The Kremlin and the affair surrounding Navalny

Dear Readers!

In the last couple of days, I was often asked about my opinion on the affair surrounding the poisoning of the Russian anti-corruption-activist and opposition-leader, Alexey Navalny. First and foremost: I am personally not really an avid fan of Alexey Navalny, he is Russian nationalist and chauvinist who like the KGB-gnome Putin dreams of a “greater Russia” on the territories of Belarus, the Ukraine and Russia,  he loathes the people of the Caucasus like little old me and makes this known by calling Georgians “rodents” and during the Russo-Georgian-war in 2008 he wanted to strike Tbilisi with a cruise-missile. In my humble opinion, despite all of the obvious, I think that Alexey Navalny has a right to be alive and in addition to that to live a life in dignity. He may deny me all of it, I however will not lower myself to his standards. Therefore, Alexey Navalny did not deserve to get attacked by the Kremlin like that.

As usual with these attacks the Kremlin denies any involvement and instead tries to manipulate the narrative, read the Kremlin lies. But maybe the narrative that is propagated by the Kremlin in the last couple of weeks has some truth to it. Let’s imagine that Russia is that run down that the organized crime can get their hands with ease on a neurotoxin and a chemical warfare agent to being to assassinate an opposition-leader like Navalny. What would this fact tell us? That Russia is on its best or worst way of becoming a failed start like Libya and Somalia because the authorities in charge lost control, either through corruption or incompetence, or a combination of both. Overall, these are no good news about a country that evidently has NBC-weapons since Russians themselves admit, and by that I not only mean the officials in the Kremlin, that Russia has a huge problem with radicalized Moslems in the Russian-controlled northern Caucasus. If today organized crime allegedly can get their hands with ease on something like Novichok then this means tomorrow some Jihadi can get his hands-on nuclear weapons grade material, build a “dirty bomb” with it and detonate said bomb either in Moscow, St. Petersburg or Murmansk.

Who would be responsible for that, if that was the case? Well, probably the one who is charge of Russia for over twenty years because he clings to power like a heroine-addict to the needle and now is longer in charge than Stalin himself, no one else than the KGB-gnome Vladimir Putin. So even if this grotesque theory according to which Navalny was poisoned by the organized crime and not the Kremlin, with the nerve-agent Novichok in the end it would not matter at all because the main-culprit would still be the KGB-gnome because under his rule Russia deteriorated that much that organized crime can easily get weapons of mass-destruction. This means that the rulers in the Kremlin like the KGB-gnome and tough guys like Dmitry Peskov obviously are completely overwhelmed and one needs to put Russia under forced administration. Preferably the forced administration of Georgians like Mikhail Saakashvili and myself because after all the Georgian government of Saakashvili was able to fight corruption effectively after the “Rose revolution”. Unlike the current Russian government and the Russian authorities that obviously gave up a long time ago and now blame all kinds of minorities and foreigners for their very own shortcomings and failures.

But in all seriousness: Not only are the propaganda-attacks out of Moscow these days downright grotesque, they also show why Russia under Putin’s reign is not a normal country and therefore should not be treated like one. The usual tools of diplomacy are useless because they are deemed as a sign of weakness by the Kremlin, since the rulers in the Kremlin only understand one language: The language of the heavy hand. Therefore, sanctions and more sanctions are the appropriate tool. The return of Russia to the G7/G8-countries is for the same reasons everything but useful. Because it should not be tolerated that a country that attempts to poison anti-corruption-activists with a neurotoxin is not a pariah-country. Russia these days simply doesn’t act like a civilized country and in regards of culture: A certain culture was also practiced among the Neanderthals. This doesn’t mean that Russia overall and the rulers in the Kremlin specifically should be given an absolution of responsibility at all! Because in all these before these absolutions caused the overall situation to get gradually worse and become as bad as it is now. The current situation is that Russia today occupies territories of two of its neighboring countries and Russian authorities in Russia itself and in foreign countries attempt to kill anybody who defied Moscow’s supposed interests at some point. All of that shows that one needs to show Russia finally some red lines otherwise the rulers in Moscow will dare to go further and next time they will not attempt to kill the mayor of Prague or an anti-corruption-activist, but maybe instead the German foreign minister and the federal chancellor of Austria.

A few thoughts about the process in Halle/Germany

Dear readers!

