Alexander Gauland: one plus one equal two

 

Alexander Gauland: one plus one equals two

One of the co-founders of Alternative für Deutschland knows full well that so called maintream political parties have miserably failed to provide answers for very difficult problems. He knows that they keep proposing failed recipes that keep making matters a lot worse because they are guided by ideological nonsense that goes against reason.

Because so called mainstream political parties control mass media they are still getting away with murder and the outcome of the 2025 Federal Elections in Germany could still produce the same nonsense that will compromise Germany's very existence.

Since the end of World War Two the idea of the victors was to prevent a German true revival and have done so brilliantly maintaining a massive military occupation of German land and dictating to the German peoples foreign policies that go against Germany's genuine interests. So called mainstream political parties have been complicit in promiting anti-German policies.

Today, present circumstances are a calculated risk that could lead Germany to be involved in a catastrophic war against her will. German voters will have to choose between political parties that will take such risk and a political party that openly and strongly speaks against any Germany involvement in any kind of war.

Hermann Göring: No German cities will ever be bombed = NATO: we can attack the Russian Federation, but the Russian Federation will never attack us.

 

The concept of invincibility is still very much amongst us and we see it in the speeches and statements made by politicians and mass media personalities. We see in news reports and commentary about the conflict in Ukraine.

All the talk about using long range missiles is based on the concept of invincibility and of 'it cannot happen to us'.

Reality is exactly the opposite. A war by proxy can really and truly become a direct military involvement that could see Berlin, London, Paris, Warsaw and many other cities turned into ash and debris with no living soul in them.

We are not in the 1930s and 1940s. We are in 2024. The distances have become a lot shorter. What could be done in months and weeks can now be done in minutes.

It takes 15 minutes for a 100 megaton nuclear device to reach London and there will be scarcely the time to evacuate a city of more than 8 million people during the night and of more than 9 million people during the day. Not that policians, military men, mass media and civilians could take any notice of what could land on top of them all. They have got the same of awareness the inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had in 1945. They believe - once again - in the concept of invincibility.  

One only has to read what those posting messages on social media say to know how convinced they are, believing that they can attack somebody else without a care in the world.

Understanbly, people have no personal memories of World War One or World War Two. The scenes of devastation is something that they can see in pictures, but they never had any personal experience of it. I guess those have an idea of what could happen to Europe are now being massacred by Israel and seeing their cities and towns turned into rubble with no living soul in them. It takes time for those who have not been exposed to total destruction to understand they themselves could suffer a similar fate.

On the nature of war: if somebody risks his or her life for the country you see as your country, he or she are duly entitled to be protected by you.

In 2001, Britain went into Afghanistan and stayed there 20 years. In order to fight in Afghanistan, British forces needed the cooperation of local populations, people that put themseves in mortal danger simply because they were helping Britain to fight a war. In Britain's hour of need, they were there to support Britain and therefore Britain has the moral obligation to protect them in their hour of need.

In 2003, Britain went into Iraq and needed the cooperation of Iraqis to be there. There same applies then to Iraqis that helped Britain and it must be remembered that many of them not just risked their lives. They lost their lives.

When the point was raised that Britain should honour those who fought for Britain during World Wars, including World War Two, some Conservative MPs showed that they opposed the plan not because of what happened in World War Two and other wars of a long gone past but because of present geopolitical considerations that have nothing to do with the risks people took 70 or so years ago. If we were to think in such a way, Britain would see the French Resistance as enemies because of the fight against Napoleon.

Sajid Javid and others are right to consider honouring Muslim fighters that fought for Britain during World War Two. 

 

On the way to World War Three: This is not the end, not the beginning of the end. It is maybe the end of the beginning

 

Although, officially, the beginning of World War Two was September 3rd, 1939, in actual fact the World War Two started a lot earlier. 

In the early 1930s, Japan was battling it out with China. In 1936, the Spanish Civil War was yet another step. In 1938, the then Czchecoslovakia so much of its territory taken away. So other things were happening long before German troops launched the atttack against Poland.

Palestine, Ukraine and Yemen are just part of the picture. They are steps towards World War Three. All sides, as it usually the case, try to interpret the opponents' movements, according to what they think is the opponents agenda.

The war in Palestine is a war of extermination. The general idea is to get of Palestinians on the way to the creation of the bigger Israel. When Palestinians are out of the way, or even before that, Israel will use any justification to attack its neighbours. Ir is already waging war against Syria and Lebanon and other countries will be attacked.

