1 Not that Putin will send us a bomb here.
Enough war! Enough of cruelty and endless suffering. And that is why we stand here today.
Clever of the Americans.
This enormous strategic strategic military presence of the USA
in Germany, is probably not presumably not aware of it.
Otherwise give me Putin's phone number and I'll talk to
him, too, yes ... When I die full, everything's OK.
It is common knowledge that the US Army maintains military bases in many countries.
In Germany, too, of course, as here in Erbenheim near Wiesbaden.
If you hear Ramstein, you probably know that the
deadly drone missions in Afghanistan were controlled from there.
But would you have known that the US Army maintains at
least 100 other military sites on German soil in addition to Ramstein?
Many of them are not even known to the public.
Welcome to a special broadcast of Kla.TV!
After the end of the Second World War, the US
Army took over and expanded numerous military bases in Germany.
Prof. David Vine of the American University in Washington D.C. speaks of 119 military sites; as of 2021.
In Germany, specifically in Stuttgart-Vaihingen, is also home to
the strategic headquarters of the European of the European Command
of the United States EUCOM and that of the supreme
allied commander of NATO, Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
They command all US forces in 51 predominantly European countries.
Also in Germany, AFRICOM, the supreme command over
US military operations on the African continent with the
exception of Egypt and Djibouti, was established in 2007.
No African state had made itself available as a location for this.
The majority of the population is probably not aware of this enormous
strategic military presence of the USA in Germany and it probably has little
to do with friendly relations as always claimed by the media.
Lord Ismay, NATO's first Secretary General, once said that
the goal of the Western defence alliance was to keep
the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down.
This sums up Washington's intention to maintain a permanent presence in a subordinate
Germany and thus at the same time adopt a hostile position towards Russia.
Worldwide, the USA maintains more than 750 military bases and has more than 173,000 soldiers in 159 countries.
By comparison, Russia and China each have fewer than 20 foreign bases.
This cost the American taxpayer 51.5 billion US dollars per year until 2019
just for the construction and maintenance of the infrastructure used abroad and another 150
billion US dollars per year in total costs for the bases and their personnel.
According to the United Nations, only one fifth of this amount,
i.e. 30 billion US dollars, would be enough to end world hunger.
Here, in this military base, big changes are happening in the last few weeks or months,
that have such dramatic consequences for each of us that we have to report on them.
This is the location where the Pentagon has set up its command centre for the war in Ukraine.
Military support for Ukraine by a coalition of 40 countries created at
the beginning of the conflict is to be pooled and coordinated from here.
Other tasks include the logistics of arms deliveries and the combat training of soldiers.
Kla.TV asked the people who live here to what extent they are informed about this.
What do you know about this barracks?
What should I know about it, that it's been here for ages, and
do you know about it? No. Cause there's ain't nothing coming out of Clay Barracks.
That is American territory, we have nothing to do with it. The media are not spread there.
Yes, many people don't know about it, which is why we took the opportunity to conduct a survey.
That is amazing, two thousand Ukrainian soldiers are trained and heavy weapons are stored here.
I don't think it's right that we don't know that.
Oh, my goodness, that's... bad. I think it's bad!
We don't want Putin Putin sends us a bomb here.
And did you realise that the Americans have trained
2,000 soldiers for the for the war in Ukraine?
No. No, no, I didn't hear that. No. You don't know that? No.
But you are living here? I am living here.
Would it make you sick to your stomach to live somewhere
near such a location that makes such important decisions in the war?
No, not at all. No, it has to be done somewhere.
Do you estimate how many US military sites we have in Germany?
Too many to be true. Yes, America, that is, the USA, already has a good influence on Germany,
yes ... On the one hand, it's also good because we know how strong the Americans are, militarily.
We can also defend ourselves, but on the other hand it is not
good, because then again we make ourselves dependent on the USA, although we have
just had the debate that we should not make ourselves dependent on Russia.
We have only seen, We've only seen Bundeswehr clothing
here. soldiers here in the city, but we wondered if
there was still a barracks here somewhere, but ...
Would it worry you if that were the case, if
all strategic decisions for attack or defence emanated from there?
It's all worrying, the whole situation, no matter from which location something like this happens.
We have just informed ourselves a little bit and therefore we
would now like to know what the residents think about it.
So, what does ... I don't think anything, we don't find out anything.
You only notice when there are more, let's say planes in the air, or when
there is more movement, that something must be going on in the world. Excuse me.
Okay, thank you very much. I find that worrying.
I find that disturbing. Nobody knows that. It's not in the papers either.
How do you feel about it? Yes, there is already a feeling of insecurity.
A huge feeling of insecurity.
Do you think it would be right for the mass media to report on this in a little more detail?
That would be very important. Of course, so that you know what you are getting into.
