Ulrich Speck: Was kümmert uns da die UN Charta und das Völkerrecht, demzufolge der Einmarsch in andere Staaten verboten ist?

Ulrich Speck: Was kümmert uns da die UN Charta und das Völkerrecht, demzufolge der Einmarsch in andere Staaten verboten ist?

Quelle: https://www.facebook.com/ulrich.speck/posts/10201274080363686

Gabor Steingart, Leitartikel im Handelsblatt:

“Die Krim, um nunmehr die heiße Zone der Pitbull-Politics zu betreten, gehört zu Russland wie Vermont zu den USA. Sie ist mehrheitlich russisch bewohnt. Sie ist der Stützpunkt der Schwarzmeerflotte. Von den 240 Jahren ihrer Staatlichkeit gehörte die Krim 171 Jahre zu Russland. Nur einer Wodkalaune des einstigen KP-Chefs Nikita Chruschtschow ist es zu verdanken, dass sie 1954 in das Staatsgebiet der – damals ebenfalls russisch dominierten – Ukraine wechselte.

Wenn Putin die Krim aufgibt, gibt er sich selbst auf. Seine Aggressivität ist eine politisch, militärisch und historisch notwendige, will er seinen Status als Weltmachtführer nicht verlieren. Er befindet sich heute in einer ähnlichen Situation wie John F. Kennedy im Oktober 1962, als Moskau begonnen hatte, im Vorhof der USA, auf der Karibikinsel Kuba, Atomraketen zu stationieren. Zu Recht scherte sich Kennedy nicht um die nationale Souveränität der Kubaner und zwang die Sowjetmacht mit einer spektakulären Seeblockade – von ihm als Quarantäne” Kubas bezeichnet – zur Umkehr. Der Weltmachtstatus erfordert nun mal ein Denken in Einflusssphären. An den Grenzen einer Weltmacht darf der Rivale kein Zeltlager aufstellen. Einkreisungsängste sind im Gencode eines jeden Hegemons gespeichert. Wer die Biologie der Macht nicht akzeptiert, taugt zwar zum Kirchentagspräsidenten, aber nicht zum Realpolitiker.

Putin für diese machiavellistische Selbstverständlichkeit mit Wirtschaftssanktionen abzustrafen, ist weder erfolgversprechend noch klug. Jedes Fletschen wird mit Fletschen erwidert, auf den Biss folgt der Gegenbiss, die Pitbull-Politics bedeutet eine sich selbst verstärkende Stupidität, Kriegsgefahr inklusive.”

Was kümmern uns da die 40, 50 oder 60 Prozent Krim-Bewohner, die lieber in einer sich in Richtung EU bewegenden Ukraine leben möchten — statt Satellit einer oligarchisch-korrupten Macht zu sein?

Was kümmert uns da die UN Charta und das Völkerrecht, demzufolge der Einmarsch in andere Staaten verboten ist?

Was kümmert uns da die europäische Friedensordnung?

Es ist merkwürdig, dass viele Deutsche sich Weltpolitik nur als Machtpolitik vorstellen können. Vermutlich ist Steingart, berauscht von Putinismus, gar nicht klar, dass wir mittlerweile in einer internationalen Rechtsordnung leben, die zu bewahren unser Kerninteresse ist.

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Crimean “Berkut” beat and looted their prisoners

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The co-workers of the Crimean “Berkut” were beating and looting their captives on March, 9.

Kateryna, the wife of one of the detainees – Yevghen Rahno, told this to the Ukrainian newspaper ‘Ukrainska Pravda’. According to her, he is now on his way to Kyiv and has disclosed some details of the two days and nights he spent in the detention center via phone.

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Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine to hear challenge to presidential election and and appointment of Acting President: ruling expected March 19

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As of March 11, 2014, the Ukrainian Parliament’s decision to hold presidential election on May 25 of this year is coming under attack on two fronts. As reported by Espresso.TV, the first is a draft resolution registered in Parliament [on March 11, 2014] to postpone the election to December 7. The resolution is proposed by Eugene Murayev, a Member of Parliament with the Party of Regions who is considered to be a protégé of former Kharkiv Governor Mykhailo Dobkin. Opposition members have insisted that Murayev’s election in the Kharkiv oblast in 2012 stemmed from administrative pressure by Dobkin [who was Governor at the time but who announced in February that he intends to run in the presidential elections]. Dobkin, on the other hand, has long been considered to be an ally of Viktor Medvedchuk, [a pro-Russian oligarch and politician].

