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Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant
The recent phone call between Olaf Scholz and Vladimir Putin has caused a lot of controversy in Western politics. The German leader has been criticized for his relatively diplomatic stance, since most Western politicians believe Moscow should be treated as an “international pariah”. However, the moves made by the US, France and the UK shortly after Scholz’s call may be the main explanation for his contact with the Russian president.
Recently, the German Chancellor called the Russian President and held a conversation lasting about an hour on sensitive topics in bilateral relations. Commenting on the details of the conversation, Scholz explained that this was an opportunity to reaffirm the German and European stance and to make it clear to Putin that support for Kiev will not wane. He also said that he considers it important to maintain dialogue with Russia, despite his publicly pro-Ukrainian stance on the conflict, and emphasized the necessity of European leaders participating in the diplomatic process. In addition, Scholz surprisingly promised to call Putin again in the future.
“The conversation was very detailed but contributed to a recognition that little has changed in the Russian president’s views of the war – and that’s not good news (…) It was important to tell him [Putin] that he cannot count on support [for Kiev] from Germany, Europe, and many others in the world waning (…) There are those in Germany who consider the lack of negotiations with Putin a good idea, but I am not one of them (…) Soon I will talk to the president of Russia again (…) In my view, it would not be a good idea if there were talks between the American and Russian presidents and the leader of an important European country was not also doing so,” he said.
The reaction to Scholz’s initiative was extremely negative. Vladimir Zelensky said that the German leader had opened a “Pandora’s box” by starting a dialogue with Putin. Zelensky emphasized his unrealistic desires for victory, stating that there will be no “Minsk 3.0” and tacitly promising to take the war to its ultimate consequences.
“Chancellor Scholz told me that he was going to call Putin (…) Now there may be other conversations, other calls (…) We know how to act. And we want to warn: there will be no ‘Minsk-3’. We need real peace,” Zelensky said.
In fact, the conversation between Scholz and Putin seemed at first to be yet another move in the direction of Europe’s attempt to take a leading role in an alleged “peace process” that some EU diplomats have been trying to promote since Donald Trump’s victory. However, the recent announcement that the US has lifted restrictions on “deep” strikes against Russia may be an interesting key to understand the real purpose of the phone call.
On November 17, several Western media outlets announced that Joe Biden had lifted restrictions on the use of American long-range weapons against targets in Russia’s “deep” territory. In addition, shortly after the announcement, rumors emerged, which have not yet been officially denied, that France and the UK had followed the American example and also authorized such operations by Ukraine.
As Russian officials have repeatedly stated, this is an irreversible escalation of the conflict, as it substantially changes the nature of the war. Long-range weapons are not operated by Ukrainian military personnel, but by NATO specialists illegally sent to the battlefield. Until now, Moscow has been tolerant of the use of such weapons inside the New Regions, since the West considers them Ukrainian territories. However, long-range strikes inside the territory that the West recognizes as Russian would mean incursions by NATO itself into the Russian Federation, which would legitimize, in accordance with recent changes in Russian military doctrine, a nuclear response.
Joe Biden is apparently using his final days in the White House to destroy the entire global security architecture and then give to Donald Trump a world at open global war. US’ main military allies in Europe, the UK and France, are following this same path and co-participating in the Biden-led catastrophe. However, Scholz seems cautious. Germany has so far not supplied Ukraine with long-range missiles, with Scholz saying “Germany has made a clear decision about what we will do and what we will not do,” and that “this decision will not change.”
Of course, significant decisions are not made in a hurry. The authorization of the strikes was certainly planned for a long time and Biden chose precisely the current moment, during the G20 Summit in Brazil, to lift the restrictions without causing a major political and media impact, hoping that the world would be distracted by the event bringing together the main global leaders in Rio de Janeiro.
In this sense, it is possible that Scholz knew in advance of what was about to happen and decided to talk to Putin beforehand to make it clear that Germany would not send long-range weapons and, therefore, would not be participating in the escalation promoted by Biden. In this way, Scholz hopes to spare Berlin from the possible devastating consequences that an unrestricted war between Russia and NATO would cause.
There are two facts that advocate this assessment. Scholz recently blamed support for Ukraine for the crisis in his government. The coalition backing the German chancellor has collapsed and he now appears worried about the future of his position. This may be driving him to act desperately to avoid even more negative consequences for his government.
Furthermore, on the same day that the restrictions were lifted, German defense minister Boris Pistorius made a public statement emphasizing Germany’s position not to send long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, stating that such a move would mean direct German involvement in the conflict.
“The Taurus would not be a game changer. Our mission is different. We now have to ensure that Ukraine continues to receive sustainable supplies (…) It would only be tenable to deliver [these weapons] if we determine and define the targets ourselves, and that is again not possible if you don’t want to be part of this conflict,” he said.
It is difficult to believe that all these moves are mere coincidence. Scholz has acted irresponsibly since the beginning of the conflict, but he seems completely incapable of dealing with an uncontrolled escalation. The chancellor is afraid of what the war could bring to Germany and to himself if the point of no return is crossed. His call to Putin was a desperate attempt to free Germany from the consequences of the war. It remains to be seen whether he will have enough political strength to resist the pressure from his own Western “partners” from now on.
