2 years ago, #Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz outlined bold, long-term goals: Strengthen the country’s depleted military with extraordinary investments and adopt an assertive foreign policy defending global norms.

And he has mostly delivered on that promise, explains an expert on international security, who says the ‘legacy of his strategic pivot is likely to endure’

https://theconversation.com/germanys-turning-point-2-years-into-strategic-pivot-progress-made-bodes-well-for-the-us-nato-and-the-world-226072
#ForeignPolicy #NATO #Ukraine #News

Germany’s turning point: 2 years into strategic pivot, progress made bodes well for the US, NATO and the world

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz outlined bold, long-term goals: Strengthen the country’s depleted military with extraordinary investments and adopt assertive foreign policy defending global norms.

^{The Conversation}

Germany being … well, Germany.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

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#Germany #Mastodon #Taxes

Here’s what we are reading today:

The #US hopes that after delivering #ATACMs to #Ukraine, #Germany will be more likely to send #Taurus missiles, an anonymous U.S. official told TV5 Monde, a French public television network.

https://information.tv5monde.com/direct/direct-washington-encourage-berlin-envoyer-des-missiles-longue-portee-kiev-2719351?amp

DIRECT -Washington encourage Berlin à envoyer des missiles longue portée à Kiev

Les États-Unis espèrent que leur récente décision d'envoyer des missiles longue portée à l'Ukraine va encourager l'Allemagne à en faire de même. Mais Berlin a toujours refusé d'envoyer ses missiles Taurus qui peuvent aller jusqu'à 500km.

^{TV5MONDE - Informations}

@Enjomineur D3 Translated by #DeepL:

If it's not a fake, it just goes to show that being Russian-speaking doesn't mean being Russian-speaking. Language should not be confused with nationality. The Irish are not English.

Yes, true. We have many nationalities here in #Germany and many speak German but not all are Germans.

#Russia has warned #Kazakhstan its oil transit to #Germany could stop in June due to a payment impasse in a stark reminder of the landlocked country's reliance on Russia for its exports, sources said. The warning from state-controlled pipeline operator #Transneft is a reminder of Kazakhstan's exports fragility with most of its flow of 1.5 million barrels per day or 1.5% of global supply going via various Russian pipelines.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-warns-kazakhstan-oil-transit-germany-risk-over-service-payments-sources-2024-04-25/

#EU #Ukraine

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2024/04/24/germany-to-resume-cooperation-with-palestinian-unrwa-agency

Germany finally admits the truth about UNRWA and resumes funding.

#worldnews #news #unrwa #germany #gaza #palestine

German police prevent Irish people from speaking and singing in Irish in Germany.

But hey, at least we still have the Single Market™, amirite?

EU, you’re doing amazing, sweetie!

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/berlin-police-ban-irish-protesters-from-speaking-or-singing-in-irish-at-pro-palestine-ciorcal-comhra-near-reichstag/a234500393.html

#germany #eu #ireland #democracy #irish #israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #iDidNaziThatOneComing

Berlin police ban Irish protesters from speaking or singing in Irish at pro-Palestine ‘ciorcal comhrá’ near Re

Irish protesters were told they are not allowed to speak or sing in Irish at the pro-Palestine protest camp near the Reichstag in Berlin.

^{Adrianna Wrona (Irish Independent)}

What the actual f*ck?!

#freedom #palestine #ireland #germany #irish

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/berlin-police-ban-irish-protesters-from-speaking-or-singing-in-irish-at-pro-palestine-ciorcal-comhra-near-reichstag/a234500393.html

Berlin police ban Irish protesters from speaking or singing in Irish at pro-Palestine ‘ciorcal comhrá’ near Re

Irish protesters were told they are not allowed to speak or sing in Irish at the pro-Palestine protest camp near the Reichstag in Berlin.

^{Adrianna Wrona (Irish Independent)}

🇩🇪 A German politician was filmed taking large sums of cash from a Kremlin-supporting broadcaster, #Czech intelligence has claimed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/21/german-politician-allegedly-took-russian-money/

Archive: https://archive.is/XqXXD

#germany #russia

Petr Bystron of far-Right German party AfD 'filmed taking Russian money'

Petr Bystron, of far-Right AfD party, allegedly given €20,000 by pro-Kremlin broadcaster

^{The Telegraph}

Inside #Externsteine, #Germany

Source: https://pixelfed.de/p/Annie/686944549914881240

Annie (@Annie@pixelfed.de)

Inside Externsteine, Germany #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #ExternSteine #TeutoburgerWald #Germany #Deutschland #Rocks #Landschaften #BlackAndWhite #SchwarzWeiss #LandscapePhotography

^Pixelfed

Here’s what we are reading today:

161 #Ukrainian children that were abducted to #Russia and #Belarus were found in #Germany with the help of German law enforcement agencies, says Ivan Vyhivskyi, the Chief of the National Police of #ukraine

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/17/7451586/index.amp

161 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia found in Germany

^{Ukrainska Pravda}

Interview

Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Shut Down Palestinian Conference

Germany's crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices continued with the conference stormed by police.

Germany’s Interior Ministry had also banned some conference speakers from entering the country.

"This is not about protecting Jews from antisemitism. It’s all about protecting the right of Israel to commit any war crime of its choice,” said Varoufakis

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/germany_palestine

#Germany #Fascism ..

Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference

As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, we speak with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers at a conference in Berlin last weekend that was forcibly shut down by police.

