Saying in India that Putin was looking for respect, German Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schoenbach submitted his resignation to German Defense Minister Christine Lambracht for doing what? Showing some common sense and good judgment? “I have asked Defense Minister Christine Lambrach to relieve me from my duties with immediate effect,” said Schoenbach, revealing for all to see the insanity in dealing with 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin has run the Russia Federation for 22 years, has wide influence all over the planet, respected as a strategic thinker and pragmatist dealing with Russia’s national security. Shoenbach’s resignation shows the group-think and mobbing on both sides of the Atlantic that could push the world into WW III. If you follow 79-year-old President Joe Biden’s confrontational approach, the U.S. faces growing prospects of war with the Russian Federation.
Schoenbach said nothing other that Putin was seeking respect from Western powers that continue to encroach on the Russian Federation. “What he [Putin] really wants is respect,” Schoenbach said. “And my God, giving someone respect is low cost, even no cost . . .”it is easy to give him the respect he really demands—and probably also deservers,” creating the uproar showing that war hawks on both sides of the Atlantic are trying to push the world to the brink. Schoenbach should have gotten a promotion not resigning for saying the obvious that the West has it in for Putin no matter what he does or says about Ukraine or anything else. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, tweeted out “deep disappointment” over Schoenbach’s comments. Ukraine’s hatred toward Putin is off-the-charts, mirrored by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who’s been pushing the world to the brink.
When you think about Schoenbach’s remarks, suggesting that Putin wants respect, how would German Defense Minister Lambrecht demand Schoenbach’s resignation. “My rash remarks in India . . . are increasingly putting a strain on my office,” Schoenbach said in his resignation. How could saying Putin wants respect be grounds for termination? “I consider this step [the resignation] necessary to avert further damage to the German navy, the German forces and, in particular, the Federal Republic of Germany. German Chancelor Olaf Scholz should immediately rescind Schoenbach’s resignation and fire Defense Minister Lambrecht. There’s nothing Schoenbach did other that express a reasonable view about Putin, something that could spare the world from another world war. Putin has said throughout the Ukraine crisis that the West has been the aggressor moving closer to Russian territory.
When you look at the situation in Ukraine, it was created by a CIA-backed coup Feb. 22, 2014 toppling the Kremlin-backed government of Viktor Yanukovych. What does Germany Defense Minister Lambrecht not get about the situation? Putin was forced to annex Crime March 1, 2014 because the pro-Western government threatened his Sevastopol naval base in Crimea. No U.S. and EU officials say that Putin seeks to invade more Ukrainian territory. But the reality is that Russian-speaking populations in Donetsk and Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine want no part of Zelensky’s Kiev government So when Biden and his 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken threaten Putin with crippling economic sanctions if he invades Ukraine, what about the Russian speaking enclaves that want no part of Zelensky’s Kiev government? Schoenback deserves a promotion for telling the truth.
Biden and Blinken have been bluffing in Ukraine, suggesting that the U.S. would deploy troops to stop a new Russian invasion. But the truth is that Biden only has economic sanctions in mind. Putin has the most power and efficient military in Europe with which to seize sovereign territory if he thinks iit’s in Russian national security. When it comes to Ukraine, there’s really no national security significance for the United States, yet Biden has been willing to sacrifice U.S.-Russian relations. “The German partners should stop undermining unity and encouraging Vladimir Putin for a new attack on Ukraine by such their words and acts,” Kuleba tweeted in response to Schoenbach’s remarks that Putin wants respect. What Putin wants is for the U.S. and NATO to stop supplying Ukraine with offensive weapons with which to engage in armed conflict with the Russian Federation.
Ukrainian officials have been pushing for war with the Russian Federation for years, as long as the U.S. and NATO do the heavy lifting. Zelensky knows that Ukraine lacks the military resources, but, more importantly, the will to fight their Russian brothers-and-sisters. Ukraine made a choice in 2014 to join the West, gambling with their future by toppling the Kremlin-backed government. Without the Feb. 22, 2014 coup, Crimea would still be in Ukrainian hands. No one in the U.S. or EU should trust anything coming from Ukraine. Zelensky has been begging for NATO membership hoping that NATO would fight Ukraine’s battles to reclaim the Crimean Peninsula. Schoenback did nothing wrong saying Putin wants respect. It’s disgraceful that such anti-Putin sentiment would cost the German naval commander his job when all he did was state the obvious: Putin wants respect.
