Hitler never again!

 

Ukraine must not give Russia the chance to regroup and reorganize for a renewed future invasion

It is absurd to suggest that Ukraine both give up the possibility of joining NATO and demilitarize. That would be suicidal.

I am writing this because I strongly believe that crimes against humanity are not just the responsibility of a few crazy people but also all the people who let them happen by being not willing to make any sacrifices and by not saying or doing anything to try stop them.

Even if you do not like to follow horrible news: I encourage you to read the whole letter to get a comprehensive picture of what is happening and what needs to be done now. This page is regularly updated.

Would you like to help or voice your opinion then please visit our Ukraine Resource Center page and use the interactive form and see what our readers are commenting. For more information about us see the about and donate page. For some background information about how Ukraine previously obtained its freedom watch the movie documentary Winter of Fire at the bottom of this page. Or see Arnolds Schwarzenegger heartfelt message to the Russian people here. Many countries are failing Ukraine by not doing enough or the right things. Including among others Germany, France, China, India, Israel and Pakistan and Turkey. More about that here.

Putin and his cronies are the traitors of the Russian Nation. It is obvious that Putin does not care for the people of Russia for otherwise he would not destroy Russia's reputation, Russia's economy, Russia's pride and Russia's place in the world.

In the face of Russia's intensified attacks on civilians, on health care facilities, on schools and the Stalin like forced resettlement of refugees into remote places in Russia we must increase the sanctions to a total boycott as Poland is demanding. The UN general assembly needs to send the blue helmets peace units to Ukraine in order to prevent humanitarian catastrophe. We call on all countries to promote this action NOW at the UN.

Ukraine's greatest danger now is not of loosing the current war but the mistake of making a "peace" deal with the Putin the war criminal. Russia made a deal to defend Ukraine when the Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons, it also originally made an international treaty where Crimea was said to belong to the Ukraine. And what does Russia do? It snapped Crimea back and now it is the country attacking Ukraine. So we can not and should not expect Ukraine to put a blind eye to what it has learned in its interactions with Russia. It makes no sense for Ukraine to give up its weapons and allow Russia to rebuild their military and thereby only deferring the inevitable Russia's retaking of Ukraine sometime in the future. The only way forward is for Ukraine to win the war and receive compensation and security assurances from Russia and for Russia to make some real concessions, not the other way round. Instead of displacing the Ukrainians that want to be under Ukrainian control who live in Donbas, those that are living in Donbas and do not want to be under Ukrainian control could move to Russia. We who have witnessed the Russian aggression must help Ukraine achieve this level of bargaining power. We can not let the Hitler type win in any sense of the word. The Russian people should treat Putin as a traitor and deal with him accordingly.

Common sense tells us that Ukraine who barely has the ability to defend its own territory and even if this was made more adequate is no security threat to Russia. Hence Russian demand for Ukraine to demilitarize can only be construed as an attempt to make it easier to take it over. We must point this out and help Ukraine to stay firm against such unreasonable demands. In the face of Russia's latest aggression this common sense interpretation is even more appropriate.

Possible solutions would be for Ukraine to demilitarize if and only if it would join NATO at the same time OR not to join NATO but instead of demilitarizing actually build up its defenses. But for sure Russia will not achieve any sense of greater security because all the NATO countries will be building up their defenses and Sweden and Finland will likely be joining them. In fact they should join NOW because Russia is in a lesser position to attack them now for doing just that.

Since China OKs Russia's declaration of the independent breakaway republics let's recognize Taiwan now!

China likes to have it both ways to help Russia recognize illegitimate terrorist controlled regions but at the same time object to any country remotely recognizing the legitimate country of Taiwan. As explained below, Russia would not be on this path without China's support. A path that begun with the declaration of independence by these regions and their recognition as independent republics by Russia and the subsequent invasion of Ukraine. Their is no reason to approve of such a Stalin type of takeover. It is not acceptable nowadays to displace people who are against the breakaway and then point to the people who remain as being for the breakaway. This method of Putin already practiced in Crimea is similar to what Stalin did when he moved people against their will from the Baltics to Siberia. Taiwan on the other hand has not historically belonged to China and is in all practical aspects a separate country. We should make it clear that unless China stops undermining sanctions against Russia, we will recognize Taiwan. To get this dialog going I recommend you send this suggestion to your government and together we put pressure on China. No country is too small or big to be the first country to recognize Taiwan. This has to happen without delay so as to end the suffering in the Ukraine right away.

Other things we need to bear in mind is that oil boycotts do nothing to help Ukraine unless its part of a world wide enforced sanction program and that Ukraine needs anti-missile systems NOW and a no-fly-zone which could be enforced by non-NATO countries like France, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel and Sweden. We also need to source many more fighter planes, e.g. via India (time for the country to join the alliance against the Chinese-Russian axis of evil).

World leaders need to stop mocking about and really help Ukraine NOW otherwise they are co-responsible.

The support for Ukraine, the outrage for the invasion and consequent sanctions against Russia have been greater than one could have imagined at the outset. However it is clear they are not enough. So we must take the next steps.

• To create a NO-FLY ZONE now. Every country outside of NATO that has some air force capabilities could take part in enforcing the NO-FLY ZONE or at the very least provide fighter planes. Including France - a United European defense is not about cozying up to Russia.

