Meeting with newly minted German Foreign Minister Annalena Baebock at the State Department, 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken showed everything not to do to manage an international crisis. Instead of buttoning his lips when it comes to the crisis in Ukraine over Russia, Blinken makes threats. Ukraine and the United States complain that Russia is the aggressor in Ukraine, all because March 1, 2014, 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin, invaded the Crimean Peninsula. No one in the Western alliance wants to tell the truth about why Putin seized Crimea. One Feb. 22, 2014, while Putin hosted the Sochi Winter Olympics, the CIA together with pro-Western forces, toppled the duly elected, Kremlin-backed Kiev government of Vitkor Yanukovych, sending the Western alliance into a tizzy for the last eight years. U.S. officials haven’t been honest about what happened in Ukraine.
Germany, of all countries, should not join into the current anti-Russian hysteria in Washington, pushed, since 2016, by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, largely to discredit former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. But the anti-Russian atmosphere under 79-year-old president Joe Bidien has only gotten worse, accusing Russia, without evidence, of meddling in U.S. elections or hacking into key U.S. infrastructure like the oil and meat-packing industry. Russia gets blamed for just about everything on Capitol Hill, allowing Hillary’s rubbish to infiltrate U.S. foreign policy. Now the stakes couldn’t be higher with Putin threatening to break off diplomatic relations with Washington if they apply new economic sanctions. German wants to be a good neighbor but they don’t want to go down with the ship. Blinken is taking the U.S. down a dangerous path.
Germany has its own issues with Russia certifying and starting the $12 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline, designed to supply Germany with natural gas from Russia, bypassing Ukraine. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel went ahead with Nord Stream 2 over U.S. objections, believing that it made Germany too dependent on Russian energy. But Merkel committed Germany in 2011, after the Fukashima-Daiichi nuclear meltdown to, to get off nuclear energy. Yet the Biden White House after the Glasgow Climate Summit decided to invest billions in Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, the so-called new failsafe standard for nuclear power. “There is no alternative to a political solution. This has to be clear to the Russian government,” Baerbock said with Blinken at her side. Baerbock disagreed with the U.S. approach toward Russia, looking for a diplomatic solution not conflict.
Germany wants no part to the current confrontational approach by the Biden White House against Russia. Baerbock said she doesn’t subscribe to the U.S. supplying Ukraine with offensive and defensive weapons to protect Ukraine against another possible Russian invasion. One thing German gets is that Russia doesn’t hesitate to use force to defend Russian national security. “Strong trans-Atlantic solidarity is the most effective tool that we have in countering Russian aggression,” Blinken told Baerbock. But clearly Baerbock isn’t buying into Blinken’s characterization of “Russia aggression” when it comes to Ukraine. Germany wants a political solution to the current conflict, not allowing events on the ground in Ukraine to escalate out of control. Biden and Blinken haven’t explained to the EU or NATO why Ukraine represents an important area of U.S. national security.
Baerbock confirmed that Germany had a “different position” when it came to supplying offensive and defensive weapons to Ukraine. Germany wants to supply Ukraine media assistance, providing supplies and medial care to wounded Ukrainian soldiers. So when Blinken expects Germany to partner with the U.S. in its Russo-phobia, Germany wants no part of the U.S. confrontational approach. Baerbock wants to complete certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to enable Germany to have abundant supplies of natural gas to fuel homes and Germany’s gas-fired powered plants. Listening to Baerbock is a breath of fresh air to the current poisoned political atmosphere where anything Russian is demonized as an attempt to overthrow the country. Blinken hoped he could count on Baerbock’s unconditional endorsement for the U.S. anti-Russia foreign policy.
Biden and Blinken have made a real mess of U.S. foreign policy, seeking to exploit the trans-Atlantic Alliance to advance an anti-Russian foreign policy. Unlike the European Union, the U.S. can’t separate partisan politics from U.S. foreign policy. Democrat politicians and their friends in the media have spent the better part of five years making up stories about the Russian Federation. When it comes to Ukraine, the Western Alliance has not accepted the Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed coup is what set up the current paranoid atmosphere where Russia is demonized for just about everything. When it came to the March 1, 2014 invasion of Crimea, Ukraine, the U.S., EU and NATO must accept responsibility to the coup that toppled the duly elected government of Viktor Yanukovych. Putin had a naval base in Crimea to protect and wasn’t about to let Ukraine sabotage Russian national security.
