Die gute Nachricht des Tages

08. Juli 2023

USA lie­fern der Ukrai­ne Streumunition

Details zur Streubombenlieferung

Die US-Regierung will der Ukrai­ne umstrit­te­ne Streu­mu­ni­ti­on lie­fern und ver­tei­digt sich gegen Kri­tik an die­sem Schritt. “Es ist eine schwie­ri­ge Ent­schei­dung. Es ist eine Ent­schei­dung, die wir auf­ge­scho­ben haben. Es ist eine Ent­schei­dung, die einen wirk­lich har­ten Blick auf den poten­zi­el­len Scha­den für die Zivil­be­völ­ke­rung erfor­der­te”, sag­te der natio­na­le Sicher­heits­be­ra­ter von US-Präsident Joe Biden, Jake Sul­li­van, am Frei­tag im Wei­ßen Haus.

Die Streu­mu­ni­ti­on ist Teil eines neu­en Militärhilfe-Pakets in Höhe von 800 Mil­lio­nen US-Dollar (rund 729 Mil­lio­nen Euro). Das Pen­ta­gon beton­te, man wer­de der Ukrai­ne nur Streu­mu­ni­ti­on mit nied­ri­ger Blind­gän­ger­ra­te lie­fern. Kiew habe außer­dem zuge­si­chert, die Geschos­se nicht in dicht besie­del­ten städ­ti­schen Gebie­ten ein­zu­set­zen und fest­zu­hal­ten, wo die Muni­ti­on zum Ein­satz kom­me. Wei­te­re Details zum Zeit­plan und der exak­ten Men­ge der Lie­fe­rung woll­te das Pen­ta­gon nicht preisgeben.

Die Bereit­stel­lung sol­le aber so erfol­gen, dass sie für die bereits ange­lau­fe­ne ukrai­ni­sche Gegen­of­fen­si­ve rele­vant sei. Die USA haben nach eige­nen Anga­ben Hun­dert­tau­sen­de der Geschos­se auf Lager.

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Viel­leicht auch noch mehr Anti-Personen Minen, ja?

Human Rights Watch reports new evi­dence of Ukrai­ni­an use of ban­ned land­mi­nes. WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reu­ters) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Fri­day that it unco­ve­r­ed new evi­dence of the indiscri­mi­na­te use by Ukrai­ni­an for­ces of ban­ned anti-personnel land­mi­nes against Rus­si­an tro­ops who inva­ded Ukrai­ne in 2022.

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Damit set­zen jetzt bei­de Sei­ten im kon­ven­tio­nel­len Bereich alles ein was geht.

Jetzt kann end­lich wie­der schön wei­ter gestor­ben werden.

Die angeb­li­che gerin­ge Blind­gän­ger Rate bezieht sich übri­gens auf Gra­na­ten die beim Auf­prall nicht explo­die­ren und spä­ter zum Sicher­heits­ri­si­ko wer­den. Was ist denn da so eine “gerin­ge Blind­gän­ger Rate” wie ange­spro­chen? Der MDR weiß mehr: click Och - eh nur 1 Pro­zent oder so. Dh pro abge­set­zer Ladung eine oder zwei… Gut aber, dass die US noch 100.000e davon auf Lager haben.

Trotz­dem aber kei­ne Angst, Baer­bock hilft.

Pro­pa­gan­da hat aber immer noch nie­mand entdeckt.

Wie sagt noch­mal die Stif­tung Wis­sen­schaft und Poli­tik dazu?

Ach­ja, Lernkurve…

Im Wes­ten nichts Neues

edit: Wie­gold sagt 2.35% vs. 14% bei rus­si­scher. Na dann.

Thomas Mayer hat heute eine so hübsche Idee

05. Juli 2023

Wie kann man die Öffent­lich­keit eigent­lich noch verarschen?

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Von der Ley­en muss blei­ben, weil es wegen des Ukrai­ne­krie­ges Kon­ti­nui­tät braucht

So wie der ver­län­ger­te Nato-Generalsekretär Stol­ten­berg hat die EU-Kommissionspräsidentin einen guten Job gemacht

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Was meint eigent­lich Yanis Varou­fa­kis dazu? Also nicht unbe­dingt weil wir den so toll fin­den, son­dern weil in Grie­chen­land ein ande­res öffent­li­ches Nar­ra­tiv unter­wegs ist, das öffent­li­che Kri­tik an irgend­ei­nem Aspekt des Krie­ges gera­de noch (oder über­haupt erst) erlaubt.

Räus­per:

Varou­fa­kis: The one thing that you can actual­ly point out as simul­ta­ne­ous­ly signi­fi­cant and pathe­tic - is that he [Macron] cho­se to bring Ursu­la von der Ley­en with him to Bei­jing to tell two dif­fe­rent stories:

One by Ursula,
One by Emmanuel,

to the Chi­ne­se and to the world media.

That was a catastrophe.

If you bring the pre­si­dent of the EU Com­mis­si­on with you the idea is to have a com­mon position.

