkel blames Moscow for the destabilization of Eastern Europe\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Those still hoping that her words had somehow, sometimes been equivocated, or even mistranslated, will now have to face facts: Angela Merkel really is a staunch servant of the American empire.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel&#8217;s words leave no room for dialogue and compromise. She is right, her critics are wrong, and Putin is a evildoer who must pay the price for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eI am convinced that the EU response to Russia&#8217;s actions is the right one\u201c, she says. \u201ePutin destabilizes Eastern Europe\u201c. No risk of getting the translation wrong here.<\/p>\n<p>She goes to the offensive: \u201ethat Russia violated the 1994 Budapest Memorandum about the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the Ukraine, cannot remain without consequences\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s Xmas time and not April&#8217;s fool day, Merkel is in the mood for jokes. Only, her jokes make nobody laugh: \u201eMoldova, Georgia and Ukraine have signed the Association Agreement with the EU out of a fully sovereign decision\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Hello?! Already forgotten what happened in Kiev as soon as former, legitimate and democratically elected Ukraine&#8217;s president Yanukovic refused to sign the Association agreement?<\/p>\n<p>As for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances\">1994 Budapest Memorandum<\/a>,\u00a0with it Ukraine renounced her nuclear power status in exchange for assurances about her sovereignty and the territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Hence Russia shouldn&#8217;t have taken over Crimea, so Merkel&#8217;s favourite argument. She has repeated it over and over again, most recently in Milan before Putin himself. In fact, she would also be right if that were how the troubles began.<\/p>\n<p>But by organising and then orchestrating a coup in Kiev, it was the EU and the USA that first violated the letter and the spirit of the Budapest Memorandum.<\/p>\n<p>Entangling with the opposition to the point of choosing the next prime minister as the USA unquestionably did \u2013 as documented in Victoria Nuland (in)famous Fuck-the-EU phone call \u2013 does not equate to respecting a country&#8217;s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Or could Merkel tell us when foreign politicians last engaged with demonstrators, and even violent rioters, in Paris, London or Berlin &#8211; or anywhere else in the EU \u2013 encouraging them to turn against their elected governments?<\/p>\n<p>It is really about time to stop putting all this emphasis on the Crimea affair. That wasn&#8217;t how the current international crisis began. It is preposterous to pretend, as Merkel does, otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Romano, a respected Italian commentator, and former ambassador to the Soviet Union and the NATO, hit it on the nail when he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201eBefore Russia modified Ukraine&#8217;s geographical map, the USA had already modified Europe&#8217;s geopolitical map by expanding NATO to comprise almost all the former Warsaw Pact members; during the 2008 Bucharest summit the US proposed NATO membership of two new countries; Ukraine and Georgia.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201eThe NATO is not an organization for the collective security of the whole European continent. It is a political-military alliance created to contrast a potential enemy.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201eWas it really that difficult to foresee which would have been Russia&#8217;s reactions to the progressive enlargement of an organization borne during the Cold War?\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently for Angela Merkel it was. No matter how hard her fellow Germans \u2013 from former chancellors to high ranking politicians, from business leaders to even Der Spiegel \u2013 are trying to make her see things also from a Russian perspective.<\/p>\n<div id=\"block-block-20\" class=\"block block-block first odd\"><\/div>\n<p>But this time her rant doesn&#8217;t solely focus on the Ukraine crisis. She goes beyond, ready to open a new front. Well, two.<\/p>\n<p>She indeed criticizes Russia for having \u201ecaused difficulties\u201c to Moldova and Georgia as soon as the latter signed the EU association agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Wie bitte? Moldava? Georgia?<\/p>\n<p>Wait, what a coincidence, those are the very same countries the US Congress has just singled out as subject to Russia&#8217;s \u201e<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/211527-representatives-condemn-russia-aggression\/-\">continuing political, economic, and military aggression<\/a>\u201c!<\/p>\n<p>The way Merkel dovetails her policy to the neocon-dominated US Congress leaves on in wonder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eMoldova suffers since years under the conflict in Transdnister. We have made big efforts to help, so far unfortunately in vain. Likewise, Georgia suffers since years under the frozen conflict in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>As for the Ukraine, no words about the war crimes committed by Pravy Sector neo-nazis. The suffering these paramilitary groups have brought to the people of Donetsk and Lugansk obviously haven&#8217;t caught her attention.<\/p>\n<p>No mention of the repeated shelling, with all sorts of internationally outlawed weapons &#8211; from cluster bombing to phosphorous bombs &#8211; of civilian targets such as homes, schools and hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, \u201eUkraine had to endure the annexation of Crimea and the fight in the East of its Land\u201c<\/p>\n<p>As if Ukraine had not itself started that very conflict! As if Ukraine&#8217;s president Poroshenko was not ruling out a federalist compromise as recently as last week.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel also openly resents \u201eRussia trying to establish economic and political interdependence in a few West Balkan countries\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>There you go. Completely isolated from the rest of Europe, Russia should thus exercise no influence at all even in those countries, like Serbia, with which it has strong historical links!<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that, no matter the (fake) compassionate words about Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine \u201esuffering\u201c from allegedly Russian-fuelled ethnic conflicts, what really bothers Angela Merkel \u2013 i.e. her American masters \u2013 is that Russia refuses to be cornered, and forges new alliances instead.<\/p>\n<p>While Russia had been welcomed as a respectable European power at least since the 1814 Congress of Vienna, now Merkel only sees Berlin, Brussels and Washington as legitimate \u201eEuropean\u201c players.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest, there are budget cuts in the West \u2013 in her interview she also mandates \u201ereforms\u201c in France and Italy &#8211; and IMF agreements, hence again budget cuts, in the East.<\/p>\n<p>Russia just shouldn&#8217;t care about what happens to its borders nor, God forbids, protect ethnic Russians from foreign supported (or even installed) ultra-nationalist leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens next to Russia &#8211; including coups, nazi resurgence and the installation of ABM systems &#8211; it&#8217;s none of her business. Never in history was a country expected to act so foolish.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Merkel couldn&#8217;t have spoken clearer and at the same time darker words.<\/p>\n<p>Hers is the typical hubris that precedes the fall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201eThose whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make them mad\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Merkel&#8217;s geopolitical views are precisely that \u2013 simply mad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/russia-insider.com\/en\/germany_politics\/2014\/12\/08\/08-12-30am\/angela_merkels_sunday_interview\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This woman is simply insufferable How many more kindergarten bombings is she going to try to justify before the Germans give her the boot? Daniele Pozzati OPINION 5 hours ago | 1168 8 inShare It seems she will do whatever Washington tells her to. Does she really believe it herself, or is she just stupid? 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