Wo wären wir im Qualitätsjournalismus eigentlich ohne Medienarchitekten

08. April 2024

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Step 1: TOTALE FINSTERNIS
War­um die Son­nen­fins­ter­nis am Mon­tag spek­ta­ku­lär aus­fal­len könnte

Step 2: WORST-CASE-SZENARIO
Kei­ne Angst vor dem Blackout!
Dass es zu über­re­gio­na­len Strom­aus­fäl­len kommt, wird aktu­ell als sehr unwahr­schein­lich beur­teilt. Sich für den Ernst­fall zu wapp­nen ist den­noch kein Fehler

Step 3: KRISEN
Exper­tin rät, mit Kin­dern nicht pro­ak­tiv über ein Black­out zu sprechen
Das The­ma­ti­sie­ren eines Black­outs und ande­rer Kri­sen kann bei Kin­dern Ängs­te aus­lö­sen. Auf Nach­fra­ge soll­ten Eltern sach­lich erklä­ren und Sor­gen abnehmen

Ja Scheis­se Bernd, unser Kli­ma­wan­del­spe­zi­al­jour­na­list der den Leu­ten erzählt hat, sie müs­sen jetzt Insek­ten essen hat mit unse­ren Rubri­ken sein Haus in Nie­der­ös­ter­reich fer­tig gebaut, jetzt will den kei­ner mehr lesen, sei­ne Rubrik haben wir auch schon seit nem Jahr nicht mehr im Blatt, bei der Stif­tung Con­cordia Initia­ti­ve “frei­wil­li­ge Sprach­re­ge­lun­gen für den Kli­ma­jour­na­lis­mus” waren wir trotz­dem feder­füh­rend dabei -

Die gute Nach­richt des Tages

jetzt hat sich die öffent­li­che Mei­nung gedreht, wo krie­gen wir denn jetzt neue Leser her?

Fürch­tet euch nicht, wir haben ja jetzt im Kata­stro­phen­fall kei­nen Strom mehr, mit den Kin­dern würd ich trotz­dem nicht dar­über sprechen.

Huff, nach dem Arbeits­tag aber erst mal auf einen Absa­cker ins Cafee - viel­leicht tref­fen wir ja dort Ben Hod­ges, der uns sagt was wir mor­gen schrei­ben sollen.

Para­de­jour­na­lis­mus

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk und abar­tigst Allerletzte.

Sla­wa Ukraine!

Falls noch wer den Bum­per Sti­cker braucht - bei Ama­zon ist er aktu­ell lei­der nicht mehr verfügbar.

Ach­ja, den Scheiss ver­link ich natür­lich nicht, das wäre bit­te als Ser­vice zu verstehen.

ARD funhour with a ukrainian dominus

08. April 2024

Kom­men­ta­re sind deaktiviert.

A few easy rules to remem­ber to go by, for the hour:

You will not call it a war of attri­ti­on, only I will call it a war of attrition!”

You will not tell me, that I need your Tau­rus, only I will tell you that I need your Taurus!”

Budanow is gre­at. The jour­na­list says he knows he is. “Herr Budanow sie sind dafür bekannt Ent­wick­lun­gen genau vor­her­sa­gen zu können.”

Budanow is gre­at. Budanow says he knows he is. “Das ist mein Job.”

*hus­ten­an­fall*

The BBC has not veri­fied this claim

*mehr­hus­ten­an­fall*

Meet Kyry­lo Buda­nov, the stra­te­gic hero of Charkiw

*whip*

Jour­na­list: “Vie­len Dank.” Budanow: “Dafür nicht!”

This was the ARD fun­hour, this time with a ukrai­ni­an domi­nus. One of the grea­test they have.

Oh, and I think I final­ly caught the rea­son why Budanow flew through all the dumb ques­ti­ons in the “Stra­te­gic hero of Char­kiw” video pro­duc­tion at the Yes con­fe­rence I lin­ked abo­ve. Its a com­bi­na­ti­on of being brie­fed to the nines, luck and only ans­we­ring inter­view ques­ti­ons in a way whe­re you are always con­cer­ned with loo­king good in the end. That defi­ni­te­ly was part of the domi­nus media training.

