If you look beyond the condescending, sanctimonious and unintelligent questioning and pantomime from CBS News Margaret Brennan, there are some very interesting aspects outlined by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. [Transcript Here] I was looking for how CBS would inject the pending global food shortage into the interview, and what narrative angle they would use. The coordinated media political talking point, ‘Russia starving the world‘, comes up in the last third of the interview.
Germany is the largest and most heavily industrialized economy in the European Union (EU). As a result, Germany makes most of the decisions about how the EU operates. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel always played the role of supporting NATO; however, her approach to government was one of the most closed, controlling and nationalist hypocrisies within the European Union. If it was in Germany’s interest it was done. If it was not directly beneficial to Germany, it was never done.
Merkel’s replacement, Olaf Scholz, is not that different from his predecessor in regard to the economics of nationalism, the predominant view for any German leader. However, Scholz is more of a collaborator, an outward looking Chancellor; seemingly more globally and communally minded than Merkel. Scholz is more accepting of Biden (USA) influence than Angela Merkel was. Scholz is also spending more on German military than Merkel would ever consider.
In this interview, Scholz outlines the conflict in Ukraine while overlaying his perspective of Russian President Vladimir Putin as an outcome of their discussions. WATCH:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Chancellor, thank you so much for making time in your busy schedule for us.
OLAF SCHOLZ: Good morning.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So I read your biographer says you don’t often answer directly, but I’m going to try my best today. You speak with Vladimir Putin. Do you think that Russia is a terrorist state as president Zelenskyy says?
OLAF SCHOLZ: Russia started a very brutal aggression against Ukraine. A lot of people are dying in Ukraine, citizens, men, women, children, elderly people. And this is what we call a really brutal, unjustified war that has- that Russia started. And we have to do all to support Ukraine, and to give Ukraine the chance to defend its own integrity and serenity. And that is what we are doing when we support the country.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But calling it a terrorist state, in your view, doesn’t achieve anything?
OLAF SCHOLZ: It achieves something when we support Ukraine with all the financial means we give to the Ukraine, with all the humanitarian aid, with all the weapons we deliver. And we will continue doing this as long as it is necessary for supporting Ukraine, and for avoiding that the outcome of this war is what Putin is looking for: a dictated peace. And this is something that neither the Ukraine nor we will accept. So it is necessary that we continue with this very strong support. And it is necessary that we also continue with all the sanctions we imposed on Russia. And this is an important aspect from my- as I see it. We impose sanctions against one Russia after the election of Crimea, not too many, but we did–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Back in 2014–
OLAF SCHOLZ: And they are still in place. We imposed sanctions against Russia when they organize the uprisings in the east of Donbass in Ukraine, and they are still in place. And all the very heavy sanctions we impose on Russia now will be there, if there is not a real fair piece from the perspective of Ukraine, and this is the message I sent to Putin and many others do the same. And we make it very clear, you cannot look for a dictate piece against Ukraine.
MARGARET BRENNAN: When you speak to Putin, does he acknowledge the sanctions? Does he acknowledge how much his economy has been hurt? Or does he just not care?
OLAF SCHOLZ: I think he cares, But he will not really admit it. So you get some-
MARGARET BRENNAN: Because it hasn’t stopped him.
OLAF SCHOLZ: –idea – you get some idea that it really is hurting him and that he understands the deep impacts of our sanctions on his economy. And I’m always mentioning it because it’s necessary to say it. Just to give you a view on this question, if a very advanced country like the United States, or Germany, with a very progressive economy with high tech industries, would go out of the world and would just stick to itself, we would go down in economic growth very, very soon. But this is now happening to a country that is not that advanced, that is really – needing all the technologies from the rest of the world for having a similar standard of living, and for having the chance to be part of growth in the world economy. And this is now the real damage to the Russian economy that they have no chance to do this. And it’s also hurting them because many of the things, even the military weapons they produce themselves are in one or the other way- Just linked to the economic and technological progress of the world. And so they will go back very, very far.
MARGARET BRENNAN: When Will Russia know- when will Russia no longer have the ability to continue this fight? When will Putin run out of weapons, run out of funds? Or can this continue for years?
OLAF SCHOLZ: No one really knows he has. He has– he is perhaps the leader of a very great country with a lot of people living there, with a lot of means, and he is really doing this brutal war with– and he prepared for it (for) very long. I think the decision to- to do this war was taken one year before it started or possibly earlier, because he prepared for it. And so he will be able to continue with the war really a long time. But this is the message we say to him. We are able to support the Ukraine as long as necessary for defending its serenity, the democracy, the rule of law and all the things the people in Ukraine are looking for.
MARGARET BRENNAN: President Zelensky has said that he would like to see the war end by the end of the year. How does it end? And Is that realistic?
OLAF SCHOLZ: It is very difficult to judge whether this is realistic, because this is something that is decided on the ground. And even more, is this one of the reason why we are so active supporting the Ukraine with all the different means I already discussed on financial humanitarian support, sanctions and delivery of weapons.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been called a 9/11 moment for Europe, a big wake up call. Do you think that Europe, and do you think Germany, was just too complacent for too long?
OLAF SCHOLZ: I think too many in the world were hoping that we are living in a different world that is different to the experiences of the last century and the centuries before, where might and power, were deciding on the future of countries and not the rules and the agreements we have between states, and we have had an agreement that there should be no attempt to change territory to, to change borders, to invade the neighbor. And this agreement is now canceled by Putin. And this is what I called site and vendor in German, a watershed moment of international politics. Peace is a danger. And this is why it is absolutely necessary that we spend more for defense, and Germany is going in elite in this question in Europe
MARGARET BRENNAN: So it was too complacent?
OLAF SCHOLZ: I think we should have been prepared for that situation. And- but it is really a big, big disaster for the expectations of all of us looking at peace, the chances we have in the world are better if there’s no attempt to change borders with war and things like that. But now we are in that situation, and we have to be realistic. And this is why we have to do more.
MARGARET BRENNAN: What is the fundamental nature of this conflict? Because the head of the British army called it a 1937 moment? Is that how you see it? Is that the moment in history we are in right now?
OLAF SCHOLZ: I think this is a moment where we have to make absolutely clear that we are strong enough that no one should just think about attacking, for instance, NATO territory. And this is why I said to my parliament, that we are ready and willing to defend- any centimeter, every centimeter of NATO territory in- in Europe, and that we are together with our allies. And this is a very clear message to our eastern–
MARGARET BRENNAN: And that’s a clear message. That’s a clear line. But there are plenty of territories around Russia that aren’t members of NATO. Do you think Vladimir Putin has his goal set as going into Moldova or surrounding countries?
OLAF SCHOLZ : Let me just stick one second to what I already said. Because of this, I decided to- to establish an extra budget for spending for military- 100 billion euros, and that we will increase our spending up to approximately 2% all the years to come. And this will really create an army that has the strongest funding between the NATO allies and Europe, and this is what we are sticking to and we will continue to do this.
MARGARET BRENNAN: –which was a big change for Germany.