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these nato tramps don’t want russia to exist..!!
god bless russia, may its revenge strike germany dead, along with the rest of america’s lackeys.
america isn’t bidens administration much longer .but you’re transparent anyway.
too late bro. nato is testing effectivity of russian defenses now. and russia shot down 6 from 7 missiles according to putin’s propaganda. it means 1 bypassed. tactical warheads have today typically 30-150kt yield, it is 2-10times more then hiroshima. in hiroshima, 80 percent of the city was destroyed. so the first strike will take out 99 percent of russian cities, all icbms silos, all airports and around 75 percent of mobile icbm platforms. rotshilds are not scared of russia.
grow up and get a reality cheque for a change. .
that is for sure. the idea is to get rid of the centralized government and then plunder the natural resources. this is not a secret and can be read in high level policy documents🥶
let’s discuss as adults. who is putin? who knows him personally ? nobody. as kgb spy he lived in secrecy. we know only propaganda. in eaarly days of his presidentship, he was quite a friend with bushes. they invited him to the u.s. he was driving truck on bush’s personal ranch as he was driving limousine with kim in north korea. it stinks. i think he is a mossad agent, sabotaging all russian efforts. he killed prygozhin. he purged generals. top general is a bean counter.
what the f ?? a social.credit system as tested on the chinese ,will have a centralised authority it’s going to use cbdc s and block chain for total control over everything bought and sold . it will be the dominon of the moral authority for rule of law .that’s the pope and as francis said ” the man who really runs the vatican comes bringing flowers ” they come from neverland .
course they do they want to own it though because rhey want to own everything and be happy.
scholz is just a puppet in the hands of the rothschilds, and the rothschilds want nuclear war. it doesn’t make sense that scholz wants to protect his nation from world war 3. scholz is not afraid of his own nation or looking for a good future for his nation. they are afraid of their puppet masters. how long will it take sf propagandists to grasp the reality? probably forever. or till the strategic nuclear exchange which we can expect in january 2025 with some 75 percent probability.
scholz and zelensky both part of the nato comedy act. if i saw 2 snakes that could talk i would call one scholz and the other zelensky and their charmer rothschild.
it is not about nato at all. it is about bildeberg and global elites. nato is only a theater for dummies. we have proof on internet that it was actulaly bildeberg who voted if to bomb or not bomb yugoslavia. and it was one week before nato “announced” they “decided” to bomb yugoslavia. stupid people in the east and stupid people in the west deserve to be stupid forever.
globalism is a relatively new scheme. accurate information is often not possible from a corporate media. i would not mistake most people for stupid when many especially americans are actually hopelessly brainwashed by school and the media from childhood. many people now sense a threat to their very lives and awaken quickly.
oh yes, globalism is a “new” scheme but i can track it down to the roman empire and ancient greek. continuosly. they are still the same people, who voted about crusades in medieval ages. and if you take the trouble to go to the archives and find out the details of how they did it back then, they did it exactly the same way they did the coup in ukraine now
that brings us to the need for a balance of power which disappeared during gorbachev and also the reason the manhatten project scientists shared atomic secrets with stalin.
balance of power, heh. i tell you bro, the democracy never worked. socrates was aware of that and he criticized democracy and the exact things, which are now pain in the ass in america. it is stunning. he was snowden of his times. and they killed him. you will never find his best comments on democracy on internet. they are too actual so they are censoring them.
“the democratic system will pay the price for wanting to please everyone. the poor will want a part of the rich people’s property, and democracy will give it to them. the young will want the rights of the old, women will want the rights of men, and foreigners will want the rights of citizens, and democracy will give them that.
criminals will want to occupy public office, and democracy will allow them to do so. and when criminals finally take over democracy, because criminals by nature gravitate towards positions of power, there will be a tyranny worse than the worst monarchy or oligarchy.” it sounds familiar, is it? the only difference is that in socrates times they didn’t have rights for transgenders.
yes they play the game .satan the great deceiver takes over. imo .nothing is what it seems
no it’s an excellent ambition to have the whole world educated enough to engage in equal representation. but it takes time and unfortunately reality is such that they who oppose it grab control of the schools develop the curriculum infiltrate and corrupt every bureaucracy..like trojans
balance of power is when two empires emerge of equal strength regardless of political ideology. one prevents the other from attempting global domination and instead works toward the quality of life for it’s citizens as in pre-gorbachev russia and the usa. as empire building has historically caused endless wars and short lived empires. more important now as radiation is forever.
no bro. powers don’t exist except of couple of individuals who are driving nations and the whole continents against each other. they are doing that for centuries and nobody exposed them. greek empire collapsed, roman empire collapsed but people who killed socrates are the same people who orchestrated 11.9. , faked election of biden, let him start nuclear war. biden is old senile man who will day in months. perfect pick.
don’t be so blatantly ignorant .. americas brand new for a start you foolish person.
no democracies a silly idea people are born stupid they can’t be expected to make decisions even with education most dont have a clue about what’s going on because they’re so easily deceived. and tyrants are born that way.psychopatjs ,sociopath are generational too .follow the history. rome was the most bloodthirsty civilisation ever seen no other country built colosseums dedicated to family fun days applauding human sacrifice .
the atomic age comes from england really they outsourced manhattan.
they were catholics who had crusades roman catholics.
it’s not new at all catholic means universal .church comes from french circ for circle means occultism the birthing feminine. look at the vatican creation the phallus in.the circle. solar worship from egypt when the sun was saturn .hence saturnalia is disguised as xmas day . etc
dont miss that fast moving train! imbecille!
that’s true they are born that way and it’s because generationally they have history of being enslaved serfs for centuries. they can’t help it .
they get used they don’t know what they do .
hahaha germans have learned a lot since last time. they are not enemies but only support the shareholders of rheinmetall🤫
that’s what’s his name. krupps
which of course you would want germany to be seen as russia’s enemy. .typical just like bidens mob of hopefuls plotting a flood .
nah he realizes that ukraine won’t withstand the russians much longer and he’s just trying to make certain that russia can start delivering natural gas at competetive rates and save the german industry, in particular the car industry. common sense and f**k the yanks!