But it is impos­si­ble to have a com­mon posi­ti­on, becau­se Ursu­la von der Ley­en is a stand-in, a repre­sen­ta­ti­ve of, a clo­ne of Stol­ten­berg, the Gene­ral Secreta­ry of NATO.

They say the same thing.

It’s the same script.

It’s like one mind, one mouth.

Now, Macron does­n’t have this view. Macron chal­len­ges the idea that Rus­sia must be defea­ted and Moscow must be taken [lets hope he is just refer­ring to regi­me­chan­ge…], and that will be the only just end to the war in Ukraine.

He does­n’t belie­ve that.

He’s not allo­wed to say it any­mo­re but he does­n’t belie­ve it.

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Soet­was fällt einem Tho­mas May­er natür­lich nicht auf - was einem Tho­mas May­er aber anstatt­des­sen auf­fällt ist, dass wenn jetzt Stol­ten­berg ver­län­gert wird, ja auch von der Ley­en ver­län­gert wer­den muss - WEGEN DER ANHALTENDEN KONTINUITÄT.

Shit, fuck. Eh nicht ideo­lo­gisch ver­brämt lie­ber Herr Jour­na­list? Jour­na­lis­mus, also schrei­ben was Sache ist, nicht wahr, Herr Mayer?

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut abar­tigst, gro­tesk Allerletzte.

Der Öffent­lich­keit ist ja auch viel mehr gehol­fen, wenn sie exakt die sel­ben State­ments sowohl von von der Ley­en, als auch von Stol­ten­berg hört.

Pro­pa­gan­da hat aber immer noch nie­mand entdeckt.

edit: Wie gut war eigent­lich der Job von von der Ley­en im Ukrai­ne Krieg?!

Von der Ley­en hat nur 50 Tage gebraucht um die Selen­skyj Posi­tio­nen erst­mals wort­wört­lich zu über­neh­men. Nach dem ers­ten Mal gings dann aber GOTT SEI DANK auch viel schneller.

Von Bor­rell zu Selen­skyj in 50 Tagen

So ein guter Job von von der Leyen.

Wie kann man die Gesellschaft eigentlich noch verarschen?

04. Juli 2023

Mit Pro­fes­so­ren, die einer Öffent­lich­keit erklä­ren wol­len, dass das Ost-/West-Gefälle der Ukrai­ne eigent­lich eine Erfin­dung ist, da es ja bei der Abstim­mung zum EU Asso­zi­ie­rungs­ab­kom­men auch eine Mehr­heit dafür im Osten gab.


Seht ihr, alles in Ord­nung! Leu­te die Ost-/West- Gefäl­le sagen sind ganz böse Putin-Versteher.

Da soll­ten wir bei uns im Sprach­ge­brauch bes­ser pro­ak­tiv maß­re­geln! Also min­des­tens auf social media!

Sagt die Pro­fes­so­rin! Und Phoe­nix fea­tured das in einem freund­li­chen Inter­view ohne Wider­spruch, ich mein war­um auch nicht?

Was sagt eigent­lich die OECD dazu?

Oh…

The pre­vious OECD Ter­ri­to­ri­al Review of Ukrai­ne (OECD, 2014b), com­ple­ted just befo­re the Euro­mai­dan events and the erup­ti­on of a sepa­ra­tist con­flict in the east of the coun­try, con­clu­ded that Ukrai­ne was both admi­nis­tra­tively and fis­cal­ly over-centralised. It argued that a more decen­tra­li­sed form of ter­ri­to­ri­al gover­nan­ce was essen­ti­al to making strength of the country’s size and diver­si­ty and to over­co­m­ing the much-discussed east-west divi­de, which was reflec­ted not only in its poli­tics but also in the struc­tu­re and per­for­mance of regio­nal eco­no­mies. This report updates and extends that ana­ly­sis. It argues that the geo­po­li­ti­cal and eco­no­mic shocks of recent years have had asym­metric impacts, both sec­to­ral­ly and geo­gra­phi­cal­ly. To a gre­at extent, they seem to have acce­le­ra­ted a num­ber of trends that emer­ged in the years fol­lowing the glo­bal finan­cial cri­sis of 2009. The struc­tu­ral shifts that began after the finan­cial cri­sis pre­sent new oppor­tu­nities for some regi­ons, espe­cial­ly in the west of the coun­try, but daun­ting new chal­len­ges for others, par­ti­cu­lar­ly in the east, whe­re the con­se­quen­ces of armed con­flict have exa­cer­ba­ted an alrea­dy dif­fi­cult struc­tu­ral adjus­t­ment. The asym­metric natu­re of the­se shocks across Ukraine’s regi­ons points to the need for a dif­fe­ren­tia­ted poli­cy respon­se and thus rein­for­ces the case for more decen­tra­li­sed gover­nan­ce. Howe­ver, it also unders­cores the impor­t­ance – and dif­fi­cul­ty – of get­ting decen­tra­li­sa­ti­on right, given the pro­ble­ma­tic insti­tu­tio­nal, poli­ti­cal and eco­no­mic envi­ron­ment in which it is being implemented.

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Shit, Fuck.

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist und bleibt das abso­lut abar­tigst, gro­tesk Allerletzte.

