The British daily “The Sun” reported that the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is a candidate for the post of head of NATO and even has the support of several countries. This is so stupid, so ridiculous, it could be an April 1st joke or even true.
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The British also have their April Fools’ Day – April 1, April Fools’ Day, in which they prank and joke. For example, the British tabloid The Sun wrote that Ursula von der Leyen may succeed Jens Stoltenberg as head of NATO. Whether it’s a hoax or the truth, we seem to live in a world designed by a drunk lunatic or someone with a climate mind. Information about the German official’s ambitions and support for her was echoed by the world’s largest media. They employ people who should read reality, have basic knowledge of political processes, NATO, EU, German plots, etc. that is, to be able to judge the credibility of such information. So if this is an English newspaper joke, it means that in all these supposedly serious media like Reuters, stupid people work (which is the truth) and describe the world according to their cognitive abilities.
But, but – the first mentions that von der Leyen may be a candidate for the post of head of NATO and even get Washington’s support appeared in early March. So maybe there is some truth to this ridiculous information.
Von der Leyen may prove to be an asset that Washington wants to put on the table after the end of … the Norwegian’s term. The operation to promote the candidacy of the former German defense minister began a few weeks ago and may destroy several scenarios drawn up by European political factions for next year’s European Parliament elections. The first signals from the EU capitals suggest that such an option would suit the current leaders of the main EU countries. Had von der Leyen not been elected to a second term as president of the European Commission, the “NATO option” could resolve many of the electoral tensions. It also appears that there is a strong political support group behind Von der Leyen, which is a powerful tool for putting pressure on allies who are drawing up plans to populate the European institutions in the new term. The head of the European Commission sends a clear signal: “If you don’t want me to stay here for another five years, know that I can move to another building, including in Brussels.”
– wrote the Italian far-left La Reppublica in early March.
None of the above statements need be true. These can be just fabrications, dreams of some editor. Perhaps politicians, Brussels officials sell ordinary nonsense, because they need it for plots and conspiracies, and the diligent editor invents the rest himself. Fairy tales like the fact that Kwasniewski could be the head of NATO. It is not very clear why the Americans should reckon with some of the games and intrigues in the Union, which they consider a pathetic organization, and even just plain ridiculous. Rumors and speculations appeared more than a month ago, but only now, after the article “The Sun” of April 1, everyone repeats them.
If it is true that Ursula von der Leyen is trying and has support, woe to us. We should be shocked at how dull, cynical or corruptible people rule Europe – I don’t think anyone in America – the United States and Canada would come up with such an idea. The Turks and British are not that stupid either. It cannot be ruled out that the Germans are making plans to put Von der Leyen on the stool. Perhaps they promise His Excellency Narcissism and the Great Macron that he will become the first president of a European state. Perhaps they have put together some kind of coalition from the Benelux, and have promised something to the weaker countries, such as the Baltic or post-Yugoslav countries, or they are blackmailing them with something. Everything is so bad these days that even this is possible. If someone had told me a few years ago that the most bumbling minister in Merkel’s cabinet would become the President of the European Commission, and that the Polish government would not only welcome it, but also support it in achieving the function, I would have laughed: ha, ha, ha, what a joke.
In any case, we have a situation where there are those who are considering appointing as head of NATO an official from a state that has like no other weakened the Alliance through its political and economic activities. For years it has knowingly deceived its partners and is responsible not only for allowing Nazi Russia to invade Ukraine because it was financed by Germany, but it also prevented more aid from the Alliance countries to struggling Kiev. The Germans deliberately disarmed NATO (not necessarily intentionally, though it cannot be ruled out), and even today their decisions paralyze support for Ukraine. These are eternal processions with permission to send weapons, as the last in the case of MIG-29 aircraft from the former sources of Merkel’s homeland – the former GDR, which Poland bought in 2002 and now wants to give to Ukraine.
For years, the Germans have deceived their allies, weakened NATO’s defense potential and failed to keep their defense budget commitments at 2% of GDP. Instead of paying for defense, they used that money to fund business with Russia and buy social peace. On 1 January, Germany assumed the rotating leadership of NATO’s spearhead – the VJTF – the rapid reaction force – and despite years of preparation, it has been unable to meet its obligations. Tanks don’t move, planes don’t fly, missiles don’t come. This shows the extent of neglect.
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The direct executor of the insane defense policy in Germany, which is the result, among other things, today. Ursula von der Leyen was one of the few opportunities to transfer equipment through Europe to Ukraine. She was the head of the Ministry of Defense in the years 2013-2019 and, in the unanimous opinion of almost all experts in German politics, she was the worst minister in Angela Merkel’s government and the head of the ministry in history . Only Christine Lambrecht managed to match her records of ineptitude. When von der Leyen left the chair of the Minister of Defense in December 2019 to move to Brussels for the position of President of the European Commission, it turned out that there are only 4 aircraft in the entire Luftwaffe that can fly at the appointed time. only two of which can be armed. The matter came to light because the minister planned to organize a sky show to say goodbye.
In 2019, a special committee was already active in the Bundestag to investigate financial scandals in the ministry and in the Bundeswehr. Huge consultancy contracts worth hundreds of millions of euros were awarded to the McKinsey consultancy, where her best friend Kartin Suder worked, who later joined the ministry. In just six months of 2019, von der Leyen spent €154 million on advice – almost as much as all other German ministries combined. When the Bundstag committee, after the scandal was revealed by “Der Spiegel”, began to investigate this matter, it turned out that the documentation about it had disappeared and everything was deleted in the official phone. The case was finally swept under the rug when Von der Leyen was promoted to Brussels.
There was another accident. Once again, all correspondence with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla regarding the $32 billion contract to purchase vaccines was removed from her phone. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office is reportedly looking into the huge contract, the prices and the ambiguities associated with the negotiations, but everything is falling apart. Politico writes that neither the EU Ombudsman nor the European Court of Auditors have been able to shed light on these dark interests. Contracting the vaccines was so clumsy it even enraged Scholz, who reportedly hurled obscenities at government meetings and said it was the best advertisement for Brexit. When Britain was vaccinated, the European Commission was negotiating.
Once, while the pandemic broke out and contracts were being prepared, the husband of the chairman – Heiko von der Leyen, who was the head of the Hanover clinic, suddenly became one of the heads of Pfizer’s American company Orgenesis. Once the respectable wife found a job in it, the company just received €320 million in EU grants. The New York Times sued Von der Leyen on the basis of the disclosure act about the concealment of the contract with Pfizer, because the case concerns an American company. So maybe we’ll learn something. There is no hope of EU justice.
All of von der Leyen’s public activities are a joke. She is a born office worker for everything and nothing, because she likes to arrange everything and nothing works for her. It ends in disaster. There is literalness in the word born clerk. Ursula von der Leyen was born in Brussels, where her father was an official of the forerunner of the Union – the European Economic Community (EEC). So it’s suitable. If it were up to European countries alone, von der Leyen is so incompetent, so weak in character, so easy to direct, so pretentious and filled with the charisma of a clerk, that she would surely become the head of a military alliance. She would begin her reign as in the German Defense Ministry. From setting up crèches and kindergartens for children of employees of the NATO headquarters in Brussels and the army. Then it would be the turn of gender and racial equality, and then Russia’s indulgence at Berlin’s behest. The last example that shows how the introduction of Germans to the heads of international structures ends is the case of Thomas Bach, the president of the IOC.
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Source: wPolityce