OLAF SCHOLZ: This is something where we are acting realistically in a different time now. And this is necessary to do it. What is Putin thinking of? He is thinking like the imperialists in the 17th, 18th, 19th century. He is thinking that all about the nation is power, and that if you are mighty enough, you can just take territory of your neighbors. And this is an activity and an idea we cannot accept and we will not accept and this is why we are so strong on this question. He was always very, very critical about NATO and the European Union. And when I talked to him, I said, you have to accept the European Union. And that a big alliance of democratic states is building a very strong federal group of states- the union, a union, outside of you. And he was very much thinking about NATO. And I told him NATO is not aggressive. It’s just about defense. But he thinks he has just to spend all the money he earns for the- for his military abilities and sometimes using it and this is what should fail now and this is why we are doing the right thing when we support the Ukraine–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you believe that Vladimir Putin will stop at Ukraine?
OLAF SCHOLZ: I think that all what we do will help to give him the view that this is not working and that he will not be successful.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So open question on that: When it comes to NATO territory, you now have these two new members, Finland and Sweden potentially joining the Alliance, it looks like they will. Will Vladimir Putin view that as provocative, as more of a threat?
OLAF SCHOLZ: All wondered how he would react to the application of Finland and Sweden for NATO. But in the end, he accepted it – this is how I see it, and he has to, because it is the decision of these countries that they want to join. And it is our decision that we take them because they are really much fitting to the concept of NATO democratic states that are very strong with their own activities in defense. And this will strengthen the alliance.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about Germany. Your country has earned this reputation of over promising and under delivering when it comes to Ukraine. You know that, you’ve heard that criticism. Ukraine received its very first delivery of German Howitzers artillery last week? Why did it take that long? we’re in the fifth- fifth month.
OLAF SCHOLZ: So we took a very, very hard decision to change political strategies we followed for many decades–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
OLAF SCHOLZ: –never to deliver weapons into a country that is in a conflict. And when we decided, when I decided to change that practice of our country, a lot of other European countries followed, and this made it that the group, big group of countries, are now supporting the Ukraine with weapons and do the best. Germany sent all the weapons we had our our stocks in our military infrastructure. And we decided also to deliver new weapons from our industry, which takes a longer time because they have to be produced. But we did all these things. And we continue to do so. And when we decide, for instance, to send the most modern howitzer, which you can buy on the world market, which is in use in Germany, it was very difficult to organize that this could be used in the war, because you have to have some training. And we had Ukrainian soldiers in Germany. And when the training ended, in the end, they came with the weapon, with with the howitzers to Ukraine, and the
MARGARET BRENNAN: But United States is doing that. They’re providing weaponry within 48 hours sometimes of the President signing and carrying out training.
OLAF SCHOLZ: I think–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Why did it take this long for Germany?
OLAF SCHOLZ: I think you should understand that there is a difference if a country like the United States spends that much for defense, which is a very big (long pause) investment, and you have a lot of weapons at your stocks. the howitzers many other countries delivered to Ukraine were not the most modern one, but they were the stocks. So we had to do this. And this is how we are continuing, you should know we are doing right – this things which are necessary for helping now in this very situation in the east of Ukraine. And this is why we sent the weapons that were necessary, and that are necessary, there. Together with the United States, and the United Kingdom, we decided to deliver multi rocket launches to Ukraine now, which are
MB interjects: those haven’t been delivered yet.
OLAF SCHOLZ: We are sending them and we are doing it with the means and ways we have and with the training. And once again, there are a lot of very experienced people who yesterday looked at Google and today they know how to do things. But I will tell you there are weapons but you have to have your training. And you have to have- to have it- not in Ukraine, you have to have it here in our countries. And so the soldiers have to come to get the training and they are doing it. This is what we do with many other things. And if you look at this, what we are sending, from the perspective on- of two weeks, three weeks, four weeks from now, we will always see that Germany is one of the countries that is doing the most because what we are sending now is the most sophisticated technology you can use. There is also (long pause) anti ballistic- there are also weapons we give to the- to the Ukraine that they can defend the air.
MARGARET BRENNAN:The anti aircraft missiles you’ve promised, radar you’ve promised
OLAF SCHOLZ: That they can defend the city from- against the rockets and missiles that were sent there from Putin. And this is very expensive and very effective technology but they will get it.
MARGARET BRENNAN: When?
OLAF SCHOLZ: And this will help a country like Odes- to support to to defend the country, a city like Odessa or Kyiv–
MARGARET BRENNAN: But I ask you when because you know that the delays have led to speculation that it’s not about getting the supplies, it’s about the will of the government to actually deliver them. And whether there’s fear of provoking Putin, or whether it’s years of budget cuts to your defense industry and to your defense budget that have made it just not possible for the German military to act quickly. How do you respond to that?
OLAF SCHOLZ: –those who are looking to the facts, see that we are doing what is feasible and that we are doing the same things as our allies are doing. And that we are using all the means we really have. And when you compare what we are delivered to the Ukraine, and compared with activities of others, you will find that we are very much aligned with all the others. But the most important thing is that we are not just now supporting Ukraine, we are changing the way how we spend money for defense. And this is the big increase, which will change the situation and will give us the chance to be more quick in reaction to a threat that is coming to NATO, the alliance or to our country. And this is why I decided to do this- to do this. And I will continue to follow this policy making Germany strong enough for being the partner all our alliance- allies in Europe are looking for and all our allies in the transatlantic partnership.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you’re moving as fast as you can?
OLAF SCHOLZ: We will move as fast as we can. And we are doing.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about German finances. Do you know how much right now Germany is spending on Russian energy?
OLAF SCHOLZ: It’s decreasing, the money we are spending. And this is why we are- why we have decided to change all the imports we have from fossil resources. Different to the United States, we are not producing them ourselves, we have to import them. And we get them from many places of the world. But we change- we decided to go out of the import of fossil resources from Russia. And we did so with the import of coal, which is not that difficult, because we already imported most of it from other places. We decided so- to do so with the import of oil. And we will go out of this imports in the end of this year, which is also something which is now, we are preparing for and which is from some region, if we just- if we look at the whole country will be, will be relatively easy because oil is shipped and we are also working on some refineries in the east of Germany that are not getting the oil by ship. So we are making this feasible for them also. And then we are- we decided that we will build pipelines to the shores of the north of Germany for importing LNG. This is-
MARGARET BRENNAN: liquefied natural gas.
OLAF SCHOLZ: -liquefied natural natural gas. And this is something I was looking for, even when I was the mayor of Hamburg, because I thought it could be useful to have always the ability to change the the suppliers of your, of- of what you buy from- in case of gas- and this is why we are now doing it
MARGARET BRENNAN: When we looked at the numbers though– when we looked at the numbers, Germany is providing about 2 billion in aid to Ukraine. That’s roughly what you spend per month on gas from Russia, on coal, on energy supplies. So while you’re helping the Ukrainians financially, you’re also essentially giving Vladimir Putin a financial lifeline.