That something is there. That there is danger ahead, so to speak.
Did you notice that the Pentagon has opened like some kind of field office here?
They have seconded 200 soldiers and sent them here to Wiesbaden.
No. Okay. I don't know that one, sorry. Nope.
...that the Americans were and are stationed here in Erbenheim.
That's all I know - from where? - at all.
Then you also know that all strategically important decisions
concerning the Ukraine-Russia war are now being made in Erbenheim?
I suppose so, otherwise they wouldn't have put the 3-star general there, would they?
It's like in the star kitchen, if no one comes there, nothing will happen, right?
And do you think that's good, or is it a queasy feeling in your stomach to have something like that right outside your door?
If I die full, everything is okay. Excuse me? When I die full, everything is okay.
Unfortunately, hardly anyone knows what is happening just a
few hundred metres behind me here behind the barracks gates!
Perhaps it has something to do with German history?
Since the end of the Second World War, our thinking in Germany has been shaped in this way,
accept the USA as a necessary force of order that protects the world
from the threat of Russia and, since 9/11, from the danger of terrorism.
Germany is taking an increasingly active part in the
military actions of NATO, the Pentagon's strategic arm in Europe.
Drone attacks in countries such as Pakistan, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and Iraq
have been or are being carried out via the US base in Ramstein,
where the headquarters of the US Air Force in Europe is also located.
This is happening even though our Basic Law, Article 26, makes it mandatory to
prohibit a war of aggression: 1. acts which are appropriate and undertaken with the intention,
to disturb the peaceful coexistence of peoples, in particular to
prepare the conduct of a war of aggression, are unconstitutional.
They are to be punished. But are we really masters in our own country?
The German government still seems to be
dependent on Washington's approval for major decisions.
The fact that this is the case and that Washington basically does not tolerate
any contradiction has just recently become clear again with regard to Nord Stream 2.
Joe Biden had long since threatened the attack on Nord Stream as follows: "If
Russia invades, meaning tanks or troops cross the borders to Ukraine again, then there will
be no more Nord Stream 2. We will put an end to this.
Statements like these, over the heads of German politicians and completely ignoring
the interests of the local population, strengthen the impression that the US occupation
law introduced at the end of World War II still applies today.
This would be a real scandal and would
have major financial, legal and political consequences for Germany.
After all, since the collapse of the USSR, the USA has repeatedly tried to extend
its monopoly of power to the former states of the Soviet Union and also to Russia.
The Ukraine war has now led to a momentous development.
Obviously, Germany is being positioned by the
Pentagon as Russia's direct war adversary by proxy.
Shortly before the outbreak of war in February,
American troops were withdrawn from Ukraine for security reasons.
On 4 November 2022, the US Department of Defence announced that the USA
intended to concentrate its assistance to the Ukrainian military at the Wiesbaden-Erbenheim site.
The new command officially bears the name Security Assistance Group Ukraine SAGU.
In the summer of 2022, a group of logistics specialists
high-ranking officials from over 25 countries was already established in Wiesbaden.
Their task: to coordinate donations of weapons and equipment to Ukraine from over 40 countries.
Herbert Martin, President of the International GeoPolitical Institute in Vienna, comments:
And if the USA now establishes this military headquarters for Ukraine in Wiesbaden,
Germany will become precisely the focal point of a possible attack by Russia,
because here Germany, together with America, is a party to the war.
Germany becomes the target of a direct confrontation with Russia.
This is exactly what the US is planning - to spark a war in Europe.
Germany as the target of a direct confrontation with Russia ...?
That sounds unbelievable - for many perhaps also like a conspiracy theory.
But if the USA arms, supplies and trains Ukraine from German soil through an
alliance of 40 countries, then Germany is obviously becoming Russia's direct enemy in the war.
Washington and the Pentagon are over 6,000 km away and so it is more than obvious
that in the event of a conflict, the Pentagon branch in Erbenheim will be attacked first.
Kla.TV has also been on the road here with this question.
Doesn't that worry you that something could somehow happen to
us here, that we could suddenly become the focus of war?
Yes, I do have that fear.
An English writer said that the nations have not
learned from history, history shows that. history shows that.
That is a great pity. And what's happening now, again, between us and Russia or something,
these wounds, ... it takes generations for this to scar over to some extent.
And that is a completely different aspect, that
you are now directly involved in this war.
And that is also such a - I say: Do you also share such a certain concern with me?
So, the madness of war itself, yes, is already an almost
unspeakable stupidity, of our world, of our society, of our politicians.
In my opinion, there should be - especially if we join together
in the whole population, there should definitely be - ways to somehow contain
the whole thing without having to somehow further lose lives for it.
And that is now also, not only related to the Ukraine war, but to all conflicts in the world.