The conflict in Ukraine has served to clarify the contradictions of a presumed unified European Union. The European Union is a political project and the controversies in terms of lack of support clearly show that behind the facade of unity there are dangerous differences when countries are asked to choose between the political project and their own national interests.

The conflict in Ukraine is only about winning. In the same manner, that Israel has no intention of allowing Palestinians to have a political solution, in Ukraine there is no political solution. So this is war for years to come and in the process other conflicts will appear, conflicts we have been hearing about as possibilities.

We have repeatedly heard the British Prime Minister, the Secretary for Defense and many other major and minor political personalities talking about doing the walking. The fact remains that in the event of any major conflict Britain is desperately ill equipped. One government after another has totally disregarded the need for Britain to be prepared. They have done the talking, but they haven't done the walking. Britain has barely 40,000 people fit for war of a total of about 73,000 - counting administration staff and cleaning personnel. Britain is not even capable of guarding its own borders or patrolling its own territorial waters.We hear talk about long term projects that mention 2035. Well, what has Britain got today in 2023? 

European politicians talk about their fears of yet another President Trump's presidency. Why? Because they fear that USA will walk away from NATO. Why? Because NATO is the USA. If you look at all other NATO members, they don't have the capacity to wage yet another World War. Germany's development was stiffled on purpose. Germany has been prevented from developing its true potential and German politicians will have to make a huge effort to convince German voters that they need to part with more of their tax monies to build infrasture to prepare the country for war. Germany's bridges and Germany's road have not been built to endure tanks and heavy equipment. But this, as important as it is, is practically nothing compared to the fact that Germany does not have neither the material resources nor the emotional preparedness for war. Decades of blame and apologizing for World War Two have left Germany disabled to even defend itself from aggression. And let us remember that Germany is - even it is poor present state - the biggest economy in Europe.

There are two certain possibilities - vertical escalation and horizontal escalation. Vertical escalation means the use of much more advanced weapons. Horizontal escalation means the spread of war beyond the present boundaries, but there is yet another possibility - vertical and horizontal escalation. Lets see how many countries have the capacity to combine both. Look at both sides of the divide to know what will happen next.

Teaching children about fairness is the wrong thing to do. The world is about power.

The world is about power. Not fairness.

We have spent generations after generations teaching children about fairness and giving them a very idealitic view of the world that is not real. The world is run by opposites and a status quo is established when all parties know that there is a risk when trying to go beyond that status quo. This is why borders tend to be respected but borders can suddenly change as a consequence of a conflict. If a party is not strong enough to prevent a change of borders then it becomes a conflict leading to a fait accompli and a new status quo is established.

The history of the world is a history of changing boundaries and conflicts. Is there a country that wasn't born because of conflict? Wars of aggression, wars of independence, wars, wars, wars. The United States of America celebrate today the 4th of July and the Declaration of Independence, but even after the 1776 Declaration of Independence fighting went on. So the creation and further expansion of the United States of America happened because of wars. Bloodshed allowed the expansion of the United States of America.

The same can be said of many other countries and this tends to be the rule rather than the exception and it is still happening and will continue to happen.

When you look at the map of the British Empire, after a series of expansions came contraction. Territorial acquisitions overseas were lost and even the borders within the British Isles changed. Until 1920, the United Kingdom comprised also the entirety of the islando of Ireland. Since 1920, as a consequence of a treaty, the Republic of Ireland with its capital Dublin was established and Ulster/Northern Ireland in the north remained as a integral part of the United Kingdom. Should movements towards the independence of Scotland eventually succeed or if suddenly Ulster becomes part of a united Ireland because of the Sinn Fein/Ira electoral successes in Northern Ireland caused by both a sudden change of the mood between communities or simply because of demographics - Catholic families tend to have more children, once again the borders of the United Kingdom will be redrawn. One thing we can take from history is that the presumptions in terms of borders can suddenly change. Yugoslavia is a perfect of example of a country that imploded leading to many different countries. In the case of Yugoslavia, the fact is that Yugoslavia itself was from the beginning like pieces of a puzzle. You can go as far as the Austro-Hungarian Empire that included regions or entire countries in terms of countries that are a reality today. Austria and Italy - throughout the history of Europe have exchanged regions. France and Germany's example - Alsace and Lorena - at one time part of Germany and now part of France. Britany and Normandy - once part of the British Empire are now part of France. And we could mention many other cases not just in Europe but across the world. At one point Bolivia had costal waters and that was the case until a conflict between Peru, Bolivia and Chile left Bolivia isolated and having to pay a fee to have access to the Pacific Ocean.