Lavender, dilli, dilli -

04. April 2024

Ups wrong video…

Heres the cor­rect one:

Kon­text:

Laven­der’: The AI machi­ne direc­ting Israel’s bom­bing spree in Gaza

The Israe­li army has mar­ked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assas­si­na­ti­on, using an AI tar­ge­ting sys­tem with litt­le human over­sight and a per­mis­si­ve poli­cy for casu­al­ties, +972 and Local Call reveal.

src: click

Laven­der dreams - dil­ly, dil­ly, laven­ders true
When you mis­sed me, dil­ly dil­ly, I did miss you
A pen­ny for your thoughts my dear
A pen­ny for your thoughts my dear
I O U for your love
I O U for your love
For your love, for your love, for your love

Auf das letzte Video hat eh niemand geachtet, oder?

04. April 2024

Zoom Call vom 3. März 2021 Live über­tra­gen, US-Ukraine Secu­ri­ty Dia­lo­gue 12, Event­stand­ort DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Ab 2 Stun­den 30 in:

[In the tran­script below I used auto sub­tit­les only, I’ll be dam­ned if I’d be for­ced to cor­rect that shit one word at a time.]

Olek­san­dr Lyt­vy­nen­ko (new secreta­ry of Ukraine’s Natio­nal Secu­ri­ty and Defence Council):

I’m very thank­ful for orga­niz­a­tors for this - a bril­li­ant, bril­li­ant confer- con­fe­rence becau­se now we have a uni­que oppor­tu­ni­ty to lis­ten many voices and i am real­ly thank­ful for han­nah [sic!] for your very inte­res­ting idea about secu­ri­ty dia­lo­gue in luz [sic!] in his­to­ri­cal pla­ces uh which par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on of our friends from kazan [sic!] and other and others.

Unfor­tu­n­a­te­ly i had to be much more heavy-footed and i will to start my pre­sen­ta­ti­on from the very very simp­le things from my per­so­nal point of view.

We have in our secu­ri­ty dia­lo­gue we have to con­cen­tra­te and do on the very very prac­ti­cal issu­es such as uh cyber pre­pa­ra­ti­on and sci­ence deve­lo­p­ment and uh signing defen­se coope­ra­ti­on agree­ment becau­se we have a many very inte­res­ting and very important uh tracks for com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on for coope­ra­ti­on but from my point of view -

now it’s time to com­bi­ne off of all of them and crea­te the so how it’s a roof com­mon roof com­mon umbrel­la for all the­se ways and for­ma­li­ze it it’s a first of all it was the first thing,

the second thing i stron­gly sup­port idea of nato adjour­ning nato ukrai­ne stra­te­gic cour­se which now is a part of the con­sti­tu­ti­on is nee­ded in your mem­bers­hip but from my point of view if we are thin­king about con­cre­te and midd­le and short-term per­spec­ti­ve it would be gre­at at least to con­si­der issue of the main non-nato out­side nato allies of the us it would be very inte­res­ting and allows us to achie­ve some new oppor­tu­nities this is a third one from my point of view it would be not only not only gre­at and not only use­ful for ukrai­ne but for all black sea regi­on to enhan­ce to stron­gly streng­t­he­ning ame­ri­can naval naval and uh air for­ce pre­sence in the black sea now the this pre­sence and may be one of the most important fac­tors which coun­te­ring rus­sia which deter a cure from more acti­ve and more aggres­si­ve poli­cy in this regi­on it’s what i want to say i wan­ted to say about stra­te­gic levels on the other levels i want to insist of the impor­t­ance of impro­ve­ment of inter­ope­ra­bi­li­ty with u.s and ukrai­ne secu­ri­ty and defen­se sec­tor orga­niz­a­ti­ons uh for us is extre­me­ly important to main­tain and deve­lo­p­ment uh coope­ra­ti­on with euro-us agen­ci­es in the direc­tion of resha­ping the doc­tri­nal level of ukrai­ni­an secu­ri­ty and defen­se sec­tor with accordance of nato stan­dards or if i were honest with ame­ri­can stan­dards -

