Germany’s Lord of The Limbo: In The Need of Staying Unsucked!

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“The war raises many questions. Can violence be fought with violence? Can [true] peace only be established if force is not employed?” This pronouncement by Olaf Scholz raised a fair few eyebrows when tweeted, in a cryptic translation from the original German, by Germany’s delegation to nato. The delegation failed to explain that the chancellor had been speaking at a convention of German Catholics. It was a gathering of pacifists (who, as it happened, spent most of their powwow discussing whether Jesus was transgender). So perhaps Mr Scholz was questioning pacifism, rather than endorsing it? It was just one of countless examples of the German leader’s inept communication over the war in Ukraine. (The Economist, Olaf Scholz’s dithering is damaging Germany’s international image)

Honourable Chance(llor) Scholz! Dear Lord of The Limbo! Dear Ollie!

Once upon a time, there were …

GERMAN LEVIATHANS

When C-Span[3] broadcasted Brian Lamb‘s interview of Helmut Schmidt on the former German Chancellor’s most recent book Men and Power in 1990, the Cold War[4] had just come to an end, as much as the Berlin Wall[5] was history and a New Era of sustainable Politics of Détente[6] seemed to substantiate like a dainty daisy from the concrete floors of political Blockheadedness on both sides of the NATO[7] and Warsay Pact[8].

Testifying Singularity usually lies in the eye of the beholder. However, for quite different reasons Helmet – as Henry Kissinger[9] chose to pronounce his forename – used to be an international and also an American Superstar. Schmidt‘s decease[10] marked a significant incision in Global Politics as much as Konrad Adenauer’s expire[11] and Helmut Kohl’s pass away[12].

Germany’s Hans-Dietrich Genscher[13] was also a Global Political Heavyweight having epitomised the steady principle of political global socialising, formerly called Gensherism. Last not least, how about Willy Brandt‘s[14] unique legacy?! Listen to what he said in his English Speech[15] on the Future of West Germany in Berlin 1959!

What did these German Leviathans have in common? – : Acumen, Self-Criticism, Continuous Self-Improvement, Synoptic View, Farsightedness, Patience, Team Spirit and Morale like a mean machine[16]. Today’s political bystanders tend to be losing themselves in the fruits, vegetables 'n' jelly beans of domestic infight and global phantom pains of idiopathic fears.

Now what?!

GERMAN WAR ENGAGEMENT

The following content signifies an explicitly conducted copyright violation on pasting parts of your governmental website[17] into this publication. This is to serve clarity in terms of pointing out evidence on Germany ‘s scale of participation in the Russo-Ukrainian War as follows:

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War in Ukraine

The arms and military equipment Germany is sending to Ukraine

Germany provides support for Ukraine by supplying equipment and weapons, these come from supplies of the Federal Arms Forces and from deliveries from industry financed from the Federal Government’s funds for security capacity building. An overview.

Monday, 26 February 2024

8 min reading time

Air defence is one of the focus areas of the German deliveries. This picture shows the Patriot air defence missile system.

Photo: Bundeswehr/Tom Twardy

Here is an overview of the military assistance provided to Ukraine by the Federal Republic of Germany. The assistance services consist of two strands: on the one hand there are financial resources from the Federal Government’s security capacity building initiative, which are used to finance arms deliveries and other industrial materials. On the other hand, materials are being provided from the Federal Armed Forces’ supplies. Military aid worth around 28 billion euros has by now been made available by Germany or been earmarked for supporting Ukraine over the next few years.

The funds from the Federal Government’s security capacity building initiative amount to around 7.1 billion euros for 2024 alone. The German contributions to the European Union’s European Peace Facility (EPF) come from this initiative, too. EU member states can receive reimbursement for expenditure for military assistance for Ukraine from the EPC. So far, Germany has received around 31 million euros worth of compensation from the EPF. Furthermore, there are commitment appropriations ¹ for the next few years. These are currently worth about 6 billion euros.

Around 5 billion euros (2023) and 1.6 billion euros (2022) have already been spent on military assistance for Ukraine. Another 2.9 billion euros were earmarked in the first two years of the war for deliveries to be made between 2025 and 2028.