When it comes to Palestine we have yet another example of changing borders and changing owners. The history of Palestine is a history of conflicts between empires and between countries. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed many countries were born, one of them Iraq that itself comprises three distinctive regions. For a brief period Palestine was in the hands of the British until partition led to the creation of the State of Israel and fighting continued between Palestinians and newcomers from Europe that continued the process of expansion taking land from within Palestine and from neighbouring countries. How long will the status quo last? Presumably as long as the parties involved are strong enough to maintain such status quo and this is not a guarantee for any lasting peace.

Going back to Europe, Poland keeps asking Germany for war reparations in spite of the fact that much of the Germany that was before World War Two and before World War One was taken over by Poland and this include a huge chunk of Easter Germany including Danzig and Memel. Danzig is now known as Gdansk. The birthplace of Immanuel Kant, Konisberg is now Kaliningrag in what used to be Eastern Prussia. 

We don't know the outcome of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine - another country that was made up with bit and pieces taken from other countries including Poland, Hungary and Russia. In fact, the present conflict is very much the consequence of the way Ukraine was made with Western Ukraine in direct conflict with Eastern Ukraine - one predominantly Polish and Hungarian and the other predominantly Russian. The conflict is a mix of geopolitical divisions and ethnic divisions.

Borders can change and borders will change. So we can expect that there will be conflict along the way and further bloodshed can be guaranteed. Whether China decides to recover what is know today as Taiwan remains to be seen but there is certainly the prospect of yet another conflict as the multipolar world replaces the bipolar world created by World War Two.

Blank attacks against all Russians and anything Russian will strenghten Russian determination and NATO will be seen as the 1941 Wehrmacht

For those of us who bother to learn about Russian history, the idea of launching an attack against all Russians and all things Russian will take the Russian Federation back to the 22th of June 1941, the start of Unternehmen Barbarossa when the strives towards the implementation of Adolf Hitler Plan to exterminate Russians and replace them with German farmers in Lebensraum begun.

Demolishing monuments used to remember those who fought against National Socialist Germany will return Europe back to World War Two. Those who forget the past are forced to relive the past. 

So what is the brilliant idea that the Baltic Republics and others got? Confiscate anything Russian. Why? To prevent any Russians from entering Europe. As soon as the news hit the headlines across the Russian Federation those who oppose national mobilization in the Russian Federation will support national mobilization and when this happens Europe as a whole will once again face the prospect of an all-out war.

NATO will be seen as the 1941 Wehrmacht.

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Ukraine: RAF actions in the Black Sea region will trigger war between UK and the Russian Federation

Black Sea is a battlefield and the British government is pushing Britain towards war. Any direct intervention is much more than provocation. It is an act of war. The British Prime Minister will a have a lot to explain if suddenly bombs start dropping in the United Kingdom because of an incident in the Black Sea Region.

This is not the Twentieth Century. This is the Twenty-first Century, a century in which a nuclear missile flying from Kaliningrad can reach London in 15 minutes, a missile that cannot be intercepted. Does Rishi Sunak think that this is a price worth paying?

During World War Two, the Wehrmacht did not have the capacity to launch nuclear missiles. No matter how damaging V1 and V2 were and in spite of the fact that they had to travel a lot shorter distances, they are nothing compared to a nuclear missile. To think that all main British cities could be wiped out in less than half a hour is a sobering thought.

Rishi Sunak broke a record by becoming the first Asian British Prime Minister - regardless of the fact that he was not elected by the British Electorate and was not elected by members of the Conservative Party, but appointed by Members of Parliament without the consent of members of the Conservative Party.

But if the Prime Minister happen to be in London when a missile attack takes place, not even the Prime Minister will have the time to leave London if London is attacked. He and more than 8 million Britons will perish.

Now lets look at the first direct consequences. There will be no British government and no Parliament. London will be a non existing city and people outside London will have to take over to manage whatever is left of Britain as a country. Democracy and elections will be a thing of the past for a very long time.