we need to i’m so sor­ry i tried to be a friend uh with you we have a very inte­res­ting and important les­sons for them we paid much les­sons of figh­t­ing rus­si­an from 2014 and we have to use the­se uh les­sons and sharing the­se ide­as with ame­ri­cans

we need to streng­t­hen our coope­ra­ti­on in the mili­ta­ry edu­ca­ti­on and trai­ning sphe­re it’s extre­me­ly important to train our mili­ta­ry and secu­ri­ty per­son­nel both in ukrai­ne in the u.s so as well from my per­so­nal point of view a big­ger pre­sence in our armed for­ces and secu­ri­ty for­ce secu­ri­ty orga­niz­a­ti­on peop­le who stu­di­ed stu­di­ed and trai­ned in the u.s and other wes­tern coun­tries such as gre­at bri­tain and others would be extre­me­ly important important for chan­ging our mood of our operation

and chan­ging the orga­niz­a­tio­nal cul­tu­re of our armed for­ces peop­le must see a dif­fe­rence, peop­le must see the world the third one 

is extre­me­ly important for us to expan­ding the num­ber and sca­le of joint mili­ta­ry drills in ukrai­ni­an not in the ukrai­ni­an ter­ri­to­ry joint drills it’s not only about trai­ning it’s not only about pre­pa­ra­ti­on not only deve­lo­p­ment of our mili­ta­ry capa­ci­ty but it’s about uh deter­rence of rus­sia as well ame­ri­can pre­sence on the our soil it’s extre­me­ly important this uh third direc­tion mili­ta­ry tech­ni­cal coope­ra­ti­on uh

from my point of view now it’s ent­i­re time to for eva­lua­ti­on and revi­se of exis­ting capa­bi­li­ties and needs for more tar­ge­ting and effec­ti­ve mili­ta­ry u.s mili­ta­ry using of u.s mili­ta­ry aid we are very thank­ful for 125 mil­li­ons dol­lars of ame­ri­can health aide in this year but from my point my point of view we have enough resour­ces for impro­ve­ment effec­ti­ve­ness and i’m so i hope and we i so sor­ry for this uh approach uh expan­ded num­ber of the­se aid from our point of view it’s first of all very important in the air defen­se naval war­fa­re com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons sur­veil­lan­ce and other sphe­res from our point of view we need to impro­ve pro­tec­tion of trans­fer tech­no­lo­gies it’s extre­me­ly important for us it’s extre­me­ly extre­me­ly important uh expan­ding uh ame­ri­can uh invest­ments in ukrai­ni­an mili­ta­ry indus­tri­al com­plex uh we have a extre­me­ly dif­fi­cult uh expe­ri­ence with for­eign invest­ments in this com­plex motor sich unfor­tu­n­a­te­ly motors sich case in one of the most sen­si­ti­ve and known from my point of view the best uh cases and from our and i think the expan­ding of ame­ri­can and other wes­tern invest­ments would be a real solu­ti­on for this situa­ti­on [the situa­ti­on of motors sich!] uh for us important impro­ve­ment of ukrai­ni­an par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in the u.s for­eign mili­ta­ry sales pro­gram very inte­res­ting and uh were a pro­mi­sing uh direc­tion enjoy­ing finan­cing of defen­se pro­cu­red pro­cu­re­ment in ukrai­ne ukrai­ni­ans funds plus u.s government pro­grams like fmf [For­eign Mili­ta­ry Fun­ding] sec­tion three three aut­ho­ri­ty to build capa­ci­ty etc…

Sehr gut Olex­an­der, tol­ler Vor­trag - bein­hart qua­li­fi­ziert dafür jetzt nach der neu­en Umstruk­tu­rie­rung Inlands­ge­heim­dienst­chef der Ukrai­ne zu wer­den! Ich mein bei den Freun­den, und dem intel­lek­tu­el­len Level kann ja nichts mehr schief­ge­hen - ich kann mir gar­nicht vor­stel­len, war­um Russ­land den Krieg vom Sta­pel gebro­chen haben sollte…

Ben Hod­ges, auch noch irgend­was dazu zu sagen?