Zusatz: Der “Bür­ger­krieg im Osten der Ukrai­ne”, war ein, aber nicht der bestim­men­de Fak­tor, der für den Invest­ment­stau ver­ant­wort­lich war - der Haupt­fak­tor sei, zu viel Zen­tra­li­sie­rung von Ent­schei­dungs­macht in Kiew. Sagt die OECD. Ach­ja, und die Welt­bank.

Aber die Pro­fes­so­rin weiß das natür­lich, das war ganz anders, weil eigent­lich exis­tier­te ja die homo­ge­ne Ukrai­ne, die wir heu­te natür­lich nur alle falsch und noch zu sehr in der Rück­an­sicht betrach­ten. Den East-West devi­de in der Ukrai­ne den gabs ja garnicht.

Wird wie­der mal Zeit für einen Karls­preis wür­de ich sagen. Pro­fes­so­ren kön­nen den eh pro­blem­los ent­ge­gen­neh­men, oder? Und für einen Jour­na­lis­mus Preis fürs rein gar­nicht Nach­ha­ken und fürs tol­le booking!

Wenn ich an Lücken und Leer­stel­len in der Ukraine­be­richt­erstat­tung den­ke lan­de ich ja auch sofort bei “es wird zu unrecht so getan, als sei der Osten der Ukrai­ne pro russisch”.

Erwähnt das The­ma nicht Selen­skyj jede Woche, weil er ja noch kurz den Osten befrei­en muss? Ja, schon, aber zu wenig, und nicht schnell genug! Wo die Pro­fes­so­rin wohl die Idee mit der Lücke in der Debat­te herhat…

Im Elfen­bein­turm auf dem Weg ins Bad den Kopf gestoßen?

Und da klin­gel­te zufäl­li­ger Wei­se auch schon das Tele­fon, und Phoe­nix war mit einer Inter­view­an­fra­ge zur Stelle?

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk, abar­tigst Allerletzte.

Die Ver­pflich­tung auf Lebens­zeit hat die Frau Pro­fes­sor aber schon, oder? Oder arbei­tet sie bei Phoe­nix grad flei­ßig dran? Ten­u­re Party!

Weil wozu was wis­sen, wenn ein­fach die Ideo­lo­gie passt?!

Fragt der Mode­ra­tor: Sehr geehr­te Frau Pro­fes­sor, hat sich viel­leicht in unse­rer west­li­chen Wahr­neh­mung etwas ver­än­dert, also seit Janukowitsch.

Ja, aber viel­leicht nicht genug, was ich damit sagen woll­te ist…”

Ja, dass du hast ein mora­li­sie­ren­des Stan­zerl drauf hast ver­mut­lich, von dem du nicht abwei­chen kannst und willst, und des­halb deflek­test du jetzt jede Fra­ge mit “ihr habt aber gesell­schaft­lich nicht genug getan, und wart außer­dem zu lang­sam!”, also selbst die Fra­gen, die du eigent­lich beant­wor­ten kön­nen soll­test. Also inhaltlich.

Jetzt ist die Dame aber nur Pro­fes­so­rin, also Poli­tik­wis­sen­schaft­le­rin (Prof. Gwen­d­o­lyn Sas­se) und ein neu­es Buch über die Ukrai­ne unter dem Titel “Der Krieg gegen die Ukrai­ne” hat sie auch drau­ßen. Was wir da wohl Inter­es­san­tes drin lesen werden…

Oh, dass wir alle noch immer den spie­geln­den kolo­nia­len Blick drauf hät­ten, als Gesellschaften. 

Na wenn das erst die OECD hört.…

Dan­ke Frau Professor!

Pro­pa­gan­da hat aber immer noch nie­mand ent­deckt, in die­ser ver­fick­ten, drecks, scheiss, Hurengesellschaft.

The best of the best

03. Juli 2023

Tref­fen sich ein Ver­tre­ter des Ger­man Mar­shall Funds of the United Sta­tes, drei (!?) von einer Soros Pri­vat­stif­tung unter­stütz­te pro ukrai­ni­sche NGOs und ein Board Mem­ber einer ukrai­ni­schen Stif­tung -- der aber gleich­zei­tig natür­lich auch Co-founder and Pre­si­dent der Ukrainian-Austrian Asso­cia­ti­on ist - vor einem wohl­wol­len­den Moderator -

nein - Moment der wohl­wol­len­de Mode­ra­tor ist ja auch der Co-founder and Pre­si­dent, Ukrainian-Austrian Asso­cia­ti­on selbst -- also alles ande­re wäre ja auch Freun­derl­wirt­schaft und so gar­nicht sexy/koscher…

Also tref­fen sich die in der diplo­ma­ti­schen Aka­de­mie Wien, um einen Hit nach dem ande­ren rauszuhauen.

Co-founder and Pre­si­dent, Ukrainian-Austrian Asso­cia­ti­on: “Thank you very much Yana may­be I should men­ti­on, that the ERSTE foun­da­ti­on is so clear­ly pro Ukrai­ne -- eehh ahhh, that, eh, you have done, uuuuh, qui­te a few important pro­jects in the past and I do hope that you will con­ti­nue that…” addres­sed at Yana Bari­no­va (Euro­pean Poli­ci­es and Ukrai­ni­an Rela­ti­ons, ERSTE Foun­da­ti­on; for­mer Kyiv City Coun­cil­lor for Culture)

Ideologie-Check BESTANDEN!