The first concern will be how to avoid a civil war caused by absence of authority. As the French saying goes, it will a case of 'sauve qui peut'. With London's population decimated and political authorities out of the way, chaos will immediately take over. For whoever manages to survive the impact of a nuclear device, life will not be easy. If radiation does not immediately kill any survivors of the first impact, many will suffer the consequences translated into all kind of diseases including incurable cancer. Riots and looting carried out by both desperate peoples and opportunists will make the entire city unsafe. All medical facilities and emergency services will no longer exist.

Somebody said that the next war will have similarities with regards to the previous wars, but that in essence it will be a different kind of war. In the 1930, France was preparing for yet another war of trenches similar to what happened during World War One and was totally unprepared for Blitzkrieg. As a direct consequence of the lack of preparedness, France was defeated in a few weeks. We don't know what fate has ready for us in the next war.

Ukraine: If mobilization continues, there is the certain risk of Britain and Europe being engulfed in a very destructive war

 

World War One was seen as the war that would put an end to all wars in Europe. Then came World War Two. 

World War Two was a progression that started with the Spanish Civil War, when the future foes had the time and space to put into practice what they were going to do later on.

Even in September 1939, World War Two merely involved a few countries in isolated areas. In Europe, it was about Germany, Poland, Britain and France. In Asia, Japan was making advances in continental Asia. Not a hint of what was going to happen a few months later. In 1940, the pinnacle was the invasion of France - one of the countries that declared war against Germany on September 3, 1939, but soon most of Western Europe had been either invaded or was at war.

Therefore, these are the early days of World War Three, a new conflict that will certainly involve the whole of Europe as when it starts in earnest no one will escape from it. Lamentably, governments continue making steps that bring World War Three closer to home. Adding logs to the fire will not extinguish the fire. Quite the opposite. The location - once again - of nuclear stockpiles on Britain soil will certainly make Britain a first strike target.

Funnily enough, when a Conservative MP mentioned the idea of re-introducing Military Service in the UK the Labour Party Opposition was dead against such an idea. If there is war, the number of British military personnel actually trained and fit for war is minimal and most of the civilian population has been softened by years of neglect.

If you have children above the age of 16, rest assured that your children will be called to serve and die in war. At the moment they might busy themselves with pop music and entertainment, watching videos on Internet, and so forth, and are totally unaware of what is coming to them.

Can the Gulf Stream be used as a weapon for war?

The Gulf Stream could be more powerful that many nuclear weapons exploding at the same time. 

We know that the Gulf Stream controls temperatures in Europe. By redirecting the Gulf Stream or making the Gulf Stream collapse, NATO will be finished and most of Europe will be neutralized for many years to come with massive loss of European population.

By neutralizing Europe - or in other words if Europe ceases to exist - the balance of forces across the world can suddenly be altered for good. 

Every world war is similar in some ways to the previous world war and also different in some ways. In 1939, the French believed that their Armed Forces were marvellous as they were the victors of 1914-1918. They fought and lost World War Two using the same conventional strategies of World War One with no communications, no proper command, in a war they believe was going to be like World War Two. They event sent the biggest numbers and the most capable forces towards Belgium and were caught up in a bag, leaving the way open for German forces to advance to Paris with little resistance.

Today, the world relies on nuclear weapons. Are nuclear weapons the biggest threat. Climate is the biggest threat. Climate is more powerful than nuclear weapons and has more lasting consequences. What can change climate dramatically? The sea. The sea is a weapon for war that can destroy hundreds of millions very quickly and neutralize enemies for many years to come. If the sea were to be used for war, Europe would be no more.

Ukraine: Like many times before, US disinformation operations have backfired

 In recent days, US launched a disinformation operation aimed at generating confusion on the battlefield but it has disastrously backfired. In fact, the so called 'attempted coup' was no more than rumours spread by the US State Department and acolyte mass media.

What the US State Department does not tell you is that German Leopard tanks and American tanks are being exterminated - to put it mildly. Poorly trained Ukrainian corps without air cover are being pinpoited and destroyed.

No doubt that German panzers are - as usual - very well designed, but they have seldom or never being tested on the battlefield. In the hands of rookies, they are being hunted like fish in a barrel. Nothing was learnt from World War Two. The Battle of Bulge was lost by the Wehrmacht because panzer units on a clear day were easily destroyed by air power once Germany lost control of the skies. The Ukrainian corps are being decimated because they are - like German corps in World War Two - acting without air cover.

