Russia Warns Nations of “Consequences” for Sending Weapons to Ukraine and Wonders if Germany Was Ever “De-Nazified” – Opinion

Since Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Western Europe has solidified around the idea that allowing Putin to get away with this outrage is only a prelude to more outrageous conduct in the future. These sanctions have been among the harshest ever imposed against any nation for being a bad actor in recent history. It is even more amazing that Europe is leading the way, while Joe Biden was sipping applesauce on Delaware. It was surprising to me how Western Europe (especially Germany) responded with lethal military assistance for Ukraine. Numerous nations declared that they had reduced their military war stocks to supply weapons and other assistance to Ukraine. Germany shocked me by announcing it was sending 1000 Javelin ATGMs and 500 Stinger ManPADS.

Russia is now upset at the unfriendly action and claims it was able to shell cities without impunity.

Russia refuses to accept arms from the West for Ukraine pic.twitter.com/c6jt03VYYu

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) February 28, 2022

Also, it looks quite unfriendly.

Now, intense Russian artillery shelling Kharkiv. Targeted are civilian items. There are reports that there have been dozens killed. This is a vengeance for yesterday’s heroism. #PutinWarCriminal pic.twitter.com/BjNv1TdO6M

— Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) February 28, 2022

Earlier today, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov used a video conference to Geneva…he couldn’t fly there because Western Europe has closed its airspace to Russian aircraft…to do what he does best, that is, make threats at the behest of his master.

Russia’s high diplomat warned that there would be consequences for countries that supply weapons to Ukraine

— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) February 28, 2022

This is Maria Zakharova from Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. (Imagine Jen Psaki as her blonde, it makes sense), on Telegram. It is automatically translated.

M.V. Zakharova on the decision of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany on the start of deliveries of lethal weapons to Ukraine

💬In recent days, we have witnessed repeated statements by the German side about the start of deliveries of military weapons to Ukraine (in particular, we are talking about 1,000 portable anti-tank missiles, 500 Stinger portable anti-aircraft missile systems, allowing a number of third countries to transfer German-made weapons to Kiev) which runs counter to Berlin’s previously balanced line on this issue. O. Scholz (German Federal Chancellor) officially confirmed the German Government’s decision in his speech to the Bundestag, February 27, 2022. Such an outrageous gesture is justified by the “struggle of Ukraine for its freedom and independence”, as well as the “threat” that our country allegedly poses to the European security.

Nothing is new.Again, Russian soldiers will be the targets of weapons coming from German soil, just as they have been in previous history. O. Scholz’s statements about historical reconciliation and the value of it for both Russia and Germany sounded particularly cynical in this context.

❗️With this decision, the FRG is calling for the ghosts of not a cold war, but a “hot” war itself. Too many sad associations are evoked by the prospect of further “military” pumping of Kiev from Berlin, which, moreover, apparently does not realize that in the current situation Weapons supplied on Ukrainian territory could easily be used as bait by terrorists, neoNazis, and marauders. .

The supply of weapons to the ideological heirs of the Nazi accomplice S. Bandera makes us, willy-nilly, ask a rhetorical question – how comprehensive and complete was the process of denazification in Germany itself after the defeat in World War II? In this context, now, alas, the depreciating remarks of O. Scholz, who, during the Munich Conference on Security Policy on February 18, 2022, declared “ridiculous” the revealed facts of the genocide of the civilian population of Donbass by the Ukrainian military, become understandable.

You have to love it, “The supply of weapons to the ideological heirs of the Nazi accomplice S. Bandera makes us, willy-nilly, ask a rhetorical question – how comprehensive and complete was the process of denazification in Germany itself after the defeat in World War II?”

The threat of taking direct action against Germany is clearly implied. Russian neocommunists, and even our local neocommunists are fond of using the Nazi epithet.

All of this, from Putin shaking his di-, uh, I mean nuclear weapons at the Western world on Sunday (Putin Orders Russian Nuclear Forces on Alert Status as His Ukrainian Adventure Stalls) to Lavrov threatening “consequences” smells of flop-sweat. As economic sanctions have been imposed on Russia, even Switzerland is joining the fray. This will cause the Russian economy to crumble to its core. Russian athletes can’t compete in their sports. The Russian Top 1% can’t travel as they did. The Russian Top 1% can’t travel as they did. If Ukraine is allowed to settle down to a stable-state (which it might have done), then Russian casualties are likely to mount. Every day more people ask Russia what its hopes and objectives are from the misadventure.