Why Olaf Scholz is not a "peace Chancellor," why Ukraine still stands a good chance of getting their cruise missiles, and why the entire debate surrounding Taurus is such a riddle
Why Olaf Scholz is not a "peace Chancellor," why Ukraine still stands a good chance of getting their cruise missiles, and why the entire debate surrounding Taurus is such a riddle
The Taurus leak continues to dominate German headlines. It is an incredible embarrassment for the Luftwaffe, and for the Scholz government it is yet another in a long line of unwelcome crises. Some have ventured to characterise Olaf Scholz as the “peace Chancellor,” opposed to war-hawks like Emmanuel Macron, who has left open the possibility of sending NATO troops to Ukraine. This is altogether too facile. With a few exceptions,
How is it that western democracies keep electing such doofuses? There is something wrong with our political systems that we continue to elect such terrible leaders. Something has got to give. I think the people need to rise up and overthrow the current system, or even better, replace it with something that works better.
Anybody who is sharp is already successful and doing well in their careers and would never get involved with such abject losers as politicians. I think it's simply that the pool of people who are willing to do this and put up with this are already seemingly beyond redemption and broken in many ways. Makes them an easy empty vessel to be filled by whatever platitudes are being pushed today.
Haven't you noticed? Doofuses are the only models offered in these times. And that is according to plan, of course. Name one head of state, in the western world at least, who inspires even a minimum of confidence. Name just one.
Agreed. And to sound like a nutcase (to most) I'll add that Taurus - being the bull - is code. Agenda 2030 is quite real but it represents an astrological change. The political puppet masters know of course, which is why they pluck psychologically profiled doofuses in the first place.
Your vote gives you the illusion of influence at the price of your freedom. And besides, what’s so moral about a majority telling everyone else what to do???
Alternative für Deutschland, says the leak has revealed that NATO is “more involved in the Ukraine war” than previously known, and that Germany must “consider whether an alliance that draws us into foreign wars serves our national defence.”
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Clearly AfD are dangerous extremists. NATO was looking for a reason to exist and the CIA gave it a boost in 2014 with follow up.
NATO was not content with blowing up train stations and blaming it on terrorists (Operation Gladio), so they blew up the Ukraine and the Nordstream pipes and blamed it on Russia....
One more difficulty mentioned on the call is that a means will have to be invented to mate the Taurus with the mechanical and electronic systems of Soviet aircraft like the Su-24. The Luftwaffe say they have no idea about doing this but hope the Brits can figure it out, like they did with Storm Shadow. Somehow I doubt the Taurus will be projecting real time target data onto the Ukrainians' cockpits. I imagine they'll have some improvised Android app. Or maybe just a big red lever to pull when they sight the Kerch bridge. 😁
Yes, if the Ukraine war has showed anything, then this: the Western Wunderwaffen are overhyped, overpriced crap.
We saw that very well with the Leopards Germany makes and also sells to other countries. They all quickly ended up as smouldering wrecks at the wayside, or in some Russian war museum.
Germany makes a lot of money with the sale of weapons. Can't be good for business when it is revealed that it is all crap.
Germany just started to build a factory for 155mm shells. Not much you can do wrong with those, even our diverse German engineers will manage that. Those can be exported.
But the real expensive stuff is only for those armies who want to spend a lot of money for show, but not in real wars.
Gosh this is scary. Not only was BoJo involved, now we have the ultimate dis-connected buffoon, the 'Lord' David Cameron (the title was part of his price for doing the job), an un-elected Foreign Minister who is unaccountable to the House of Commons. What could possibly go wrong?
Wise words. He demonstrated that after the Brexit vote, where as a leader, even with the answer he did not want, stropping off into immediate resignation was the wrong thing to do. The Greenshill Capital affair just enforced the weaker aspects of his persona, again in public.
Climate scam policy (the current-day version of it) originates from the US via the various international organisations nowadays profiting from it.
Following "green" policy is the same deal as it is with DEI: if you don't, no investment opportunities, no venture capital, no loans, and no deals for you.
The environmentalist movement was captured by corporate interests in the early 1990s, and was then switched around to function as a lobbying tool for the corporations: "carbon tax" benefits both monopoly capitalists and politicians, as the cost of entry and cost of business both increases, making it difficult for new competitors in the captured market.
