A post submitted by CGI member oldcurmudgeon.

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There are some things that just don’t add up, and that makes a thinking person ask strange questions.

Why did Merkel publically admit that the Minsk agreements were in fact a ruse to fool Russia and buy Ukraine time to build up its military forces? What was her reason for doing so? She did NOT have to do that, and it did NOT help the situation, but in fact made things much worse. So, why did she do it?

And as a further point to consider here, note that she did this AFTER the pipelines were blown up, but before the irrefutable evidence that they were destroyed by Washington was made known, and at that time she could reasonable conclude might never be fully known. It is incompressible that she did not know who did it, but she would also know that the full power of the “empire” would do all it could to prevent that knowledge from being reveled.

We also have to consider a couple of other items here. First off, she and President Putin are personal acquaintances. Putin is fluent in German, and when they talk they converse in German. And they have a LONG history – he was her KGB handler when she was a rising star in East Germany. They know each other at a personal level.

So, she would absolutely know that her exposing the ruse of the Minsk agreements would be a personal insult to Putin, and would make him look like a gullible stooge. So, why do it? There is nothing to indicate that she has a personal grudge against him, nor did she and he have an adversarial relationship while she was chancellor.

So again – why did she make him look like a fool? And make the situation in the Ukraine even more dangerous?

Is it possible that she was doing the only thing that she could think of to signal to him that the real issues here were an American aggression against Russia? And that as a loyal German she wanted him to know that most Germans did NOT want this type of relationship with Russia, but are basically an occupied nation that has little choice but to do what the Americans dictate?

It seems clear to me that this is at least a viable possibility, and if so it suggests that the “empire” is both deeply hated and loosing its ability to intimidate the vassal states of Europe the way it has been doing for decades. In the end, our stupid actions will wind up creating the very alliances that we thought we were putting a stop to. Just like the Covid vaccine issue has failed and is now blowing up in their face, this Ukraine thing will do the same . . . unless they can step it up to a full fledge war before most of Europe wakes up and smells the rot and decay of a dying empire.

All of this is deeply dangerous. We are entering into territory where things are getting personal, where leaders are personally insulted, and the very nature of the conflict is about survival, not just some obscure “geo-political” gamesmanship. As the wiser heads (according to Seymour Hersh’s report) in the CIA and the State Department put it, “don’t do this, it is stupid, and if it comes out it will be a political nightmare”, and then they wisely pointed out that this was both an overt act of war, AND an irreversible action!

As a contrarian who often sees things from a different perspective it seems to me that things are more dangerous than most Americans realize, and that our “leadership” – god knows, we don’t really have any – is filled with arrogant buffoons who are actually in a very practical way both insane and stupid.

God help us all.

oldcurmudgeon