Since the start of the Russian war of aggression on 24 February 2022, Germany has provided around 5.2 billion euros worth of materials from the Federal Armed Forces’ supplies to Ukraine. In addition, more than 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers received military training in Germany. These training costs amount to about 282 million euros to date. Further expenditure, which we are not going to put a figure on here, was incurred for treating injured Ukrainian soldiers.

Commitment appropriations¹

Delivered military support to Ukraine:

(Changes compared to the previous update in bold)

Armoured fighting vehicles

·         66 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC)*

·         73 tracked all-terrain vehicles Bandvagn 206 (BV206)*

·         ammunition for main battle tank LEOPARD 1*

·         ammunition for LEOPARD 2 A6 (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks*)

·         90 infantry fighting vehicles MARDER with ammunition and spare parts (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks*)

·         30 main battle tanks LEOPARD 1 A5*

·         138 MG3 for LEOPARD 2, MARDER and DACHS

·         18 LEOPARD 2 A 6 main battle tanks with ammunition and spare parts (German share in joint project with further LEOPARD 2 operators)

·         50 MRAP vehicles DINGO

·         54 M113 armoured personnel carriers each with 2 MG and spare parts* (systems of Denmark, upgrades financed by Germany)

Air defence

·         IRIS-T SLS missiles

·         IRIS-T SLM missiles*

·         1 air defence system SKYNEX with ammunition*

·         8 air surveillance radar TRML-4D*

·         52 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns GEPARD with spare part

·         116,362 rounds ammunitions for self-propelled anti-aircraft guns GEPARD (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks*)

·         2 air defence systems PATRIOT with spare parts

·         PATRIOT missiles

·         3 air defence systems IRIS-T SLM*

·         1 air defence systems IRIS-T SLS*

·         2 PATRIOT launchers

·         4,000 rounds practice ammunitions for self-propelled anti-aircraft guns

·         500 Man Portable Air Defense Systems STINGER

·         2,700 Man Portable Air Defense Systems STRELA

Artillery

·         64,000 rounds 155mm ammunition (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks*) (before: 50,000)

·         ammunition for multiple rocket launchers MARS II

·         20,872 rounds 155mm smoke/illuminating ammunition

·         2 wheeled self-propelled howitzer Zuzana 2* (project jointly financed with Denmark and Norway)

·         155mm precision guided ammunition* (SMArt, VULCANO)

·         5 multiple rocket launchers MARS II with ammunition (German share in joint project with USA and Great Britain)

·         14 self-propelled howitzers Panzerhaubitze 2000 with spare parts (German share in joint project with the Netherlands)

·         20 rocket launchers 70mm on pick-up trucks with rockets*

·         counter battery radar system COBRA*

·         10 laser target designators and portable fire control modules for VULCANO artillery ammunition*

Military Engineering Capabilities

·         26 mine clearing tanks WISENT 1* (before: 22)

·         9 mobile, remote controlled and protected mine clearing systems* (before: 6)

·         material for explosive ordnance disposal (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks*)

·         500 tool kits with blasting material* (before: 250)

·         6 armoured engineer vehicles DACHS*

·         34 mine ploughs*

·         15 bridge-laying tanks BEAVER with spare parts*

·         18 heavy and medium bridge systems and 12 trailers

·         5 bridges for bridge-laying tank BEAVER

·         15 armoured recovery vehicles Bergepanzer 2*

·         2 armoured recovery vehicles Bergepanzer 3

·         12 mobile and protected mine clearing systems Ahlmann*

Protective and Special Equipment

·         182 reconnaissance drones VECTOR with spare parts* (before: 172)

·         79 anti-drone sensors and jammers* (before: 57)

·         292 SatCom terminals* (before: 280)

·         260 border protection vehicles* (before: 256)

·         155 reconnaissance drones RQ-35 HEIDRUN*

·         18 reconnaissance drones Primoco ONE*

·         7 reconnaissance drones SONGBIRD*

·         1,000 LED lamps*

·         IT equipment*

·         1 naval mine clearance system*

·         2 Satcom surveillance system*

·         33,190 combat helmets

·         212 drone detection systems*

·         56 ground surveillance radars GO12*

·         4 AMPS self-protection systems for helicopters*

·         1 LUNA NG reconnaissance system*

·         50 mobile antenna mast systems*

·         63 laser range finders*

·         2,667 Crypto Phones*

·         90,600 safety glasses (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks*)

