Historical essay by Scott Ritter, A Socialist In Canada, Feb 1, 2023 (This essay was first published in Consortium News, Jan 31, 2023.)
In deciding to supply Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz breaks the self-imposed constraints on the military’s role in German foreign policy that had been in place since the end of WWII
(Scott Ritter is a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control treaties, in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq overseeing the disarmament of WMD. His most recent book is Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika, published by Clarity Press. Read this latst historical essay by him at the original weblink, above.)
Related news, from recent postings to the ‘World news’ page of A Socialist In Canada:
Key Donbass city of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine faces encirclement, reports advisor to Donetsk republic, RT, Feb 1. 2023
Human Rights Watch urges investigation of use by Ukraine of banned land mines, report by NPR, Jan 31, 2023
Related:
* Ukrainian army maimed own civilians with banned mines, RT, Jan 31, 2023
* Report in Al Jazeera, Jan 31, 2023
* The West is silent as Ukraine targets civilians in Donetsk using banned ‘butterfly’(‘petal’) mines, by Eva Bartlett, RT, Aug 7, 2022
The war in Ukraine is a lucrative cash cow for the US ‘merchants of death’, by Joseph M. Siracusa (contributor), Sky News (Australia), Jan 31, 2023 (Joseph M. Siracusa is Professor of Political History and International Diplomacy at Curtin University in Perth.)
