FDR’s lengthy fireside chat to the nation on 28 April 1942, said: “On the European front the most important development of the past year has been without question the crushing counteroffensive on the part of the great armies of Russia against the powerful German Army. These Russian forces have destroyed and are destroying more armed power of our enemies — troops, planes, tanks, and guns — than all the other United Nations put together.” (NOTE: He was already using the phrase “United Nations” with the objective in mind for all of the world’s nations to view themselves as having been saved by the U.N. that FDR was intending ultimately to replace all empires and to be the sole source of international laws.) Near the War’s end, on 19 September 1944, Churchill telegrammed to Stalin “that it is the Russian army that tore the guts out of the German military machine and is at the present moment holding by far the larger portion of the enemy on its front.” As the History Channel’s article “Operation Barbarossa” summed-up: “On 22 June 1941, German forces began their invasion of the Soviet Union, … the most powerful invasion force in history, … 80% of the German army … [plus] 30 divisions of Finnish and Romanian troops. [And nowadays yet again, Germany along with Romania and Finland are allied with what has been, ever since FDR died, America’s 80-year effort to conquer Russia.] … By the time Germany officially surrendered to the Allies on 8 May 1945, 80% of its casualties during WW2 had come on the Eastern Front [the Soviet Union].” Wikipedia’s “Operation Barbarossa” said “The failure of Operation Barbarossa reversed the fortunes of the Third Reich.”
Russia’s thanks nowadays for having saved America, UK, and Europe, from a Nazi victory, and saved the entire world from what would otherwise have been a Nazi victory if Russia had not won the crucial Battle of Kursk — the biggest military battle of all time — on 23 August 1943, has, by the explicit order of Germany’s present-day Government, been excluded from having any representative participating or even attending in Germany’s May 8th national celebration of Gemany’s defeat. The Governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom are not criticizing Germany for this nazistic abomination toward the country that had sacrificed more than any other and contributed the most to DEFEATING Hitler’s Nazis.
On April 4th, Germany’s Berliner Zeitung headlined (as translated into English) “Secret handout: Baerbock doesn’t want Russians at war commemoration: On the anniversary of the end of the war, the Foreign Office fears that Russians might attend the commemorative events.” Baerbock” is Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s Foreign Minister, who has repeatedly said that Germany is “at war with Russia,” supposedly because Russia might invade Germany next. She is like George W. Bush who actually did invade Iraq while claiming that Iraq otherwise might invade America or America’s allies — Bush was a neoconservative, and Baerbock is a German version, but both Bush and Baerbock are fascist-racist-supremacist-imperialists, or ideological nazis, like also Israel’s Netanyahu is. Unlike Hitler’s Nazi Party, which hated both Jews and “Slavs” (such as Russians and Belarussians, today’s fascist-racist-supremacist-imperialists hate ONLY Russians. Their article reported:
The hard line is justified by the “foreseeable” instrumentalization of the commemoration by official representatives of the Russian or Belarusian embassies. In its letter, the Foreign Ministry warns against “propaganda, disinformation, and revisionist historical distortion.” The Foreign Office writes: “At the same time, it is to be expected that Russia (together with Belarus) will instrumentalize the World War II commemoration and improperly link it to its war of aggression against Ukraine.” According to the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Moscow and Minsk would appropriate the upcoming commemorations in Seelow, Altlandsberg, or Treptower Park. In the internal document, the Foreign Office refers only in one sentence to the need to appropriately honor the victims from Russia and Belarus.
The Foreign Office informed the Berliner Zeitung that the newspaper’s questions were being “reviewed.” No responses had been received by the time this issue went to press. …
However, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Belarusian Embassy in Berlin, Andrei Shuplyak, confirmed an explicit disinvitation to the Berliner Zeitung. At the end of March this year, the Minsk mission in Germany, located in the immediate vicinity of the Soviet Memorial in Treptower Park, received a letter from the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. According to the letter, the foundation’s director, Jens-Christian Wagner, made the decision that Belarusian representatives were not welcome at commemorative events in Thuringia in the coming weeks. The Belarusian Embassy had no knowledge of the information provided by the Foreign Office.
In Belarus, the exclusion has caused outrage. “We strongly condemn the refusal of the management of the German Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation to allow Belarusian diplomats to participate in the commemorative events marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of these concentration camps,” reads an X-post from the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.
“There is no justification for the German foundation’s cynical actions against a country where one in three people died in the war and where there is not a single family unaffected by the war. Unfortunately, such actions by the foundation are in line with the policies of certain political forces in the West that seek to change history and justify German National Socialism,” the Minsk Foreign Ministry said. “This decision is a continuation of the policy of dividing people based on their nationality.”
During World War II, Belarus (then the Byelorussian SSR) suffered the highest percentage of all Soviet republics under German occupation. An estimated 2.2 to 2.5 million Soviet Belarusians were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators. Belarus lost more of its population in percentage terms than any other European state—approximately 25 to 30 percent.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, several Brandenburg district administrators are wondering why descendants of the Red Army, who liberated Germany from Nazi terror in 1945, are being punished. “On the one hand, we maintain hundreds of Soviet graves, but on the other hand, we are not allowed to invite the descendants of the dead,” one district administrator describes the grotesque situation. A mayor of a Brandenburg town, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the Berliner Zeitung that video conferences on the topic were held at the end of March. One of the key players is said to have been Michael Nowak, the current chargé d’affaires of the German Embassy in Minsk .