Western mass media reports - very much like Goebbels reporting of the Battle of Stanlingrad - are fake and part of a propaganda operation. Fieldmarshal Paulus had already surrendered but German radio was still talking about the victorious Wehrmacht.

Russian artillery is now using weapons that have a 30 kilometer range. Ukrainian crews might not even see approaching death. Once a tank is hit, the presumed outcome is total anihilation. There are estimates of 14,000 Ukrainian casualties a day. 

World War: Imprudent Sunak and rational Wallace

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has shown once again that when it comes to geopolitics he is willing to talk regardless of the consequences. The announcement that he is willing to send jets and that everything is on the table was quickly countered by Defense Secretary Ben Wallace that stated that jets will not be sent because it would put Britain in danger of direct retaliation.

The stakes are high and cool heads are needed. Any imprudent action will put the whole of Europe in danger, not just Britain. Even, imprudence will put the whole world in danger as nuclear war would be catastrophic. We would say goodbye to whatever has been achieved since World War Two and before World War Two.

The Russian Federation was quick to respond and without perhaps this is what motivated Ben Wallace quick reaction. One can understand that Rishi Sunak is being undermined by Boris Johnson, motivated to make pompous declaration in public to counter Boris Johnson's actions. Boris Johnson is not the British Prime Minister nor the Defense Secretary nor the Foreign Secretary. Boris Johnson is saying what he could not really say if he was really in command and Rishi Sunak is trying and failing to score points to counter Boris Johnson's dangerous demagogy. Fortunately, Ben Wallace does not have to play such game.

As this happens in Britain, in Germany the idea of mandatory military services has been put forward and this has serious aspect to be taken into consideration. Since World War Two, generation after generation has been told that getting involved in wars is a bad idea. The size of German Armed Forces taking into account its population is negligeable, but changing the direction of travel is not as easy as it might be believed. Germans must be taught, once again, to love war and this poses obvious risks. 

The genie is now out of the bottle. The German Constitution now allows German troops to be deployed anywhere outside NATO and German politicians are actively supporting the renaissance of German military traditions that led to World War Two. The Fourth Reich is on the way. 

How to destroy the United Kingdom from within

 

How to destroy the United Kingdom from within in case of war

The fall of Singapore during World War Two gave me the idea of how to destroy a country from within. As we know, the artillery in Singapore was heading in the wrong direction and this was one of the factors that led to one of the worst military disasters in British history. A massive number of British troops and Commonwealth troops arrived in Singapore just in time to surrender to the Japanese.

For the kind of threat we are dealing with, Faslane, the Nuclear Deterrent, the Royal Navy, the Air Force and the Army plus all the added ingredients of the Security infra-structure of the United Kingdom will be pretty useless.

It will be an Ardennes Moment. Britain will be expecting something completely different and will be powerless to prevent a very well organised and long term planned attack to destroy British fighting capabilities. It is a bit like having a car wired to explode with the occupants of the car completely unaware of what is going to happen to them. What is the most deadly weapon of all? The Human Brain. Deadly force without brainpower is not as effective as it could be or it is absolutely inneffective. The Nuclear Deterrent could be compared to the Maginot Line. Vast amounts of resources spent in technological develoments that would be rendered completely useless by using much more affordable and much simpler and much more available means that will go undetected. Beware what you see and be much more afraid of what you cannot see. Let's leave this here as an introduction.

In the 1940s, far too many people believed that World War Two was going to be the same as World War One. Nowadays, far too many people believe that World War Two was absolutely different from World War One. In fact, it was somewhere in between the two sets of beliefs. Yes, there was a better of technology and especially new technology was developed before and during World War Two, but horses and bicycles were used to move around troops and cargo. Yes there were machine guns, but many still used a one-shot-at-time rifles or carabines. When we talk about World War Three, once again we will end up with 'something in between', but the battlefields will be much closer to home for everybody's discomfort. 

As the offensive in Ukraine has shown is that despite technological advances, the methods used are still very much the same and every inch will have to be fought for and this will be true both on land, in the air, in the water and underwater and we can add that World War Three will also include Outer Space with satellites and missiles that will leave the Earth's atmosphere to re-enter the Earth's atmospher to hit their targets. And what about distances? What are the real distances today? 15 minutes for a nuclear missile to travel from Kaliningrad to London. We don't need pinpoint accuracy (American claim regarding missiles used in Iraq). If the aim is to cause the greatest, the biggest, amount of damage, pinpoint accuracy is irrelevant. It will be just about hitting a target as hard as possible in the shortest time possible for major effect. 

