{"id":8597,"date":"2022-06-10T00:25:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T21:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=8597"},"modified":"2022-06-10T00:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T21:26:21","slug":"how-is-the-us-%ce%bd%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%bf-forcing-germany-to-break-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=8597","title":{"rendered":"How is the US-\u039d\u0391\u03a4\u039f forcing Germany to break with Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A complex geopolitical game is being played around the shipment of ammunition and, more generally, whether or not Germany intends to send heavy ammunition to Ukraine. The heavy military equipment to be sent from Germany has already been discussed to be sent to Ukraine more than two months ago, while more recently it has been requested (up to\u2026 boldly demanded) by Ukraine, through the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The obsession with this heavy war material, as well as with old armored tanks, is not accidental. At the urging of the United States and with the assistance of other countries, the German government is under intense pressure to offer arms to Ukraine in order to assume its own responsibility towards Russia, to sever all ties with Russia and not to “hide” behind other large (and small) EU countries This “game” of international politics is one of the most interesting backgrounds of the whole Ukrainian crisis and aims to produce power shifts within Europe, reducing the autonomy of movements of powerful countries such as Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue of arms supplies to Ukraine, which has produced an internal political crisis in Germany, with disagreements between the two governing parties, the Social Democrats and the Greens, has been resolved through the so-called “Ringtausch” practice. That is, a triangular transaction, where any European country that has Soviet antique munitions sends it to Ukraine and Germany replenishes it from its own similar stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second issue that hinders the direct shipment of ammunition to Ukraine is the intervention of Switzerland! It sounds strange, but this country has a say in them, as its federal law prohibits the export of its own weapons to war zones, in its traditional spirit of neutrality. This is how he already reacts to the deployment of German military equipment in Ukraine, because the ammunition they use as well as some of their components are made in Switzerland! And she needs her permission to re-export.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Switzerland then banned Denmark from sending 20 TOMAs of the Piranha III type to Ukraine for the same reason, precisely because they were manufactured by the Swiss company Mowag. Again in Germany, where he reacts to the export of Swiss 35 mm ammunition, for the anti-aircraft Gepard, which Germany promised to send to Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Do these moves disrupt Russia’s relations with the member-countries of the European Union?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially, Russia has “broken” its relations with the whole of Europe and especially the European Union. The only countries he now talks to on our continent are Serbia and, to a lesser extent, Hungary. So Russian diplomacy, whenever the war ends but already, has to face an overwhelming amount of suspicion, bad relations, sanctions, loss of markets and investments, arms race, and perhaps even referral to international courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will there be a crisis in European-Russian relations? Yes, and it is already taking place. Sending ammunition will hardly worsen already troubled relations. But it is important that everyone knows the limits of their movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European-Russian crisis already exists, it will be difficult to cure, it would get worse anyway, due to the participation of EU member states in the EU sanctions, in their withdrawal from the supply of Russian oil, due to the creation of gas liquefaction stations in in EU member states, and due to the strengthening of the EU’s relations with the USA. EU member states have entered – voluntarily but also dragged – into a cycle of dramatic geopolitical changes that no one knows how they will end. And which happen and evolve, either “participate” or “abstain”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems – without repeating it to be an ideal solution – that Germany’s attempt to align itself with its European allies, the EU, the US and NATO in general, is the traditional security choice, one that has been made many times in past. In other words, it is not a political practice that has been decided after a thorough review and analysis, but follows a historical step, that of coexistence with the West. That is, as it has been doing since the first post-war years, without interruption, except with occasional “disturbances”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will this policy work after Germany’s relations with its traditional ally Russia have been severed? One does not know, but it is rather a fantasy, even a dream, to hope that Germany and the other EU member states, its structural weaknesses, and the constant new Russian threat, could produce an ambiguous policy “and with the constable (NATO-EU) and the energy-gendarme (Russia) “and to hope that it has the international burden to manage it to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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