German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sharply criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin's interview with a right-wing US talk show host. During a visit to the US capital on Friday, Scholz said that it was an interview "that honestly only mocks what real actions have been done by Russia in Ukraine and tells a completely absurd story about the cause of this war." But "there is a very clear cause," Scholz stressed, namely the Kremlin leader's desire to annex part of Ukraine. "And all the stories that
Scholz is trying to cover for his own inability to discuss Germany history stretching back more than 80 years.
Wdym? It’s not like the Nazi crimes are a secret or sth… or unacknowledged within Germany?
Then why were nazi officers placed in charge of NATO? Why did the Vatican and the USA rescue hundreds of Nazi officers and give them secret identities, money, security details, and relocate them all over the world? Why did the USA and NATO create “leave-behind” militias from former Nazi groups and Nazi-aligned groups all over Europe? Can Scholz talk about Operation Paperclip, Operation Gladio, or even just the open history of Nazi officers in NATO?
Because the United States is obviously run by zombie Hitler on the dark side of the moon
You misunderstand history. Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that he was following the USA’s program. His top leaders studied USA implementations of apartheid, eugenics (started in Britain), domestic control, and propaganda. The first gas chambers for large scale murder were the French gassing revolting slaves in Haiti. The USA isn’t run by zombie Hitler, it’s run by the people that Hitler was mimicking.
Ahhh, okay so it’s run by zombie Americans that were born in the 19th century, got it
After ww2 nato and the CIA didnt destroy nazism, they absorbed it. The whole usa space program was run by german scientists, among many other things. Learn about the history of Allen Dulles, first civil director of the CIA
It’s an unbroken continuous culture, my friend. Forced hysterectomies were official policy through the 1970s to sterilize a third of Puerto Rico and many indigenous women. Black people are overwhelmingly incarcerated, the USA still imprisons more of its population than any other country in history, and it uses those prisoners as slave labor to produce $11 billion in goods and services while also charging them $100 - $300 per day for being in prison. Child separation is still happening in 2024. Immigrants are kept in solitary confinement, which is torture. Alabama just gassed a man to death and every observer said it was torture.
The USA bombed peasants around the world for decades. North Koreans needed to live in caves to avoid the amount of napalm the USA dropped on them after destroying quite literally every bombable target in the country. The USA continues to engage in collective punishment and uses anti-communism as its reasoning, just like the Nazis did.
The Banderites in Ukraine. The neo-Nazis in the USA. The Brothers of Italy. It’s all happening right here in the present, in an unbroken line of politics and culture that predates the Third Reich by centuries. The empire the USA inherited from Western Europe (because the USA was led by people from Western Europe) was just as brutal, enslaving, raping, pillaging, and bloodthirsty as the USA was with oppressing the indigenous people who were here and are still here despite the genocide. The USA still supports that genocidal history and still upholds that the genocide gives them the right to the land and to destroy that land. The indigenous are still fighting for their lives against the same USA socio-poitical history that Hitler referenced in Mein Kampf as his model.
So is your point that Russia is correctly fighting the Nazis? Because I can’t figure out what any of this has to do with Scholz saying Tucker’s interview with Putin tells an absurd story.
That’s because, like a classic liberal, you jumped into a thread that was making a comment about Scholz, made some vague word noises that implied a position on that topic, and then when you were confronted about the topic with facts you can’t actually handle you need to jump back to the parent topic in order to change the context so you don’t have your fragile worldview challenged.
educate yourself https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-u-s-did-not-defeat-fascism-in-wwii-it-discretely-internationalized-it/
Have you ever read A People’s History of the United States? Or any literature beyond the internet? What you’re linking is both old news and out of touch with the true roots of America, which yes, is shit. But guess what? The whole history of the world is fucking shit. Nowhere have humans been kind and caring to one another on a global stage, unless it suited their interests. We’re fucking animals, and the fact we’ve made it this far and built this level of population is astounding. We’re two wrong steps away from the whole thing crashing down. So cool, you know some history, what the fuck are you doing about it? Because if you like your iphone and this online discourse with randoms you get to feel superior over we all better start figuring out how to right the ship before it goes down. Because it’s easy as fuck to raze it all. It’s hard to fix something that’s broken.
I read plenty of literature. In particular, I highly recommend reading Democracy for the Few to understand the history of the US.
Not sure how you can claim what I posted i out of touch or at odds with roots of America. In fact, it’s very much what America is all about. In fact, German nazis were directly inspired by Jim Crow laws in US, but even they thought US segregation to be too extreme initially.
Meanwhile, it’s just such a reductionist thing to say that the whole history of the world is shit. It’s creating a false equivalence you’re using to excuse the crimes of the US empire. If US did not aggressively stomp out socialism for the past century while promoting fascism and genocide we could’ve been living in a very different world today. US will be remembered as one of the worst experiments in human history.