But let us be clear that much of the damage will be caused internally with very ordinary methods and very ordinary tools. Very much like the viruses of War of the Worlds, there are very easy ways of paralyzing a country like Britain acting inside Britain.

Hundreds of so called Western volunteers including Britons captured in Ukraine and begging to be returned to their homelands

 

Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner

Two so called British warriors who went to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians and Russians were captured and are now begging the British government to take them back to Britain.

These are just two of the many that have been captured in Ukraine, idiots who were brainwashed by American propaganda to get involved in a conflict created by American lies and unfulfilled American promises regarding the expansion of NATO towards the East - President Reagan promised President Gorbachev that NATO would not be expanded towards the East. Today, NATO has not only expanded towards the East. It is now right along the borders of the Russian Federation. 

These are the people that Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner went out to help. Even the BBC showed pictures like these some years ago, before a propaganda machine was set up to deny their existence because it went against the official agenda promoted by the American State Department. It is very good to remember the fallen in the South Atlantic conflict some 40 years ago. Let's see what kind of people is the American government supporting now in Ukraine, rewriting the history of World War Two.

Time to stop blaming today's generations for what past generations did

 

The tactics used by a terrorist organisation called BLM driven by the will to destroy Western Civilization are very much based on blaming present generations for whatever happened hundreds of years ago. The same has been done to previous generations by campaings seeking to paralize them by destroying their identity and their will to resist.

For decades, after World War Two, people who took not part in World War Two and people who were not even born during World War Two, have been blamed and made to feel guilty, for things they never did and couldn't possibly do.

This campaign of blame and guilt was used to enslave, to control, to abuse, people who played no part in World War Two. Now, BLM and other idiots are doing exactly the same blaming people who were born centuries after slavery was abolished by their ancestors. White Priviledge, they call it. There is no such a thing as White Privilege. People have struggled and worked hard to get to where they are and many have not even made it and continue to struggle.

Funnily enough, in the USA, white brainwashed individuals are attacking their own country, their traditions and their coulture because of a terrorist organisation that is dividing the country and eroding its foundations and they try to do the same all over the world. 

Bernie Madoff came to represent all that is wrong with high finances

 

From financial guru that led people to believe that they could make enormous amounts of profit to inmate convicted with a 150 year tag. Bernie Madoff's downfall was very much the outcome of his talent for persuading people like Steven Spielberg to invest in Ponzi schemes that sooner than later were going to be seen for what they were. 

In more than one way, the 2008 financial crisis was also the direct consequence of a gigantic Ponzi scheme implemented by lending institutions that offered mortgages to people that they knew from the start were not going to be able to afford to make payments. Overvalued properties, high commissions paid to brokers and also properties mortgaged several times. Very much like in Bernie Madoff's case the sole objective was to make huge gains no matter what.

Could Bernie Madoff have made huge gains without getting involved in fraud? He certainly had the knowledge to rise and stay at the top of his game, but he stabbed himself in the back. The real punishment for a man like him would not have been the years spent in jail, but the awareness of having wasted his skills in such a pitiful and shameful manner.

How many Bernie Madoffs are still out there dealing with American finances? Quite a few, but Bernie Madoff was the one that was famously caught. But Bernie Madoff is a lot more. Bernie Madoff represent the American madness. USA is a country that has debt amounting to trillion of US Dollars that it could never afford to pay. In spite of this, the USA keeps printing banknotes and spending vast resources to finance a military and security apparatus that is unavoidably leading the USA to its downfall. 

Wars like World World Two propelled the USA and helped the USA become a financial, industrial and military world power. Now, war could bring the USA crashing down and internal cracks of the edifice are plainly visible. The USA itself has become a gigantic Ponzi scheme.  

 

 

Covid-19: Siege without end?

With all transport in and out of the country practically blocked, Britain faces what looks like constant crisis and in the meantime the public debt and the private debt keep going up and up. It is just a matter of time for the financial system to be bombarded with defaults generated by lack of economic activity and by the efforts to deal with the pandemic.