Was er uns dar­über hin­aus mit der Aus­sa­ge mit­tei­len woll­te? Ich hab kei­ne Ahnung.

Co-founder and Pre­si­dent, Ukrainian-Austrian Asso­cia­ti­on: “I may just tell you and the audi­ence, that the­re is a pro­ject, even in Aus­tria, in Vien­na - by the pre­si­den­ti­al office of Ukrai­ne, to show the exhi­bi­ti­on [of] Rus­si­an war cri­mes in Ukrai­ne, at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vien­na. I [mys­elf] have [had (die Bes­ten der Bes­ten)] the pri­vi­le­ge to have inn­itia­ted such a pro­ject in aus­tria, but the pre­si­den­ti­al office [of Ukrai­ne] had to deci­de to prio­ri­ti­ze this exhi­bi­ti­on to go to New York, becau­se they are figh­t­ing for every vote at the gene­ral assem­bly of the United Nations.”

Des ist jetzt aber kei­ne Pro­pa­gan­da, oder? Des ist jetzt ein­fach eine infor­ma­ti­ve Kunst­aus­stel­lung mit doku­men­ta­ri­schem Cha­rak­ter, die da auf Anlei­tung des pre­si­den­ti­al office of the Ukrai­ne mal ein­fach ganz schnell von Wien nach New York muss­te, oder?

Des ist ja fast so toll wie die Kunst­aus­stel­lun­gen die sonst nur die Vik­tor Pin­chuck Foun­da­ti­on zustan­de bringt!

Embed­ded Repor­ting == Front­li­ne Journalism

Yana Bari­no­va (Euro­pean Poli­ci­es and Ukrai­ni­an Rela­ti­ons, ERSTE Foun­da­ti­on; for­mer Kyiv City Coun­cil­lor for Cul­tu­re): “NGOs insi­de of them­sel­ves [sic!] they can shift their prio­ri­ties, if they can be fle­xi­ble, they can switch in bet­ween being a MEDIA [out­let], into [sic! to] lear­ning how to docu­ment war cri­mes.” [Very fle­xi­ble of tho­se NGOs, I might add, of cour­se all guar­ded and dri­ven around by the ukrai­ni­an patrol poli­ce, I recon.]

WAIT! NGOs can both be media out­lets and sta­te accredi­ted organs that docu­ment warcri­mes? Thats ama­zing! Just dont for­get to enter on you next job form, the usu­al ngo­jour­na­list­sta­tea­c­credi­ted­warcri­me­ex­per­tand­ana­lyst and if ever - someo­ne asks you what that means, just tell them you were flexible.

Co-founder and Pre­si­dent, Ukrainian-Austrian Asso­cia­ti­on: “The media are play­ing a pivo­tal role in coun­te­ring the rus­si­an nar­ra­ti­ve - which is ever­y­whe­re. And thats not only a ques­ti­on of money, which is plug­gend into the sys­tem sub­ver­si­ve­ly. This is the result of a stra­te­gy over may­be 10, 15, 20 years, when Putin came to power. So - some cri­ti­cism, Ukrai­ne in many aspects until some years ago was slee­ping and did not coun­ter the rus­si­an things, tal­king about cul­tu­re! [Wait for it, waaaaiiiit for it!] Yeah? That rus­sia is doing a cul­tu­ral initia­ti­ve, in order to spread the nar­ra­ti­ve, etc - so cul­tu­ral ambassa­dors of rus­sia, this was not coun­te­red by Ukrai­ne for many years, they were just silent, its not only a ques­ti­on of money. And only with the Ukrai­ni­an Insti­tu­te it star­ted (TELL ME MORE!1!). And that has been may­be five, six, seven years ago, befo­re that the­re was nothing.”

Not­hing? Well thats pro­bab­ly becau­se media is so important, but not near­ly as important as the Ukrai­ni­an Insti­tu­te, right? (*cough cough*)

Yana Bari­no­va (Euro­pean Poli­ci­es and Ukrai­ni­an Rela­ti­ons, ERSTE Foun­da­ti­on; for­mer Kyiv City Coun­cil­lor for Cul­tu­re): “Befo­re that (The Ukrai­ni­an Insti­tu­te I recon?) it was actual­ly more fashion­ab­le to be a Rus­si­an plu­ra­listic wri­ter, than actual­ly ack­now­ledge that you are com­ing from a vil­la­ge in the nort­hern part of Ukrai­ne. [WRONG NARRATIVE, WRONG NARRATIVE!]

