Germany's navy chief was forced to resign — because he told Germans the truth about Ukraine

© 2022 Peter Free

 

24 January 2022

 

 

If it does not serve the Corporatist War Machine, it's out

 

From The Guardian:

 

 

The chief of Germany’s navy has resigned after arguing at a livestreamed event that Putin “deserves respect” and Kyiv will never win back annexed Crimea – comments that Ukraine’s ambassador in Berlin said “massively” called into question Germany’s trustworthiness.

 

What Putin really wanted, [Kay-Achim] Schönbach argued, was respect.

 

“On eye level, he wants respect. And my God, giving him respect is low cost, even no cost. It is easy to give him the respect he demands, and probably deserves.”

 

© 2022 Philip Oltermann, German navy chief quits after saying Putin deserves respect over Ukraine, The Guardian (23 January 2022)

 

 

Naturally, of course

 

The US-supported, neo-Nazi Ukrainian government — see here for one amusing take on that — was upset.

 

After all, this particular Ukraine government's perennial attempts to start another world war were being persuasively defused by a lowly German vice-admiral.

 

Ukraine complained to the militarily weak and USA-leeching noodle-spines in Berlin.

 

And because Ukraine is such a major player on the world stage — happily keeping its not-so-subtle portion of historically Hitler-seeded corruption alive — the characteristically pansy-assed German leadership complied.

 

And out went truth-teller, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach.

 

 

The moral? — Of all the nations on this planet . . .

 

. . . Germany should be the one to have learned that provocatively messing, for no good reason, with Russians is a bad idea.

 

Yet apparently, they have not.

 

Thus, German leaders will still do whatever is necessary to prevent German citizens from accurately sizing up the current international situation — what with its emerging return to Great Power-like divisions of spheres of geographic influence.

 

Schönbach's de facto firing also demonstrates that Andrew Bacevich's just published — y'all ain't learned nothin' — critique of the warmongering US Establishment equally applies to Germany.

 

Having our heads way-far-up our asses — in the name of continuing to reap blood-based profits — is an 'inalienable right' that, allegedly exclusively, belongs to the Corporatist West.

 

Thus, by ineradicable government policy, it is adios to truth-tellers. Still and forever.

 

Nevertheless Admiral, we (the humble folk) salute you.