![]() The Ukrainian authorities called for strengthening Ukraine’s integration both in the fields of economy and military security. They have been communicated to Western governments since 2014, the occupation of Crimea and the concealed invasion of Donbas. Ukrainian Warnings and European SilenceĪnother precondition for the Russian invasion was the European silence on constant Ukrainian appeals and warnings. Likewise, the German Interior Ministry has declared that displaying the “Z” symbol may be punishable as public endorsement of Russia’s war against Ukraine according to Section 140 of the German Criminal Code. The recent news that Bavarian, Lower Saxonian, Berlin and Bremen authorities have announced potential consequences under criminal law for the public use of the “Z” symbol, deserves approval. Therefore, Russia’s social reality must be properly assessed and taken into account in the reorientation of European security policy. Instead, most ordinary Russians support the actions of the Russian regime and aggression against Ukraine. Such a differentiation would be justified and acceptable in the absence of continuous ideological propaganda by the Russian regime. Recently, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a distinction between Russia’s political leadership and the innocent Russian people. ![]() Soviet crimes informed by communist ideology, on the other hand, went unpunished after World War II and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and led to a revirement of neo-imperialist Russian ideology and the formation of a modern autocratic Russian regime. The crimes of the Nazi regime were condemned by the world community through the Nuremberg Trials, and today the confession and spread of Nazi ideology is subject to criminal prosecution in European countries. One of the significant historical faults was the lack of condemnation of the communist ideology’s violence. The preconditions of the Russian invasion against Ukraine are of various kinds, historical and modern, direct and indirect, caused by both Ukrainian miscalculations and by shortcomings of European politics. ![]() This blogpost is not so much about condemning the mistakes of European politicians, but about suggesting ways to solve these problems, taking into account the experience with obvious mistakes. It will demonstrate how the ignorant and weak reaction of German politics to these threats (given the prevalence of economic interests over security and European values) indirectly supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and how the Russian regime abused European languidness and neutrality to launch a large-scale war in Europe. This post will reveal the history of Ukraine’s continuing warning to Europe, and in particular to German authorities about the security dangers of the violent Russian regime and politics.
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