"The great Carthage waged three wars. It was still powerful after the first, still habitable after the second. It was untraceable after the third." - Bertolt Brecht.

Is there anybody in Merkel’s cabinet who remembers that it has been Germans who have stridden twice within 26 years to Crimea? Because today there are once again German soldiers scarcely 180 kms from Saint Petersburg's doorstep.

Frau Merkel, sind Sie wahnsinnig geworden?

For Germany this is a question of existence in general. But the question is not being discussed in Germany at all, nor the fact that the US has already been successful in deceiving Chancellor Adenauer. The poor old man never ever even had the chance to realize that there had been a secret agreement between the four victors over Hitler, namely: should the cold war become hot, then no harm would befall Russia, France, England or America. Only the US-satellite of Germany would be nuked. This has been confirmed in the Memoirs of Kissinger, who thought this arrangement to be so malicious that he strove as the Secretary of State to do away with it by diplomacy, but was unsuccessful.

Not least because of this, Putin, in the beginning of December, has included Washington alongside Berlin among the two cities against which he wants to “make our nuclear forces ready”.

The Kremlin Lord wanted to temper the White House’s eagerness for war: in the past 160 years, war has always been waged everywhere except the United States. From all the participants of both WWI and WWII, it is only Americans remember war only through cinema, not from within their own country – except, of course, for half a million of families whose fathers, husbands, brothers and sons died during the nine years between 1914–1918 and 1939–1945.

It had been this way until 9/11, when some fanatics, whose identities have of course not yet been uncovered, made it to the Twin Towers in their suicidal attempt…

This absolute security of always having an ocean – it doesn’t matter whether it’s the Atlantic or the Pacific – between themselves and over there, where the shooting and bombing is going on – this has made America all the more aggressive and dangerous. And of course there is the threat coming from the arms industry that if the number of unemployed were to rise, then it wouldn’t be 51% of the budget given to the military, even in peaceful times (in comparison, Bismarck had never given more than 25% to the military even during his three wars). Since the House of Representatives has somehow to justify such spending, it has, therefore, to look out for potential opportunities to wage war.

Due to shortage of translation staff we’ve made a translation of the remaining part of the article via Google Translate. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Can not Americans assess the extent of their two most aggressive provocations? First NATO parade in Narva, 100 meters – you’ve read that right: meters, not kilometers – before the Russian border. President Merkel could prohibit Germans to march there, but wasn’t able to prevent a German supply ship to take part at naval maneuvers of NATO before the Crimea. Why doesn’t the NATO-fleet maneuver before Gibraltar?

The third and perhaps final challenge: by 2019 the US provide 40 new nuclear missiles to Büschel at Frankfurt, one being directed against Moscow, 39 against other cities and industrial centers in Russia...

The other day we have been reminded by Minister Schäuble, that Germany has never been souvereign after the end of the war – this is seen as the monstrosity, that no German will be asked whether one can provide the Russians a reason to make the BRD in Frankfurt its #1 target…

If it comes to war – the Bible is very timely on this topic – Germany will be like Nineveh or Babylon, Sodom and Gomorrah, which also were once so great empires...

Finally, a not stale, but scary current Bismarck story: half a year before William the Last "chased" (the Emperor's own word for dismissal) the Chancellor away, it has been told to him, that a certain General Count Waldersee, successor to the great Moltke as chief of General Staff, let "only" theoretically-strategic “play” a campaign against Russia. Bismarck, "as long as I'm the acting Prime Minister" had him officially banned, because “even in the unlikely case of success in a war against Russia, the kingdom could have the had war always beforehand, but would have never gotten through it". The Chancellor had enough instinct to feel, that the one, "who only plays with fire, is going to make fire soon!". Four Tsars had married German princesses and Bismarck said, in retrospect on his time as Ambassador in St. Petersburg, that "I have looked into the eye of a bear".

Incidentally, even Frederick the Great has had the same fear for his lifetime, which he even pronounced in his will to all of his successors: “never start a bargain with the barbarians in the East, because you can never pay back the damage they can cause!"

What should have changed in the inspection of these two Prussians? Nothing is barred because... "Only" the following: it is no longer Germans, but Americans in the Pentagon, that have the authority as head of the German, as well as, unfortunately, the strongest contingent in NATO. But they do not – and this is very scary – know, what fear is, because you haven’t heard a shot on the American continent for 160 years.

Mustn’t one, not only as a German, but as a European, at least ask the question, that even the rival of Mrs. Clinton, because it’s obviously necessary, brings into the election campaign: which is the task the NATO still has, since the Warsaw Pact has died at its unnecessity?

If you want to help Russia Insider and its translations to get better — join the team of volunteer translators. For further information, please contact [email protected]