Also, the corporations can by keeping us focused on "the climate crisis" avoid investigation and legislation re: all the other crap they pollute the environment with, their use of child slave labour, deals with dictatorships and so on.
That used to be the focus of the media in the 1980s and earlier: shining a light on corporations who polluted and who made deals with regimes committing crimes against humanity in the name of profit.
Doesn't mean there aren't german or french or british oligarchs in on it too, but it's far easier to connect the colour of a party/movement with /one/ currency than list all of them.
The "non-leaders" that nurtured this murderous disaster in Ukraine…you know who they are: Obama, Biden, Nuland, Blinken, Zelensky-stooge extraordinaire, Boris Johnson, the Ukrainian oligarchs bathing in U.S. taxpayer BILLIONS, and, of course, the UniParty congress and their Death Industrial Complex donors, they all deserve the gallows. Their fraud has ground up several generations of Ukrainian men, and they SHAMELESSLY press on.
The Political Gnosticism of the liberal imperium chugs along in all of it’s frustrating and disgusting logic; How many more Ukrainian and Russian boys need to die when the outcome is so obvious. We are a shitty species.
you mean Taurus missiles are already in Ukraine? if so they're not from Germany and everything said on the leaked audio would suggest they're not operational.
i regret now not also including the bit about how they’d get the manufacturer to set up a “help desk” (their literal words) to talk the ukrainians through missile tech issues as necessary.
Yes. This has been going on for quite a while. By the time the west announces delivery of some wonderwaffen the weapon in questions are already in Ukraine. Don't make the assumption the civilian leadership in Germany has any control.
I other news the grim reaper, Vikkie Nuland, is retiring. No more baked goods for your coup's.
The Luftwaffe by their own account haven't even begun to figure out how to wire the Taurus up to Ukrainian jets. On the leak the officers also said that even basic preparation (like scrubbing Luftwaffe insignia from the missiles) had yet to be done and that the manufacturer would have to be paid for such things. So, if there are Taurus physically in Ukraine, they're not German and they're certainly not yet usable, or retrofitting the Ukrainian bombers wouldn't be a six-month problem.
Maybe the Ukes purchased the missiles from other customers of the Taurus manufacturer ... customers who have never been named in news coverage. Nahh ... that's a crazy notion.
No - no - not surely - Victoria Nuland, the 'voice of reason'? Who could take her place???? Oh. Wait. I hear a well-known 'businessman' called Hunter B is now free to take such jobs.
I’m a bad person—I know—I’m going to enroll in a 12 Step program to try to curb my thoughtless comments—but when I see a picture of Toria I get gripped by the impulse not to describe her politics but rather her appearance. There is so much good in her (of her?). Is she perhaps on Match dot com?
Great article! For what it's worth here in the US Scholz is getting a lot of press for being Craven and loose lipped all at the same time. Letting slip that France and the UK have soldiers advising Ukraine on Missile use on the ground was a big faux pas, letting the luftwaffe have an online/phone conference regarding top secret military issues without encryption, yikes.
Makes Scholz and his predictably moronic doltish lefties look as empty in action as they appear to be between the ears. Shoot, even Lefty media in the US is hitting them on these issues.
Regarding the riddle of the conversation, I think there are two things going on here.
1. On the Russian side, they are officially informing the world that they are aware of Western complicity in Ukraine. Now everybody knows it, and everybody knows that everyone else knows, and it has been made public in the German officers' own words, so nobody can deny it. Russia is giving notice that if these weapons show up in Ukraine and are used to kill Russian civilians, they will consider Germany accountable.
2. On the German side, the strange conversation happened because the German brass knows that the point of assisting the Ukrainian war effort is not to win the battle against Russia but to keep the theater going. Thus, the need for sensational targets. Ukraine is ever in need of more military razzmatazz that Western politicians can use to market the war effort to their constituents. The West is funding not only Ukraine's war effort but its entire government, and once that assistance stops, Ukraine collapses, plain and simple. The leaked conversation about Taurus missiles was the Luftwaffe wondering aloud whether it was time to perform the Kolvoord Starburst.