^{Democracy Now!}

The Nazis recruited to win the Cold War - Brian Crim

Dig into Operation #Paperclip, a secret intelligence program which brought scientists from Nazi #Germany to the #US after #WWII.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiKQjezOKXc

The Nazis recruited to win the Cold War - Brian Crim

Dig into Operation Paperclip, a secret intelligence program which brought scientists from Nazi Germany to the US after WWII.--In May of 1945 the Third Reich ...

^YouTube

#ClimateCrisis #ForestFires

(1/n)

It is high time to think out of the box and to adopt new practices to prevent forest fires.

Apart from exchanging existing #tree species with more heat and #drought resistent types, as some countries like #Germany are doing, active forest management with preventive #fires to destroy the accumulated undergrowth that tends to become a tinder box is of the essence. Many countries could learn a lot from indigenous...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/21/wildfire-prescribed-burns-california-native-americans

'Fire is medicine': the tribes burning California forests to save them

For millennia, native people have used small burns to protect the land. The US government outlawed the process for a century before recognizing its value

^{Susie Cagle (The Guardian)}

So it turns out Yanis isn’t banned from Germany and it was just a lie told by the German police to stop him from speaking at the event?

🤔

https://diem25.org/chronicle-of-the-betatigungsverbot-against-yanis-varoufakis/

#germany #YanisVaroufakis #diem25 #israel #gaza #palestine #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide

Chronicle of the Betätigungsverbot against Yanis Varoufakis - DiEM25 Communications

German authorities are struggling to distance themselves from their farcical authoritarianism

^{DiEM25 Communications (DiEM25)}

Germany, circa 2024.

#germany #democracy #israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide

Wow. Germany, are you ok, hon?

https://diem25.org/germany-bans-yanis-varoufakis-from-entering-the-country/

#democracy #germany #Yanis #Varoufakis #YanisVaroufakis #israel #palestine #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #iDidNaziThatOneComing

Germany bans Yanis Varoufakis from entering the country - DiEM25 Communications

The German Ministry of the Interior has issued a ban against Yanis after the police shut down the Palestine Congress

^{DiEM25 Communications (DiEM25)}

"#Germany accepts even less security for its citizens, giving yet another #Patriot system to #Ukraine.*

WTAF Republicans?!?

Next year, you'll have to explain why you didn't act on time and need to send US troops to defend #NATO allies "now."

https://journa.host/@w7voa/112264251359432381

Steve Herman

2024-04-13 13:55:30

Germany to send additional Patriot system to Ukraine. https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-germany-to-send-additional-patriot-system/live-68811631

Ukraine updates: Germany to send additional Patriot system

The delivery of the air defense system by Berlin follows a recent increase in Russian airstrikes on Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia claims it has captured a village near Avdiivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region. DW has more.

^{Deutsche Welle}

German police once again arresting Jewish people resisting a genocide.

#Germany #Israel #Genocide

German police have announced they are shutting down the Palestine Congress and demanded delegates leave immediately. They have threatened to use force and already arrested one of the organizers, Jewish activist Udi Raz. He is the third person to be arrested today, two of them Jewish.

#Palestine #Germany #GazaGenocide

https://t.me/theredstream/8131

The German parliament has voted for legislation smoothing the process for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people to change their name and gender identity. #Germany #LGBTQ

https://p.dw.com/p/4eg2I

Gender identity law passes in German parliament

The German parliament has voted for legislation smoothing the process for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people to change their name and gender identity.

^{Deutsche Welle}

Crab boats @ cutter harbor (Kutterhafen), Wremen, Lower Saxony

#wremen #germany #pixelfed #nordsee #maritime #niedersachsen

Germany says it has a strict framework for deciding on when and whether to ship weapons. It distinguishes export of:

• war weapons: ammunition, aircraft, etc.
• other military equipment: anything else that helps a military wage war

Says that Germany "carefully assesses: all export licences and there's lots of scrutiny.

#ICJ #Nicaragua #Germany #genocide #complicity #Palestine #Gaza

More "evidence" of Germany's commitment to the wellbeing of the people of Palestine: airdrop pics

¯(°_o)/¯

#ICJ #Nicaragua #Germany #genocide #complicity #Palestine #Gaza

The speaker for Germany first wants to make the case that Germany has lots of concern for the wellbeing of the people of Palestine.

Evidence offered:

• that Germany appointed a special envoy for humanitarian assistance to Gaza
• that Germany donated plenty millions in humanitarian assistance to occupied Palestine
• says that Germany didn't withdraw support for UNRWA

#ICJ #Nicaragua #Germany #genocide #complicity #Palestine #Gaza

Next speaker for Germany begins their oral arguments.

#ICJ #Nicaragua #Germany #genocide #complicity #Palestine #Gaza

"While the situation in Gaza is dramatic, there is no risk of irreparable prejudice concerning the rights that Nicaragua asserts vis-a-vis Germany", says Germany.

whoa, the brazenness

#ICJ #Nicaragua #Germany #genocide #complicity #Palestine #Gaza

Germany says that Nicaragua's case against Germany has no legal basis, because the case against Germany depends on an assessment of actions committed by 'israel' (i.e. that 'israel' is plausibly committing genocide), while 'israel' is not a party to the proceedings.

Says that the International Court of Justice has no jurisdiction in this case.

#ICJ #Nicaragua #Germany #genocide #complicity #Palestine #Gaza

Khamas counter: 10.

#ICJ #Nicaragua #Germany #genocide #complicity #Palestine #Gaza

Germany points out that it's been offering humanitarian aid to Palestine, not only through UNRWA but also the World Food Programme and other organizations.

#ICJ #Nicaragua #Germany #genocide #complicity #Palestine #Gaza

Khamas counter: 6

#ICJ #Nicaragua #Germany #genocide #complicity #Palestine #Gaza