Cold War Reloaded - Der neue Ost-West Konflikt

Zitat von Wemir

Wird noch besser:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/…stf%C3%A4lischen_Friedens

Jahr Preisträger
2018

Estland, Lettland und Litauen

Hahahahah...

Also bei den anderen wundert mich das ja nicht, aber dass Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preußen, Oberhaupt des Hauses Hohenzollern, sich für diesen Schundpreis hergegeben hat, lässt mich wirklich am Vaterland verzweifeln...

Zitat von Wemir

Insofern ist die Antwort immer gib mehr.

Immerhin gibt die ukrainische Regierung DieUkraine™ im Gegenzug auch mehr Humanressourcen ab.

A propos Humanressourcen...:

What You Won’t Read About Ukraine in Your Newspaper

There is much of significance happening in Ukraine right now that is being reported either lightly or not at all by the mainstream Western media in an apparent attempt to harmonize their reporting with Kiev’s narrative in order to keep hope high and economic and military support flowing.

Zitat von Ted Snider - antiwar.com, 10.11.25

[...] Russia’s chief of staff, General Valery Gerasimov, reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Russian armed forces are “advancing along converging axes” and “have completed the encirclement of the enemy” in Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad.” His Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksandr Syrskii, said the report does “not correspond to reality.” Ukrainian officials “insist,” The New York Times reports, “that special units are clearing Russians out of the city.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky boasted that “in Pokrovsk, we continue to destroy the occupier.”

Though the Ukrainian armed forces may have temporarily pushed the Russian forces partially back, the Russian forces have retaken a large part of Pokrovsk and now control about 80% of it. The pincers that are steadily closing around Pokrovsk are now just a kilometer apart, a gap that is difficult and dangerous for Ukraine’s best paratroopers to escape through. Though Ukraine continues to deny the encroaching encirclement, admitting only that the situation is “difficult,” the narrative won’t change the reality on the battlefield. Ukraine’s Euromaidan Press says that Pokrovsk now “risks becoming a graveyard for Ukraine’s finest.” The Kyiv Independent assesses that “saving the city from falling in the short term looks to be a daunting, and likely impossible task.”

The Western media also reports that Russia’s gains are coming at a greater loss. The Times reports that “Russia’s incremental advances have come at an immense cost. While Ukraine wants to hold on to Pokrovsk, military commanders argue that the large losses it is inflicting on the Kremlin’s troops there will hurt the Russian war effort more broadly.”

But The Times exaggerates Russia’s losses in the war more broadly by at least three times and shrinks Ukraine’s losses by the same amount. As far as Pokrovsk goes, analysts have noted that the attrition of Ukraine’s forces in the war have led to a situation in Pokrovsk where Russia’s forces are taking the fortified city without huge losses in troops or equipment.

And, according to The Times, “the military significance of losing Pokrovsk may be relatively small for Ukraine.” But, the loss of Pokrovsk means, not only the loss of a critical strategic hub for supplying Ukrainian forces in the east, but also the possible loss of control of Ukraine’s defensive line of linked fortification in Donetsk.

Perhaps even more lacking in Western reporting of the battlefield is that a number of military analysts have pointed out that singular focus on Pokrovsk misses the larger picture that that the Russian armed forces have entered or partially encircled several cities in Donetsk, threatening a larger encirclement of the area, and that for the first year in the war, the Ukrainian armed forces have been unable to launch any kind of offensive in 2025. Those two battlefield realities combine to create a larger context that is more ominous still. It suggests that Russia’s war of attrition has depleted Ukrainian troops to the point that they are no longer able to attack Russia or to defend themselves.

Ukraine’s desperate situation on the battlefield has led to two more underreported events. The first was the simultaneous explosions at oil refineries in Hungary and Romania. The fact that both refineries process Russian crude oil and that Ukraine and Europe seem to have shifted their strategy from defeating Russia on the battlefield to cutting off Russia’s oil revenue to drive them to the negotiating table, have led to speculation that Ukraine was behind the two acts of sabotage. [...]

The Western media seems to be complicit in harmonizing with Kiev’s misleading message in order to keep Western morale up and Western arms flowing. But, though the narrative may be strong enough to mislead a public that trusts its newspapers, it will not be strong enough to alter reality. Ukraine is turning to more desperate measures in an attempt to address a dire situation on the battlefield in which they no longer have the manpower to go on the offensive nor to defend themselves and in which troops are deserting as fast as they are being killed.

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Zitat von Wemir

Gut diese ehemaligen Sowjetrepubliken sind eine gute Wärmeversorgung gewöhnt und die Ukraine ist jetzt auch nicht gerade Sibirien, so hartgesotten werden die da nicht sein.

Da herrscht kontinentales Klima. Das sollte man nicht unterschätzen. Ich war mal im Dezember und Januar in Rumänien in der Nähe der Karpaten, da hatte es einfach zwei Wochen lang nie mehr als minus zehn Grad und es lag ein halber Meter Schnee. Die Leute saßen da im Unterhemd in der Wohnung, weil die Heizung nur zwei Stufen hatte: an oder aus, und man hat dann eben beim Heizen das Fenster aufgemacht, wenn es zu warm wurde.

