This war is not our war

Von Karl Glanz

Ukraine is at war with Russia. The conflict began on February 24, 2021. There are currently at least two wars. A war is a military one, fought between the two powers, Russia and Ukraine. Two warring factions face each other, one will win, the other will lose. This is really not a special statement, because one of these warring countries is better equipped. There really is no direct competition unless we are ready for a direct confrontation with Russia. In any case, we are witnessing a war in which one side loses and the other side wins. Even if we supply arms to Ukraine, it would not change the fact, it would only slow down the process.
The West understood this perfectly and opened a second front, the economic war. And so the US, Japan and Europe are waging this economic war.
Essentially it is the same war as military war, it is fought with different weapons, but it is a war nonetheless.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21. Apr. 2023
• ISBN: 9783755439813

Buchvorschau

This war is not our war

This war is not our war

This war is not our war

from

Karl Glanz

introduction

The Economic Impact of the Ukraine War

The history of the Ukrainian war

The Russian dilemma

This war is not our war

Conclusion

introduction

Ukraine is at war with Russia. The conflict began on February 24, 2021. There are currently at least two wars. A war is a military one, fought between the two powers, Russia and Ukraine. Two warring factions face each other, one will win, the other will lose. This is really not a special statement, because one of these warring countries is better equipped. There really is no direct competition unless we are ready for a direct confrontation with Russia. In any case, we are witnessing a war in which one side loses and the other side wins. Even if we supply arms to Ukraine, it would not change the fact, it would only slow down the process.

The West understood this perfectly and opened a second front, the economic war. And so the US, Japan and Europe are waging this economic war.

Essentially it is the same war as military war, it is fought with different weapons, but it is a war nonetheless.

The GDP of Russia is 1.5 billion US dollars, that of the USA 51 billion US dollars. So if we know those numbers, it's a David versus Goliath war, and who's going to win that war should also be clear.

If we now also include the EU, which is also involved in this economic war, we have a 30:1 ratio in terms of economic wealth and this war is just as one-sided as the military war.

US President Biden and EU Council President Ursula von der Leyen had promised that the sanctions would take effect. They said that the ruble would collapse, the economy would be devastated! After more than a year of war in Ukraine, none of this has happened! The reason for this is quite simple: the global economy has changed.

Today there is BRICS. BRICS is a grouping acronym referring to the developing countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China identified as emerging economic powerhouses. The name has since changed to BRICS following the addition of South Africa in 2010.

The initial goal of BRICS was the establishment of a just, democratic and multipolar world order, but later BRICS became a political organisation, particularly after South Africa's accession.

US dominance is over. What this development has clearly shown us. For several decades, everyone can see the decline in this dominance. And now we're in a kind of stalemate.

The world has changed and it will never be the same again. The situation we are in is new and will have an enormous impact.

Sanctions against Russia are not new, we have had them before. There were public sanctions and covert sanctions. With these sanctions, they wanted to learn from the lessons learned from the sanctions against Iran, Cuba and China in order to bundle them and use them together against Russia. Thus, $300 billion in foreign exchange reserves were confiscated to support the ruble. This money was invested in western banks. The Russians were denied access to this money.

What does that mean? It is a precedent. Whether we want to admit it or not, the days of living in a US-run global economy that abides by the rules of private property are over. There are no more rules of private property. It is being trumped by the economic nationalism that has discarded neoliberal globalization as the dominant one.

The Russians understood better than the West, so they have developed trade ties with China and India and established economic ties with other countries, particularly Latin America, Asia and Africa. It is precisely these relationships that allow the Russians to circumvent these sanctions without significant problems.

If we look at Russia's production now, we can see that it is declining, but not as much as production in the USA, as in Western Europe.

US spending on this war, while not at war, is over $100 billion. The effects of war have wreaked havoc around the world.

Russia is a much smaller economy than the West. It is clear that the sanctions are doing harm, after all Russia needs to redirect the production of civilian products to the production of military ones. Only, the collapse predicted by the West has not yet materialized.

If nothing changes, then it will not happen this year (2023) either. What is a far greater threat to the West, however, is the rising cost of living and inflation, which is driving up electricity and gas prices. If we compare now, then the war for Russia is less of a threat than the economic impact of the sanctions for the West.

But yes, Ukraine and Zelenskyy defend our values, our freedom. This argument is really extraordinary! A larger country has invaded a smaller country. Russia attacked Ukraine. Let's leave it at that. And now let's make a comparison. The US invaded Korea, Korea is a small country; USA invaded Vietnam, also Vietnam is a small country; the US invaded Afghanistan and Afghanistan is a small and one of the poorest countries; the US invaded Iraq, Libya... and many other countries. For 75 years, the US has been doing what it wants, sometimes with UN approval, sometimes without. And now a relatively large country is attacking a relatively small country and suddenly everyone is on the barricades! Morality makes itself known to many people,

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How is this name spelled correctly? There are different opinions. The Salzburger Nachrichten, Wiener Zeitung write Selenski, Die Presse, Kurier, the taz from Germany write him differently. What is the correct spelling now? According to Wikipedia: Volodymyr Oleksandrovich Zelenskyshasch, roughly translated as Zelensky or Zelensky. Who is this Zelenskyj, where all the presidents, chancellors, EU members are shaking hands? We want to get to the bottom of the matter.

Zelenskyj was born into a Ukrainian Jewish family and grew up as an Aaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. Before his acting career, he earned a law degree from Kyiv National Economic University. He then pursued a career in comedy and founded the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons and television shows, including the television series Servant of the People, in which Zelenskyy played the role of the President of Ukraine. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and enjoyed great popularity. A political party with the same name as the TV show was founded in March 2018 by Kvartal