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Januar 21, 2019 Posted in Außenpolitik, EU & Euro, Finanzen, Medien, Nah- & Mittelost, Nato, Russland, Uncategorized1, USA & Amerikas, Verteidigung, Wirtschaft & Technologie, Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit & Entwicklung

US foreign policy is (mis)using Kurdish nationalism since succeeding to British global aspirations in the wake of WW2

The Kurdish people pride themselves in a very old history, forerunners reaching back to early Neolithic settlers up to 10’000 years B.C.. Sykes-Picot map drawing of 1916 willingly sacrificed their national territorial aspirations to serve British and French imperialist colonialism. Today Kurdish population is estimated to count between 30-45 million people – estimates suffering from lack of data –, divided to mainly four countries: Turkey (15-20 million), Iran (11 million), Iraq (8 million) and Syria (estimates between 1.6-2.5 million).

US covert and overt policy is using Kurdish tribes to destabilize all four home countries, including terrorism...

Dezember 14, 2018 Posted in Außenpolitik, Medien, Nah- & Mittelost, Nato, Russland, Uncategorized1, USA & Amerikas, Verteidigung

Washington’s escalatory steps force Ankara to react – with potentially positive consequences for the stalled Russian-Turkish Sochi agreement. 

The news came Wednesday noon and were as brief as precise: Turkish president Erdoğan announced, that he plans to launch a military operation in North-East Syria in the coming days. Two weeks earlier, the US army was reported by a CIA-backed publication to have set up military installations, three in Tal Abyad and two in Kobane. Preparations show, that Erdoğan plans to move quickly:

• – in previous days, Turkish army has brought army personnel of the 3rd Brigade as well as supplies to the Syrian border.
• – on Wednesday, Turkish troops took down walls of the city of Ras al-Ain
• – at the same time, US forces set up an observation post near the town of...

Dezember 3, 2018 Posted in Asien, Außenpolitik, EU & Euro, Finanzen, Medien, Nah- & Mittelost, Nato, Russland, Ukraine, Uncategorized1, USA & Amerikas, Verteidigung, Wirtschaft & Technologie

Fact is, it’s the other way round: Global leadership has lost he US – and for good.

The Buenos Aires G20 summit cemented, what really is US president Trump’s political strategy: Washington does not even care for a US leadership role – it’s just cutting deals. Trade trouble with China? The intermediate fixing sounds easy and fair: Trump stops tariffs on 200 billion US$ imports from China – and Beijing agrees to buy more US goods, mainly in the sectors agriculture, energy and industry, but without commitment to defined thresholds as yet; and in the aftermath, Trump tweeted, that Chinese tariffs on US cars, recently raised to a whopping 40%, would be reduced; Beijing had lowered other cars‘ tariffs  from 25% to 15%...

November 19, 2018 Posted in Außenpolitik, Medien, Nah- & Mittelost, Nato, USA & Amerikas, Verteidigung, Wirtschaft & Technologie

Reports about the two ex-IS cities, Mosul and Raqqa, drive tears into the eyes of any decent researcher, who still enjoys possession of a warm heart.

Dry facts are quickly told: Mosul is the fifth biggest Iraqi city behind the capital Baghdad, located 400 kilometers north of it on the right bank of Tigris river, opposite the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh on the east bank. The invasion mainly of US forces from „the coalition of the willing“ in 2003 caused great damage to the city, resistance and a fierce and brutal battle to drive the out led to large-scale further destruction. US counter-insurgency („CoIn“) battle style without much care of the civil population raised alarm and opposition worldwide, with detailed reports surfacing all over the media...

November 13, 2018 Posted in Außenpolitik, EU & Euro, Finanzen, Medien, Nah- & Mittelost, Nato, Russland, Uncategorized1, USA & Amerikas, Verteidigung, Wirtschaft & Technologie

The INF treaty covers intermediate range nuclear forces – but Trump’s handling might result in wide range and long term consequences, trading US political interests for short term gains of their arms industry.