Companies - big and small - face the wall. During World War Two, British households were destroyed with bombs. In the Twenty-First Century, British households are being destroyed by a biological agent and this would go on ad infinitum. British authorities have said that there is no end in sight. With of without vaccination, there is no visible end of the tunnel. The virus is not just mutating in the United Kingdom. New strains have been arriving from places as far as Brazil and the possibility of a strain that cannot be tackled with today's vaccines must not be discarded.

In an effort to deal with the present pandemic, thousands upon thousands are not being treated for other diseases. This is the new Battle of Britain. This is not something that can be solved within weeks or months. We must prepare ourselves for a siege that could last several years.

On another issue - the extent of the damage done to the British economy by the measures implemented to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic is incalculable. In 2008, the financial sector had to be rescued, but the economy itself was working full blast. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, many areas of the British economy have come to a hault, many are being subsidized and others have simply evaporated thus ceasing to produce tax revenues for the British Treasury. There is little talk about balancing the budget because at this point in time balancing the budget is an impossibility.

  

 

  

Brexit: Politics is the history of what ifs

Brexit: Politics is the history of what ifs

The expression 'if somebody is not safe, nobody is safe' couldn't be truer at this point in time in British politics.

While many minds - perhaps too many minds - are focused on economics, let's not lose sight of the political implications.

For quite a few the issue is not how many billions will be won or how many millions will be lost. It is a much more emotional issue and it goes down to the definition of what Britain has been for centuries.

When things went badly wrong on the continent, Britain as an outsider played a fundamental role. A chained Britain will. not be able to play such a role. This means that if things go badly wrong again on the continent there would be nothing that could prevent a catastrophe.

Quite a few times in history idealism started something that led to a major development and in the end destroyed tens of millions of lives.

Messiah attitudes have replaced common sense. One currency, one government, and one army with critical decisions being made by a selected few.

Politicians and mass media have completely overlooked what is actually happening in the 28 EU countries.

I was asked what is my ultimate goal. My ultimate goal is to persuade people to put idealism aside and use rationality instead of idealism.Many ill fated endeavours started with smiling crowds, clapping hands and marching bands and when the music was over and the smiling crowds and clapping hands disappeared we were left with the stench of dead bodies and devastated cities. 

Many of the pilars of the present EU are not stable countries. In fact, political developments in those countries could dramatically alter the face of the continent in the very near future. If countries that are very much in control of the European Union are not stable then European Union will be a very powerful monster mentally deranged. Political. circumstances can change rapidly and dramatically.

Who is going to be powerful enough to challenge a deranged monster? Listening to Guy Verhofstadt talking about an EU army, about moving Eastwards and challenging the Russian Federation rings quite a few bells. If this ever happens, every single nation in the European continent will be driven head on towards a wall. Haven't we learnt anything from the politics of alliances in Europe and the catastrophic consequences of such politics of alliances? What was World War One about? I don't mention World War Two because in fact World War Two was the direct consequence of World War One or merely the continuation of World War One because of the unfinished business and injustices created by the Treaty of Versailles.

Independent nations with governments that are directly and duly accountable to their peoples have always been the answer. A big monster with remote governance in which responsibilities gets diluted is a recipe for disaster and especially when different languages separate the parts like in some gigantic Tower of Babel.

Josef Mengele: Totesengel died in Brazilian beach

Josef Mengele: Totesengel died in Brazilian beach

Rolf and Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele was perhaps one of the most colourful characters during and after World War Two. The SS Captain lived a very eventful life and earned a living after the war working for his own family business in Latin America where he visited/lived in several countries including Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. After the war, he went as a far as applying for and obtaining a German passport under his real name and got married in Uruguay also using his real name.

Some Germans lived under their real names and others adopted other names and nationalities including Italian nationality. It was well known that countries like Argentina and Uruguay had important Italian immigrant settlements and therefore entering using an Italian passport was the natural thing to do. In those days, people didn't care much about who came from where as long as you could fit in amongst the masses of European immigrants. Moreover, Germans were highly qualified and in developing countries such levels of expertise were in high demand.

The Cold War was on and therefore there was little interest in chasing highly intelligent people who were excellent at practically every job they applied themselves to do.

My own father knew how to fly and had vast knowledge of cheminal compounds and was a professional time keeper. We used to travel round.

EU: Das Vierte Reich in the making

EU: Das Vierte Reich in the making

Let's not beat around the bush. The purpose is clear for all to see. The rise of a new block that will be on a collision course with China, Russia and the US and presumably also on a collision course with the rest of the World. 

