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April 16. 2015
General Skrzypczak: “I retract everything I said about Ukraine”
By J.Hawk
Poland’s retired Land Forces commander and Deputy Defense Minister
Waldemar Skrzypczak used to be in favor of arming and training the
Ukrainian military. That was before the Rada passed the law glorifying
the UPA–the same UPA that killed Skrzypczak’s uncle by pinning him to
the door of a barn with a pitchfork. Now that Ukraine has shown its true
colors, Skrzypczak has concluded that until Ukraine rids itself of its
nationalism, it will be impossible for Poland to collaborate with that
country in any meaningful fashion. I should note that Skrzypczak is an
influential figure in Poland, a veteran military officer whose service
included the command of an occupation zone in Iraq, and who has few
peers when it comes to authoritativeness on national security matters.
http://www.fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/04/general-skrzypczak-i-retract-everything.html
From Russia Insider, March 23, 2015 Original Here
Jens Wernicke and Dr. Daniele Ganser
This article originally appeared at NachDenkSeiten. Translated for RI by Mihajlo Doknic
The German Chancellery has accused NATO chief Philip M.
Breedlove of “dangerous propaganda”. The question: what to think about
this critique coming from a government that uses this kind of propaganda
technique itself. Jens Wernicke, media scientist and author of several
books, talked with the renowned Swiss peace researcher and NATO expert
Dr. Daniele Ganser.
Mr. Ganser, the German Chancellery accuses NATO chief Philip
M. Breedlove, of “dangerous propaganda”. Breedlove exaggerates Russia’s
military involvement in East Ukraine, for example. What is going on
here? Is the German government just accusing NATO of war propaganda?
The German Chancellery is right with its critique. In my opinion,
something dangerous is happening right now: US generals like
Breedlove are trying to provoke a war, where Germans and Russians would
kill each other in order to weaken both countries. This is a cynical,
actually a diabolical plan. But this is exactly what US strategist like
Georg Friedman, director of the Stratfor think tank, are suggesting.
United, Germany and Russia are the only power that could threaten the
US, Friedman said in a speech in February 2015 in Chicago.
“Our primordial interest [preventing a German-Russian alliance] is to ensure that will never happen,” said Friedman.
“The US, as an empire, cannot intervene in Eurasia all the time,” he
explained. Therefore they must turn countries against each other, so
they don’t build close alliances. “I suggest something President Ronald
Reagan used against Iraq and Iran: He supported both war parties!”
Freidman stated. The war between Iraq and Iran between 1980 and 1988
claimed at least 400.000 dead, so from the point of peace science it is
frightening what Friedman suggests. “So the Iranians and Iraqis fought
against each other and not against us,” explained Freidman in his
speech. “That was cynical and amoral. But it worked.”
The USA cannot occupy Eurasia. The same moment we put our boots on
European soil, we will be outnumbered due to demographics. In my opinion
the radical US generals like Breedlove are trying to implement this
strategy, where in future German and Russian Soldiers kill each other in
Ukraine, thus destabilizing and weakening the whole of East Europe.
That would be a catastrophe. Therefore a peace movement needs to
encourage an alternative solution, like the neutrality of Ukraine. No
NATO membership and friendship between Germany and Russia.
How is NATO trying to fuel this conflict?
NATO General Breedlove often sticks out by spreading exaggerated and
untrue claims. This is how NATO is fueling the war. This is dangerous,
because the situation is very tense, as we know. On the 12th of November
2014 Breedlove claimed that Russian toops and tanks have marched into
Ukraine! But that wasn’t true and it wasn’t just a little thing.
Literally the NATO general said: “We have seen that Russian troops,
Russian tanks, Russian artillery and air defense systems have moved into
Ukraine.” BBC and other mass media spread that worldwide but it was a
lie.
And US General Ben Hodges, commander of the US troops in Europe, also
pushes for war by supporting the Ukrainian army. In January 2015 he
visited a military hospital in Kiev and handed over a medal for bravery
of the US Army to a wounded Ukrainian soldier! That, of course,
increases tension.
However, the US General Hodges shows symbolically: The US is an
“active party of war” in the Ukraine. It stands by the Ukrainian army
that is fighting the Russian supported separatists in East Ukraine.
Because Germany is a NATO member, there is a danger that German soldiers
are dragged into this war by the US. Similar to Afghanistan after 2001.
If that happens, then we have exactly the situation Friedman is asking
for: Germans and Russians shooting at each other in the Ukraine. Of
course I hope that this won’t happen. However, a peace movement needs to
raise this and warn of such dangers in order to avoid them.
Is this a very common thing, I mean, that NATO lies, exaggerates or deceives?
Yes, regrettably NATO has, on a regular basis, combined lies and war. In my book NATO’s secret armies in Europe. Staged terror and clandestine warfare I
show how, during the Cold War, NATO had built in Western countries,
supported by CIA and the British secret service MI6, secret armies, of
which existence the governments and population didn’t know anything.
