Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
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ThePythonicCow
Of if you have in mind some other clause, that is an even more direct commitment to corporatocracy, as well you might be, I'd be quite interested to learn of it.
The Constitution of Germany:
Article 88. [The Federal Bank - The European Central Bank]
The Federation shall establish a note-issuing and currency bank as the Federal Bank. Within the framework of the European Union, its responsibilities and powers may be transferred to the European Central Bank, which is independent and committed to the overriding goal of assuring price stability.
This is a birthright constitution, if you are born German, you are its property, ergo your federal finances have just been wholly surrendered. Anybody vote for this?
Again, in perspective, World War One era is to dismember Austria's Central Bank--the potential rival power-- while unifying the German state under the Reichsbank. Next step is simply "bringing Germany into the fold", and you get that financial law for a member of NATO, while Austria's constitution was re-written to forbid alliances.
Do I need to translate "price stability" from Economics into realpolitik?
That's what Ukraine looks like now. That's why Putin says Nuremberg is unfinished business.
He didn't bother to mention that the U. S. Federal Reserve is a line-by-line copy of the Reichsbank. At the time, to the impish Americans, German Bankers were God. They were impressed by how serious the attempt to study was, so, they cooperated freely. You definitely get a green light for a new type of trans-Atlanticism here. All through the Nazi period, Germans were still superb and excellent to the British and Americans--only a "wrong move" changed this, so to speak, very temporarily.
That Article 88 is like kicking one through the goalposts from the other end of the field.
At the same time, the remark in the NATO timeline is exactly correct: a military drawdown would demolish the U. S. economy. The guy who said it had already known it for years, and, nothing has changed.
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
This is hard one minute video to watch, the injured soldiers indicates he wants be shot in the head knowing that his injuries are severe and life changing, I take it these soldiers had an agreement in place before the moved out.
I posted this because this is one aspect of this war I had never considered until I saw the video, or any war, and thought it needs to be documented in this thread.
A Kill Shot: Death By Mercy
Russian soldier hit by FPV drone finished off by fellow Russian soldier.
People have no clue how common this is in military. When you suffer wounds that causes you to be immobilized and can no longer move forward that you know will be life debilitating this is how most choose to go out.
During World War II, there were reports of severely wounded soldiers on both sides requesting euthanasia from their fellow soldiers when medical aid was unavailable or insufficient.
In the Vietnam War, some accounts describe American soldiers with mortal wounds asking comrades to end their lives rather than risk being captured by enemy forces. But ofcourse most Americans are not history buffs on this sort of thing. So certain reactions are expected.