"Does it require that Germans sacrifice their current economy because of sanctions and a US proxy war that could have been easily avoided and could even now be immediately ended instead of being stoked ever more dangerously to the brink of nuclear war?"

"All it would have taken, and all it would take now, is a simple No. No to Ukraine ever joining NATO, no to nuclear weapons in Ukraine, and no to Ukraine’s refusal to implement the Minsk 2 agreement, and as Scholz quite reasonably proposed, a declaration of neutrality “as part of a wider European security deal between the West and Russia.” I fail to see how any rational person can fail to see the common sense and utter simplicity of this, as an alternative to war."
And
"What we are seeing now in Ukraine is insanity. No one is going to accept any guilt. That may come later, if there is a later. "
Michael David Morrissey
Published in Pressenza NY 10 May 2022

[pressenza.com]