OLAF SCHOLZ: He cannot buy anything from the money he’s getting from us because he will- he has all these sanctions on imports for modern technologies and things he is looking for. So this is what is making very angry. But to be very clear, when we decided on sanctions, together, and with all our allies, we said always, we will do it in a way that we harm Putin more than us. And many countries in Europe are depending, for historical reasons and because they are near to the place, and it is the nearest place to get the gas on the inputs of gas, and when now, whole Europe is deciding to go out of this dependence, this will change the scenario, even on the world market.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But Vladimir Putin can use that money elsewhere. Just not in the West.
OLAF SCHOLZ: But he cannot buy-
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, is it still 2 billion a month that Germany is sending to Russia?
OLAF SCHOLZ: It is always decreasing, and I once again say that we decided that we do the sanc- that we draft the sanctions in the way that they hurt Putin and this is what we do. And once again, we are now doing real investments into technology, in pipelines, imports, and I know that there people that sometimes think that when you are having taken a decision one afternoon, the next morning you have a port and a 40 kilometers pipeline.
MARGARET BRENNAN: No, it takes time–
OLAF SCHOLZ: But in the real life, this is not happening. But what we did is deciding on legislation, we already did, which makes it easy to build these pipelines with the own- without any legal restrictions in the shortest time to come. And we really hope that the first of them will be able to work in the beginning of the next year. And if you see that things like this usually take 2, 3, 4, 5 years, and we do it in possibly six months or a bit more, in the first part- in the first pipelines that are going to work, you see that we are very, very strong and doing the necessary things for making us independent. And this also is- and but let me add this, when Europe is deciding to go out of the import of- of gas from Russia, this will have consequences.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It’ll have huge – I mean, this is the equivalent of them declaring-
OLAF SCHOLZ: 100
MARGARET BRENNAN: –war on you
OLAF SCHOLZ: this–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –by cutting gas supplies to Germany, this isn’t just your choice. They’re using that as a weapon against you.
OLAF SCHOLZ: This is obviously the case. And this is why I was starting to discuss the question what to do if the gas delivery will be reduced. Right when I entered office, it was my political decision to say that I want to know exactly what we have to do for in case of that, and this is why we are not prepared for years, but prepared since I am the chancellor of this country. And this is why I was able, after the war started, to go to the parliament and say we will build this pipelines, we will build this new ports for liquid- liquefied natural gas. And just to repeat this, when whole Europe in some years will be not dependent on the gas from Russia, it will get gas from other places. But this is all together more than 150, nearly 160 billion cubic meters of gas that is now as a new request coming to the world market. And this is one of the reasons why we should be very much prepared that we will have high energy prices all over the world in all countries because of the fact that the gas that Russia is now supplying will, to a certain extent, which we will understand in some years, will not be able to be sold. And so we have to get it from other resources. But this is a very tough time for global economy when we did this change.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It is. It is and you run the largest economy in Europe. What happens in Germany matters to the rest of the world. So if you are looking at gas supplies, potential shortages, you could have freezing homes, you could have shuttered factories, have you decided when and which industries you prioritize? Which factories get shuttered first?
OLAF SCHOLZ: We prepare for the situation of having the difficulties may come up because of the energy supply. And this is why we decided to make new legislation on storage capacities for gas, legislation that is forcing the participants of the market that there should be 90% in the storages- storage capacities of Germany, in the- at the beginning of winter. And this is now already taking place and the storages are becoming- are now filled more than they were one year ago at that time. We also decided to change legislation that we make it possible to say we will not use that many gas at- in the summer, for instance, and we will use coal plants for producing electricity. And so a lot of decisions are already taking and we are preparing our selves for a very difficult situation as many other European countries do. And obviously, countries all over the globe are doing thinking about what might come up.
MARGARET BRENNAN: When will you have to start rationing natural gas and will you have to shut down factories in the months ahead?
OLAF SCHOLZ: I think we will see how things are now moving, how things are- how the development will be in the future. What we can do at this time is preparing ourselves for being ready to take the necessary decisions. And this is what we do. And we are all the time preparing with the necessary legislation that we are able to do what is necessary and not just looking for what we could do if we would have the right legal framework. We will have it when it’s necessary.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So Germany’s Heavy Industry Association, BDI, warned a halt in Russian gas deliveries would make recession inevitable. The World Bank economists say it’s going to be very hard to avoid a recession. Is it inevitable?
OLAF SCHOLZ: It is not- it will be very tough if we will have a shortage of energy supplies. Obviously, all our countries, all our- all our life is depending on the supply of energy. And obviously, a lot of countries, the most countries of the world, are depending on the supply from abroad. And so we have to prepare for a difficult situation. And as I explained to you very detailed, we are preparing and we are prepared.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you are still preparing for energy prices to stay high for years? How long?
OLAF SCHOLZ: I’m sure that this will be a time where the energy prices will be high, all over the globe, because of the request. And this is one reason why we accelerate our way out of the use of fossil resources. You should know that Germany decided that we will be a co2 neutral country in 2045, which is less than 25 years. And this means that we are now expanding the production of electricity and of en- with offshore wind, with onshore wind, with solar energy, that we are expanding the investment into our grid, so that we are able to have a completely different industry doing steel, doing chemistry, doing- producing cement with the use of electricity and hydrogen in the end. And so we are just going faster into the better world we are already looking for.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right. But inflation is crushing standards of living around the world. Vladimir Putin is weaponizing inflation, he’s weaponizing food. Is he right to bet that he can fracture the Western alliance by making it harder for Europeans and Americans and everyone else to afford food in these months ahead?
OLAF SCHOLZ: You’re very right. The shortages of food many people in the world are seeing now as a threat to them, are the direct consequence of what Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the war, he is imposing on the country. You’re right that all the rising energy prices are also a direct consequence of his doing. And he is- he is the one that is doing the wrong things. And we are always discussing this with our partners on the globe. We are starting an initiative to support countries that have not enough food with food. We’re supporting the general secretary in finding a way how to get out all the wheat out of Ukraine
MARGARET BRENNAN: How?
OLAF SCHOLZ: through the World War- he is discussing intensely on ways how this could happen, not just with trains, what we are organizing together with the Ukrainians, but also with shipping. Because this is something where we will find in the next one or two weeks, if an agreement between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United Nations will be feasible, MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you really think-
OLAF SCHOLZ: but coming back to-
MARGARET BRENNAN: -that Vladimir Putin is going to allow grain to be shipped out of Ukraine? He’s shut down the black sea ports. This is a really powerful weapon against the West. Why would he give that up? Why would he agree to let the grain out?
OLAF SCHOLZ: There is one question the general secretary is asking to all, and also to Putin: will you be responsible? And the one that is responsible, that there is the wheat that is necessary in Africa and Asia and other places, is not going there. And so this is why he is working so hard to find a solution and we are supporting him.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you-
OLAF SCHOLZ: Once again, I think we will face a situation of high prices. And we will face a very difficult situation. But this we knew right from the beginning when we decided to support Ukraine. And now it is necessary that we stand united and the outcome of this NATO meeting here in Madrid, the outcome of the g7 meeting we had in Germany in (Weimar?) and the outcome of all the meetings we had in the European Union is we stand united, we are united and he will not be able to fracture us.
