There’s a fraction of the Germans who, when talking or writing in public, think about themselves the good Germans. Good Germans are to Germany as propaganda is to reality – negligibly fractional; typically truth-telling; at all times irrelevant to the result of the wars which Germany wages.
The political comprehension of the Germans — to adapt Mao Zedong’s axiom that political energy comes out of the barrel of a gun — solely comes out of the barrel of a Russian gun. The nice Germans outline themselves publicly by wishing this weren’t true as a result of they realise there’s nothing they’ll do to cease the remainder of their countrymen from throwing themselves at Russian weapons till there are not any extra of them, the great Germans amongst them.
One among these wishfully good Germans is named Florian Roetzer, who based the extensively learn web publication Telepolis in 1996, and retired to jot down elsewhere in 2021. Roetzer has simply printed his evaluation of the transcript of final month’s teleconference at which the chief of the German Air Drive, Lieutenant Normal Ingo Gerhartz, mentioned with three subordinates a plan of assault on Russian civil and navy targets with the German Taurus KEPD 350E cruise missile; conceal this German operation behind British, French, and Ukrainian forces and German business corporations; speed up the missile deliveries; and current the plan for approval by German Protection Minister Boris Pistorius and Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Gerhartz isn’t solely waging private battle in opposition to Russia, as he defined on the phone two weeks in the past, on February 19. Final November he declared private battle in alliance with the Israel Air Drive in implementing the genocide of Gaza.
The Gerhartz transcript, translated from German, will be learn right here.
In Roetzer’s new evaluation, printed on March 2 in Overton journal, the issue isn’t (in Roetzer’s thoughts) that Gerhartz and the Bundeswehr are shedding their battle on the Ukrainian battlefield, or that they’re aiming to impress Russian counterattack in opposition to German targets outdoors that battlefield.
“The truth that Russia was in a position to snoop on the conversations of the German officers…is a significant drawback for the Bundeswehr, additionally in relation to its companions, who could now not belief it.”
“The larger [sic] drawback, nevertheless, has been Putin’s for fairly a while, after one pink line after one other has been crossed by the NATO nations, with out Russia actually reacting to it, other than warnings…However thus far, Putin has accepted any navy assist for Ukraine. However whether it is now changing into an increasing number of public data that NATO nations are immediately supporting Ukraine with goal information and usually in assaults with Western missiles and cruise missiles by means of the participation of troopers in civilian and intelligence officers, and thus turn into events to battle, then Putin, who propagates that Russia is defending itself in Ukraine, has the issue of displaying weak spot and solely bluffing, if no motion is taken in opposition to it.”
“It’s apparent” – in response to Roetzer – “that Russia can not compete in opposition to a NATO weakened by the Ukraine battle and due to this fact avoids a direct battle. But when the assaults on Russia proceed to extend and Western weapons are overtly used, Putin will lose assist in Russia if there is no such thing as a navy response…With the publication of the wiretapped dialog of the German officers, the Russian management could have harmed itself – if solely as a result of the Bundeswehr should now attempt to shut the safety hole. It’s potential that [state media director Margarita] Simonyan has gone too far right here. The query is whether or not the publication was coordinated with the Kremlin.”
That Germany is at battle with Russia has been understood in Moscow for a very long time. That there are good Germans like Roetzer who would really like it to be in any other case for ethical, authorized, German nationwide, or private causes can be well-known. A few of these good Germans have even served as German generals.
What the Navalny Novichok episode of the autumn of 2020 revealed, adopted by the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022; and now final month’s teleconference performed by Gerhartz – what all three episodes reveal isn’t how the Germans are understood in Moscow, however slightly how the great Germans react when confronted with the battle they’re powerless to discourage or cease their countrymen from waging.
The impotence of the German opposition to this battle can be nicely understood in Moscow. What stays is for the Kremlin and Normal Workers to determine to show the Germans the one lesson by the one methodology they perceive. That’s the lesson the Germans have been failing to study for seventy-nine years subsequent month — since April 30, 1945, when Adolf Hitler shot himself earlier than he could possibly be captured by the Crimson Military ready outdoors his bunker in Berlin.
Left: “Who’s most harmed by the wiretapped dialog of German Air Drive officers about Taurus” by Florian Roetzer. How Roetzer decided that the leak of the dialog was by Russian wiretapping, he doesn’t say. Proper: Florian Roetzer.
Overton is a secretive German publication primarily based in Frankfurt; known as by an English revolutionary title, the journal reveals nothing about its sources of cash, the names of its directorate, or its location — besides to say on the house web page of its web site that it’s “a voice in opposition to debate constriction and moralism. It questions the final narratives and is decidedly not an ideological mouthpiece or organ of pronouncement, however feels dedicated to the Enlightenment.”
The context of the Gerhartz teleconference of February 19, 2024, is the ambition of the newly established Bundeswehr Area Command, headed by Main Normal Michael Traut, who inaugurated the command’s new headquarters in April 2023. Traut is one rank beneath Gerhartz however studies independently; two of the officers who participated within the teleconference, Fenske and Frostedte, report back to Traut; they rank beneath Brigadier Normal Frank Graefe, deputy chief of the Air Drive employees for operations, the fourth participant within the convention name. Neither Roetzer nor another German reporter has recognized the total names of Fenske and Frostedte, their models, ranks, and operational obligations.
Left: On April 3, 2023, Normal Traut opened his command headquarters with cartoon stormtroopers to simulate the Russian enemy. Proper: Traut.
From the printed recording, it seems Fenske and Frostedte have been reporting to Graefe on the German Air Drive’s use of satellite tv for pc and different means for Russian focusing on (“most accuracy of as much as three meters”); supply of goal information to missile launch operations; coaching of Ukrainian operators; and fittings for the plane the German Air Drive plans for launching the Taurus missiles in opposition to the Russian targets; on the tape Gerhartz says “regardless of whether or not it’s a Sukhoi or F-16.”