·         20 unmanned surface vessels*

·         1 PCB printer*

·         1 antenna hub station

·         1,288 binoculars

·         5 mobile reconnaissance systems SurveilSPIRE*

·         10 radio jammers*

·         40 frequency range extensions for anti-drone devices*

·         1 communications electronic scanner/jammer systems*

·         32 reconnaissance drones*

·         40 laser target designators*

·         10 anti-drone guns* 

·         1 radio frequency system

·         3,000 field telephones with 5.000 cable reels and carrying straps

·         500 night vision goggles*

·         12 electronic anti-drone devices* 

·         165 field glasses*

·         6 mobile decontamination vehicles HEP 70 including decontamination material 

·         10 HMMWV (8x ground radar capability, 2x jamming/anti drone capability)*

·         1 high frequency unit with equipment*

Logistics

·         361 vehicles (trucks, minibuses, all-terrain vehicles) (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks*)

·         24 tankers Zetros*

·         250 trucks Zetros*

·         90 truck tractor trains 8x8 HX81 and 90 semi-trailers*

·         25 trucks MAN TGS*

·         40 load-handling trucks 8x8

·         34 load-handling trucks 15t*

·         6 load-handling trucks 8x6 with 21 roll of containers*

·         14 tracked and remote controlled infantry vehicles THeMIS*

·         179 Pick-ups*

·         12 tank transporter tractor M1070 Oshkosh*

·         30 protected vehicles*

Combat Readiness and Survivability

·         450 snow chains

·         205,000 single module group rations

·         305 assault rifles MK 556*

·         47.85 million rounds of ammunition for fire arms (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks*)

·         1.162 winter camouflage nets (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks*)

·         2,000 winter camouflage ponchos*

·         240,000 rounds ammunition 40mm*

·         medical material

·         500,000 first aid kits*

·         30 grenade launchers GMG*

·         15 precision rifles HLR 338 with 60,000 rounds ammunition*

·         10 All Terrain Tracked Carrier Warthog Ambulances

·         49 ambulances*

·         30,000 winter clothing sets

·         27,477 backpacks

·         3 spare part packages for VECTOR drones

·         1,202 Infusion kits

·         Spare parts WISENT

·         field hospital*

·         100 machine guns MG5*

·         8 dental sterilizers

·         103,000 tourniquets

·         500 pistols SFP9*

·         2 hangar tents*

·         8 lift trucks*

·         295 generators

·         168 mobile heating systems*

·         36,400 wool blankets

·         14,000 sleeping bags

·         Mi-24 spare parts*

·         spare parts for heavy machine gun M2

·         200 tents

·         116,000 winter jackets

·         80,000 winter trousers

·         240,000 winter hats

·         320,000 pre-packaged military Meals Ready

·         67 fridges for medical material*

·         3,000 anti-tank weapons Panzerfaust 3 with 900 firing devices

·         14,900 anti-tank mines (9,300* from industry stocks)

·         50 Bunkerfaust with 15 firing devices

·         100 machine gun MG3 with 500 spare barrels and breechblocks

·         100,000 hand grenades

·         5,300 explosive charges

·         100,000 m detonating cord and 100.000 detonators

·         350,000 detonators

·         100 auto-injector devices

·         15 palettes military clothing

·         1,200 hospital beds

·         18 palettes medical material, 60 surgical lights

·         protective clothing, surgical masks

·         1 field hospital (project jointly financed with Estonia)*

·         Diesel and gasoline*

·         10 tons AdBlue*

·         500 medical gauzes*

·         MiG-29 spare parts*

·         7,944 man-portable anti-tank weapons RGW 90 Matador*

PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers during a training and instruction exercise.

