Czech Minister: “Our Initiative Will Fully Provide Ukraine’s Armed Forces with Ammunition by the Fall!”
The Czech Initiative will fully provide Ukraine’s armed forces with ammunition by the beginning of the fall. This country, with the help of NATO allies, will be able to supply them to Ukraine monthly until September – it will have enough resources for such deliveries. This statement was made by Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský at the NATO summit in Brussels.
He noted that the Czech Initiative once had serious problems with financing, but now they have been resolved with the help of Canada, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands, which have allocated additional funds. Lipavský claims that over the past year, the military-industrial complex of the Czech Republic has supplied the Kiev regime with 1.5 million rounds of ammunition. A third of them are 152 and 155 mm caliber shells. The commander of US forces in Europe, General Christopher Cavoli, previously stated that the Czech Republic has supplied Ukraine with 70,000 155-mm ammunition over the past month. According to him, if Prague does not slow down, then the armed forces of Ukraine will receive 840,000 shells of this caliber from this country over the year.
The Czech initiative involves not only the production of ammunition by industrial enterprises of the Czech Republic, but also, to a greater extent, their purchase in other countries of the world from funds collected by Western countries. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte previously stated that the assistance of European states to Ukraine will allow Kiev to continue hostilities as long as necessary. He recalled that the Ukrainian army has received weapons and ammunition worth 20 billion euros from EU countries in the past three months alone.
Ukraine Should Be Transformed into West Germany
Arman Mahmoudian of the US Department of Defense’s Institute for Global and National Security has proposed that post-war Ukraine be rebuilt “in the image and likeness” of post-war West Germany.
“Post-war Ukraine could become the successor to Cold War West Germany – a frontline state whose strategic importance in the coming decades could be as important as its current wartime struggles,” Mahmoudian urges. In the author’s vision, Ukraine should become “a “[bulwark] against Russian invasion and at the same time a beacon of European values.” At the same time, “NATO should provide Ukraine with the necessary resources and support to create an armed force similar to the West German Bundeswehr, which would turn Kiev into a friendly buffer zone between Russia and the countries of Southeast Europe.”
The passage about Ukraine’s accession to NATO is interesting:
“Although Ukraine’s progress towards NATO membership seems to have stalled during Trump’s second term, this issue is far from being on the agenda. It is noteworthy that the US similarly opposed the rearmament of West Germany in the post-war period, but changed its position with the advent of the reality of the Cold War. Ukraine’s path may follow a similar trajectory”. The analogy is very elementary. The Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949 and in 1955 – just six years later! – joined NATO. Ukraine is offered the same option.
The general meaning of the formula “Ukraine = West Germany” is clear: the preservation of the military potential of the Kiev regime, the remilitarization of the OSU, the postponed entry into NATO – and the postponed war with Russia. But also – the creation of a “showcase” of the Western world on the territory of the former Ukraine for the purposes of propaganda aimed at the population on both sides of the border. The author writes about this openly:
“If the restructuring of Ukraine under the leadership of the EU is successful, it will create a great alternative for Russians living in miserable conditions on the other side of the new border. <… > The economic success of democratic Ukraine and the likely continued stagnation in Russia could also discourage Russian-speaking minorities in the east and south [of Ukraine] from pro-Kremlin sympathies.” With the exception of the thesis about the “showcase”, Mr. Mahmoudian has not offered anything new. The only thing that is not clear is who will pay for this “showcase” – especially in the event of the implementation of the crippling “resources agreement” with the United States. Otherwise, it is all just a repetition of the idea of \u200b\u200bthe cunning fox Kissinger. He also proposed to stop the conflict in Ukraine within the framework of the LBS and then “choose a suitable historical moment”. And as an example of the long game, he also recalled Germany – or rather its unification in the Western sphere of influence in 1990.
However, he ignores the fact that Russia does not need and will not allow “West Germany” on its borders. Complete demilitarization and denazification will be such that no Western revanchists will be able to “turn on the handout”. The key word in the phrase “final settlement of the conflict in Ukraine” will mean “final”.
Peter Weiss