Clever of the Americans, so, yes.
It is very clever, from German soil, to take Germany with you as a target for attack.
I think Americans should stay out of it.
I think Ukrainian and Russian people are brothers
and foreign people should not not interfere at home.
If Putin is now cornered even further and
he perhaps targets Erbenheim or Ramstein instead of Kiev?
Well, we're all in this together.
I mean, it's still like this..., we still
have a situation here in Europe, including NATO... Well,
Germany is part of the whole thing, so... One
is already afraid, as a citizen, here in Germany,
about what will happen when Russia really strikes.
And now, when the extended arm of the Pentagon is there and strategically important
decisions for the war are made there - wouldn't you have a bit of a
stomachache, directly, so to speak, to have something like that on your doorstep?
No. So, you feel absolutely safe there? Yes.
And if the Russians are provoked, that doesn't matter? You feel well protected there?
Whether I feel safe or not has nothing to do with it.
If the Russians are provoked, then they are. I can't help it.
Let me put it this way, this has been an American station for ages.
If it should really go bang, Wiesbaden, as the centre of
the Rhine-Main region anyway, will be one of the first to go.
I'm assuming that. When it goes bang, it goes bang anyway.
In general, war is never good.
And I think it's an absolute shame that we in Germany don't have the courage
to say: OK, here's a point where maybe we shouldn't continue to support the whole thing.
I think if it happens like that, the whole of Europe,
not just Erbenheim, but the whole of Europe... Europe will suffer.
After all, a missile had hit Poland, which is not far from Germany.
We are observers and unfortunately have little influence, we can only work
towards this democratically through the media or through our freedom of expression, otherwise,
give me Putin's telephone number and I'll speak to him again.
Yes, well, very much, yes. I would even make my farm available,
that a little more peace comes into people's minds again.
If you think we have overstepped the mark with this question,
I must in return remind you of the beginning of the Ukraine
war: On 24 February 2022, Putin attacked Ukraine, completely unexpectedly for many.
Most of the military and political assessments shown
in the media turned out to be wrong.
Better not fool ourselves!
Should Russia feel too cornered, it is hard to imagine how quickly
a catastrophic war could break out right here in the middle of Europe.
As a result of 11 September 2001, terrorist suspects are allowed under US law to
be killed at any time and in any place.
Deutsche Welle writes about this: In 2015, former US drone
pilot Brandon Bryant testified before the NSA investigative committee of the
German Bundestag that Ramstein was the central relay station for the
killing missions: The drones circling over a mission area communicated with
the base in Germany via satellites. base in Germany via satellites.
There, the signal is amplified and sent to the USA via fibre optic cable.
Targets were marked from endpoints in the US and lethal missiles or drones were released.
It is a scandal that Ramstein in Rhineland-Palatinate serves as
the central hub for these worldwide unlawful US drone attacks.
The federal government and individual politicians play down this fact time and again.
US interventions - to call a spade a spade: we are talking about wars!
are mostly justified with empty phrases: it is about the
National Security Strategy or about conflict deterrence, about democratic solutions, or
securing peace These phrases are deeply hypocritical. Wars are always inhumane.
It is first and foremost about raw materials such as oil and geostrategic advantages.
If wars really brought peace, shouldn't that be clearly
reflected in the record of the US anti-terror wars?
The exact opposite is the case: The Watson Institute
For International And Public Affairs at Brown University, in the
USA, has published a project study on the human and
economic costs of the US wars after 11 September 2001.
Here is a brief summary of the main findings: At
least 929,000 people died as a result of direct war violence.
Armed forces on all sides, civilians, journalists, humanitarian workers
Countless losses due to indirect consequences of war: Malnutrition,
damaged infrastructure and environmental degradation Displacement of 38 million people
through the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen,
Somalia and the Philippines Erosion of civil liberties and human
rights at home and abroad Much of the funding for
humanitarian aid and civil society reconstruction has been lost through
fraud, waste and abuse.
Cost of the wars after 9/11 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Syria and another 8,000 billion dollars After the unimaginable and suffering of
the two world wars, people vowed to people swore: Never again war!
The images and fates from the current war zones
can be seen on the internet, There is only one
conclusion: enough war, enough cruelty and endless suffering.
And that is why we stand here today to make this call
as loudly and firmly as we can before it is too late!
Please do not just go about your business as usual.
Watch more programmes and learn facts about the topic.
USA - Russia: No more playing with fire! https://www.kla.tv/21397
Current Arms Supplies to Ukraine - In the Filz of
the Arms Lobby https://www.kla.tv/24679 The Costs of the USA's Counterterrorism Wars
after 9/11 https://www.kla.tv/24540 Is Germany Already at War? https://www.kla.tv/24902
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