How is it that western democracies keep electing such doofuses? There is something wrong with our political systems that we continue to elect such terrible leaders. Something has got to give. I think the people need to rise up and overthrow the current system, or even better, replace it with something that works better.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing, the people who count the votes decide everything. -Stalin (Allegedly)
Really ??? 🤔🤔🤔
How about the hidden, but highly influential ones who pre-filter all candidates who get on the ballot ?
The ones who count the votes just "bend" reality to their favor as a last resort in case things seem to go awry.
Allegedly says *everything* nowadays yuh?
If your vote really counted they would never allow you to vote.
Said the late great philosopher George Carlin too!
Mark Twain said that...
If Mark Twain said everything that is attributed to him, he'd never have had time to write anything else.
PS Didn't he also say, 'Buy land; they're not making it anymore.' (If not, I bet he wished he had.)
Buy land from government bodies that own it? Hmm
Or, buy land before Bill Gates buys it all
275,000 acres of USA farmland - and counting!
Anybody who is sharp is already successful and doing well in their careers and would never get involved with such abject losers as politicians. I think it's simply that the pool of people who are willing to do this and put up with this are already seemingly beyond redemption and broken in many ways. Makes them an easy empty vessel to be filled by whatever platitudes are being pushed today.
If we stopped growing doofuses we wouldn't have so many of them running for office.
agree. We need to stop feeding them entirely
It's not that I'd want to waste my favorite vegetable on them but perhaps they just don't get enough brussels sprouts.
roasted with sweet peppers and tomatoes.
I don't want to make them happy! Just smarter.
You can’t. And you’re dumber for thinking you can
Haven't you noticed? Doofuses are the only models offered in these times. And that is according to plan, of course. Name one head of state, in the western world at least, who inspires even a minimum of confidence. Name just one.
Viktor Orbán – gives me a bit more confidence than the WEF-penetrated, criminal, and highly corrupt cretins we have to endure all over the West.
I agree but I have my scruples with him as well - mainly that he's too interventionist in the economy. Too much free s***.
Javier Milei would be the closest in my opinion, if you count Argentina as the West. It's in the Western hemisphere I guess?
That speech at Davos was next level hilarious. Watching all the cretins squirm.
Yes thank you, I forgot Orbán. The only one with any honor and courage. They really wanted to break him, but he has not given in.
Agreed. And to sound like a nutcase (to most) I'll add that Taurus - being the bull - is code. Agenda 2030 is quite real but it represents an astrological change. The political puppet masters know of course, which is why they pluck psychologically profiled doofuses in the first place.
https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/famous-uranus-cosmic-avenger?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Of the doofuses, by the doofuses, for the doofuses.
Your vote gives you the illusion of influence at the price of your freedom. And besides, what’s so moral about a majority telling everyone else what to do???
Same reason why the US has a Joe Biden.
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Alternative für Deutschland, says the leak has revealed that NATO is “more involved in the Ukraine war” than previously known, and that Germany must “consider whether an alliance that draws us into foreign wars serves our national defence.”
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Clearly AfD are dangerous extremists. NATO was looking for a reason to exist and the CIA gave it a boost in 2014 with follow up.
If that is their position then clearly the AfD must be banned. Letting the people vote for policies they agree with is dangerous for democracy.
That seems to be the consensus of the political class in the USA & UK & EU. Fortunately people are wising up.
NATO was not content with blowing up train stations and blaming it on terrorists (Operation Gladio), so they blew up the Ukraine and the Nordstream pipes and blamed it on Russia....
Then I sounded out his name "vad a fool" and rofl
"Johann Wadephul, vice-chairman of the CDU Bundestag faction"
alas, I fear he pronounces it vad-a-poohl
"Thank you, but I prefer my way." ~ Lord of War
"vad a fool" 😂
Another data point that shows that we are in a simulation. Whoever's controlling reality is trolling us to see whether we figure it out.
One more difficulty mentioned on the call is that a means will have to be invented to mate the Taurus with the mechanical and electronic systems of Soviet aircraft like the Su-24. The Luftwaffe say they have no idea about doing this but hope the Brits can figure it out, like they did with Storm Shadow. Somehow I doubt the Taurus will be projecting real time target data onto the Ukrainians' cockpits. I imagine they'll have some improvised Android app. Or maybe just a big red lever to pull when they sight the Kerch bridge. 😁
If we (the British) do it, we will use string, paper and tape. It's our tradition. A brilliant device that will work once. Pull!!!!