Last days of the war: Tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers died in Brandenburg
In the coming weeks, many places in Berlin and Brandenburg will commemorate the end of the Second World War 80 years ago. Decisive battles against Hitler’s Germany took place primarily outside Berlin’s gates. In an unprecedented sacrifice, tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers died on Brandenburg soil in the final weeks of the war alone – a fact often overlooked today. Among the Soviet victims were Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Georgians, Tatars, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, and a multitude of other ethnic groups and peoples of the Soviet Union. …
Even if district administrators or mayors maintain personal contacts with Russian or Belarusian diplomats, official invitations to municipal commemorative events are taboo according to the Federal Foreign Office’s guidelines.
The expected incoming new German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has announced that under him, Germany’s economy will go onto a war-footing, so as to repel a Russian invasion.
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“The Führer of Germany – Friedrich Merz – in a war and spending frenzy – how much is 1.7 trillion?”
21 March 2025 by Peter Haenseler 101 Comments
After more than 80 years, Germany once again has a Führer who is in no way inferior to the old one in terms of mendacity and megalomania while spending sums that are unimaginable for most people. We do the math while our optimism withers.
This has never happened before: a man who has not even been elected chancellor yet negotiates the biggest borrowing in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany with parties that lost the election, in a Bundestag that has long since been dissolved.
If you had described Friedrich Merz’s current behavior to a German 10 years ago, you would have been declared insane and put in a clinic without raising a fuss.
Friedrich Merz, who refuses to form a coalition with the AFD because he accuses them of right-wing extremism [though he is the actual racist(against Russians)-fascist-supremacist-imperialist, and the AfD Party is anti-imperialist not fascist, not supremacist, and not racist though the liberals say it is because AfD wants to end the Merkel-imposed open door to the many migrants from the U.S.-generated wars in the Middle East] is preparing Germany for war against Russia. The AFD wants peace with Russia, Russia seeks peace, the Americans want peace [Haenseler buys into Trump’s untustworthy promises about that] and Merz opposes all those who seek peace.
This week the Handelsblatt reported that up to 1.7 trillion [euros] could be spent. This article will prove that this plan is madness, simply by putting this astronomical figure into perspective for regular people. …
Germany’s current debt at federal level
As at June 30, Germany’s federal debt amounted to 1.621 trillion – or 1,621 billion euros. This corresponds to a national debt to gross domestic product ratio of 62.4%.
1.7 trillion is a hundred times more than all DAX companies together earned in 2023.
Friedrich Merz will double this debt. This would lead to a debt ratio of 125% – which would put the country in the neighborhood of Greece (158%).
Additional interest burden
The additional interest burden for the 1.7 trillion euros will amount to 47.6 billion euros per year if the current interest rate of the 10-year German government bond of 2.8% is used for the calculation. …
No chance of ever repaying this debt
In 2024, Germany collected income taxes amounting to 181.95 billion euros at federal level. This means that for nearly 10 years, 100% of total income taxes would have to be spent on the repayment of 1,700 billion euros.
Conclusion
Without even mentioning that Friedrich Merz’s actions are more than legally questionable, it is already clear from the figure of 1.7 trillion euros that he has lost his mind. This debt bonanza will drive the former world export champion and the former jewel of industry to the wall financially.
For many years, the German political elite has been railing against Russia, the country to which it owed the cheap energy that allowed Germany to become the industrial jewel of the world in the first place. Russia forgave the Germans, who had 27 million Russians [that being the number of Russians that Hitler’s forces killed] on their conscience; the Russians have not forgotten these atrocities, but the Germans, or rather the German leadership, have, because what the German people think, choose or want is once again a thing of the past in Germania. Germany then turned imperiously against China, the current industrial jewel that, unlike the Germans, has not slept through the major trends. Last but not least, the German leadership is salivating against the US, the colonial master of the Germans, which has made a political U-turn and is now seeking peace with Russia. It is therefore by no means inappropriate to describe Friedrich Merz’s behavior as megalomania.
Ms. Baerbock, who made Germany a laughing stock on the international stage during her time as foreign minister, is cuddling up to the new Syrian government, which is made up of terrorists [run by Syria’s al-Qaeda — thanks to the forces of U.S., Turkey, and Israel]. For about two weeks now, civilians have been slaughtered in Syria, women and children have had their heads cut off, obviously a necessity on the road to democracy. Ms. Baerbock seems to agree with this [slaughter]. Incidentally, I do not recommend our readers to watch videos of these goings-on, thousands of which are posted on social media; they are nightmares that will deprive you of sleep. Ms. Baerbock is transferring 300 million euros to these very gentlemen. Ms. Baerbock, who will soon no longer have a job, seems to have special talents. She is to become the new President of the UN General Assembly. …
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