{"id":111743,"date":"2023-02-25T19:04:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=111743"},"modified":"2023-02-25T19:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:04:20","slug":"whr-gen-kujat-ukraine-war-is-lost-germany-now-faces-an-angry-russia-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/whr-gen-kujat-ukraine-war-is-lost-germany-now-faces-an-angry-russia-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Whr. Gen. Kujat: Ukraine War is Lost, Germany Now Faces an Angry Russia, Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fresh German general has issued a public warning that the war on the Ukrainian battlefield by the US and NATO armies is lost, and that Germany will be lost next if the advance of the Russian forces toward Kiev and Lvov isn\u2019t halted quickly by an armistice, partition and demilitarization of the Ukraine, and time to rebuild the German army.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Retired Major General Harald Kujat \u2014 son of a Wehrmacht soldier killed fighting the Red Army who grew up to become chief of the German army and then of the NATO military staffs \u2014 is the author of a military assessment in which he blames the German press, ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel, British prime minister Boris Johnson (lead image, right centre), and other NATO allies he doesn\u2019t name for a new German version of the stab in the back (lead image, left).<\/p>\n

In this scheme, according to Kujat, the NATO allies have aimed at sabotaging Germany\u2019s power in Europe. This is being carried out, he said, by escalating the \u201crisk of a conventional attack on Germany<\/em>\u201d, and \u201cpursuing the goal of exposing Germany to Russia in particular<\/em>\u201d. Without explicitly targeting the US, Kujat blames Washington for establishing a direct nuclear threat to Russia in the Aegis missile batteries now installed in Poland and Romania; for making Germany a direct party to the war in the Ukraine by allowing \u201cthe US [to] train Ukrainian soldiers in Germany<\/em>\u201d; and for destroying the Nord Stream gas pipelines to Germany.<\/p>\n

Kujat\u2019s assessment was published in Switzerland<\/a> on January 18; German publication<\/a> followed on January 20. Attacked<\/a> in the past by mainstream German media, and by US government officials, Kujat\u2019s new statement has been ignored in Germany and the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe longer the war lasts, the greater the risk of expansion or escalation<\/em>,\u201d Kujat warned, adding the German army, German territorial security, and German industrial might will be the loser because \u201cRussia could surpass the Western escalation at any time with its own<\/em>.\u201d Kujat meant this to include the use of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Kujat is the most senior German officer to make public an attack on the German and allied war to defeat Russia in Europe.<\/p>\n

He follows Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Sch\u00f6nbach, head of the German Navy, who was forced to resign<\/a> in January 2022, after a public speech in which he said that \u201cthe Crimea Peninsula is gone: It will never come back \u2014 this is a fact<\/em>\u201d; and that Russian security concerns should be addressed with \u201crespect<\/em>\u201d. \u201cWhat [Putin] really wants is respect. And, my God, giving someone respect is low cost, even no cost. It is easy to give him the respect he really demands \u2014 and probably also deserves.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

After Sch\u00f6nbach\u2019s ouster, no serving German officers have dared to risk public criticism of the war policy in Germany. Instead, they are expressing themselves through retired officers. Brigadier General Erich Vad, the ex-head of the military group in Merkel\u2019s chancellery, issued a detailed attack recently; read the details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Left to right: Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Sch\u00f6nbach, Brigadier General Erich Vad and Major General Kujat<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Referring to the resistance by Chancellor Olaf Scholz to sending German Leopard tanks to the Ukraine, Kujat says \u201cthe debate over the supply of certain weapons systems clearly shows the intention of many media outlets to make policy themselves. It may be that my unease about this development is a consequence of my many years of service in NATO, including as chairman of the NATO-Russia Council and the NATO-Ukraine Commission of Chiefs of Staff. I find it particularly annoying that German security interests and the dangers to our country posed by an expansion and escalation of the war are given so little attention. This shows a lack of responsibility or, to use an old-fashioned term, a highly unpatriotic attitude<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kujat claims to \u201chave always believed that this war needs to be prevented and that it could have been prevented<\/em>\u201d. That this has not been the outcome he blames on Merkel for her policy of deceiving Russia, calling that \u201ca blatant breach of trust<\/em>\u201d and \u201ca breach of international law, that is clear<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The turning point in the Russian-German security balance of forces began in Washington in 2002, Kujat says, when US President George W. Bush cancelled the antiballistic missile (ABM) treaty, and then in 2008 when Bush \u201ctried to push through an invitation from Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO<\/em>\u201d. The Obama Administration\u2019s decision in 2009 to deploy \u201cNATO\u2019s ballistic missile defense system in Poland and Romania<\/em>\u201d was a new escalation \u201cbecause Russia is convinced that the US could also eliminate Russian intercontinental strategic systems from these launch Facilities and thus endanger the nuclear strategic balance.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s survival is imperiled by this nuclear imbalance, according to Kujat, because Russian nuclear arms are now directly threatened by the US, and by the escalation of conventional US and NATO weapons on the Ukrainian battlefield. \u201cYou have to reckon with that. The longer the war lasts, the greater the risk of expansion or escalation. [Question: We already had this in the Cuban Missile Crisis?] It was a comparable situation<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Vad, Kujat has been obliged to publish through a small-circulation Zurich magazine, Zeitgeschehen im Fokus<\/em> (\u201cCurrent Events in Focus<\/em>\u201d), and then in an obscure German publication based in Frankfurt; called Overton<\/em>, an English revolutionary name, this magazine reveals nothing about itself except that it is \u201ca voice against debate constriction and moralism. It questions the general narratives and is decidedly not an ideological mouthpiece or organ of pronouncement, but feels committed to the Enlightenment<\/em>.\u201d Vad published his military analysis in Emma<\/em>, a Cologne feminist magazine.<\/p>\n

