Why spend ourselves to death and risk the lives of our soldiers when others will step in? We were never needed in the first place.
| Utter and total nonsense. The German soldiery does what it can with a will, but there is only so much that can be done when one lacks bullets, spare parts for vehicles, and adequate manpower. Then there are the work hours: unlike peace keeping, peace making is a 24/7 activity — the team cannot be required to only work 9-5, M-F with regular rest and meal breaks. Much as we respect them, there is no way the Germans could have done what we did... and the situation is not anywhere near ready for peace keeping like on the Israeli-Lebanese border. |
[VoltaireNet] The German Defense Minister and President of the CDU, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, caught her partners and allies off-guard when, on 21 October 2019, she announced her intention to deploy an international military force in Syria. Her mentor, Chancellor Angela Merkel, was the only one in the loop and voiced immediate support.
Her tossed-off announcement gave rise to a flurry of questions: What would be its legal basis? Would it be an initiative of the European Union, NATO or the UN? Would it intercede between Turks and Kurds or between Turks and Syrians?
It would seem that after the Franco-German Defense and Security Council meeting of 16 October 2019, Germany decided to rekindle the old project outlined in the book New Power, New Responsibility. Elements of a German foreign and security policy for a changing world. As prescribed therein, NATO would entrust the management of Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa to the European Union under German leadership. This strategy was quietly embedded by Ursula von der Leyen in the 2016 White Paper on German Security Policy issued by the Bundeswehr. Closely associated with Angela Merkel, Ms. von der Leyen became president of the European Commission where her staff is heavily sprinkled with German nationals.
The proposal for military deployment in Syria was automatically rendered obsolete on the following day, 22 October 2019, with the sealing of the Russian-Turkish agreement. However, it denotes the will of some European elites to seize the imperial role which Washington is backing away from.
They're welcome to it. I look forward to protesting them the way they did to us.
| Imperial role?? Someone is playing with funny chemicals again. |
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