MARGARET BRENNAN: If you can’t reopen the black sea ports, if Putin doesn’t agree to let the food out of Ukraine, how do you lower global food prices?
OLAF SCHOLZ: We are now collecting money for supporting the poorest countries that they will be able to deliver food to the people. And this is our international initiative, we- we organized together with others for food security, and we will continue to do that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But it risks global instability.
OLAF SCHOLZ: It is a real problem, and it is a real consequence of Putin’s war, and this is why it is even more necessary that we support the people.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So it also puts pressure to end this conflict sooner. What is your timeline for when this can end?
OLAF SCHOLZ: The conflict will end when Putin understands that he will not be successful with idea to conquer part of the territory of his neighbor.
MARGARET BRENNAN: He controls 20% of Ukraine right now, according to U.S. intelligence.
OLAF SCHOLZ: This is why we are supporting Ukraine with financial means, with humanitarian aid, but also with arms deliveries and why we are doing our sanctions regime together on Putin.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So it has been a hard lesson to learn. But as you’ve laid out here, you know, members of the German government have admitted it was a mistake to be so dependent on Russia for so long. I wonder, do you look at that and wonder about China and see the same type of risk that the West is so financially intertwined with Beijing that it poses a threat, a direct threat?
OLAF SCHOLZ: Coming back to the first aspect of your question, I think it was not right that we were not prepared to have at any time the chance to change the one that is delivering gas, oil and coal to us. So we should have invested all over Europe in infrastructure that gives us the ability to change the supply, from one day to the other. And I think this is the lesson that has been learned in Europe and in many other places that you have to be prepared- be prepared for a situation like this. And this is also the answer to all the other questions coming up. If, for instance, if you look to China, it is more the answer- just understand that you should have supply change imports not just from one or two countries, but from many. And that even your business is looking for many other countries. So the answer to what we are discussing with China is not to go away from China. The answer is to go to the other Asian countries. And there are very, very big nations, which I think we have to look at. And it was very good when we at G7 came together with the leaders of Indonesia and India, for instance, and they are representing two very strong nations, nations with a good and important future in the world to come. And if we look around them, we find many others. And so the answer we all together should give is, just do your business with many countries so that you can live with a situation when trouble comes up with one.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And trouble may come up with China. I mean, the United States sees it as a threat. Does Germany see China as a threat?
OLAF SCHOLZ: I think- I think the world we are going to live in 2050 will be multipolar. Many countries will be important. The United States, (long pause) Russia, China, the European Union and the countries in this Union, but also Indonesia and India, or South Africa, countries from the south of America. And the big task of all of us is to make this work, not just multipolar, with many influential countries looking to- to have to- looking for their own interests and what- what is useful for them, but making it the world that is working together. So multipolar is not enough. Multilateral, working together for a better future, this is what we are should- what we should aim for. And it is now the time to work for that
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
OLAF SCHOLZ: -better future. When we are looking at the midst of this century we are in.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you are being diplomatic there. NATO, in this latest statement, identified china as a- as a threat, the secretary general said it poses challenges to our values, to our interest and to our security. Does that mean the West is on a path for a clash with Beijing?
OLAF SCHOLZ: No. And exactly. If you look at the decisions we took here and we are working on it, is that we are just aware of problems that might come up and we are aware of these problems because we are democracies and we are not an aggression to our neighbors, to- to the rest of the world. And we are not aggressive against them.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And China might be towards Taiwan–
OLAF SCHOLZ : –and this is why we say that we are working for a world where aggression is not working. And this is why we are making our alliance strong. But this is also why we say developing a strategy, this gives us the chance to be not dependent. And I come back to what I said, part of this answer is to look at many other countries in the world that will be strong in the future and make them their partner- our partners, especially when they are democracies. And this is, I think, the strategy we should follow.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m told we are running out of time. Before I let you go, President Biden also talks about this potential conflict between democracies and autocracies. Is that the biggest threat on the horizon? What keeps you up at night?
OLAF SCHOLZ: First, I- I think the democracies are very strong and they- because they have the support of their people, they are really having also the future on their side. We should be- We should look at these things from this perspective. But we should be clear about these threats that are coming to our future. And this is coming from autocracies, Yes, because they tend to be aggressive. And this is an aspect we should be very much aware of. And I am. And this is why I organized our meeting we had in Germany with the G7 group of democratic- economically successful democratic states that we invite partners from all over the globe that are also democracies for making it happen, that the democracies are strong.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And by strong it also comes with 100,000 U.S. troops in Europe and 300,000 NATO response forces in Europe. This isn’t just diplomacy. This is muscle.
OLAF SCHOLZ: This is. And it’s necessary.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Chancellor, thank you for your time this morning.
OLAF SCHOLZ: Thank you.
If Russia doesn’t let the food out of Ukraine?
Russia is not preventing food coming out of Ukraine. Ukraine has put thousands of mines in the Black Sea and refuses to remove them. It is Ukraine that is preventing the grain to leave by ship, but Ukraine IS shipping grain through Romania.
Grain has been coming out of Ukraine since this war started and always comes through slovakia by road………..
And….the Russian military hasn’t taken possession of Ukrainian’s grain.
Yes, Russia has already taken by ship, some of Ukraine’s stored grain.
Ukraine has actually burned silos of corn so it cannot be used.
I am shocked…shocked that Ukraine would use the same “scorched earth” tactics against Russia that Russia used against Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812.
“… always comes through slovakia by road.”
Some of it comes by way of Russian-flagged freighters:
“Turkish customs authorities detained a Russian cargo ship carrying grain stolen by Russian occupation forces and shipped via the port of Berdiansk.”
https://news.yahoo.com/turkey-detains-russian-cargo-ship-152351810.html
Russia isn’t “stealing” anyones grain.
Russia is the world third largest wheat produce after China and India. With an average of 85,863,132 Tonnes annually. How and to whom they decide to supply their grain is really their call is it not?
And what a childish, petulant, and insulting start to the interview:
MARGARET BRENNAN: So I read your biographer says you don’t often answer directly, but I’m going to try my best today
(“Oh, poor me — you’re a liar but I still have to interview you”)
Oh sheesh, nimrodman! Ya think she’s convinced that she’s the SPITR?
Not just the opening but the whole frickin’ interview Margaret was paddling as furiously as she could to steer Scholz ♪♫ merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily down the narrative stream. ♪♫
I lost count of the softballs tossed, and then the interruptions when Scholz didn’t go exactly in the direction she was pitching.
I think Chucky Toad could have done better. (Will I get a timeout for that insult?)
I think he held up well.
She’s a nasty piece of work.
Exactly
Those were not necessarily softball questions. Biden would melt under those questions.
Margaret Brennan is a prostitute at worst and a cheerleader at best.
She works for Viacom, a company whose management, talent, employees have sexually assaulted and harassed thousands of women and children over the years.
