In early December 2022 the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, revealed that two meetings in 2014/15 that achieved the Minsk agreements were only a stalling tactic to allow the West to militarize Ukraine as an anti-Russian proxy, all so that Ukraine could be fortified for a future potential war with Russia. Looking back, this kind of almost contractual betrayal is nothing new in the world of geopolitical chess, but what is so astounding is that Merkel’s “confession” was not front and center of international news last year. The deliberate doing and political maneuver clearly paint a dire picture of European politics – one, Germany sadly being the executing puppet for the West (Nato expansion politics) and second, the still ongoing proxy war could have been avoided, or should we say was deliberately seeded by the West, the present unusual high monetary involvement of European …
Taiwan – just a question of when
Poking the Russian Bear to the East and poking the Asian Dragon to the West – you could call it a media stunt or just a big PR campaign for war, but certainly Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan heated up an old, decade-long smoldering contentious political issue in Asia. Recently the US seems to play an ambiguous international role. On one hand Uncle Sam promises allegiance to its Asian ally, on the other there are words and motions coming out of Washington that allow speculations that in the worst case scenario of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, the US would not engage in a war with China. Quite remarkable is even a present discussion in the US to possibly give Taiwan some sort of a Nato affiliation. Similar to the Ukrainian conflict – by getting NATO involved all, mainly European allies would be dragged into the conflict. It all seems to be straight out of the recipe book – how to start WWIII and weirdly orchestrated by the self proclaimed world “peacekeeper” itself…