Iry­na Kho­mi­ak Pro­gram­me Mana­ger, Ger­man Mar­shall Fund, Ber­lin): I obser­ved this uh also tal­king with col­leagues from other Euro­pean foun­da­ti­ons. First year it was the year of direct aid, urgent needs a direct aid on the bor­ders but now we see that I hope the war will end rather soo­ner than later, but still it con­ti­nues so what the stra­te­gy of Euro­pean phil­an­thro­py should be -- what uh what we can Under­ta­ke and I think that the main thing it’s not to do for Ukrai­ne but to do with Ukrai­ne becau­se defi­ni­te­ly we don’t want to be pas­si­ve reci­pi­ent of of funds we want to be co-creator of uh important impact­ful uh pro­grams so I iden­ti­fy a capa­ci­ty buil­ding initia­ti­ves as the top prio­ri­ty uh for the next several years - why becau­se we say restart Ukrai­ne rebuild Ukrai­ne brin­ging Ukrai­ne Euro­pean inte­gra­ti­on, but this is just words behind each of tho­se words the­re are peop­le and their capa­ci­ties and their know­ledge and their exper­ti­se what they can and well they can’t so I think the best thing what we can do to pre­pa­re peop­le for such enor­mous under­ta­king as rebuild Ukrai­ne to equip with know­ledge to equip with net­works to to equip with the best prac­ti­ces and this in a way means deco­lo­niz­a­ti­on of Euro­pean phil­an­thro­py what they mean it means that you help in order to lea­ve at a cer­tain point you help to grow the Ukrai­ni­an third sec­tor you help Ukrai­ni­an ngos to streng­t­hen its own capa­ci­ty, becau­se many big Inter­na­tio­nal foun­da­ti­ons mis­si­ons come to Ukrai­ne and what hap­pens they head hunt best minds of cour­se uh many peop­le choo­se working for inter­na­tio­nal orga­niz­a­ti­ons, it’s pres­ti­gious it’s it’s secu­ri­ty it’s good sala­ry and then when mis­si­on of this orga­niz­a­ti­on finis­hed and this orga­niz­a­ti­on lea­ve the Ukrai­ne it’s again tabu­la­ra­sa becau­se the­re is no inter­nal infra­st­ruc­tu­re that can con­ti­nue to work so uh I would call all tho­se part­ners who are open and keen to to help Ukrai­ne to to do with Ukrai­ne and to help to strengh­ten its own capa­ci­ty and for each pro­ject to find imple­men­ting part­ners in Ukrai­ne it’s abso­lute­ly ano­t­her tac­tic how you coope­ra­te with Ukrai­ne from other side it’s a big home­work for Ukrai­ni­an ngos becau­se you should be trans­pa­rent you should be accoun­ta­ble and you should know how to accom­pa­ny inter­na­tio­nal orga­niz­a­ti­on in their mis­si­on in Ukrai­ne becau­se to recei­ve the grant it’s one thing but to report on this grant to mea­su­re deli­ver­a­bles and then to build long-term sus­tainab­le stra­te­gy it’s also dif­fe­rent type of skill that requi­re stra­te­gic plan­ning visio­ning com­pli­an­ce with lots of inter­na­tio­nal pro­grams docu­ments stra­te­gies and agendas.

Wait, this is not a grass root move­ment at all? This is all astro­tur­fed by what “Inter­na­tio­nal foundations”?

Who do what “Phil­an­tro­py”?

Becau­se Phil­an­tro­py is so hard, becau­se - and I quo­te: “Becau­se to recei­ve the grant it’s one thing but to report on this grant to mea­su­re deli­ver­a­bles and then to build long-term sus­tainab­le stra­te­gy it’s also dif­fe­rent type of skill that requi­re stra­te­gic plan­ning visio­ning com­pli­an­ce with lots of inter­na­tio­nal pro­grams docu­ments stra­te­gies and agendas.”?

You know, for all the PHILANTROPY grants you recei­ved, right? [WRONG NARRATIVE, WRONG NARRATIVE!]

Iry­na Kho­mi­ak Pro­gram­me Mana­ger, Ger­man Mar­shall Fund, Ber­lin): “Fol­lowing the the needs of of the Civil Socie­ty on the ground we deci­ded to empha­si­ze and sort of rein­for­ce the sup­port um the um full-scale Inva­si­on um to a cer­tain extent um shifted the the Para­digm of uh of donor Civil Socie­ty rela­ti­ons so to say becau­se at some point the donors com­mu­ni­ty star­ted respon­ding to the needs of the Civil Socie­ty on the ground ins­tead of dic­ta­ting or shaping the Nar­ra­ti­ve per se, sin­ce the last late last March begin­ning of April last year we alrea­dy sup­por­ted around 200 pro­jects insi­de of the coun­try as I said on as local levels as pos­si­ble becau­se that’s whe­re the resi­li­en­ce is taking place that’s whe­re the reco­very is taking place I’m not under­mi­ning or neglec­ting the role of the sta­te level ngos and um and initia­ti­ves I’m just try­ing to focus on what I’ve been working with and also to sort of bring up this perspective.”

Oh, not­hing, I - Iry­na Kho­mi­ak Pro­gram­me Mana­ger, Ger­man Mar­shall Fund, Ber­lin, am just sta­ting that the inter­na­tio­nal donor com­mu­ni­ty is shaping the nar­ra­ti­ve of ukrai­ni­an sta­te level NGOs - which arent repre­sen­ta­ti­ve of the ukrai­ni­an peop­le - thats all.