And you wonder why they pimp for abortion up to birth?
No corporation is more responsible for Brandon that Viacom/CBS.
He was brought there to be brought into line…which he was.
They can no longer use Snake Island as an excuse either!
… just as Russia can no longer use it for a Forward Observation Base.
“It is Ukraine that is preventing the grain to leave by ship, but Ukraine IS shipping grain through Romania.”
Ukraine has rejected the least-cost method of grain shipment, preferring to pay more to move grain by rail??
This is silly. You ought to re-examine your premises.
BTW, your syntax is distinctly foreign. Are you Russian?
The Russians cleared the Ulrainian placed mines and declared safe lanes for shipping WEEKS ago. The West is supporting a fascist nazi regime which has closed down all other parties and arrested the opposition leader. Zelinsky was put there by a Ukrainian oligarch. The oligarchs of Britain have been trying to break up Russia for 150 years. The UK has supported the USA oligarchs in their provocation and aggression towards Russia.
The Ukrainians are bombing their own people and have been doing so for 8 years.
Russia is the worlds third largest wheat producer after China and India, with an average yield of 85,863,132 Tonnes annually. They can decide to whom the want to sell or not.
They aren’t stealing anyones wheat.
Your syntax is distinctly neocon. Are you a foreigner?
Why are we even there or giving them billions of dollars when our own borders are being invaded by thousands weekly? Besides that part of Europe has been at each other’s throats for centuries. For years they were constantly dividing up Poland between surrounding countries. Go back read some real history and it makes you scratch your head as to why we are being involved. Well unless there’s a bunch of illegal money schemes going on by our politicians and they’re a fraud of being exposed or loosing the over seas banks. You all know the names of many involved. Time for us to protest “ no more money, no more arms, stop lying to the suffering Americans to CYA”. If possible get involved with this up coming election to watch,photograph volunteer to help. Let’s celebrate our freedom anniversary by giving thanks for those who stood for both our constitution and for the right to life.
It’s a giant kickback and money transfer scheme.
” The Big Club ” – Hates Us For Our Freedom !!!!
100 years ago you did not need permission to :
Grow a garden on your own property.
Give a haircut.
Add a room onto a house.
Buy a gun.
Sell a horse.
.
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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free too do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest period of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” – Ayn Rand
It’s a season of ‘Ozark’ … instead on laundering drug money … our politicians are laundering taxpayer receipts. International conspiratorial THEFT! Seriously … a gallows needs to be erected in Wash. DC
Always was and always will be.
Blackmail.
CCP
It’s separation of power to skirt responsibility. Congress makes the laws and those laws are circumvented under the guise of asylum, children etc with the executive and judicial waits for a lawsuit.
Open borders benefits companies by lower labor cost for all jobs. It starts at processing then morphs into landscape, painting, carpenters, crate assembly, auto repair trucking, delivery.
E-verify is not required for employment, that’s why you hear of raids but then nothing cause companies show their paperwork and cleared.
And what most people don’t know is Home Depot hires third party credit teams specifically to fund illegals starting business. My banker quit his job, next I saw him at HD and relayed his new gig. 27 stores in a region.
SD trillion at stake…just a small sample of how American are getting hose right under their noses.
They are trying to empty the US of its money. It’s all leaving the country. MBS of Saudi Arabia has been invited by China to join BRICS. When this happens, the US petrodollar will no longer exist.
Yawn
Yawn?
Ukraine is the world’s laundry mat.
If only there was another way out of the Ukraine so grain could be shipped? Maybe someone could ask whoever is delivering weapons to the Ukraine if it is possible? Maybe people could put the grain in backpacks which they could carry onto trains and take it out of the Ukraine? I know it’s only a backpack full but maybe people could make 2 round trips a day?
Why not fill the planes arriving in Ukraine to offload millions of pounds of weapons with the grain and fly it out?
There’s these newfangled things called railroads.
<I know it’s only a backpack full but maybe people could make 2 round trips a day?>
Funny! 🙂 🙂 🙂
He was serious I think.
UhOh!
In that case…
I can see Ukraine soon having a backpack shortage as well 🙂
Warehouses full of backpacks on fire !!
yup, and they can fill their bras, and jockstaps as well, plus pockets
Hey! They dug a tunnel like that in “The Great Escape” !
The answer to the question of Cui Bono if an international food crisis develops because of this war is so obvious that only our intellectual superiors in Washington and the media and the Dem party could miss it.
Russia is close to victory in the Donbass so why would it do something that would cause the whole world to come to the aid of Ukraine? Ukraine is close to losing and knows the world media will blame Russia for any food crisis. So why would it lay mines in crucial sea lanes? Its so obvious that Geico’s caveman can see it
IIRC, the Ukrainians mined their ports so that the Russians could not steam in and avail themselves of Ukrainian transportation and distribution infrastructure to move men and weapons in an expedited manner. Now there are ships that cannot move because (a) there are mines, and (b) their insurance companies will not cover any potential losses from acts of war.
The Russians have already de-mined some ports that are totally under their own control from the land side.
She is really an ignorant sow. Anyone who has their head even partially out of their backside can see the globalist puppet masters controlling this German eunuch, Justeen, the Demented Fraud and all the rest are totally destroying the West and made Putin tremendously wealthy. China, India and the rest of the BRICS will own every bit of once what was the democracies of the West. Can’t wait for all the leftist sheep to finally wake up then string up all of the WEF pigs.
The leftist sheep will never wake up. They are useful idiots, and the useful idiots are always sooooo surprised when at the end of a commie takeover, they are asked to pay for the bullet that will be used to dispatch them… after helping to dig the mass grave.
It has happened to the useful idiots Every.Single.Time. This time won’t be any different.
She isn’t ignorant.
She is following orders to the letter. She is a soulless corporatist media W#0&E. Every single question and response she had was to move the message for her Globalist controlled Department of State/IC clientele/johns.
These creatures are vermin, they have no interest in peace.
disgusting…and the US government is no longer for the people or by the people but instead, it’s run by these slimeballs:
https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/revealed-brian-liberal-world-order
Thank you, Sundance . . . for watching the interview and your analysis!
Yeah, he really took one for the team!
The transcript was great! That way I only had to read and not listen to them!
Russia is being set up and used as a globalist squirrel 🐿 and scapegoat from the fallout of the corrupt BBB plan and implantation.
The “distraction” explanation, but there IS more.
In order to force their Green wet dream on the World, they have to reduce/eliminate fossil fuel production.
In the U.S., they WERE able to pretty much do this, by reversing PDJT’s policies, and thru Executive order and Buerocratic rules/regulations.
Such methods won’t work for Russia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and so “other measures” are required.
For WEF, this is an existencial issue; they can NOT have regions producing and selling oil.
SA will join BRICS, out of survival, as they KNOW the WEF’ers have the Kingdom in their sites, as in “First Russia, THEN SA.”
So, attempting to deflect blame onto Putin, is just one among many “reasons”, and not near the top of the list.
Its more like they had major reasons, and deflecting blame was just convenient.
