Kategorie: USA

Wolodymyr Zelensky: Demontage eines Helden

Öffentliche Meinung – das ist eine blutrünstige Bestie. Sie schnurrt und schmeichelt, wenn ein Held geboren wird, sie zerfleischt ihn gnadenlos, sobald er strauchelt oder gar zu fallen droht. Der ukrainische Komiker war ein nichts, bevor er zum Präsidenten seines Landes wurde, er war eine Lichtgestalt für den Westen und darüber hinaus, als er sich im Namen einer überfallenen Nation gegen das Unrecht wehrte. Wolodymyr Zelensky: Demontage eines Helden weiterlesen

Europe – Island of Pacifism?

This question is no longer discussed only behind closed doors. CDU politician and former environment minister Norbert Röttgen made the following statement in an interview with Der Spiegel: 

SPIEGEL: You write in your book that for Europe it is a matter of „to be or not to be.“ A bit pathetic, isn’t it? Röttgen: No, it’s the naked truth. We have outsourced energy to Russia, the growth markets to China, security comes from the USA. At the same time, climate change and migration pose enormous challenges. Europe – Island of Pacifism? weiterlesen

Rechte und Pflichten – Lehren aus einem Krieg

Zwischen den beiden Polen von Rechten und Pflichten – den Ansprüchen des Einzelnen an die Gesellschaft und umgekehrt deren Forderungen an den Einzelnen – bewegt sich die Geschichte, seit menschliche Gemeinschaften existieren. Rechte und Pflichten – Lehren aus einem Krieg weiterlesen

Wrong: Checkmate! Ukraine will capitulate and Europe is brought to its knees

Self-correction two days after publication. The demand for payment in rubles could have led to a halt in gas supplies and the destructive economic and social effects mentioned below. However, Putin left himself a loophole (see footnote *0* below). Nevertheless, I am not deleting the article because it shows Europe’s fatal dependence on foreign resources and its possible consequences.

Wrong: Checkmate! Ukraine will capitulate and Europe is brought to its knees weiterlesen

Friends and Foes – German (Self)Righteousness

It happens that sharp-eyed psychologists are amazed at how similar people, e.g. men and women, can become when they are together for years, e.g. in a marriage. Malicious voices even claim that such similarity may frequently be observed between a dog and its master (mistress). Both then seems to become each others strange counterfeits. We need not find this surprising: a close coexistence inevitably leads to an alignment of habits, views, preferences, and antipathies – otherwise a close coexistence would not come about in the first place. Friends and Foes – German (Self)Righteousness weiterlesen

Brotherly Love the Russian way – Struggling for the New World Order

The Russian president recently let the world know that the Ukrainians are a nation of brothers, but that they have been subjected to Western brainwashing which turned them into Nazis. Apparently, he assumes that the largest and most powerful among the brothers, the Russians, are legitimized to impose their law on the smaller and weaker ones, that is, to bring them under the Russian heel. Brotherly Love the Russian way – Struggling for the New World Order weiterlesen

Russische Bruderliebe – der Kampf um die neue Weltordnung

Unlängst klärte der russische Präsident die Welt darüber auf, dass die Ukrainer ein Brudervolk seien, das aber westlicher Gehirnwäsche ausgesetzt und deshalb in das Fahrwasser von Nazis geraten sei. Offenbar geht er davon aus, dass der größte und mächtigste unter den Brüdern, die Russen, legitimiert sei, den kleineren und schwächeren das eigene Gesetz aufzuzwingen, sprich, sie unter die russische Knute zu zwingen. Russische Bruderliebe – der Kampf um die neue Weltordnung weiterlesen

Putin’s vision for Ukraine and for Europe

So now we can finally be sure: The Russian knout is in the window. For Putin, not only Ukraine is a failed state, but he and Xi Jinping already prophetically foresee the end of the free Western world. The territorially largest nuclear power offers a political alternative that can draw on a long imperial tradition – from the tsars to Stalin to Vladimir Putin himself. The Russian president offers us an imposed Gleichschaltung, safely backed by the police, the military, the state security service, and the systematic suppression of all opposition. Putin’s vision for Ukraine and for Europe weiterlesen

Global Arena: China and the Dialectics of Freedom

If the world were a racetrack in which nations compete for victory and medals, we would admire the mighty catching-up nations that are surging ahead. These include China and India – Russia would like to join them. Western countries still claim the first position, but we see them torn by the strongest internal contradictions and social protests. This is especially true of the United States.

Global Arena: China and the Dialectics of Freedom weiterlesen

Delta – Is democracy losing the battle against dictatorship and autocracy?

Although we usually hear populists in both camps saying, that the realm of good – their own – is facing that of evil – the other side, U.S. and Chinese students and scholars move effortlessly from one country to the other. After the Chinese conformed most of their institutions to the Western model, the similarities between them are significantly greater than anything that still separates them. Delta – Is democracy losing the battle against dictatorship and autocracy? weiterlesen