Or their favorite tool for fixing nuclear subs: superglue
Yes, if the Ukraine war has showed anything, then this: the Western Wunderwaffen are overhyped, overpriced crap.
We saw that very well with the Leopards Germany makes and also sells to other countries. They all quickly ended up as smouldering wrecks at the wayside, or in some Russian war museum.
Germany makes a lot of money with the sale of weapons. Can't be good for business when it is revealed that it is all crap.
Germany just started to build a factory for 155mm shells. Not much you can do wrong with those, even our diverse German engineers will manage that. Those can be exported.
But the real expensive stuff is only for those armies who want to spend a lot of money for show, but not in real wars.
What if they intentionally do evil deeds in a stupid manner, so that observers concentrate on the stupidity instead of seeing it for what it is?
Seems to be the eternal eugy substack theme: "Stupidity or Malice (or both)"
It's kind of tiring to have to consider everything you hear as a possible distraction.
True but what other explanation is there when stupidity exceeds limits of imagination?
I understand large organizations have powerful negative selection mechanisms but how did these guys join the army in the first place?
Or they're just doing it to mock us into impotence
Freakin' brilliant that!
Gosh this is scary. Not only was BoJo involved, now we have the ultimate dis-connected buffoon, the 'Lord' David Cameron (the title was part of his price for doing the job), an un-elected Foreign Minister who is unaccountable to the House of Commons. What could possibly go wrong?
I wouldn't let Cameron put me out if I was on fire, let alone have anything even remotely adjacent to political power.
Wise words. He demonstrated that after the Brexit vote, where as a leader, even with the answer he did not want, stropping off into immediate resignation was the wrong thing to do. The Greenshill Capital affair just enforced the weaker aspects of his persona, again in public.
If you're British you should really vote him out of power. Oh wait, he was never elected to his current position.
What joy! A person made a Lord, so he does not answer to anyone - even God.
How can a party of "Greens" support gratuitous wars that cause so much damage to the natural environment?!!
You're thinking of Green as in nature.
It's another Green: that of US dollars that's their focus.
Please enlighten me as an American. What do "US dollars" have to do with some party called "the Greens" in Germany? Thank you!
Climate scam policy (the current-day version of it) originates from the US via the various international organisations nowadays profiting from it.
Following "green" policy is the same deal as it is with DEI: if you don't, no investment opportunities, no venture capital, no loans, and no deals for you.
The environmentalist movement was captured by corporate interests in the early 1990s, and was then switched around to function as a lobbying tool for the corporations: "carbon tax" benefits both monopoly capitalists and politicians, as the cost of entry and cost of business both increases, making it difficult for new competitors in the captured market.
Also, the corporations can by keeping us focused on "the climate crisis" avoid investigation and legislation re: all the other crap they pollute the environment with, their use of child slave labour, deals with dictatorships and so on.
That used to be the focus of the media in the 1980s and earlier: shining a light on corporations who polluted and who made deals with regimes committing crimes against humanity in the name of profit.
Doesn't mean there aren't german or french or british oligarchs in on it too, but it's far easier to connect the colour of a party/movement with /one/ currency than list all of them.
Thank you, Rikard.
Puzzling, is it not? :)
Eventually it comes down to survival of the fittest so hopefully the whole global rot-lot go extinct.
there are specific ways to ensure that, but sadly not all are on board.
Who ever started this Global Rot needs to be poked severely in both eyes.
The "non-leaders" that nurtured this murderous disaster in Ukraine…you know who they are: Obama, Biden, Nuland, Blinken, Zelensky-stooge extraordinaire, Boris Johnson, the Ukrainian oligarchs bathing in U.S. taxpayer BILLIONS, and, of course, the UniParty congress and their Death Industrial Complex donors, they all deserve the gallows. Their fraud has ground up several generations of Ukrainian men, and they SHAMELESSLY press on.
I emphasize the British involvement, they are involved in every nasty event
They are only following orders ... from their demonic master.
The Political Gnosticism of the liberal imperium chugs along in all of it’s frustrating and disgusting logic; How many more Ukrainian and Russian boys need to die when the outcome is so obvious. We are a shitty species.