One of the many risks to the US mainland is the 100s of 3rd world terrorists the Demented Fraud’s puppet masters have escorted in through the southern border. When their families are starving back in the middle east and Africa they’ll feel more than enough justifications to kill thousands in America. America and the EU will rightfully be identified as the cause of global famine.
And think about all of the Muslims in the EU, especially Germany. What do you think they are going to do when they can’t feed or keep warm their 8 to 10 kids. There will be riots like never seen before. Me thinks Olaf is seeing the future and he doesn’t want to be strung up on some light pole.
Germany’s going to find plenty of motivated recruits for her new army. Those fine young men from Afghanistan and Syria, and above all – from Turkey.
Citizenship in exchange for military service.
Shhhhhh!! Don’t give the government here any ideas!
And because of this, all oil and gas producers will join BRICS and trade in their own currencies, dropping the petrodollar and Euro.
Absolutely.
I guess they are just being polite when they include America as a democracy.
Setting aside the difference between a Democracy and a Republic, and for the moment accepting the generally recognised falsehood of
“Western Democracies” I don’t SEE,….ANY.
NOT U.S., or England, France, Italy,…Australia, NZ,…none.
I have come to detest the word “democracy”.
Also- calling it the “Democratic” party. Farthest thing from it.
Seneca, when I hear any of Tucker’s monologues and he calls them that…and he always does…I really want scream. He should know better. It’s just sloppy as well as being completely incorrect.
“And I told him NATO is not aggressive. It’s just about defense.”
Putin rolls eyes …
It would be fascinating, in the interest of fairness, if there were just one MSM mouthpiece (I will not call such a person a “journalist”) ethical enough to request an interview from Mr Putin himself.
Would he grant one? I doubt it, as the MSM would take the footage and edit it beyond all reality.
All the same, propaganda like this has a distinctly unpleasant, identifiable odor. And we all know what that is.
Sort of changing the subject, but these these “mouth pieces” are all Pfizer employees.
I’ve not run across that info, Jimbo. Where have you seen this?
Maybe he referring to the Pfizer ads in the MSM…?
Just a guess
Thanks, Bananas. We cut the cord long ago, so thankfully we’ve not seen the ads.
Let one of them have an interview with Lavrov. Have an ambulance standing by to pick up the pieces.
Girrrrrlll!!!! You are so right. I’d pay to see it.
So, “Nationalism for me, none for thee!”
And he is destroying the IDEA of Just-in-time, by saying a country, OR A COMPANY should have many different sources of supply.
Oh, and now Germany thinks its a good idea to spend 2 percent of GDP on Defence, and shouldn’t be dependant on Russia for fuel.
PDJT says “I TOLD ya SO!”
Especially when the world’s defense contractors, along with their weapons and munitions makers are spending well in excess of that 2% to keep the pols well supplied with “fuel.”
Germany has announced they will be using coal this winter. Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up.
Let’s see how long it takes to get those coal-fired power plants back up and running.
When the power company here decided to decommission the coal-fired plant, they had teams come in to determine the salvage / scrap value of various components. It is not like they locked the door and walked away leaving the plant in working order.
Magical thinking.
“And he is destroying the IDEA of Just-in-time, by saying a country, OR A COMPANY should have many different sources of supply.”
JIT could just as readily be called Japanese Industrial Technique.
It relies on a highly trained, compliant and dedicated workforce who have a shared culture and a common goal.
When GM tried to copy the Japanese auto industry model with their Saturn product line, they soon discovered that their UAW work crew was unable to get similar results.
US multiculturalism is the antithesis of Japanese cultural norms. Accordingly, Saturn went bankrupt and Toyota became the world’s number one car company.
Similarly, the EU is a multicultural stew that will have a difficult time integrating all its members into a unified whole.
Germany is right to leave itself with the ability to reject consensus opinion and reach outside the EU trade agreements to get results that best benefit Germany.
As the 800 pound gorilla in the room, their demands will be met.
“Russian Troops Exit Snake Island, Allow Ukrainian Ports To Operate”
https://www.oann.com/russian-troops-exit-snake-island-allow-ukrainian-ports-to-operate/
“Russian forces are no longer occupying Snake Island in the Black Sea, in turn, allowing Ukrainian ports to operate again. Either side told different stories about the exit Thursday with Ukraine suggesting they have forced the troops out after a massive artillery and missile assault overnight.
However, the Russian Defense Ministry said they left the strategic outpost voluntarily, adding Ukraine can no longer speculate on any impending food crisis or say it is impossible to export grain.”
Maggie and olaf need to do some homework.
The war is about to end.
This wasn’t homework, it was joint CYA!
That freeing up grain exports was just a throwaway line.
The island is just a tiny rock that can’t be defended without throwing away too many lives.
Ukes made a big deal out of it to take away from the COLOSSAL loss of Lysychans’k. So little reporting on Russia’s major accomplishment.
Unbelievable that Kaliningrad was not mentioned. I’ve also looked in vain to find any news about the EU rescinding the Lithuanian blockade. What’s up?!
Check the site Gates of Vienna.
First topic today.
So if it’s not reported in the MSM it didn’t happen.
They’d like you to think so.
Russophobic & warmongering dwarf called Lithuanian…C A V E D….
And they waited until Biden left.
That’s what is hilarious 😂
Short Olaf: We don’t want peace. We want war. Our suicide will continue.
I’m always struck by how stupid she is. I know she’s a partisan, paid for hack doing what she’s told, but she never seems to grasp the issues she’s trying to discuss. Her ignorance is epic.
Exactly.
That’s what makes her a useful idiot. If she understood what was going on she might not be as cooperative. All the “news” hacks are the same. Stupid and credulous.
Lysychansk Falls, Russia Takes Control of All Lugansk Region as Ukrainian Resistance Collapses
I thought the Javelins the US was sending we’re going to be game changers. I though the M-333’s thé US was sending were going to be game changers. I thought the 4 longer-range HIMARS thé US was sending were going to be game changers. I thought the super dooper ultra advanced course NATO training the Ukies were getting in Poland was going to be game changing.
I thought Elensky was going all the way to the gates of Moscow.
We were lied to?
LOLOL! Great post!
I love genuinely funny sarcasm…. because it’s based on truth.
“I thought the Javelins the US was sending we’re going to be game changers.”
You saw the results; Russia broke off its attack against Kiev.
“I though the M-333’s thé US was sending were going to be game changers. I thought the 4 longer-range HIMARS thé US was sending were going to be game changers.”
Biden has been trickling out these goodies like it’s his money that is paying for them.
I suspect there is a problem locating 1st-generation equipment that is suited for export.
You don’t want to send the newest model of the M-777 or M-270 because they have proprietary software that would be of immeasurable value to the Russians if either of these systems were to be captured.
The smell of neocon in the morning is similar to the world on fire.
Oldrealist….still believe Elensky crap…..
I do not trust the German with two last names. The stooges at Disgrace The Nation are nothing more than tools for the NWO/WEF.
“Germany, and the West in general, is WEF’d (World Economically F**ked).”