Especially the US generals are dangerous, because they have been
continuously fighting wars in different countries during the last 70
years. As representatives of an empire they are not only used to kill
but also to deceive. General Lyman Lemnitzer, for example, who served as
SACEUR of NATO (Supreme Allied Commander Europe) between 1963 and 1969,
so one of Breedlove’s predecessors, suggested in the 60s that the US
should stage a war against Cuba by destroying an American ship at the
military base in Guantanamo and by staging terror attacks in Washington,
and then for both crimes accuse Fidel Castro in order to get the
American public behind the war. John F. Kennedy, however, stopped the
operation [Northwoods]. But it shows, how dangerous the officers in the
Pentagon are.
Is only the US pushing for wars or are other countries also involved?
NATO has 28 members and unfortunately other NATO countries are
involved in war propaganda as well. For example, the Brits! In March
2003, before they attacked Iraq, Tony Blair, the then prime minister,
said: “Iraq is in possession of chemical and biological weapons. Its
rockets are ready for use within 45 minutes.” That was a lie! The attack
on Iraq by USA and Great Britain started, nevertheless, without an UN
mandate. So it was illegal!
It was also an illegal aggression when NATO, on the 24th of March
1999, started bombing Serbia. Because NATO didn’t have a mandate of the
UN Security Council. Back then it was Germany under the Chancellor
Gerhard Schröder, the Defense Minister Rudolph Scharping and the Foreign
Minister Joschka Fischer, that actively took part in the aggression
[War on Yugoslavia], together with the US. In the run-up to the
aggression lies were spread to get the people behind this war. Later, in
2014, Schröder admitted that NATO violated International Law. “When the
question came up how to deal with developments in Yugoslavia and Kosovo
respectively, we sent our planes, our Tornados [German warplanes] to
Serbia together with NATO and bombed a sovereign state without a
Security Council Resolution,” admitted Schröder self-critically.
How come that in those cases nobody raises its voice and we only read the same NATO statements with their arguments?
The mass media in Germany are pushing people into a direct
confrontation with Russia, in a way the radicals in the US, like
Stratfor director Friedman, are asking for. It means, they fuel
animosity towards Russia. And very rarely there is a critical discussion
about NATO or about the strategic interests of the US, those powers
that are fueling the war in Ukraine.
Many journalists don’t even call the US an empire fearing for their
jobs and other things. But it is apparent that the US is an empire of
our times, the most powerful nation that, of course, is pursuing its
national interests. This fact is rarely raised by the mass media. So
many people watching TV don’t even know the term ‚US Empire’ or the
strategic interests of this empire in Eurasia. Therefore, critical
people disappointed by the TV and Newspapers are trying to inform
themselves through alternative media on the Internet.
So, do you think the critique by our [German] government is a
sign that they finally try to break the global spiral of violence and
distance itself from propaganda in favour of respectful dialogue with
Russia? And, is our government more credible than NATO itself?
I am from Switzerland, which is not part of NATO. So I do look at
the German policy and Chancellor Merkel from the outside. And I see that
many people are concerned with the situation [war] in Ukraine, because
of its proximity. And most of the Germans that I know, they don’t want a
future, where German soldiers and Russian soldiers shoot at each other!
But I am not sure what the German government wants. They move in a
zigzag course. One day, as a NATO member, they fuel, together with the
US, the war in the Ukraine by increasing tensions with Russia. And
sometimes they try to keep the friendship or at least the respect with
Russia by publically criticizing NATO war-hawk Breedlove. So which line
will be predominant in future its hard to tell.
What is your assessment of the departure of the hawk Anders
Fogh Rasmussen as NATO General Secretary? Will Jens Stoltenberg
establish himself as a peaceful successor? To put it differently: How
much influence has a Secretary General actually on NATO policies?
If you study the history of NATO it is easy to notice that the post
of Secretary General is always staffed with an European, now
Stoltenberg, a Norwegian, and before that, Rasmussen, a Dane. But the
Europeans should not be mistaken as to who is calling the shots in NATO,
it is the US! Secretary General is not the most important post. It is
actually the one of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, because here lies the military command. An American, now Breedlove, always holds this position.
Has Stoltenberg publically criticized Breedlove or tried to stop him?
No, he is not able to. His job as Secretary General is primarily to
give NATO an European face. This is better received in Europe, than
having a US diplomat appear all the time.
So I don’t believe that Stoltenberg is able or willing to transform
NATO into a peaceful organization. Also because of the track record of
NATO in the past two decades: NATO wars and the technique of, Regime
Change’ have left countries in ruins and traumatized people, in Libya,
in Iraq, in Afghanistan. So I hope that Ukraine won’t be put on this
list too!
Thank you for the interview.
http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/23/4815
http://www.globalresearch.ca/germany-accuses-nato-of-dangerous-propaganda-americas-strategic-objective-is-to-prevent-a-german-russian-alliance/5439264