For those who dreamed about a peace project, this is starting to look like a project for war with its own Central Government and its own Armed Forces.

From the Common Market to promote trade between free nations to Military Alliance to prepare for a massive confrontation.

In the old days, European Nations went to war against each other. They won or lost wars, territories were partitioned or taken over depend on who was the winner and this was the way things went for a very long time. Now, we the rise of a blend of Axe and Entente that could have catastrophic consequences for those who belong to the blend of Axe and Entente and for those outside such arrangement. 

For those who believe in present arrangements with NATO as the guarantor of peace and security and not just in Europe but worldwide there is a major crisis in the horizon. As tensions rise in the Middle East and Asia Minor with the withdrawal of European forces from Iraq and elsewhere because of the confrontation of USA and some Gulf nations with Iran, other players will have to make very hard decisions. What will be Turkey's position, for example. During the second war against Iraq, Turkey wasn't very enthusiastic about it. Saddam Hussein was keeping the lid on Kurdish aspirations and the defeat of Saddam Hussein would lead to the de-facto partition of Iraq giving Kurds in Northern Iraq a free hand to help their own people in Turkey and elsewhere.

Whatever the Lib Dems and others can say about the European Union as a supporter peace, Centralised Power and the existence of European Union Armed Forces plus talk about 'uniting to stand up to China, Russia and US' are not about peace. It looks a lot more like preparation for War.

What do Americans think about the arrangement proposed? Let us remember that Isolationism was very much appreciated in the USA after the losses suffered in World War One. The American public didn't want to get involved in European Wars. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had to make huge efforts to persuade the American public that the USA had to get involved in World War Two. Had not been for the Japanese attack in Pearl Harbour and the subsequent declaration of war issue by both Germany and Italy against the USA, it would have been extremely difficult to get the USA directly involved in Europe. Sending war materials including ships and tanks was one thing that the American people could accept with the proviso that it was merely a transaction that was going to be paid for. Sending their sons and daughters to die in an European war was quite another.

Now, according to Angela Merkel, the USA is a foe, something that the European Union must stand against. Disagreements in terms of trade are now combined with disagreements in terms of Foreign Policy. But how of Angela Merkel's war-like approach is real. Lets think for a moment about the relationship between Germany and the Russian Federation. The Poles and others are complaining that while EU countries suffer because of sanctions against the Russian Federation there is no clarity in terms of German/Russian relations when it comes to oil and gas. The USA itself has criticised Germany's approach regarding oil and gas acquired from the Russian Federation.

Despite all the aforementioned, public expressions that describe USA, China and Russia as foes are not reassuring. 

 

Antonio Tajani: What next? Das Vierte Reich?

Antonio Tajani: What next? Das Vierte Reich?

For the President of the European Parliament to make territorial claims that affect various countries in the European Union is a deeply worrying development. 

Let us remembers that World War Started as a serious of territorial claims were made that led directly to the opening salvos of World War Two.

In 1938, meeting in München, Germany, Prime Minister Chamberlain and others started the process of disintegration that was the starting point. Germany claimed the Sudetenland then part of the new formed Czechoslovakia in what was known as the München Pakt. When Poland didn't agree to return to Germany the so called Polish Corridor - lands that were given to Poland after World War One that cut off Eastern Prussia from the rest of Germany - the escalation led to September 1st 1939.

After World War Two, Germany suffered massive territorial losses when most of Prussia was given to Poland. Now, the President of the European Parliament Antonia Tajani lays claim to two Italian provinces that were given to Slovenia and Croatia and talks about Italians that were murdered at the end of World War Two.

The danger for the European Union is not just the fact that Britain is leaving the European Union and that others might be on their way out of the European Union. If present members of the European Union lay territorial claims that affect the territorial integrity of other members of the European Union this creates a very dangerous precedent.

Not content with getting a big chuck of Germany, some Polish politicians are claiming additional reparations for the invasion of 1939 and following developments. If national borders are once again disputed, we must brace ourselves for the worst.

This coincides with rising instability in many European countries that happen to be members of the European Union. Statements like statements made by Antonio Tajani are bound to promote territorial claims that will set EU countries against each other. The President of the European Parliament has spoken against Nationalism and Populist movements in several occasions but his remarks do a lot to promote Nationalism and Populist movements.