The Coming Bleak Midwinter in Germany
It was an exceptionally good article I thought.
You can’t lose with the GoV.
Photo for the above article:
And another article:
The EU’s Natural Gas Conundrum
Caught the Peaky Blinders reference. If we can’t get regime change in this country and quick, I can’t even guess what the dollar will be worth in six months. Now add domestic inflation on top of that.
No one will freeze to death this winter. Germany’s proved coal reserves amount to roughly 36 billion metric tons.
One of those articles mentions its unlikely Deutschland can get enough of its mothballed coal-fired plants back on line in time for winter
Sgt Oaf Sholtz knows nothing
Synopsis:
Does that mean the West is on a path for a clash with Beijing?
OLAF SCHOLZ: No. And exactly.
WAT? No mention of global warming or LGBTQI+??? Nazi!!
Read carefully. His gives the game away several times. Talks about the world ” WE ” will live in by 2050
WEF – Agenda 2030 talking points – Committee of 3oo
Then he says ” We KNEW high prices would result from supporting Ukraine ” just before he says they are raising money to feed poorer countries …… LOL.
Aside from reporting you have seen of grain silos destroyed by Ukraine army , I recently saw film of a low flying chopper dropping flares over dry wheat fields to set them on fire. ( will post if I find it )
Switches from “I” to “We” and vice versa a few times as well. I found that interesting.
Europeans love waging war on each other. Let them.
Margaret: I mean, this is the equivalent of them declaring-
–war on you
–by cutting gas supplies to Germany, this isn’t just your choice. They’re using that as a weapon against you.
Yes, Margaret, exactly as the Occupant in the US has declared WAR on his own people or is the similarity lost on your incessantly propagandist mind?
Perhaps Russia’s miscalculation was not recognizing the independence of the Russian Eastern parts of Ukraine after the 2014 revolution. When the Minks accords were ignored and attacks against civilian in the East accelerated Russia was forced to act, sooner may have been better.
it does seem that Putin has figured this out with defeating the color revolutions at their onset in Belarus and Kazakhstan.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/july/02/russia-s-ukraine-miscalculation/
And now Uzbekistan just 2 days ago. Massive riotous protests.
To be fair about Russia not responding back in 2014, I don’t think they were equipped or ready for victory against the EU and NATO. But they were in 2020.
What tripe that whole pantomime of an interview was .. from BOTH participants!
So, at this point.. if things Really escalate, tis a crapshoot as to who’s able to dodge any canned sunshine coming our way. At least the Russian citizen is as prepared as can be, considering. I can’t say that for our side..
Canned sunshine? Ha.
Got that from reading Carl Denninger’s Market Ticker.
Have the Germans ever defeated Russia in anything they have tried through history?…Be it economic war, kinetic war or propaganda war?
With the BBB Great Reset, WEF Nazi influenced Klaus Schwab, the Bidumb vegetable in the White House and his Cabal handlers, The German doofus Olaf, the Great Britain assclown Boris, the great “savior of Democracy” Zelensky, etc 🙄 it is not going to happen this time either. It won’t matter how much spin and BS that media idiots like Margaret Brennen put out, it’s not going to happen.
The Green New Steal along with Build Back Better is a total failure and causing the Western economies to shrink. Hopefully when it gets bad enough, the common, decent people who matter will rise up against these elite, corrupt scum and end this madness for good.
Thank you Sundance for reviewing this piece. I can only take so much of Maaaagret Brennan and 36 minutes is beyond that limit.
The last quote by dopey Brennan “… with 100,000 US troops and 300,ooo NATO …this isn’t just diplomacy . THIS IS MUSCLE.” Really ? Big talk from this DC cocktail party war strategist. What a total jerk .
Those numbers are as phony as Biden’s 81 million Imaginary Friends.
Ania K and Scott Ritter discuss the Biden Build-Up. Ritter is not impressed, saying except for the nukes (and whatever new Plandemic Bio-Weapons have been built at the Biden Family Bio-Labs), NATO is a paper tiger. And the EU is broke.
SCOTT RITTER ON NATO’S TROOPS IN EUROPE; LITHUANIA POKING THE BEAR,
AND WHAT HE WOULD SAY TO PUTIN.. – YouTube
It’s all bluff, fluff and bullshit, just like Caligula Robinette.
Another good look at numbers:
The Return of Industrial Warfare
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare
There are not a lot of Treepers quoting Colonel Macgregor these days. Is the Russian agent Scott Ritter everyone’s new favorite?
Is the Khazarian neocon agent continually trying to point at the squirrel over there. You ain’t convincing anybody with that shill rhetoric pal. We do not want to die for your cause and cybelian/baal cult.
Just another insufferable, lying, elitist POS whose only worry is whether his wife will find out about his very expensive mistress and playthings. So typical of the Euro-trash aristocracy and not worth one drop of American blood or treasure.
They are all lying about the Russia/Ukraine situation – it’s all about energy and corruption.
Russia is doing just fine while the American and European people are suffering and will freeze to death this winter.
FJB and all the rest of these ass clowns.
Two thumbs up for that one Seneca!
🎯
Where does she go to get that haircut? The poodle shop?
Good girl Margaret. You got the Sunday talking points out for the thieving maladministration. Here’s a dog biscuit for you. Go outside now and finish your job.
Poodles are smart and loyal.
If you really want to understand what is happening in Europe you should look at this…..
So many do not actually know so many things because the MSM wont let us!
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Very smart man. Totally worth a listen. Thank you for the link.
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Richard Black is the same person who Andrew McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe, ran against for Virginia state senate.
She could have ask the most relevant question:
Do you understand now that Trump is a prophet and you did not believe the prophet?
Yeah, I tho’t she was channeling her inner TRUMP at certain points. 😉
They actually conduct these interviews thinking we don’t know. The foolish aims of these so called democratic states will put them at an economic disadvantage for eternity. Cold hungry people will seek revenge and the outcome will not be so pleasent.
I’m thinking a lot of that Ukrainian billions is going to Germany and other NATO countries to support them to follow the JoeBama and Davos crowd to blame Russia on the economic consequences of their grossly failed Covid policies and set the stage for the reset. They could care less about Ukraine otherwise.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
He didn’t say anything that the diaper soiler has not said a million times. RUSSIA. RUSSIA. RUSSIA.
WHAT A WASTE OF TIME READING THAT PRPOGANDA.
Okay, tell the guys they can move up the clock..
What’s the point of parsing the BS coming out of an EU politician’s mouth about the Ukraine situation? To marvel at verbally diarrhetic sophistry?
There is one salient observation by SD, however:
“Germany is the largest and most heavily industrialized economy in the European Union (EU). As a result, Germany makes most of the decisions about how the EU operates. ”
Here SD observes an axiom: The nations that are more industrialized accrue more power, naturally.
The converse is also true: Less industrialized nations are weaker.
This is how and why the US has become so weakened at the same time China has become the rising global hegemon: Globalist corporate profiteers happily served China’s aspirations by abandoning US industry in favor of China’s irresistibly underpriced semi-finished and finished products, over the last 40+ years.