Photo: Bundeswehr/Mario Bähr

Military support to Ukraine in planning/in execution

(due to security concerns, the Federal Government abstains from providing details on transportation modalities and dates until after handover)

Armoured fighting vehicles

·         30 infantry fighting vehicles MARDER*

·         105 LEOPARD 1 A5 main battle tanks* (project jointly financed with Denmark)

·         ammunition for main battle tanks for LEOPARD 2 and LEOPARD 1*

·         ammunition for infantry fighting vehicles MARDER*

Air defence

·         3 air defence systems SKYNEX with ammunition*

·         IRIS-T SLM/SLS missiles*

·         15 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns GEPARD*

·         9 air defence systems IRIS-T SLM*

·         11 air defence systems IRIS-T SLS*

·         259,680 rounds of GEPARD ammunition*

Artillery

·         36 wheeled self-propelled howitzers RCH 155*

·         18 self-propelled howitzers Panzerhaubitze 2000

·         more than 120,000 projectiles 122mm*

·         more than 250,000 projectiles 155mm*

·         14 wheeled self-propelled howitzer Zuzana 2* (project jointly financed with Denmark and Norway)

Helicopter

·         6 Sea King Mk41 multi-role helicopters with spare parts

Military Engineering Capabilities

·         16 armoured recovery vehicles Bergepanzer 2* (before: 6)

·         9 armoured engineer vehicles DACHS*

·         7 mine ploughs*

·         material for explosive ordnance disposal*

·         1 mobile, remote controlled and protected mine clearing systems*

·         11 bridge-laying tanks BEAVER*

·         2 mobile and protected mine clearing systems Ahlmann*

·         16 mine clearing tanks WISENT 1*

·         2 heavy and medium bridge systems*

Protective and Special Equipment

·         20 anti-drone sensors and jammers*

·         293 reconnaissance drones VECTOR*

·         94 reconnaissance drones RQ-35 HEIDRUN*

·         27,510 combat helmets

·         1,000 LED lamps*

·         50 drone detection systems*

·         725 laser range finders*

·         12 AMPS self-protection systems for helicopters*

·         10,000 safety glasses*

·         10 mobile reconnaissance systems SurveilSPIRE*

·         50 unmanned surface vessels*

·         240 border protection vehicles*

·         11 communications electronic scanner/jammer systems*

Logistics

·         46 tankers Zetros*

·         20 Zetros refrigerator trucks*

·         41 Mercedes trucks*

·         2 Toyota Land Cruiser*

·         11 tank transporter tractor M1070 Oshkosh*

·         1 load-handling trucks 8x6 with 7 roll of containers*

·         2 tractors and 4 trailers*

·         10 protected vehicles*

Combat Readiness and Survivability

·         4,695 assault rifles MK 556*

·         8.75 million rounds of ammunition for fire arms*

·         8.000 anti-tank mines PARM*

·         435 precision rifles HLR 338 with 9.9m rounds ammunition*

·         18,000 man-portable anti-tank weapons*

·         2 dental sterilizers

·         188,064 rounds ammunition 40mm for grenade launchers*

·         continuing deliveries of medical material*

·         70 grenade launchers GMG*

* Deliveries from industry stocks financed by German funds for security capacity building. Some of the deliveries require upgrades or productions is ongoing; also training measures take place.

Germany has supplied Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks to Ukraine.

Photo: Bundeswehr/Stefan Gierke

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So what?!

GERMAN CHANCELLOR

Is The Lord of Limbo a bystander? Is He voiding the Truths N Threats of Reality?!

His Lord’s National, European and Global Communication Policy sucks.

Has He got the guts to be commencing a Speech on the Future of Europe and The World in 2024 on the following Agenda of Issues?! – :

# Future of/on Warfare[18]

# Outlook on Russia[19]

# Outlook on Ukraine[20]

# Outlook on Russia vs Ukraine[21]

# War Economy[22] and Finance[23] | Defence Economics[24]

# Economic Warfare[25]

# Status Report on Sanctions (Economic Warefare) vs Russia[26]

# Status Report on Russia’s War Economy[27]

# Status Report on Ukraine’s War Economy[28]

# Status Report on the Russo-Ukrainian War’s Global Implications[29]

Now this!

