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2021-11-12T14:26:40.502Z


Lukashenko threatens to stop gas; Front page November 12th


Lukashenko threatens to stop the gas;

Front page November 12th

The article in today's issue of Münchner Merkur describes exactly what we can expect if we should actually say goodbye to nuclear power and coal.

I hope that the future rulers will see the light, which I do not expect, because they are too fixated on getting out of these energy suppliers.

I have no good prospects for the future.

Marika Kosyk

Münsing

Marcus Mäckler: The community of the shameless;

Comment November 11th

About the Polish-Belarusian border: Most people probably do not even notice how cynical they are being manipulated with the reports about refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border and ruler Lukashenko.

Nothing is reported about where the refugee misery comes from.

Lukashenko is not to blame for that.

Instead of talking to Putin, Merkel should phone the Polish ruler.

He would have to take care of the migrants instead of sending them back to Belarus by force.

They are the refugees from the wars of the west.

They come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.

For example Syria: a life without electricity, light, heating, electrical devices, medical care, diesel: these are the consequences of the EU sanctions.

For 10 years, Syria has been starved by economic boycott.

As a punishment, because the Syrians do not want to submit to the EU demands.

With Bernd Duschner from Pfaffenhofen we can support the Italian hospital in Damascus: Association “Friendship with Valjevo” IBAN DE 06 7215 1650 0008011991 Keyword “Damascus Hospital”.

Because of frequent power failures, the hospital needs diesel for emergency power generators.

In this way you can circumvent the unjustified economic sanctions and prevent more and more war victims from making their way to Germany.

Dr.

Wolfgang Doster

Erding

Georg Anastasiadis: Merkel's and Seehofer's last battle;

Comment November 10th

Georg Anastasiadis describes the possible fault lines in German and EU politics very well, although his comment does not even bring the explosiveness of the whole thing to extremes, since Lukashenko has now threatened a military escalation. The Belarusian opposition wanted to overthrow Lukashenko and bring Belarus into the EU and NATO: a no go for both Putin and Lukashenko. Lukashenko then brutally crushed the opposition movement in Belarus with Putin, whereupon the EU imposed sanctions. Since Lukashenko is cornered, he now approaches Putin, makes more concessions for a union state than before, since he no longer has the western card,but is now trying to compensate for these EU sanctions by staging a wave of refugees and to make concessions on the part of the EU, which could also give him some freedom again towards Putin. Nevertheless, he threatens the EU and Poland with a military escalation of the border conflict, rumbling about a NATO regime dream against him and citing the Polish and Baltic troops that are being mobilized to secure the border against the refugees as an alleged NATO invasion plan. Merkel then phoned Putin and asked him to settle the conflict, but Putin holds back and sent two Tupolev atom bombers to the Polish border.Nevertheless, he threatens the EU and Poland with a military escalation of the border conflict, rumbling about a NATO regime dream against him and citing the Polish and Baltic troops that are being mobilized to secure the border against the refugees as an alleged NATO invasion plan. Merkel then phoned Putin and asked him to settle the conflict, but Putin holds back and sent two Tupolev atom bombers to the Polish border.Nevertheless, he threatens the EU and Poland with a military escalation of the border conflict, rumbling about a NATO regime dream against him and citing the Polish and Baltic troops that are being mobilized to secure the border against the refugees as an alleged NATO invasion plan. Merkel then phoned Putin and asked him to settle the conflict, but Putin holds back and sent two Tupolev atom bombers to the Polish border.but Putin holds back and sent two Tupolev atomic bombers to the Polish border.but Putin holds back and sent two Tupolev atomic bombers to the Polish border.

The main questions are: Will the EU finance a wall for Poland or will the Poles and the Balts do it alone? Do you still want to bring Belarus into the EU and NATO or do you let this become a Russian zone of influence and at the same time Ukraine as a neutral state? And what about the Balkans if you accept Russian or Slavic zones of influence? Do you accept refugees in Germany and Western Europe or not and then again not in Eastern Europe or do you accept a demarcation line to Belarus and Russia with closed walls and borders and thus clear spheres of influence? At the moment there are only 20,000 refugees, but if you do not create a swell effect and perhaps also the establishment of a Belarusian Turkish ideal,where the EU pays and undermines its own sanctions? Will the EU for the time being as horse-trading also forego sanctions against Poland because of the rule of law dispute, maybe even support Poland financially in order to do the dirty work? Isn't the EU damaging its self-image as a community of values ​​and causing it to forego value orientation and only act in a real geopolitical manner? How do you react when Polish border troops or helicopters are attacked or provoked by Belarus? Do the USA and NATO see this only as a problem for Poland and possibly the EU, or is it better if they hold back,since this is more likely to play into the hands of the Putin and Belarusian propaganda of a NATO regime change plan? How will this affect the relationship of the intended union state between Russia and Belarus if Lukashenko can no longer play the western card?

Vice versa; Couldn't Putin grow tired of Lukachenkov if he embroiled him in adventures with NATO? Or is Belarus the right provocateur and icebreaker for Putin? Above all, Putin and Lukashenkos are initially concerned with establishing themselves as the new gatekeeper and circumventing the sanctions, as the EU is already doing with Turkey, Libya and Morocco, deserting rifts and divisions in the EU, the West and NATO . Nevertheless, the question remains, how credible this threat is, since most of the refugees cannot afford plane tickets to Minsk and whether a really critical sustainable mass can be built there or whether this remains symbolic and in manageable dimensions. Will millions of refugees come to Belarus like in Turkey and Libia by land,now by air, if Aeroflot or the Belarusian airlines do not subsidize this, which could easily become a milliad grave for the economically weak Belarus.

Ralf Ostner

Murnau

Source: merkur

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