60 Prominent Germans Appeal Against Another War In Europe: “It Is Not About Putin. What Is At Stake Is Europe”!
- 60 Prominent Germans Appeal Against Another War In Europe: “It Is Not About Putin. What Is At Stake Is Europe”!
by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
Two weeks ago, as the S&P was preparing to surge on the latest round of all time high market-goosing algo trickery by the FOMC, 60 prominent German personalities from the realms of politics, economics, culture and the media were less concerned with blinking red and green stock quotes and were focused on something far more serious to the future of the world: the threat of war with Russia.
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In a letter published by Germany’s Die Zeit, numerous famous and respected Germans including a former president and former prime minister write “Wieder Krieg in Europa? Nicht in unserem Namen!”, or, roughly translated, “War in Europe Again? Not in Our Names!”
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The open letter to the German government, parliament, and media, excerpted here, was signed by more than 60 prominent German personalities and published in the weekly Die Zeit on Dec. 5. The initiators were Horst Teltschik (CDU), advisor to then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl at the time German of reunification; Walther Stützle (SPD), former Secretary of State for the Ministry of Defense; and Antje Vollmer (Greens), former Bundestag Vice President. Teltschik said, in motivating the appeal, “We are giving a political signal that the justified criticism of Russia’s Ukraine policy should not wipe out all the progress that we have made in the past 25 years in relations with Russia.”
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Below is an excerpted translation (source) of the original letter found here.
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Nobody wants war. But North America, the European Union, and Russia are inevitably driving towards war if they do not finally halt the disastrous spiral of threats and counter-threats. All Europeans, including Russia, are jointly responsible for peace and security. Only those who do not lose sight of this goal can avoid fatal actions.
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The Ukraine conflict shows that the quest for power and domination has not been overcome. In 1990, at the end of the Cold War, we all hoped that it would be. But the success of the détente policy and the peaceful revolutions allowed people to become lethargic and careless. In both East and West. The Americans, Europeans, and Russians all lost, as their guiding principle, the idea of permanently banishing war from their relationship. Otherwise it is impossible to explain either the West’s eastward expansion without simultaneously deepening cooperation with Moscow—a policy which Russia sees as a threat—or Putin’s annexation of Crimea in violation of international law.
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25-minute interview from 15 Dec 2014.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un5rsKFo7Xo
Nikolai Starikov, writer on geo-politics and international finance, explains in detail the mechanisms of the ruble’s 2014 fall, the passivity or complicity of the financial authorities, and the end result this is leading to.
Attacks against Russia are happening on multiple fronts, including:
– Sanctions suspending credit lines from abroad;
– Speculators easily manipulating the RUB exchange rates;
– False flag atrocities;
– The oil price determined by OPEC;
– Preparation of a “Patriotic Maidan”.
Starikov claims that all of the above is instigated by Washington to defend the dollar’s supremacy and prevent the rise of the Eurasian Economic Union, which officially comes into existence at the beginning of 2015.
Source : http://www.youtube.com/user/NewInsightSubs/videos?view=0&sort=dd