GERMAN VIEW ON RUSSIAN CONTINUITY[30]

Lenin – and likewise Stalin – were probably right at regarding Ivan IV, the "Terrible", as the real founder of the absolutist centralist-ruled Great Russian state. Ivan IV, born in 1530, assumed the title of Tsar in 1547 and had led the first Russian war of conquest beyond the old borders of the Kievan Empire, ending with victory over the Tatar Volga principalities of Kazan and Astrakhan. This marked the historical beginning of the Russian empire gearing up for expansion, which entailed a far-reaching Russification of foreign people, including forced resettlements, e.g. in order to bring Novgorod, Tver or Pskov (Pleskau) under firm command. The brutal instrument of obstructive displacement was not invented by Stalin; Peter I and Catherine II had done the same before.

Russian expansion was directed towards the Baltic, i.e. the Baltic Sea, then Poland, the Black Sea coast, and eventually the Balkan; Constantinople, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles were also often kept in mind. At the same time, the Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Caspian Sea, Tashkent and Samarkand, Turkestan and Afghanistan were kept tabs on. On the horizon, the immeasurable expanses of Northern Asia reaching out to the Pacific and beyond the Bering Strait, Alaska, then successively Mongolian, Chinese, finally Japanese and, at the very end, German territories. Recently, political bases have been added in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

Whether respectively under Ivan IV, Peter I (the Great ), Catherine II (the Great), Stalin, Khrushchev or Brezhnev and despite some setbacks, the Russian drive for expansion has never really died out to this day. An underlying Moscow-centric messianism has remained inherent in the Russian idea of the state. When Constantinople was conquered by the Turks in 1453 and thus the Eastern Roman centre of Christendom was lost, Moscow declared itself the "third Rome" – "... and there will never be a fourth Rome". In the second half of the 19th century, the certainty of salvation had appeared in a different form as a kind of Moscow-centric Pan-Slavism and appeared again in due course of the 20th century in terms of world-revolutionary Moscow-centric communism. [...]

The European Enlightenment, the ideas of the rule of law and democracy had had little influence on Russia's political development. Peter the Great – similar to Meiji-Tenno in Japan in the second half of the 19th century – single-mindedly opened up his country to Western European science and technology; but – similar to Meiji-Tenno – he did not decisively change the spirit of his people; rather, he wanted to make use of the Western example in order to be on par with the great European powers of the time.

The Russian-Soviet expansionism can be understood as imperialism featuring the same justification as the one having substantiated in the case of previous world empires, whether they were the empires of the Portuguese, the Spanish or the English, ancient Rome or the USA, whose establishments were largely based on unpeaceful land grabbing. When Soviet imperialism is mentioned in the West, the moral condemnation is unmistakable. [...]

The philosophical, moral and legal condemnation of the conquest of foreign states and their people is a much more recent phenomenon. The short-lived dreams of world empire of the Japanese, Mussolini or Hitler would not have been condemned as decisively a century and a half earlier – if they had not been associated with unimaginable crimes – as there had been under the conditions of the 1930s and 1940s. Since then, undisguised claims to global domination have been considered illicit, even criminal, throughout the world. [...]

Of course, the centuries of foreign rule by Tartars and Mongols had played an important role. Since the destruction of the city republics, such as Novgorod by Ivan III, Russia has known the absolutist form of rule in all its peculiarities and effects, having ranged from the murder of heirs to the throne to serfdom and banishment to Siberia. Hardly, broad strata of Russian society have ever experienced personal freedom; rather, there have almost always been disenfranchised classes and strata. [...]

Broadly speaking, expansion and intervention by the Soviets have tended to be carried out quietly; direct military operations with their own army have been rare; subsequently, they had been mainly limited to countries within the Warsaw Pact, i. e., the GDR (1953), Hungary (1956), the ČSSR (1968) and Afghanistan (1979). The Soviet leadership once only deviated from this cautious, war-risk-avoiding limitation after 1945, when Khrushchev attempted to deploy Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962. So to speak, this was a step onto the doorstep of the USA, which was to be threatened with these missiles. In the end, Khrushchev had to pay for this adventure with the loss of his governmental power.