Das war allerdings Anfang der 2000er. Da war Gas das einzige was es in Rumänien im Überfluss gab - was man von der heutigen Ukraine unter russischem Drohnen- und Raketenbeschuss sicher nicht behaupten kann.

Flächendeckende Stromausfälle sind offenbar ein guter Anlass für den Rausschmiss des Energieministers.

Major corruption scandal engulfs top Zelensky allies

Ukraine's energy and justice ministers have resigned in the wake of a major investigation into corruption in the country's energy sector.

Zitat von BBC - 12.11.25

President Volodymyr Zelensky called for Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk and Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko's removal on Wednesday.

On Monday anti-corruption bodies accused several people of orchestrating a embezzlement scheme in the energy sector worth about $100m (£76m), including at the national nuclear operator Enerhoatom.

Some of those implicated in the scandal are - or have been - close associates of Zelensky's.

The allegation is that Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko and other key ministers and officials received payments from contractors building fortifications against Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.

Among those alleged to be involved are former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov and Timur Mindich - a businessman and a co-owner of Zelensky's former TV studio Kvartal95. He has since reportedly fled the country.

Halushchenko said he would defend himself against the accusations, while Grynchuk said on social media: "Within the scope of my professional activities there were no violations of the law."

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (Nabu) and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (Sap) said the investigation - which was 15 months in the making and involved 1,000 hours of audio recordings - uncovered the participation of several members of the Ukrainian government.

According to Nabu, the people involved systematically collected kickbacks from Enerhoatom contractors worth between 10% and 15% of contract values.

The anti-corruption bodies also said the huge sums had been laundered in the scheme and published photographs of bags full of cash. The funds were then transferred outside Ukraine, including to Russia, Nabu said.

Prosecutors alleged that the scheme's proceeds were laundered through an office in Kyiv linked to the family of former Ukrainian lawmaker and current Russian senator Andriy Derkach.

Nabu has been releasing new snippets of its investigation and wiretaps every day and on Tuesday it promised more would come. [...]

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Was es mit der "Korruptionsbekämpfung" in den Ex-Sowjetrepubliken und insbesondere in der Ukraine so alles an Eigentümlichkeiten auf sich hat, wie sich das in die neoliberalen "Reformen" einpasst, die diesen Ländern zur Bedingung westlicher Unterstützung und Kreditvergabe auferlegt, und als Maßnahmen der "Entkommunisierung" verkauft werden, haben Volodymyr Ishchenko und Peter Korotaev schon mal anlässlich der kurz aufgeflammten Proteste gegen Zelenskyjs "Korruptionsbekämpfungs"-Politik in einem sehr langen Artikel im August bei Jacobin aufgeschrieben:

Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Showdown Isn’t About Democracy

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has been criticized for recent moves to centralize power. But these developments are less about the actions of a single leader and more the result of decades of state weakness following the dissolution of the USSR.

Zitat von Volodymyr Ishchenko & Peter Korotaev - Jacobin, 25.08.25

Volodymyr Zelensky’s failed attempt to subordinate Ukraine’s anti-corruption organs to his prosecutor general’s office has drawn widespread Western criticism. Just weeks earlier, accusations of authoritarian consolidation, opposition attacks, and crony cover-ups would hardly surface in Western discourse beyond stigmatized circles of “Russian propagandists,” “tankies,” or MAGA supporters.

Now many influential international publications are interpreting the crackdown as an attempt to disrupt investigations into Zelensky’s inner circle. The EU unprecedentedly even cut its wartime financial aid. In the most significant protest since the imposition of martial law in 2022, thousands of Ukrainians, primarily young people, demonstrated against the new law, which could remove the independence of two key anti-corruption bodies.

The July escalation included the persecution of prominent “anti-corruption civil society” figures and even the detention of anti-corruption detectives as alleged Russian collaborators. Legislation was rapidly passed removing the independence of the anti-corruption organs, which were then withdrawn equally rapidly the following week under both EU and public pressure.

However, contrary to the mainstream narrative, this represents neither a clash between “Zelensky’s authoritarianism” and “Ukrainian robust civil society” nor any proof of Ukrainian democracy’s “resilience.”

The episode exposed three fundamental problems with the dominant Western interpretation of the Russia-Ukraine war. First, it shows just how selective the supposed concern over authoritarian and repressive trends in Ukrainian politics really is, with the latest developments troubling neither Ukrainian “civil society” nor Western press until the specific interests of the Ukrainian middle class are threatened.

Second, the anti-corruption institutions themselves face widespread distrust for ineffectiveness and systematic corruption, making this conflict far more complex than neutral investigators versus corrupt officials.

Third, the struggle reflects broader post-Soviet class conflicts rather than simple democratic accountability. Zelensky’s retreat signals not democratic strength but Ukrainian government weakness, which this conflict only exacerbated precisely when the deteriorating situation on the front lines and declining US support are pushing the Ukrainian government to difficult and unpopular decisions. [...]

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