I suggest some of our number are rather more ruthless than the majority.
😉
THEY ARE ALREADY IN UKRAINE. Along with all kinds of NATO soldiers, who do you think is manning the high-tech air defense equipment?
you mean Taurus missiles are already in Ukraine? if so they're not from Germany and everything said on the leaked audio would suggest they're not operational.
of course there are NATO soldiers in Ukraine.
I loved the detail about the extra time that would be needed to remove the German markings from the missiles.
i regret now not also including the bit about how they’d get the manufacturer to set up a “help desk” (their literal words) to talk the ukrainians through missile tech issues as necessary.
The jokes write themselves.
"Hello, I need help redirecting a missile that's already en route, because it's going to hit a school rather than the intended bridge."
"Thank you for calling the Taurus Help Desk. Current wait time is 45 minutes."
"Your call may be recorded for purposes of marketing and improved customer satisfaction"
The paint is very difficult. Just ask any nail bar.
No end to the challenges involved. That's why these guys are paid the big euros.
Yes. This has been going on for quite a while. By the time the west announces delivery of some wonderwaffen the weapon in questions are already in Ukraine. Don't make the assumption the civilian leadership in Germany has any control.
I other news the grim reaper, Vikkie Nuland, is retiring. No more baked goods for your coup's.
The Luftwaffe by their own account haven't even begun to figure out how to wire the Taurus up to Ukrainian jets. On the leak the officers also said that even basic preparation (like scrubbing Luftwaffe insignia from the missiles) had yet to be done and that the manufacturer would have to be paid for such things. So, if there are Taurus physically in Ukraine, they're not German and they're certainly not yet usable, or retrofitting the Ukrainian bombers wouldn't be a six-month problem.
Maybe the Ukes purchased the missiles from other customers of the Taurus manufacturer ... customers who have never been named in news coverage. Nahh ... that's a crazy notion.
No - no - not surely - Victoria Nuland, the 'voice of reason'? Who could take her place???? Oh. Wait. I hear a well-known 'businessman' called Hunter B is now free to take such jobs.
I’m a bad person—I know—I’m going to enroll in a 12 Step program to try to curb my thoughtless comments—but when I see a picture of Toria I get gripped by the impulse not to describe her politics but rather her appearance. There is so much good in her (of her?). Is she perhaps on Match dot com?
There might be one or two admirers ahead of you - people with 'interesting' connections to all sorts of places around the world.
Ms. Nudelman better hope the Final Judgment is myth. Otherwise she will have a lot of explaining to do.
Taurus will not appear in Ukraine until F16s, Rafael or Gripens do
To me that makes much more sense than trying to hot wire Taurus fire control onto a Su-24.
Great article! For what it's worth here in the US Scholz is getting a lot of press for being Craven and loose lipped all at the same time. Letting slip that France and the UK have soldiers advising Ukraine on Missile use on the ground was a big faux pas, letting the luftwaffe have an online/phone conference regarding top secret military issues without encryption, yikes.
Makes Scholz and his predictably moronic doltish lefties look as empty in action as they appear to be between the ears. Shoot, even Lefty media in the US is hitting them on these issues.
Regarding the riddle of the conversation, I think there are two things going on here.
1. On the Russian side, they are officially informing the world that they are aware of Western complicity in Ukraine. Now everybody knows it, and everybody knows that everyone else knows, and it has been made public in the German officers' own words, so nobody can deny it. Russia is giving notice that if these weapons show up in Ukraine and are used to kill Russian civilians, they will consider Germany accountable.
2. On the German side, the strange conversation happened because the German brass knows that the point of assisting the Ukrainian war effort is not to win the battle against Russia but to keep the theater going. Thus, the need for sensational targets. Ukraine is ever in need of more military razzmatazz that Western politicians can use to market the war effort to their constituents. The West is funding not only Ukraine's war effort but its entire government, and once that assistance stops, Ukraine collapses, plain and simple. The leaked conversation about Taurus missiles was the Luftwaffe wondering aloud whether it was time to perform the Kolvoord Starburst.
If only they all would put as much thought and effort into ENDING the war than trying to figure out how to make it more deadly and dangerous.
Just another event causing me to ask yet again, “Where are the adults?” It seems the world is bereft of adult leadership.
Don't ask David Camaron.....