Vad was explicit in his criticism of Merkel and the current German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock. Despite being asked about her in his interview, Kujat avoids attacking Baerbock by name. He also claims the US media have been less deceptive in their reporting of the war than the German press, citing an \u201carticle in Foreign Affairs by Fiona Hill, a former senior White House National Security Council official. She is very competent and absolutely reliable<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Left, Henriette Hanke G\u00fcttinger, editor in chief of <\/em>Zeitgeschehen im Fokus; centre: Alice Schwartzer, publisher and editor-in-chief of <\/em>Emma; right, Fiona Hill, former US intelligence analyst and Russia policy director on President Trump\u2019s National Security Council.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kujat blames the British, not the Americans, for disrupting the ceasefire terms he believes the Kremlin was ready to sign following the Istanbul negotiations at the end of March 2022. Follow what took place in Moscow and in Istanbul at the time in this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Kujat\u2019s version, \u201cRussia had apparently agreed to withdraw its forces to the level of February 23, i.e. before the attack on Ukraine began. Now the complete withdrawal is repeatedly demanded as a prerequisite for negotiations. Ukraine had pledged to renounce NATO membership and not to allow any foreign troops or military installations to be stationed. In return, it should receive security guarantees from states of its choice. The future of the occupied territories should be resolved diplomatically within 15 years, with the explicit renunciation of military force. According to reliable information, the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intervened in Kiev on 9th April and prevented a signing. His reasoning was that the West was not ready for an end to the war<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kujat did not reveal the \u201capparent<\/em>\u201d and \u201creliable<\/em>\u201d sources for his claims. He also appears to signal that US officials were not behind Johnson\u2019s action, and what Kujat also calls President Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s \u201crepeatedly changing the strategic objectives of Ukrainian warfare<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kujat has misrepresented and misreported Hill\u2019s role in escalating US war aims against Russia for several years.\u00a0 Kujat has done the same in claiming Johnson, not US officials, have controlled Zelensky.<\/p>\n

Like Vad, Kujat appeals to the Pentagon, US military officers, and US weapons makers to stop the escalation of the war on the Ukrainian battlefield as Russian strategic objectives harden, and the tactical defeat of US, German and NATO weapons becomes inevitable. \u201cAccording to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley<\/em>,\u201d Kujat says, \u201cUkraine has achieved what it could achieve militarily. More is not possible. That is why diplomatic efforts should be made now to achieve a negotiated peace. I share this view, it is questionable whether the Ukrainian armed forces still have a sufficient number of suitable soldiers to be able to use these weapons systems in view of the large losses of recent months. In any case, [Ukrainian Chief of Staff General Valery] Zaluzhny\u2019s statement also explains why Western arms supplies do not enable Ukraine to achieve its military objectives, but only prolong the war. In addition, Russia could surpass the Western escalation at any time with its own. In the German discussion, these connections are not understood or ignored. The way in which some allies are trying to publicly urge the federal government to deliver Leopard 2 battle tanks also plays a role. This has not occurred in NATO so far. It shows how much Germany\u2019s reputation in the alliance has suffered as a result of the weakening of the Bundeswehr and the commitment with which some allies are pursuing the goal of exposing Germany to Russia in particular<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kujat implies that Chancellor Olaf Scholz is being secretly pressured by the US for reasons Kujat does not want to reveal now \u2014 except for his hint that the Americans and British aim to weaken Germany politically in Europe, and supplant the German arms industry with their own companies. \u201cThe current efforts of the USA to induce the Europeans to supply further arms may have something to do with this situation. A distinction needs to be made between the publicly expressed reasons and the concrete decisions of the Federal Government. It would go too far into the whole spectrum of this discussion. However, I would like the Federal Government to receive really competent advice on this issue and \u2013 perhaps even more importantly \u2013 to be receptive and capable of judgement in accordance with the importance of this issue<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Left: Baerbock campaigning in Kiel, September 26, 2021; Right: Scholz campaigning in Kiel on May 5, 2022, before the SPD\u2019s defeat by the CDU and Greens in the Schleswig-Holstein state election.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kujat also omits to mention Baerbock\u2019s and the Green Party\u2019s alliance with Germany\u2019s aerospace and defence industry to secure Green votes in Kiel, Dusseldorf, Munich, and other city and state (Bundesland) electorates where the Greens aim to draw large vote swings from the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).<\/p>\n

Kiel is home to Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Maschinenbau, builder of the Leopard tank. In the Kiel parliamentary vote of 2021, the Greens gained almost 14% to score 28% of the total, while the SDP lost ground but held on to the seat with 29.5%. Just over two thousand votes separated them. The anti-war Left and Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidates lost ground in Kiel, ending up with 5% and just over 7,000 votes each. In Dusseldorf, headquarters for the Rheinmetall group, the Greens gained 13% in 2021 from the SDP and CDU, losing narrowly to the CDU. Similar vote switches to the Greens were recorded in Essen and Duisburg, where Thyssen-Krupp directs its military industrial complex.<\/p>\n

Kujat\u2019s links to these leading German arms makers are indicated by his chairmanship of the advisory council of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, an association of US, German and other European weapons makers.\u00a0 For more on the prospects of the German corporations he and the consortium represent, read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kujat is warning that defeat of the US and NATO by the Russian forces in the Ukraine puts the future profitability of this business in jeopardy. \u201cThis is the current situation in which modern Western weapons systems are used in the Ukraine war. In December, Russia launched an extensive program to evaluate the technical and operational-tactical parameters of captured Western weapons, which should increase the effectiveness of its own operations and weapon effectiveness<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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