Where is Gerhard?

Putin did it, "Ukraine fired for the first time tonight on its own territory of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, with regular soldiers. We have now been firing back since 5:58 a.m." This is the slightly modified text Hitler pronounced on German radio on September 1, 1939, to justify his military invasion of Poland.
*Compared with the original text from 1939, Putin is 13 minutes late 

The official press release of this morning reads as follows:

"In the conflict with Ukraine, Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin officially ordered a foreign deployment of the Russian military in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. This was announced by the Kremlin in Moscow at 5:58 a.m. Moscow Time. Putin is thus responding to a written request from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics for assistance in fending off attacks by the Ukrainian army."

From now on, Red Baron will count Putin together with Louis XIV, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, and the above-cited Gröfaz (greatest commander of all times) among the great warmongers.

In my opus magnum "Freiburgs Geschichte in Zitaten," I wrote in the introduction:

"The historian Heinrich von Treitschke knew, 'Great men make history.' On closer inspection, one realizes that there are always ambitious and ultimately inhumane rulers who make great history … [But those] epochs of great men with great histories are usually followed by long periods of small histories in which the previously battered common man struggles in his and the many widowed women in their way to survive and to set things right again."

"During the Thirty Years War, Sebastian Franck noted in his Kriegsbüchlein (booklet of war), 'The greatest evil in wars always falls on those who are least to blame for it, on peasants, widows, and orphans. '" 

How gruesome and true.

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So let me ask again, "Wo ist Gerhard Schröder," former German chancellor, Putin's bosom buddy, and a boss at the Russian natural gas supplier Gazprom?

Well, at 3 p.m., Gerhard made the following statement:

"The war and the suffering it causes for the people of Ukraine must end as soon as possible. This is the responsibility of the Russian government." But then the Kremlin lobbyist warns, "Looking to the future, it is important that care is taken now with necessary sanctions not to completely cut the remaining political, economic and civil society ties that exist between Europe and Russia."

Did you expect anything else?

The helplessness of Western democracies (©Facebook)

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