I belie­ve that gre­at power com­pe­ti­ti­on pre­vents gre­at power conflict!

And may­be even worse i mean that’s to be expec­ted what’s worse they get zero pres­su­re from ger­ma­ny and fran­ce ber­lin and paris have been a colos­sal fail­u­re at hol­ding the krem­lin accoun­ta­ble for what’s going on in ukrai­ne they are two of the key nati­ons for the Minsk pro­cess and yet i don’t feel not one one bit of pres­su­re uh from them on the krem­lin or on the so-called sepa­ra­tists to live up to their uh their agree­ments and as part of the Minsk pro­cess i’m not against Minsk we need a diplo­ma­tic frame­work but so far what has hap­pen­ed has been com­ple­te­ly unsa­tis­fac­to­ry and unsa­tisfy­ing and i think it is time for the united sta­tes to step in to beco­me a lea­ding mem­ber of the Minsk pro­cess uh to to do more than just uh put lip ser­vice on all this and i think ambassa­dor Kurt Vol­ker has cal­led for that for qui­te some time and i hope that the Biden admi­nis­tra­ti­on will estab­lish the role again of a spe­cial envoy spe­ci­fi­cal­ly for this and i hope that we will get into the Minsk pro­cess again yeah it’s not all bad i was very plea­sed that our pre­si­dent desi­gna­ted ukrai­ne ukrai­ni­an sov­er­eig­n­ty as a prio­ri­ty for the united sta­tes in his pho­ne call his first pho­ne call with pre­si­dent putin that means cri­mea that means don­bass sov­er­eig­n­ty uh a prio­ri­ty for the united sta­tes and of cour­se ever­y­bo­dy that’s lis­tening knows that what goes into wha­te­ver the pre­si­dent says whe­ther it’s a speech or a pho­ne call there’s a huge fight to make sure to get your points into that pho­ne call your tal­king points and so the fact that that made it into the president’s pho­ne call as a prio­ri­ty to me is very heartening.

Nein, also immer noch kei­ne Ahnung, war­um Putin die­sen Krieg vom Sta­pel gebro­chen hat.

Gen. Ben Hod­ges, do you have more on that please?

We haven’t always demons­tra­ted as a government and i inclu­de the con­gress on this that the black sea regi­on was a stra­te­gic impor­t­ance to us that’s what’s got to chan­ge we’­re tal­king about not just ukrai­ne but geor­gia [NATO mem­ber - we pro­mi­se, soon!], tur­key [NATO MEMBER], roma­nia [NATO mem­ber], mol­d­o­va [Mem­ber of the North Atlan­tic Coope­ra­ti­on Coun­cil] bul­ga­ria [NATO mem­ber] that the who­le regi­on is important to us and we have to com­pe­te in all tho­se if we do that then i think there’s a lot less likeli­hood of the krem­lin making a ter­ri­ble mis­cal­cu­la­ti­on and thin­king that we don’t care uh which is exact­ly what they accu­rate­ly pre­dic­ted that we would not do anything if they went into cri­mea they they knew that the west would not do anything becau­se we had not com­pe­ted the­re [mili­ta­ry excer­ci­ses] and so that’s what’s got to chan­ge now when i talk about uh com­pe­ti­ti­on i see the black sea as the cauld­ron of com­pe­ti­ti­on, this is the place the bal­tic regi­on is important for sure, but i see Kali­nin­grad actual­ly as a lia­bi­li­ty for the krem­lin we’­ve got so many allied nati­ons up the­re in the bal­tic sea plus two very strong part­ners fin­land and swe­den [did you mean NATO mem­bers, too soon?] it’s a dif­fe­rent geo­gra­phy in the black sea regi­on we have three nato allies they have three part­ners - um the rela­ti­ons­hip bet­ween tur­key and the united sta­tes is in as bad a con­di­ti­on as i’ve seen in a long time that’s not good for the black sea regi­on we have to fix that um the the access through the straits is con­trol­led com­ple­te­ly by tur­key under Mon­treux con­ven­ti­on and frank­ly um it gives the black sea fleet the nume­ri­cal advan­ta­ge always so so it’s a dif­fe­rent set of con­di­ti­ons and i belie­ve that the black sea is more important to the krem­lin than the bal­tic sea it’s their laun­ching pad for ever­ything they do in syria in the eas­tern medi­ter­ra­ne­an in afri­ca uh it’s how they influ­ence uh acti­vi­ties and ope­ra­ti­ons and secu­ri­ty in the cau­cu­ses and it’s how they influ­ence ever­ything in the uh bal­kans so the black sea is essen­ti­al for the krem­lin that i’m not against the krem­lin being able to have uh to do com­mer­ce the­re [.….….….….….][Almost as won­der­full as Wer­ner Fass­labends Rus­sia could give up the black sea as a sign of good will, and use their ice­free har­bor in Mur­mansk ins­tead we heard last year, right?] and whe­re it’s their ter­ri­to­ry to nor­mal sov­er­eig­n­ty things but i’m com­ple­te­ly against what they do when it vio­la­tes the sov­er­eig­n­ty of others or dis­rupts or pre­vents eco­no­mic deve­lo­p­ment of coun­tries in the regi­on, but we haven’t com­pe­ted the­re well enough yet.