Two of the many problems analysts face with US president Trump’s political moves are, that the gap between announcement and factual decision and the life cycle of a decision are not really predictable. This bulk of trouble is overshadowed by the fact, that this US president is used to see any of his moves in the light of two permanent campaigns he is working for: public relations in general and re-election specifically. The mere mentioning of these criteria implicates what everybody can see easily: Trump is simply not the type of person for serious long-term planning, programming and...

November 4, 2018 Posted in Außenpolitik, Finanzen, Medien, Nah- & Mittelost, Nato, Uncategorized1, USA & Amerikas, Verkehr, Bau & Stadtentwicklung, Verteidigung, Wirtschaft & Technologie

Tomorrow the downtrodden and overstretched US-dominated financial and economic system starts its last fight for survival. And we, the people of this world, are called to help end this crazy system peacefully and jointly. How come a single nation’s currency was allowed for so long to help steal the fruits of global work, finance wars of oppression and foster the most terrible system of corruption in the history of mankind?

Oktober 30, 2018 Posted in Außenpolitik, EU & Euro, Medien, Nah- & Mittelost, Nato, Russland, Uncategorized1, USA & Amerikas, Verteidigung

Seven year-old Syria conflict gets a shiny new peace building format – while western propaganda media look the other way.

That’s certainly unprecedented but interesting and symptomatic: The biggest German daily „Süddeutsche“ squeezes a few lines on its front page governed by regional elections in  the state of Hesse and the umpteenth article on the truly terrible and deplorable synagogue killing spree in Pittsburgh, USA. Leading opinion shapers such as „Spiegel online“ and New York Times enumerate a few dry facts – and that’s it: Russian president Putin, his Turkish colleague Erdoğan, German chancellor Merkel and French president Macron met on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Istanbul overlooking the Bosporus...

Oktober 18, 2018 Posted in Außenpolitik, EU & Euro, Finanzen, Medien, Nah- & Mittelost, Nato, Russland, Uncategorized1, USA & Amerikas, Verteidigung, Wirtschaft & Technologie

Imminent US cabinet reshuffle gives a hint on planning.

This is the special Trump way to fire a minister: Talk bad about him in public, hint he’s “on the way out” – and help raise the level of speculations about potential successors. All of this happens these days to US defense minister James “mad dog” Mattis. In the Mattis case, the US president even went so far as to describe his MoD as a „Democrat“, which, to his constituency three weeks from the midterm elections, may very well sound like „high treason“.

What’s the problem anyway with James Mattis, a very popular marine general? Looking at what the man actually does these days – is awesomely helpful to US interests: He’s seeking better military ties with China, to take that area of government out of the hot exchanges in the...

Oktober 14, 2018 Posted in Afrika, EU & Euro, Justiz, Medien, Nato, Russland, Uncategorized1, USA & Amerikas, Verteidigung, Wirtschaft & Technologie

Frenzy about an alleged (fake) Russian murder case – near complete silence about French realities.

French state prosecutors have it, that former French secret service (DGSE) agents planned to kill a Congolese ex-general and opposition leader, Ferdinand Mbaou. In rare dry openness names of the ex-agents are given as: Daniel Forestier and Bruno Susini. French justice has worked swiftly and successfully...

September 23, 2018 Posted in Außenpolitik, EU & Euro, Medien, Nah- & Mittelost, Nato, Russland, Uncategorized1, USA & Amerikas, Verteidigung, Wirtschaft & Technologie

Sochi agreement on the demilitarized Idlib belt offers risks – and opportunities.

The chain of events is now allowing prognoses: After the fall of IS/Daesh strongholds in Duma/Damascus and Daraa the Syrian government and its allies Russia and Iran took quite a while to pick up the thrust and start attacking the HTS stronghold Idlib and the sounding areas close to Aleppo in the east and Hama in the south, where many other militia groups from a variety of political backgrounds are operating. Already in these weeks it became clear, that partner Turkey slowed down the momentum of Syria’s liberation of terror militias...