Brezhnev and the Politbureau he led, had eventually returned to the cautious expansion strategy of a nuanced calculus of risk limitation. The military intervention in Afghanistan starting at the end of 1979 was just as much within the framework of this concept of risk minimisation as the indirect support, firstly of North Vietnam and subsequently of the Vietnamese conquests, which hereafter had endured for more than two decades. The Soviets are masterful chess players; they are no poker players and are by no means inclined to go for broke. [...]

But long before Cuba there had been other bitter experiences; the humiliating outcome of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904/05 and the lost naval battle of Tsushima; the First World War with the dictated peace of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 and the prescribed quiescence of Riga in 1921, after the West had intervened in the Russian civil war on the side of the "Whites" and then again in the war against Poland. However, Hitler's advance to Stalingrad, to the hilt of the Caucasus and to the suburbs of Leningrad and Moscow had remained a nightmare, until after years of bloody battles had passed, American military support finally rendered Hitler’s defeat. In the end, the victory over Hitler cost twenty million dead.

The leaders of the Soviet Union suffer from a Russian security complex, intially having gained apparentness after the defeat in the Crimean War in 1856. "The border of Russia is only secure when there are Russian soldiers on both sides of the border", a Tsarist minister is reported to have once said. Stalin's policy of creating a ring of outskirt satellite states resulted in an American alliance system that John Foster Dulles set up as a Western cordon sanitaire in Europe as well as in the Middle and Far East.

This in turn was perceived in Moscow as a threatening encirclement, and the break with Mao Zedong's China having been provoked by Khrushchev at the end of the 1950s – substantially deepened by Mao afterwards – reinforced this psychologically understandable security complex. Something else came along, the striving for the same global strategic rank of "equal security" as the other world power at that time was not only of a defensive nature. It coincided compensation for the Soviet Union's inferiority complex in the face of its obvious inability to catch up economically with Western industrial societies.

In military terms, the security complex is an expression of concern about potential adversaries, which are considered to be – in order of historical appearance – Germany, the USA and China. The anxiety caused by Germany is still present despite its division and despite the stationing of strong Soviet forces in the centre of Europe. Since it is also an instrument for exerting discipline over the Polish, it has been elaborately sustained. Just in case the opportunity should ever arise to isolate the Federal Republic of Germany, a fair warning of Germany is to serve to disconcert the French and other people in Western Europe.

Deep concern about a likely inferiority towards the USA remains a major driving force behind the Soviet Union's massive missile and naval build-up. Concern about China is less significant in comparison, but it is also clearly perceived; the according reason was the conspicuous development of a communist state into political autonomy, irrevocably inconceivable to Moscow, which contradicted their doctrine. But probably the fact of China's stronger population plays a greater role than Beijing's ideological independence. [...]

A hidden aggressiveness towards the Chinese colossus had not been overlooked even in the era of the bilateral "policy of détente". In Moscow, the People's Republic of China had rightly been perceived as a future global super power across the board; the Soviet deployment of conventional and nuclear forces along the 7,000-kilometre-long common border ever since, has been accordingly strong.

Recollecting the long-lasting history of Russia's extensive continuity of expansion might not suggest believing in geopolitical determination. It rather seems to have been a political-cultural tradition having never been abandoned in the sense of mission to be originally attributed to Russian Orthodox Church and later taken up and continued by the CPSU. It is not yet clear, whether there will be a significant, lasting change in this old tradition under Gorbachev.

Got it?!

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Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave a speech that was widely seen as a turning point, and both the German public and the international community believed it marked a new direction for German foreign policy — more money for the army and security, and taking more responsibility for areas of the world in crisis. But, two months on, it seems that for some international commentators, this hope has soured. Raphaël Glucksmann, a journalist and politician from the left-leaning, environmentally focused French party Place Publique, has said that the war in Ukraine marks the end of Germany’s leadership role in Europe. And he claims that is down to Scholz’s leadership. Glucksmann, who is the son of the late philosopher André Glucksmann, tweeted: “Chancellor Scholz just confirmed it: We cannot count on Berlin to defend European principles and strategic interests. His position on energy embargo and on weapons delivery shows that the change we all hoped for did not happen. This war puts an end to German leadership in Europe.” Glucksmann is not Scholz’s only critic. Donald Tusk, the former President of the European Council and former Polish Prime Minister, tweeted: “The Germans must firmly support Ukraine today if we are to believe that they have drawn conclusions from their own history.” Last week, Ukraine expert Sergej Sumlenny, former director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Kyiv, which is affiliated with the German Green Party, called Scholz the “worst German chancellor” since the Second World War. He said the Greens and the FDP were also responsible for the “disaster chancellor”, as he referred to Scholz. “The blood of our European neighbors is on your hands!” (Worldcrunch, Criticized At Home And Abroad, Chancellor Scholz Jeopardizes Germany's Leadership In Europe)

Is He a loser? What ‘s the Lord Limbo planning to to about it?!