You know, becau­se like the Ers­te Foun­da­ti­on repre­sen­ta­ti­ve befo­re was say­ing, we dont have any ground level initia­ti­ves right now - at all, its all inter­na­tio­nal NGOs working in the Ukrai­ne, then lea­ving the coun­try and lea­ving back, what was it again?! Ah, yes - tabu­la­ra­sa. Not­hing. Abso­lute­ly not­hing at all.

Let me get this strai­ght, but when Jef­frey Sachs sta­tes the following:

It was a coup, of cour­se. It was an uncon­sti­tu­tio­nal sei­zu­re of power when very vio­lent groups, well armed, stor­med the government buil­dings in Febru­a­ry, 2014. [Pro­tes­ters, ange­red by Yanukovych’s rejec­tion of a tra­de agree­ment with the Euro­pean Uni­on, were kil­led by secu­ri­ty for­ces after try­ing to occu­py parts of Kyiv; after­ward, Yanu­ko­vych was iso­la­ted poli­ti­cal­ly and fled to Rus­sia with the assi­s­tance of the Krem­lin. I asked Sachs over e-mail for a source for his claim about the role play­ed by the U.S. He respon­ded, “It is public know­ledge that the Natio­nal Endow­ment for Demo­cra­cy and US NGOs spent hea­vi­ly in Ukrai­ne to sup­port the Mai­dan. I have first-hand know­ledge of that spen­ding.” The N.E.D. told The New Yor­ker that it pro­vi­des fun­ding to civil-society groups but “does not pro­vi­de fun­ding to sup­port protests.”]

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Fol­lo­wed up by quo­te: “dont tell me that stuff!”.

He beco­mes per­so­na non gra­ta. Right? Right.

Its just the best demo­cra­tic socie­ties could mus­ter up, but not befo­re Sachs is actual­ly fired from Pro­ject Syn­di­ca­te of cour­se, whe­re he was the most publis­hed aut­hor befo­re the rus­si­an Inva­si­on of Ukrai­ne.

Right.

Kur­ze Mit­tei­lung an das Huren­wichs­er­schwein von mei­ner ehe­ma­li­gen Psy­cho­the­ra­peu­tin: Wenn ich vor etwas über einem Jahr irri­tiert bin, dass Soros in dem Umfeld gera­de wie­der drei Stif­tun­gen agie­ren hat und der Stan­dard außer­dem wie­der unkon­tex­tua­li­siert State­ments vom ECFR (its just a think tank) von Pro­ject Syn­di­ca­te als “so muss die öster­rei­chi­sche Poli­tik die Bevöl­ke­rung auf einen Lan­gen Krieg vor­be­rei­ten” abschreibt (Pro­ject Syn­di­ca­te has also recei­ved grants from Geor­ge Soros’s Open Socie­ty Foun­da­ti­ons, The Poli­ti­ken Foun­da­ti­on in Den­mark, Die Zeit, ZEIT-Stiftung, and the Bill & Melin­da Gates Foundation.[6]) und dass mich das dann irgend­wie ver­rückt macht - trotz bes­se­ren Wis­sens an der Stel­le nicht in die Ver­schwö­rungs­ecke weg­zu­kip­pen -- das nächs­te Mal viel­leicht was Bes­se­res aus­den­ken als “ja und Elon Musk?” - ok? Supi.

Und kur­ze Mit­tei­lung an das Arsch­loch­wichs­er­schwein von mei­ner ehe­ma­li­gen Psy­cho­the­ra­peu­tin, wenn ich ihr in Monat drei des Krie­ges erzäh­le, WIE der Ger­man Mar­shall­fund of the United Sta­tes, die deut­sche Hal­tung gegen­über dem Krieg kri­ti­siert, und der gleich­zei­tig die ein­zi­ge Quel­le ist, von der ich Hin­ter­grund­in­for­ma­tio­nen über die “Zei­ten­wen­de­re­de” bekom­me (so unwich­ti­ge Details wie, die Rän­ge wur­den voll besetzt, damit das Klat­schen bes­ser wirkt, und vor der Rede kann­ten den Inhalt weni­ger als ein dut­zend Per­so­nen), weil der ger­man Mar­shall Fund of the United Sta­tes dar­über debrieft wird, aber die euro­päi­sche Öffent­lich­keit halt nicht -- dann das nächs­te Mal viel­leicht mehr als ein­fach nur eine abwer­ten­de Hand­ges­te von sich geben.

Nur so ein Gedanke.

Ach­ja, und mir zuerst sagen, dass ich ihr erklä­ren sol­le wie öster­rei­chi­sche Aus­sen­po­li­tik läuft - wegen dem Moti­va­ti­ons­fak­tor - und mich dafür dann aus der Betreu­ung tre­ten, wenn ich es nicht mehr ertrage?

Ja, ja? Jederzeit!

Applau­se - for a job well done. Mögest du auch dei­ne ande­ren 120 Pati­en­ten so per­fekt betreu­en, wie mich.

Schei­ße, noch kein Dopa­min­push, weil man wie­der einem gehol­fen hat - und schon ein hal­bes Jahr vor­bei?! Na dann ab zum nächs­ten Kandidaten!

