A view from Deutschland

 

Dr. Eberhard König
Dresden  

I was born in Saxony in 1945. Until 1989, my homeland, the GDR [East Germany] , in the form of the Hallstein Doctrine, was under sanctions of the U.S.-minded Western world for its entire existence until 1989.

Sanctions are for me always and everywhere "economic war".

If the sanctioned party is not brought to its knees in this way, the next stage follows, the war with weapons. This is also the case in the Ukraine conflict. All international customs of cooperation and trade are kicked into the dustbin in order to delay the economic crash of the USA. Economic winner of the Ukraine-Russia conflict is primarily the USA.

Catastrophic for the climate and the environment are the arms deliveries, the covert military emergency ventilation of Ukraine by the Western world. A devastating human rights problem within Ukraine was exploited by NATO to expand geopolitical supremacy, regardless of the consequences. 

All the concerns of many people in Germany have their roots in the fact that geopolitical goals of the intellectual and economic elites of the USA and its allies have taken precedence over human rights, the will of the people and economic reason.

As a physicist, I can only see irrationality in terms of climate or economics from even more fracking gas from the US to be transported across the Atlantic to Europe and popular resistance to the LNG terminals in Germany.

I know of no example of any other country ever interfering in U.S. bilateral economic relations in such a way, as the U.S. did with Nordstream 2, for example.