https://unofficialbird.com/bidetmarxman/status/1621452328569307142#m

Somewhat overshadowed by yesterday’s “Chinese spy balloon” hysteria was the revelation that the CIA has recently been trying to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine that involves offering 20% of Ukraine to Russia.

Both Kyiv and Moscow rejected the deal but it does raise an interesting question: why might “high-ranking German foreign politicians” have leaked this?

One possibility is that a faction within the German government is rebelling against the continued subjugation of the German economy for the furtherance of US geopolitical objectives.

If so, the leaking of the US-backed deal can be seen as an attempt to embarrass the Biden admin by exposing the vast chasm between their public rhetoric and their private actions and intentions.

Leaking this attempted deal would also perfectly highlight the fantasy of Ukraine as a sovereign state, when a country on the other side of the world supplies all the weapons to extend the conflict while also drawing up the terms of your surrender.

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Funnily enough, a few hours after the Newsweek article was published, the White House issued a statement calling the existence of the offer “not accurate”.

As the old saying goes, never believe anything until it has been officially denied!

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    basically just a blog, successor site for the community around a blogger who stopped posting

    • bubbalu [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      what is the general orientation though? From what I can tell they are broadly anti-war realpolitkers who are not especially fond of the US and the Brecht quote is a bit of a dogwhistle—but there are no explicit statements.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        it's hard to tell, I think the guy is German and an ex-member of the German armed forces. he sees through a bunch of imperialist bullshit but still has the occasional liberal brainworm, never seen them be explicitly Marxist or any commie dogwhistles

        • bubbalu [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          That's tough. Germany is also a growing regional power extremely threatened by the US & their ticket to independence was nordstream which is FUBAR now... The article I linked is good and seems telling of their general perspective: disturbed by the power of the war machine and overall cynical about empire but looking out for national interests.

          https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/nato-continues-its-disarmament.html#more