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk Allerletzte.

Pro­pa­gan­da, hat aber wie immer noch nie­mand entdeckt.

edit: Plea­se dou­bleck­eck, may­be I’ve mixed up Yana and Iry­na when attri­bu­ting the quo­tes abo­ve. The mode­ra­tor clear­ly cal­led one per­son Yana, but their online pho­tos look qui­te dif­fe­rent. I’ve kept the names the mode­ra­tor uses when refer­ring to them.

edit2: Hilf­rei­cher Kon­text via fefe:

[l] Angst vor der Soros Foun­da­ti­on? Weil die immer Revo­lu­tio­nen anzet­telt? Kei­ne Sor­ge!
Der alte Mann hat die Stif­tung sei­nem Sohn Alex über­ge­ben, und der will erst­mal 40% des Per­so­nals feu­ern. Außerdem:

>Alex­an­der Soros also said that under his lea­ders­hip, he plan­ned to focus the foun­da­ti­on more on US domestic politics.

Soviel dazu.

src: click

Getting fed ukrainian Propaganda

02. Juli 2023

How long will it take for every per­son on that panel to rea­li­ze, that all they’­ve been repro­du­cing over one and a half hours is ukrai­ni­an propaganda?

One life­time? Two lifetimes?

It’s such a bliss see­ing all tho­se over 60 year old diplo­mats redis­co­vering genui­nely ukrai­ni­an tal­king­points all by them­sel­ves (and a litt­le help from their ukrai­ni­an friends) and then mana­ging to con­vin­ce them­sel­ves, that thats actual­ly what they are thin­king as well, becau­se of a ratio­nal deli­be­ra­ti­on pro­ces­ses they’­ve enga­ged in.

Then of cour­se you also need an almost 60 year old “for­mer jour­na­list” to moti­va­te the audi­ence to clap, becau­se why not what else would they do? Pro­du­ce actu­al journalism?

Lets go through this, while we have the time to do so, why not?

Whats the rus­si­an win con­di­ti­on in a war of attrition? 

Kee­ping the ukrai­ni­an eco­no­my in a dys­func­tio­n­al sta­te for as long as pos­si­ble, so the ukrai­ni­ans who have fled don’t return for ano­t­her two to three years.

Child­ren get inte­gra­ted into the wes­tern edu­ca­tio­nal sys­tem, retur­ning to ukrai­ne seems like a worse and worse idea for the actu­al peop­le who have fled, over time, and the reuni­fi­ca­ti­on pro­cess the­re­fo­re rever­ses and more peop­le (the men) actual­ly flee the Ukrai­ne at the end of the pro­cess, rather than reimmigrate.

To coun­ter­act that, Ukrai­ne HAS TO start the rebuil­ding pro­cess while the war is still ongoing.

To attract inves­tors, they now have pro­po­sed, and star­ted to imple­ment a flat tax of sub 20%.

But to also attract half of the coun­try, and coin­ci­dent­al­ly the youn­ger more edu­ca­ted half, they now have to invest mas­si­ve­ly in new infra­st­ruc­tu­re pro­jects - and film PR spots of the kin­der­gar­dens they will con­struct, to have any messaging for the not so well off clas­ses at all.

The­re are still no new plans on how to diver­si­fy the ener­gy infra­st­ruc­tu­re, becau­se you cant at sca­le (if they invest in solar right now, it takes Rus­sia about 4 mon­ths to dele­te half that invest­ment - con­si­de­ring how long it took Rus­sia in the past to do so, in the Ukrai­ne, last year).

Pri­va­te invest­ment in theo­ry is pos­si­ble, becau­se Ukrai­ne opted to 10x their grain export busi­ness as a way of future­proofing their lan­dow­ners bank­rolls, as soon as it had open bor­ders to do so, so the invest­ment in most of their indus­tries still remai­ned outstanding.

So now the infra­st­ruc­tu­re recon­struc­tion push is cur­r­ent­ly put into place, whe­re they also nego­tia­ted mee­tings with pri­va­te inves­tors, who will short­ly visit the Ukrai­ne by train to con­si­der how they can help in rebuil­ding the (ener­gy) infrastructure.

So if you are rus­sia, you look at tho­se trains. You look at the four stops tho­se con­gre­ga­ti­ons make in the next two to three mon­ths, and then tho­se pro­jects beco­me your pri­ma­ry tar­gets for dis­il­lu­sio­ning the wes­tern inves­tor class.

Tho­se and the new steel­plants of cour­se that the Ukrai­ne plans to build in wes­tern regi­ons of the country.

And then you wait. And des­troy the ener­gy infrastructure.

And as long as you can keep up dis­rup­t­ing the new Ukrai­ni­an eco­no­my, wan­ting a sen­se of safe­ty will win out over the fear of being draf­ted, and the want to thri­ve in an eco­no­my, with half the peop­le, who now has imple­men­ted a flat tax, but oh so high growth poten­ti­al, if rus­si­an rockets dont hit.