Yeah no idea why Putin star­ted this war. Any more insights, Mr Ben Hodges?

I do belie­ve that ber­lin is the only capi­tal that can influ­ence uh krem­lin beha­vi­or and unfor­tu­n­a­te­ly they have been reluc­tant to do it i was appal­led like many of you when pre­si­dent stein­mei­er the pre­si­dent of the ger­man federal repu­blic made this com­ment about nord­strom 2 that like well you have to under­stand you know we’­re respon­si­ble for the death of mil­li­ons of rus­si­ans and uh you know there’s a histo­ry here i i could­n’t belie­ve he i can belie­ve it but i was appal­led that he said it and of cour­se it actual­ly was mil­li­ons of ukrainians […]

I live in frank­furt it’s a incredi­ble city gre­at place ger­ma­ny our most important ally but i hear so many ger­mans talk about well you know cri­mea was always rus­si­an or we have to main­tain the dia­lo­gue we can’t do anything that that threa­tens the dia­lo­gue or we’­re guil­ty from the war it’s unbe­liev­a­ble and so we’­ve got to chan­ge the nar­ra­ti­ve becau­se this this is so easy for the rus­si­ans other­wi­se or when we talk about the sepa­ra­tists no they’­re not sepa­ra­tists the­se are rus­si­an offi­cers, rus­si­an com­man­ders rus­si­an logistics, ever­ything that hap­pens in the Don­bas only hap­pens becau­se of what the krem­lin says and enab­les and becau­se the krem­lin does not allow the OSCE to do its job so this again i think this is whe­re ber­lin and paris have got to step up the mili­ta­ry domain um obvious­ly as i’ve men­tio­ned we’­re limi­ted on what we can do from a naval stand­point um uh is um it’s all it’s a fact and i’m not against mon­treux man­tra, it actual­ly can help um as long as ever­y­bo­dy else is doing ever­ything that they can, the man­tra is not the problem.

Yeah no idea, why Putin would start a war here, no idea whatsoever…

Quick, Ste­phen Blank - Seni­or Fel­low at the For­eign Poli­cy Rese­arch Insti­tu­te, do you have any idea, why rus­sia might break into war here?

The ukrai­ni­an defen­se stra­te­gy pro­cess needs to be fur­ther refor­med put on a nato stan­dard in prac­ti­ce not just in rhe­to­ric the united sta­tes and euro­pe need to con­ti­nue to sup­port ukrai­ne and we need to put pres­su­re on our euro­pean allies to do so and i i think one way we can do this is to hit is to take out nord­strom 2. um i’m appal­led that they seem to be in an effort to uh allow nord­strom 2 to get by becau­se it’s gre­at it will offend the ger­mans qui­te frank­ly i’m not upset about offen­ding the ger­mans, uh mr stein­mei­er show­ed that too many peop­le in ger­ma­ny have no real under­stan­ding of whe­re ger­man inte­rest lies and i think that needs to be brought home to them that you can’t lie in bed with the rus­si­ans then expect that things are going to get bet­ter in euro­pe.