And we have now arrived at the latter stages of the China Plan. The Plandemic and resulting machinations, the EU war, all to bring about the goals of the Plan.
Proceeding apace.
What is also true is the more industrialized, the more fragile.
I worked for Daimler for 10 years. My analog is the Germans are compelled to have all the canned goods sorted by type and the labels facing forward. It is not necessary to do this to the nth degree but they do it anyway.
After my first week there I coined “self-imposed complexity”. No doubt I am not the first to have that thought.
The Germans self-imposed complexity will be their undoing in this instance. They spent years wringing out all manner of inefficiency in their supply chains and along comes Malarky to scorch earth them.
had never heard that construct before, but on self-reflection I recognize that I have a streak of it in myself
and no – it doesn’t serve one well, necessarily
Mr Unruly – I must commend you on a turn of phrase I’d never heard before nor could even imagine
‘diarrhetic sophistry’
I salute you, sir !
“So I read your biographer says you don’t often answer directly, but I’m going to try my best today.”
so lets break this down.
for those only reading transcripts there is an incomplete set of information…one needs to look and examine the body non verbal gestures.
notice that JUST AS THIS LEADING COMMENT IT MADE..THERE IS A STRONG ARM (HAMMER SYMBOLOGY) MOTION FROM NORTH TO SOUTH (180 (360) – 0 degrees motion.
this is not accidental..this is a non normal human non verbal “enhancement” demonstration.
It is both a symbol of demonstrating unchallenged power and it is ALSO a demonstration of COMMAND. It’s is in this sense a leading gesture to urge the respondent to conform to “arranged” speech. Conform to doctrine and not to venture from the state speech.
You will soon learn to understand the signs, the gestures, the motions, the heightened speech, the MANNER AND TIMING when these non verbal gestures are demonstrated.
KNOW YOUR ENEMY.
they use a variety of codes. Announcing their affiliations.
we can hunt them down. Many years.
God Bless America
at this moment in the video…slow it down in replay and watch the highly coordinated non verbal power gesture.
make no mistake YOUR ENEMIES ARE SHOWING GANG SIGNS
God Bless America
margert is no kate winslet.
eyebrows check out..but margeret has no media power.
she will be replaced.
buh bye
“So I read your biographer says you don’t often answer directly, but I’m going to try my best today.”
regitiger – I took that to mean
“So I’m told you’re a liar, but …”
Didn’t or couldn’t listen or read the whole thing. I would guess the Minsk agreements were not discussed or if so, glossed over.
Schultz also said NATO was just defensive. I’m sure Putin could remind him of the 90’s when the bombed the shit out of Serbia.
Also, Russia spends very little on military contrary to Schultz’s remark. Even though they dont have no where near the defense spending of the US, there is probably a lot less waste.
Schultz reminds me of another Schultz, Sergeant Schultz as he seems to know notheeng.
And bombed Syria, and Afghanistan.
I couldn’t continue to read the entire interview, scanned through and kept seeing Putin, Putin, Putin. Clearly Scholz was well prepared for this interview and was given the questions ahead of time to memorize his choreographed responses for the American audience.
Because I didn’t read the interview, I wonder is she asked how the western sanctions are affecting the German people….gasoline, heat and hot water for the upcoming winter, overall affects on German industry being able to operate and hang onto jobs, overall food availability, prices in the marketplace and what is Scholz’s game plan to alleviate these serious conditions?
I am guessing she didn’t ask about THAT one.
Scholz wasn’t that good. He wandered off the path many times.
Scholz is an incredibly weak and unpopular minister. He is singlehandedly destroying the German economy and industry by abiding by the sanctions. Unlike Orban from Hungary, Scholz is an ideologue for green energy. Whereas Merkel commanded respect from other European leaders, Scholz carries none and is viewed as weak.
The both managed not to speak the word “Israel” when referring to a new source for natural gas. The BSD movement would rather have their fellow German citizens cold, hungry, and unemployed than acknowledge the new LNG from Egypt originated in Israel.
I can’t understand not trading with a nation with needed goods for sale.
Recall when Trump told the EU that Germany’s dependence on energy from Russia was concerning and they snickered at him from across the table. Remember that when your people overthrow you when they are told they must ration.
Pfft… so someone in Geneva wrote the questions for CBS and told the German guy how to answer them.
I read the interview and just about everything he said is total propaganda B.S.
Every line of discussion is filled with lies and deception.
Unbelievable. I have the gut instinct his purpose for the interview was to drum up support for Zelensky and NATO.
Who else was not a fan of NATO –President Trump.
And five months and Germany hasn’t sent weapons to Ukraine? I got a “kick” out of him being called out on that!
Porchenko already has went on record saying Ukraine had no intention of honoring Minsk. They only signed to stall as means to get troops trained and weapons in place.
So, looks like the fate of Ukraine becoming a rump state- and the reputation of NATO…little that it has left…is at stake.
Ukraine is—you give us bodies- we’ll give you weapons. Right now it looks like the bodies are either killed,wounded, deserting or turning themselves in as POW. Today Ukraine is not too popular-going outside churches looking for men to fight.
Russia is telling them-turn yourselves in. You will be treated well. When this is over you will be able to return to your family alive. Seems to be working.
What a liar Scholz is. Hopefully this will be over soon.
Merkel should have listened and considered more carefully Trump’s advice to her and to Germany.
As bad as they claim Trump was he had great instincts on the important issues of our time.
How good he would have been without the harassment, attacks, obstructions we will will never know and how much those things did to make him look bad we will never know.
Can’t say that for Clinton, W, Obama and Brandon.
“ Germany is the largest and most heavily industrialized economy in the European Union (EU). ”
Germany manufactures the machinery that Russia requires to exploit and export its natural resources. They also supply the industrial chemical products Russia desperately needs to maintain its small manufacturing base.
Conversely, Russia produces the natural gas, gold and rare earth materials on which German industry and consumer alike rely.
Russia and Germany have a symbiotic relationship.
Olaf Scholz has to walk a tightrope so as not to alienate Putin or fracture the Western alliance. As can be seen from the interview, he has been browbeaten into compliance but would eagerly resume trade relations if Putin could be talked into making concessions in Ukraine.
Residents In Eastern Ukraine Report Atrocities, War Crimes Being Committed By Ukrainian Army
OAN NEWSROOM
UPDATED 6:55 AM PT – Wednesday, June 29, 2022
As the war in Ukraine drags on, more and more civilians are reporting atrocities and even war crimes being committed by the Ukrainian army. One America’s Pearson Sharp reports.
Think the G7 is lying their heads off?
Evidence Shows Hunter Biden’s Firm Responsible For Funding Ukranian Biolabs Researching CV-19
Published June 2, 2022
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Democratic NATO? Where
Biden And His G7 Fraternity Threaten To Devastate The World’s Economy – Analysts Warn Oil Prices Could Jump to $380 a Barrel
By Michael Robison
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Published July 3, 2022, at 9:20am
Diarrhea….100%