He neither appears to be a Pacifist nor a Warrior or anything in between but somewhat of an Invisible Man[32].

By the way!

CALEIDOSCOPIC CODA

Even Olympic Games and World Championships are to come to an End!

Respectfully yours,

Cal Caleido

Frame of Reference

Germany’s Lord of The Helmet: In The Search of Soft Force

The Nuclear Threat is Back (III)

The Nuclear Threat is Back (II)

The Nuclear Threat is Back (I)

Vladimir Putin's "New Soviet System"

TrumPutinian Tango & Th‘ Russian Mafia

Making Russia Great Again

Putin’s Very First Coup in 1999 at The Intourist Hotel

When Mike Wallace Put Vladimir Putin's Balls To The Wall (2005)

When Reagan, Gorbachev, Kohl and Scorpions Altered The World's Destiny

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[2] Olaf Scholz’s dithering is damaging Germany’s international image (economist.com)

[3] Helmut Schmidt - Men and Power: A Political Retrospective | C-SPAN.org

[4] Cold War | Summary, Causes, History, Years, Timeline, & Facts | Britannica

[5] Berlin Wall | Definition, Length, & Facts | Britannica

[6] Détente (Wikiped)

[7] NATO (Wikiped)

[8] Warsaw Pact (Wikiped)

[9] Henry Kissinger | Biography, Accomplishments, Books, & Facts | Britannica

[10] German Speech by Olaf Scholz at the State Funeral in honour of former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (spd.de): Olaf Scholz, Hamburg’s First Mayor held the eulogy at Schmidt’s funeral stating: "We have lost a giant. Politically. Humanly." – LIVE: Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt’s state funeral takes place in Hamburg - YouTube

[11] Former West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer dies HD Stock Footage - YouTube

[12] Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl dead at 87 - YouTube

[13] Hans-Dietrich Genscher (Wikiped)

[14] Willy Brandt | German Chancellor, Nobel Peace Prize Winner | Britannica ––– Willy Brandt summary | Britannica

[15] Hear Willy Brandt, West Berlin mayor on the future of West Germany, 1959 | Britannica

[16] Unleashing the Mean Machine (The Longest Yard 1974) - YouTube

[17] Military support for Ukraine | Federal Government (bundesregierung.de)

[18] Global Economic Trends and the Future of Warfare: The Changing Global Environment and Its Implications for the U.S. Air Force (rand.org)

[19] Russia Tomorrow: Five scenarios for Russia's future - Atlantic Council

[20] Ukraine’s survival: Three scenarios for the war in 2024 | ECFR

[21] Russia-Ukraine war: Scenario planning for an uncertain future (kpmg.com) ––– Five Security Scenarios on Russian War in Ukraine for 2024-2025: Implications and Policy Recommendations to Western Partners | GLOBSEC - A Global Think Tank: Ideas Shaping the World ––– | ––– The war in Ukraine: EIU's revised scenarios - Economist Intelligence Unit ––– | ––– Ukraine's Future Scenarios: Frozen Conflict, Russian Escalation, and Drone Impact | 2024 Analysis - Video Summarizer - Glarity ––– | ––– Ending the Russo-Ukrainian war: scenarios and consequences (chathamhouse.org)

[22] War economy (Wikiped) ––– The Economic Consequences of War (ebrd.com) ––– The Economics of War - The Intersection of Need, Creed and Greed (ipinst.org) ––– related: From War Economy to Peace Economy? (ethz.ch)

[23] War finance | Definition, Practice, & Examples | Britannica Money

[24] Defense economics | Definition, Scope, Examples, Importance, & Facts | Britannica Money

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