Yeah, I have no idea, why Putin would attack there.

Putins attack was UNPROVOKED and IMPERIALISTIC, I’d say! No idea how you could read that any other way.

Well of cour­se Chom­sky and Jef­frey Sachs told us this from day one - but then you just kick them out of their roles f.e. at Pro­ject Syn­di­ca­te - and make sure no one important publis­hes them any­mo­re -- and then you real­ly, real­ly cant see how that CRAAAAAAAAZY Putin might have been pro­vo­ked into an attack here…

Not today, and not in 50 years, whe­re it would have been impos­si­ble for rus­sia to for­ce the sta­tus quo by mili­ta­ry means.

Com­ple­te­ly unpro­vo­ked impe­ria­lism I’d say.

Also HAIL TO THE RHETORICAL GENIUS THAT IS THE NEW UKRAINIAN SECURTITY CHIEF! Does he have anything more to say?

Of cour­se he does. But of cour­se he does…

What i do first of all,thank you so much i from my point of view it’s too dif­fi­cult to expand nor­man­dy for­mat [some­thing by then every other panelists has allu­ded to, that new ukrai­ni­an secu­ri­ty chief is one smart coo­kie!] but it would be gre­at to remem­ber about gene­va in which we have ame­ri­cans eu and rus­si­ans - may­be it could be very very inte­res­ting approach. The second one from my point of view it would be gre­at if the u.s can uh con­si­der the issue of spe­cial of recrea­ti­on uh the post of uh spe­cial repre­sen­ta­ti­ve for regu­lar for con­flict miti­ga­ti­on [some­thing by then also every other panelists has allu­ded to, that new ukrai­ni­an secu­ri­ty chief is one smart coo­kie!] but from my point of view the most important to expand ame­ri­can pre­sence and ame­ri­can uh par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in all in all for­mat which it’s pos­si­ble to for coun­te­ring rus­sia and to find out solu­ti­on bet­ween rus­sia and ukrai­ne about res­to­ring inte­rior ter­ri­to­ri­al inte­gri­ty of ukrai­ne about miti­ga­ti­on thre­ats and about crea­ti­on a new form of coexis­tence and uh i want to say very small if you want about cor­rup­ti­on i do in ukrai­ne i do agree that it’s figh­t­ing cor­rup­ti­on it’s an extre­me­ly important issue even more from my point of view it would be gre­at to set not only but not only about figh­t­ing com­bat cor­rup­ti­on but about expan­ding or for insti­tu­tio­nal capa­ci­ty of ukrai­ni­an sta­te and public insti­tu­ti­on it’s ex from my point of view it’s a vital issue for the ukrai­ni­an future.

GIVE ME MORE MONEY FOR EXPANDING INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY, THEN I ALSO WILL THINK LONG AND HARD ABOUT FIGHTING CORRUPTION!

What a smart coo­kie that brand new ukrai­ni­an secu­ri­ty chief is!

I see abso­lute­ly not at all how Rus­sia might have been pres­su­red into star­ting this war, after all of that!

Com­ple­te­ly unpro­vo­ked, I’d say.

Gut, die deutsch­spra­chi­gen Medi­en konn­ten das natür­lich nicht recher­chie­ren. Ging ja nicht.

War ja kom­plett unmöglich.

Da haben sie lie­ber die von der Broo­kings Insti­tu­ti­on erfun­de­ne Geschich­te mit dem covid­iso­lier­ten, wahn­sin­ni­gen Putin gebracht, der in Iso­la­ti­on zu viel geschicht­li­che Tex­te gele­sen hat­te, und jetzt dem Impe­ria­lis­mus ver­fal­len ist.

Mit 200.000 Sol­da­ten die 2,8 Mil­lio­nen­stadt Kiew neh­men soll­ten, und dann noch Paris.

Grüs­se bit­te, Grüs­se bit­te an alle die sich so sehr für die Wahr­heit zu Kriegs­be­ginn ein­ge­setzt haben.

