German government invests billions into prolonging Ukraine war
As part of its G7 presidency, the German government is seeking to raise €50 billion in financial aid for Ukraine. The European Union increased its funding for arms deliveries to Ukraine from €1 billion to €1.5 billion. The gigantic arms shipments to Ukraine underline that NATO is waging a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.. . .
Germany and the other NATO powers are pursuing the declared goal of continuing the war until Russia is completely defeated, even if this takes months or even years. In doing so, they are deliberately accepting the risk of a nuclear confrontation that would render large parts of the earth uninhabitable. Its goals are not freedom and democracy for Ukraine, which serve merely as a means to an end, but the subjugation of Russia, control over its vast landmass and unhindered access to its valuable raw materials.
The invasion of Ukraine by the reactionary regime of Vladimir Putin, in response to NATO’s encirclement of Russia, has provided the latter with the necessary pretext to put these plans into action. Some 81 years after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which cost the lives of almost 30 million Soviet citizens, including millions of Jews, German tanks are again rolling towards Moscow.
Under the pressure of the deepest social, economic and political crisis of world capitalism since the 1930s, German imperialism is returning to its old militarist traditions. The risks it is taking in doing so are enormous. The Russian government has the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world and has threatened to use it if NATO further intensifies its offensive.