The German officers don’t point out the vary of the Taurus missiles they’re planning to make use of of their operations.
The German Air Drive base at Büchel, which shops nuclear bombs and warheads of the US Air Drive, is talked about within the dialog because the operational centre for the plan of assault, “topic to the creation of a safe reference to Ukraine.” F-16s function from Büchel and, 70 kilometres away, from the Spangdahlem Air Base.
Buchel Air Base in western Germany. In response to Fenske, the bottom could present goal information and different technical assist for the operation in opposition to Russian targets. Gerhartz agreed, however added camouflage: “Politicians could also be involved in regards to the direct, closed connection between Büchel and Ukraine, which may turn into direct participation within the Ukrainian battle. However on this case, we are able to say that the change of data will happen by means of MBDA [MBDA Deutschland GmbH is the German missile systems company which produces Taurus], and we’ll ship one or two of our specialists to Schrobenhausen [MBDA’s headquarters]. In fact, this can be a trick, however from a political viewpoint it might look completely different. If data is exchanged by means of the producer, then this isn’t related to us.”
The audio tape is of German troopers discussing air operations in opposition to Russia from a nuclear-armed airbase. The frankness of their battle goals in opposition to Russia, and of their makes an attempt to camouflage their “tips”, as Gerhartz calls them, for German political and public functions isn’t what’s “new” on this disclosure. Fairly, what’s “new” is the context of this teleconference amongst all of the others occurring in parallel – that is the understanding that when German military officers and German naval officers focus on operations on the basic employees degree earlier than briefing Protection Minister Pistorius, they’re simply as dedicated to attacking Russia as Gerhartz and his airmen.
All these Germans are at battle with Russia. There isn’t a motive for his or her counterparts on the Russian Normal Workers to interpret what Gerhartz mentioned in another manner. The identification of Büchel and F-16s within the dialogue should (repeat should) set off the Russian evaluation that the Germans are succesful, with US, British and French prompting, of launching F-16s with nuclear warheads.
The nuclear warhead functionality of the Taurus missile isn’t information in Germany.
Additionally, the Russians already perceive that if an F-16 takes off for a Russian assault operation, will probably be “burned”, to make use of the time period President Putin utilized in his warning of June 26, 2023. “The F-16 may also burn, there is no such thing as a doubt. But when they’re situated at air bases outdoors Ukraine, and utilized in fight operations, we must have a look at tips on how to hit and the place to hit these means which are utilized in fight operations in opposition to us. This can be a severe hazard of NATO’s additional involvement on this armed battle.” Putin meant to incorporate Büchel and Spangdahlem.
Supply: https://www.bitchute.com/video/JjxHCw5PP2s9/
In October 2023, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Safety Council, added to the Russian counter-targeting for the Taurus. “Ostensibly, that is in accordance with worldwide regulation. Nicely, in that case, strikes on German factories the place these missiles are made may also be in full compliance with worldwide regulation”, Medvedev mentioned.
Simply two German generals from the retirement record, Brigadier Normal Erich Vad and Main Normal Harald Kujat, have publicly declare d themselves in opposition to German warfighting in opposition to Russia. Florian Roetzer isn’t so categorical or clear.
Roetzer likes to consider himself as a superb German. In that guise, he used to publish translations into German of studies on Russian topics from the Dances with Bears web site. That’s, till he started to edit phrases, phrases, and findings whose veracity he didn’t problem, however whose political implications within the German context turned threatening for himself.
At one level, Roetzer disputed my studies of Russian civilian and navy proof of the presence of NATO officers within the Azovstal bunkers throughout the Battle of Mariupol in Could 2022. He advised me: “Whether or not it’s true in regards to the basic or different overseas officers ought to quickly turn into clear. I do imagine that there’s something to it, however I’m nonetheless undecided.”
I replied: “if you happen to utilized this ‘certain’ customary you may have already utilized to censor me to your different contributors, you’d don’t have anything to publish.” “I didn’t censor you,” Roetzer mentioned,” I simply added most likely.” I mentioned that was cowardice. “Why cowardice,” Roetzer answered, “once you say you suppose one thing is feasible however don’t realize it? I discover it extra sincere than claiming to know one thing that you just discover credible, however which is predicated on rumour.”
When Roetzer continued to use his “rumour” rule and refused to cease the censorship, his permission to republish was cancelled and he was requested to take away every thing he had printed with my byline.
Roetzer’s utility of this rumour rule to what he thinks he has heard the German generals say final month, and what he thinks, or he has overheard, is the “greater drawback” for President Putin and the Russian Normal Workers are now on open show. Learn Roetzer’s piece in full right here.
“The contents of the wiretapped dialog,” Roetzer has concluded, “really include nothing new. In the end, it could possibly be troublesome for Putin.” Roetzer has no proof the dialog was wiretapped by the Russians. He has no proof of how the small print have been interpreted on the Russian aspect; his claims that “Putin has accepted any [NATO] navy assist for Ukraine” and that “Russia can not compete in opposition to a NATO weakened by the Ukraine battle” are false.
Since that is how good Germans suppose and specific themselves, Normal Gerhartz has each motive for the arrogance he expressed in his operational plans. “In fact, this can be a trick,” he advised his subordinates, “however from a political viewpoint it might look completely different. If data is exchanged by means of the producer, then this isn’t related to us.”
In fact, they weren’t fooled. Solely the great Germans are fooled; on this battle they’re fooling themselves.
NOTE: the lead picture is of a German Leopard 2A6 burning internally after being hit by Russian fireplace close to Avdeyevka in November 2023.