Pro­pa­gan­da hat aber immer noch nie­mand entdeckt.

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk und abar­tigst Allerletzte.

edit: Es gibt aber natür­lich auch wie­der gute Nachrichten:

USA for­dern Ver­hand­lun­gen über unab­hän­gi­gen Palästinenserstaat

src: click

Jetzt erst mal für ein paar Mona­te par­al­lel ver­han­deln und eth­nisch säu­bern, sag ich. Ver­let­zun­gen inter­na­tio­na­len Rechts hat ja bis­her nie­mand gese­hen. Ver­let­zun­gen gel­ten­den US Rechts auch nicht (Ver­hin­dern von Hilfs­lie­fe­run­gen aus den US als Begüns­tig­ter von US Militärunterstützung).

The future of war is now!

03. April 2024

John­son says House Repu­bli­cans will soon unveil bill on Ukrai­ne funding

By Ryan Cha­te­lain Washing­ton, D.C.
PUBLISHED 11:55 AM ET Apr. 01, 2024

House Spea­ker Mike John­son, R-La., said Sunday night he expects to put a bill on the floor next week that would pro­vi­de new mili­ta­ry aid to Ukraine.

The Sena­te pas­sed a $95.3 bil­li­on bill for for­eign aid in Febru­a­ry, inclu­ding $60 bil­li­on to sup­port Ukrai­ne in its war against Rus­sia. But John­son has not put the mea­su­re up for a vote in the House, whe­re some Repu­bli­cans firm­ly oppo­se addi­tio­nal Ukrai­ne assistance.

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Clin­ton was off by 2 weeks.

Oh, they found a rare­ly used tool in the toolbox!

In other not at all sur­pri­sing news:

Die Nato will zukünf­tig die Koor­di­na­ti­on des Ukrai­ne Krie­ges von der Ram­stein Kon­takt­grup­pe übernehmen.

Stoltenberg’s pro­po­sal would also give the Wes­tern alli­an­ce a more direct role in coor­di­na­ting the sup­ply of arms, ammu­ni­ti­on and equip­ment to Ukrai­ne as it fights Russia’s invasion.

Under the plans, NATO would take over some coor­di­na­ti­on work from a U.S.-led ad-hoc coali­ti­on known as the Ram­stein group - a move desi­gned in part to guard against any cut in U.S. sup­port if Donald Trump returns to the White House, diplo­mats said.

Stol­ten­berg said the aim was for a decisi­on to be taken at a July sum­mit of NATO mem­ber sta­tes’ lea­ders. NATO decisi­ons requi­re con­sen­sus among its 32 members.

Until now, NATO as an orga­ni­sa­ti­on has focu­sed on non-lethal aid for Ukrai­ne out of fears that a more direct role could trig­ger an esca­la­ti­on of ten­si­ons with Rus­sia. Its mem­bers have pro­vi­ded bil­li­ons of dol­lars in arms on a bila­te­ral basis.

src: click (Reu­ters)

Aus­re­den­ka­len­der durch­blät­ter, ah - “Wegen Trump.”

Und das wo die US bis­her doch so toll koor­di­niert haben.

Und sie wer­dens wohl auch wei­ter­hin tun. Nach­dem die Ukrai­ne sowohl Salu­schnyj als auch den Chef ihres Sicher­heits­ap­pa­rats im letz­ten Quar­tal durch Per­so­nen mit “weni­ger Rück­halt in ihren Depart­ments” getauscht hat [The Ukrai­ni­an pre­si­dent dis­mis­sed Olek­siy Dani­l­ov, head of the natio­nal secu­ri­ty and defence coun­cil, and repla­ced him with for­eign intel­li­gence chief Olek­san­dr Lyt­vy­nen­ko [gre­at US con­ta­cts, just the best US con­ta­cts]], fällt es irgend­wie schwer sich vor­zu­stel­len, dass die bei­de jetzt durch die Nato instru­iert wer­den sol­len… Das ist wohl der “some” Teil den die­ser Neben­satz referenziert:

NATO would take over some coor­di­na­ti­on work from a U.S.-led ad-hoc coali­ti­on known as the Ram­stein group

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