![]() ![]() The fronts have been deadlocked for more than a year. ![]() Three decades after the end of the Cold War, in which not a day has gone by without the US waging war somewhere in the world, and despite the catastrophe of American global strategy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya and in Palestine – examples of a blithely negligent policy of worldwide intervention that leaves nothing but chaos in its wake – Wagenknecht’s call for Germany to break away from the American-determined Ukraine strategy and fundamentally redefine its relationship with the US, and thus also with Russia, should seem anything but adventurous, especially in view of the high likelihood of a second term of office for Donald Trump beginning only one year from now.Īs far as Ukraine is concerned, it is to be expected that the war there, like the one in Afghanistan, will end in defeat for the US-led West, but above all for the local population. This is still effective today, with the exception perhaps of Gerhard Schröder’s refusal, in alliance with Jacques Chirac, to take part in the invasion of Iraq, and Angela Merkel’s veto in 2008, together with Nicolas Sarkozy, of George W Bush’s invitation of Ukraine to join Nato. Anyone who took a different view, such as Egon Bahr or Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Brandt’s foreign policy adviser and Schmidt’s foreign minister, respectively, came under suspicion of a new German nationalism, expressed by the US as a means of maintaining alliance discipline. With the exception of the Willy Brandt era, it was considered axiomatic in postwar West Germany that there should be no special German interest outside the overall interest of a united West as formulated by the US, and certainly not in the area of national security. ![]() But Wagenknecht’s proposals could and should have provided an ideal occasion for a long overdue debate on Germany’s national interest under the conditions of the collapse of the US-dominated New World Order, a debate that is stubbornly refused by the established parties and their public. As far as the German media reported on this at all, they treated it as a combination of naive pacifism and high-treason Putinism. In her speech at her new party’s first national conference, Sahra Wagenknecht called on the German government to stop supplying arms to Ukraine and end the oil and gas embargo against Russia. ![]()
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