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Russians in Ukraine start media campaign “No need to save us, Russia”. English VIDEO

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Russians in Ukraine have launched an camaign telling the Russian government that they don’t want to be saved.

Their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/nenadonasspasat tells stories of different citizens of the Russian Federation living in Ukraine.

We are Russians.  We live in different parts of Ukraine – some of us for a long time, and some just arrived, some – by the call from the heart, and some – to work here.  But one thing unites us all: we are tired of listening to lies.  Trust us – we are comfortable in this wonderful country, and there are no safety threats for us.   Please, there is no need to save us!

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INVASION OF CRIMEA – March 12, 2014 – SUMMARY

Source: Dmitry Tymchuk, Information Resistance

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“Information Resistance”
logo: Mikhail Golovachko

12.03.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Brothers and sisters!
Here is the summary of March 12.

The bad news:

1. Stand-up comic and jokester Putin has clearly left this plane of reality, and it doesn’t look like he’s coming back. His  statement today about the “unlawful secession of Ukraine from the USSR” sounded like something for a psychiatrist. I, personally, have no idea which virtual world Mr. Putin is inhabiting, but it certainly isn’t this one.

And it wouldn’t be so bad, if he weren’t someone whose word will decide whether Ukraine, which has already suffered enough, will be torn to shreds even further. We clearly see that hoping for common sense from the Kremlin is pointless. Common sense has deserted them long ago. On the other hand, this reeks of swastika and the Fourth Reich dreams.

2. Russian occupiers and collaborators turned their attention to the children of the Ukrainian servicemen in Crimea. At this time, their schools are scaring them with the prospect of not issuing them graduation certificates. But we are also getting reports of students being directly threatened with violence unless their fathers immediately betray the Oath of Allegiance to the people of Ukraine.

I don’t know what kind of person it takes to start waging war on young students. Today Putin’s lapdogs are threatening children. Tomorrow, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the first concentration camps springing up in Crimea. It all follows the logic of the process – see my first point above.

3. Ukrainian military units seized by Russian occupants are being looted. Military property and any personal possessions of our servicemen that the “Russian brothers” take a liking to are loaded onto trucks and driven away. In short, the story of toilet theft in Abkhazia seems to be repeating, but only within our military units so far. It looks like some sticky-fingered Russian soldiers will never change their ways.

Meanwhile, the occupiers are growing bolder by the day. Yesterday, they were still trying to “make friends” and suggested to go on “joint patrols” of Ukrainian military units. Today, gentlemen in unmarked military uniforms are introducing themselves as commanders, chambering the rounds on their AKs (this happened at least twice today), and demanding that our commanders vacate the territory, because (to quote them) “we’re running the place now”.

The good news:

1. Angela Merkel, speaking for the EU, promises that next week will bring Ukraine the EU association agreement, and sanctions to Putin. According to her, the sanctions should cover specific persons in Russia, and involve asset freezes and cancellation of EU visas. The fact that the threat of sanctions to Russia is delivered by the leader of Germany, an old friend and partner of Russia, is a good sign. The only question is, what impact those words will have on the mysterious persona by the name of Putin.

2. In the light of the accumulation of Russian troops near our southeastern borders, the Russian Ministry of Defense allowed a Ukrainian plane to carry out a survey flight over the territory of the Russian Federation, at the request of Kyiv. By the way, the information about such accumulation of troops that has been reported by Information Resistance for a number of days, is now officially confirmed by the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

Does this mean that in a few hours, the Kremlin will withdraw the gathered troops from the border and finally forget about its invasion plans? Personally, I highly doubt it. Moscow will either play for time – at least until the March 16 referendum (after which the invasion is still probable), or simply “forget” about its promise. While the current goodwill of the Russian MoD is just a smoke screen for the most despicable plans. I pray I’m mistaken.

3. I don’t know how good this piece of news is on a global scale, but it is definitely a ray of light for some people, who were feeling abandoned in recent days. Work is underway to receive refugees from Crimea – first of all, the military families. Community activists and state authorities are working together to organize channels and options for their travel and settlement in different oblasts [regions] of Ukraine (at least the state authorities are working on something).

We, on our part, will help these relocation efforts by providing every piece of relevant information we can – as long as there is an official stance on this subject, and official information. I’ve already promised this to the people who approached us. This is our shared pain and our shared problem.

Let us hope that the new day will help us get rid of this pain that is uniting us today. We can stand together even without it.

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