The US didn’t stomp out socialism, they stomped out people that kept them away from natural resources (which happened to be people who said they were socialist). You think if the US hadn’t overthrown Allende in Chile they would have become this bastion of human equity and prosperity? Maybe, but I could argue just as much that if the US had done absolutely nothing in that country he could have been overthrown by his own greedy political rival. With what we see in the world all around us that’s by far the more plausible outcome there because nearly all humans are greedy no matter what nation they were born in. This is in no way a defense of US actions in South America or anywhere in the world, but assuming the outcome without US involvement in all these places would have been rainbows and roses is ridiculous. Yes, imperialism is wrong, but the outcomes still could have been just another wrong. In fact, to imply that the United States government had the power to literally change human nature - because according to you “we could’ve been living in a very different world today” - is so ridiculous and giving the stupid US government wayyyy too much power. Yeah, we could’ve been living in a very different world, one way worse. Who are you to say how anything that didn’t happen would be?!?!
The idea we’ll have Marxist communism without capital and the bourgeois is just misguided, it directly conflicts with human nature. But it’s a nice thought experiment. If you watch nature shows and connect the dots, capitalism is simply survival of the fittest in economic form. That is not a defense, it’s simply and explanation for why it is. We are “right on schedule.” Sure there are altruistic species on the planet but show me an apex predator that exhibits altruism.
The idea that the US has a monopoly on racism is comical. Nearly everyone in the past was racist. So because Hitler was infatuated with some of the beliefs of American politicians when he was doing his own thing is the fault of the US? Please. The problem with that article and this narrative is it tries to paint a “man behind the curtain” narrative. There is no man behind the curtain. There is no secret society running everything. It’s a nice bedtime story and yeah it makes us feel better but it’s not how people operate. This is 100% about money and always has been. And as soon as one human with too much money thinks another human is keeping them from that money, they will turn on each other even if both of them think black people should be sterilized.
And sure, all of human history isn’t “shit” but the fact is homo sapiens, the apex monkeys who won the “caveman days” and killed or bred out the other human-like species on the planet, that’s our evolution. That’s how we got HERE and it wasn’t love, peace, and happiness. And yes the idea of living in the garden like all the natives we trampled over sounds fantastic, but history more or less had to look this way, right? Technology essentially dictated that the natives living in the garden were going to get wiped out at some point. If it wasn’t the western white world that did it it would have been someone else. If the “Chinese tribes” hadn’t been spending all that time warring within their own land (which is exactly why it wasn’t them, they had plenty of land and resources to fight over.) they could have been the ones to kill the “new world” natives and everyone would be speaking Mandarin. They could have used slaves to earn massive capital to build a massive military to use that military to ensure it’s economic success around the world. You think they are NOT doing that now?!
So fussing over “what could have been” is just pointless. Blaming “the entity on top” is lazy. The question is how do we move forward. And if you ask me it’s not tearing it all down. That’s what’s insane to me about everyone here in this thread trying to say “Scholz can’t say anything bad about Putin/Tucker because he supports Israel invading Palestine.” and trying to draw a correlation that they’re the same thing (they’re absolutely similar but they’re not the same thing), or that we can just ignore the actual modern day Nazi’s in America that are actively trying to bring back the actual ideals of Nazi Germany, which is who Tucker is rooting for and absolutely what Putin wants to happen here.
It’s incredulous to me that the majority of the people here are indirectly (or directly) saying “but look over here” with regards to Putin and Tucker as if that’s a non-issue and Israel and Palestine is the only global issue. And then being all flippant and childish about it. If DT gets elected there will literally be US troops killing Palestinians (except it’ll probably be over by then). DT moved the embassy to Jerusalem but people want to rail on Biden for toeing the line of US foreign policy wrt a very complex issue (no, it shouldn’t be, but it is. Which ironically the “answer” is in the middle east YT video that is posted here). So who gives a flying fuck about nearly 80 year old history when we have a real and obvious problem here and now.
And if the people here aren’t American and can’t vote and don’t have an influence in that - then I think it’s completely fine to share history and maybe educate people about how we got here. But the angst, hyperbole, and flippancy towards “who they think they’re responding to” just sours their message and makes them sound like children.
Yeah, US absolutely stomped out socialism. Entire books have been written on the subject. Killing Hope is one book you might want to read.
Oh man imagine using HuMan NatuRe as a serious argument, opinion dismissed. 😂
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My man, I think Germany has been through some leadership changes between now and 1939.
And yet still blatantly in support of genocide.
Honestly I would expect that Germany’s history is a reason that current German leadership would be inclined to back Israel even when it isn’t a good move. The Jews weren’t the only victims of the Holocaust, but they were the best known, and Germany wants to be seen supporting Jewish people today because it does not want to be the Germany of old. That doesn’t make it right to back Israel’s actions in Gaza, but it has reasoning to it
German history is the cause but not for the reason you say. Germany is just following America’s lead in supporting Israel because ever since their defeat in WW2 West Germany and now Germany have been American vassal states. Germany has the highest concentration of American foreign military bases out of all countries.
Comparing things to the Holocaust never helped anyone to gather more support for their cause. Especially in Germany. So good luck with that.
You don’t know what you are talking about.
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This is so ignorantly reductionist
They sided with isntreal in the court and sent a ship to help recently if im not mistaken
So your claim is that Germany is actually in support of Palestinians? Odd, that.
You do realize that Putin invading Ukraine and Israel invading Palestine are two completely separate events and topics, right? If you’re trying to draw imperial correlations regarding separate world events maybe you should, I dunno, be a little more articulate.
So your claim is that Germany isn’t supporting Israel, and that Israel isn’t conducting a genocide?
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