And after about ten years, you have also lost the next genera­ti­on of expats, in an aging coun­try - with a flat tax, who­se ener­gy infra­st­ruc­tu­re once in a while might still be tar­ge­ted by rus­sia, and which still needs a vic­to­ry - becau­se, well neu­tra­li­ty was off the table after Butscha of course…

I mean what could go wrong? Ever­yo­ne on the panel is very optimistic!

Becau­se its the strength of the over 60 year old aus­tri­an diplo­mats on this panel to iden­ti­fy for them­sel­ves, that “thin­king that this all ends on day 0 when the war is over” is wrong argu­men­ta­tively, and it can all be over once busi­nes­ses just chan­ge their risk assess­ment pro­ce­du­res to see all the gre­at growth poten­ti­al of a coun­try at war, with a flat tax.

So far - thats 8 bil­li­on USD worth of pri­va­te sec­tor invest­ment after the Lon­don invest­ment con­fe­rence, right?

So whats the next spea­ker in Vien­na sel­ling, fol­lowing that uni­que stra­te­gic invest­ment plan?

A human cen­te­red rebuil­ding of their infra­st­ruc­tu­re. In a coun­try whe­re the medi­an age has now just incre­a­sed by four years, with a flat tax, and a PR push that they will be buil­ding more kin­der­gar­dens soon, so the popu­la­ti­on should not be afraid to get more child­ren, or even think about lea­ving the country…

Becau­se this all ends, as soon as we in the west invest, and Putin starts to rea­li­ze, that we will inte­gra­te the Ukrai­ne into the EU no mat­ter what it takes, and that Rus­sia has alrea­dy lost!

Ok, so what if Rus­sia mana­ges to des­troy the first for­eign invest­ment push and demons­tra­tively so?

Ano­t­her 50 bil­li­on for infra­st­ruc­tu­re rebuil­ding befo­re the second one?

This all ends when the war is fro­zen, and not one day earlier.

And if that takes too long, say good­bye to your next generation.

Or do you want to estab­lish that good “revi­sit ukrai­ne, to see your dad suf­fe­ring from PTSD cur­led up in the cor­ner of the room, we will have all that flat tax money to help him tough it out!” mas­sa­ging first? Pro­bab­ly not.

But thats not as posi­ti­ve, as panel II on Ukrai­ni­an State­hood made it sound… How come?

Becau­se I’m unde­re­sti­ma­ting the moti­va­tio­nal power of repeated pro­pa­gan­da messaging?

Now clap for the new ukrai­ni­an slo­gan: Plea­se dear popu­la­ti­on and inves­tors, return to a war­zo­ne. Our coun­try is so big, you will hard­ly noti­ce it.

Or was it - come to Ukrai­ne, as a coun­try at war, we have very low wages, and our medi­an pen­si­on is just 100 USD a mon­th. Dear Expats, plea­se return to our coun­try, for amp­le growth potential!

Also we would like to talk with your com­pa­nies risk assess­ment depart­ment, if you dont mind.

Sla­va.

This is get­ting bet­ter by the day.

edit: Es gibt aber natür­lich auch wie­der gute Nach­rich­ten: Schal­len­berg sieht in der Pres­se­stun­de “Ris­se im rus­si­schen Gebälk”
Na Gott sei Dank.

edit: Con­text:

[United Nati­ons Deve­lo­p­ment Pro­gram­me] Unco­vering the rea­li­ty of Ukraine’s deci­ma­ted ener­gy infrastructure

A new coun­try­wi­de ener­gy assess­ment con­firms dama­ges excee­ding $10 bil­li­on, with Ukraine’s capa­ci­ty to pro­du­ce electri­ci­ty redu­ced by 61 per­cent. But with no let-up on attacks on ener­gy net­works, whe­re does Ukrai­ne go from here?

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edit2: More Context:

Live­li­hoods

The majo­ri­ty of house­holds repor­ted that the work of their house­hold mem­bers had been affec­ted sin­ce the start of the full-scale inva­si­on, pri­ma­ri­ly due to job loss, sala­ry cuts, and redu­ced working hours.
Most house­holds repor­ted a decre­a­se in inco­me, with IDPs and retur­nees being par­ti­cu­lar­ly vul­nerable in this respect. The­re has been a decre­a­se in access to paid work, as well as an incre­a­se in reli­an­ce upon huma­ni­ta­ri­an and government assi­s­tance, along­side sup­port from friends and rela­ti­ves (inclu­ding remit­tan­ces) as pri­ma­ry sources of inco­me. The majo­ri­ty of house­holds repor­ted enga­ging in eco­no­mi­c­al­ly dri­ven coping stra­te­gies to meet essen­ti­al needs, such as spen­ding savings, acqui­ring addi­tio­nal work, and redu­cing health expen­dit­u­re in order to meet other essen­ti­al needs. House­holds repor­ted that they could con­ti­nue enga­ging in taking on addi­tio­nal work, but could not con­ti­nue spen­ding savings, redu­cing essen­ti­al health expen­dit­ures, or taking on debt. Geo­gra­phi­cal­ly, the impact of the war on live­li­hoods has been felt most great­ly in the Sou­the­as­tern macro-region.

src: click