Now, that we Jews celebrated Rosh HaShana, the “head of the year”, read the Jewish New Year, and thus Yom Kippur is around the corner I want to write here about something that was very concerning for the Jewish community in the German-speaking world in the last year. Namely, with the terror-attack in the German city of Halle.

First and foremost, I have to write something controversial. That is to say that in my opinion the process in Halle reveals something that I presumed in the last couple of years: That the majority of the Non-Jewish society sees us at best as tolerated minority and not as integral part of the very fabric that makes this society. But let me elaborate that a little bit.

Firstly, how the Jewish congregations in Halle and elsewhere were treated before the process is telling a lot. Mainly because legitimate concerns and fears in regards of security of said congregations were not taken seriously by the authorities who were responsible for the security in the first place. This led to the fact that the Jewish congregation in Halle was forced to pay for their own security primarily out of their own pocket. The authorities in charge treated human beings with obviously legitimate concerns, their own citizens, like pesky beggars and therefore the authorities haggled like on a bazaar to pay the absolute minimum imaginable in regards of the costs for security for the Jewish congregations in Halle and elsewhere. Because of this the terror-attack in Halle was possible in the first place. For the simple reason that the absolutely legitimate fears of the Jewish congregation were obviously not taken seriously nor was there ever a sustainable plan conceived how such terror-attacks could be prevented neither what to do if such terror-attacks happened. The reality in Europe is the following: Synagogues and other Jewish buildings like day-cares and schools have to be protected with bullet-proof-glass and the like because of Anti-Semites who want us to murder even on Yom Kippur.

As different media has reported a police-car was actually driven by when the assassin, Stephan Baillet, who was heavily armed was standing next to the synagogue in Halle. What did those federal-officers in the police-car do? The continued to drive by because the police-officers thought that a movie was shot there. Therefore, Stephan Baillet could fueled by his delusions kill two completely innocent people. During his process other inconvenient truths came to the surface like the fact that the assassin knew more about Jewish culture and holidays and fast-days (Yom Kippur is not celebratory day but rather a day of fast and atonement) than the local police-force. Therefore, there the synagogue in Halle had not even on Yom Kippur police protection and thus why the police-officers took a while to arrive at the synagogue after the emergency-calls from the synagogues came, and only due the fact that the guns and explosive devices that the assailant made by himself were faulty, that there were not more victims.

And this is the core of problem! Not only do anti-Semites of different ideologies try take their anger out on us Jews, because they blame us for Covid-19, migration, feminism and the pathetic state of the Islamic world, the overall majority of this society simply does not care and ignores murderous antisemitism as much as humanly possible. This became obvious in the process of Halle. As a an acquittance of mine, who was present at the process, and told me about it, the footage of the terror-attack was shown among the footage were also the recordings of the surveillance-camera of the synagogue. This footage is not for the faint of the heart but clearly shows the fact that Stephan Baillet is the assassin.

Now the question arises, how his family with whom he lived could have missed how and why he made and hoarded those weapons that he later used for the terror-attack in the first place. Also why did the police-force in Halle react the way it reacted before, during and after the attack. One should not forget that Stephan Baillet almost escaped from the remand center “Roter Ochse”, that lies in the middle of the city of Halle. For almost five minutes the assassin could freely move around the remand center and only the fact that one door was locked kept him from escaping further. German authorities have apparently very naive misconceptions about assassins and envision them as misunderstood petty criminals. Because there is no other way, I can explain to myself this almost criminal recklessness in regards of radicalized violent predators.

But even after the process in Halle ends the whole ordeal will continue to haunt us Jews. Because I elaborated above the issue of «security» remains something important for my community. As the German-Jewish news-paper “Jüdische Allgemeine» wrote on the 17th September 2020 the federal government in Germany now wants to support Jewish establishments with additional 22 million Euros that can be used to for security. In my opinion it is a tragedy that this money is needed in the first place and that it took an actual tragedy for the German authorities to act on this matter. Human beings had to be killed first that before the authorities believed us Jews that we are actually threatened and not being paranoid. What the Non-Jewish majority thinks is a completely different matter however and is written in the comment-sections of different daily news-papers. One can read them at one owns risk. As a consequence of all of this we Jews will continue to face anti-Semitism in the new year and as consequence thereof the violent danger to our lives and our existence as Jews in Europe.

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