• A total ban on trading Russia's Oil. This will reduce the world oil production unless Saudi Arabia, UAE (or Iran and Venezuela are allowed to) increases supplies. But that is not such a bad thing for that is the way to finally achieve what up until now has just been sweet talk but no action. We need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to combat climate change and until now we just talked about it, but have never moved in the right direction. We have made small progress but overall it has always been regress. (Of course if we do cut out Russian oil we need to at the same time take some measures to enable people to switch their consumption patterns to use less oil such as improving public transport and the provision of alternative energy. In parallel we need to make deals with and allow and help Venezuela and Iran to put oil on the market. We need to choose between the greater and lesser evils.) Cutting Russia off, from the Oil market would kill two flies with one stone to say the least.

  • Reduce Russia's ability to finance the war

  • Make it impossible for Russia to hide the consequence of the war

  • Undermine Putin and hence possibly leading to a his overthrow (The US and EU say this is not the aim. But if the mad man can not be stopped otherwise that may be the best solution, especially for the Russian people themselves)

  • Save the planet from Climate Change

  • 100s of NGOs already support such oil and gas boycott measures

We should really cherish if UAE does what is now expected to increase oil production. It is good to keep in mind for the foreseeable future who is your friend and who are not.

It is not enough for individual countries to refrain from buying Russian Oil! That would be just an exercise in futility - A Public Relations campaign that does not really bite . When you have something like a commodity and you do not buy specific Russian products, then if you allow someone else to buy those same specific Russian products then they will and you will get the same product supplied by someone else. Then the net effect on the market and the market price is almost zero. What we need here is real sanctions and not some symbolic measures. This means we need not only to not buy Russian oil but sanction any country that does. Hopefully there will only be a few sanction breakers which we will then need to deal with.

Germany is keeping us from saving Ukraine and the worlds Environment and at the same time damaging its own economy and foddering corruption. See my letter to Germany

The rest of the world has also to abandon Russian energy (Oil). It is tough but the most sensible thing to do. Politicians need to stop worrying about their own ratings (and the public to go easy on them in the face of rising oil prices) when it comes to saving the world from another Hitler.

Other things we can do is, a complete freeze on Russia's reserves, a complete boycott and the removal of Russia from International Organizations and a complete removal from SWIFT ( #KickRussiaOut )

We must also step up our provisions of equipment, light and heavy artillery, missile defense systems, drones and humanitarian aid.

There can not be a neutral country unless everyone respects that. You can not threaten a neutral country and expect it to remain neutral. Russia just violated the airspace of Sweden which contrary to Russian intentions only pushes them towards NATO. Ukraine was kind of neutral but with all the warmongering and a USD$ 5 billion counter productive disinformation campaign of Russia it bas been pushed into non-neutrality. When countries like Switzerland see how neutral countries are threatened and attacked they can not remain neutral. Countries that do not even stand up and defend the charter of the UN do not understand what peace is all about. Countries that only give lip-service but do not really stand up and fight for the alliance do not deserve the support of the alliance. This applies especially to Saudi Arabia. A tyrannical country that is not clever enough to seize the chance to change its ways.

We need to spread our messages around the world. Our messages are being read by up to 100 000 people per day. But we too do need your support in carrying out our campaign. Even small donations make a difference.

We must keep up the fight against this advancing Hitler figure. If not the alternative is much worse than making some sacrifices now. For we do not know how far this mad man will try to go. The second World War should have taught us that if we do not halt the advance right at the beginning then much more resources and sacrifices will be required to stop him later on, if at all possible.

We call on all countries and group of countries to get their act together. We have a world emergency and we must act now. We have to consider the above suggestions NOW.

Russian politicians should have the sense to disassociate themselves from Putin (even if it means jail now) or else they will be remembered like the war criminals that where prosecuted at the Nuremberg trials over the Nazis. These politicians, media people and everybody else who takes part in this theater has to be blind not to see that this war and this denial of the truth is very bad for the Russian people. To continue this play is not only a crime against the rest of the world but also a crime against the Russian people themselves. (The same arguments apply to Belarus)

We copied the UN Resolution to our website. Please read it to see for yourself that there is nothing in there that any fair country could not agree to. Protest against the cowardice of those countries and try to change the attitude of those who abstain from defending the charter of the UN against the mad Putin. These are Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, China, Cuba, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Republic of Congo, Senegal, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. The countries that voted against the resolution are hopeless anyway including Eritrea, North Korea and Syria and of course the aggressors themselves Russia and Belarus.

Although all middle eastern countries south of the Persian Gulf approved the resolution, many of these countries are NOT doing enough to support Ukraine. They can well afford to lend Ukraine some fighter planes, even enforce a full or partial No-Fly Zone, give technology and displace Russian oil on the world market. Now is the chance for these countries to show that they are not a club of tyrants! It is mind boggling that these countries are not joining in the fight against Russia, when Russia is working so closely with their enemy Iran.

Our words need to be clear. It is not enough to call for a cessation of hostilities (the Ukrainians have a right to defend themselves and regain territory lost), we need to make clear calls for an end to Russian and Belarussian aggression! This applies to countries, associations and individuals.

Nations that are dragging their feet in responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and are failing otherwise to come to Ukraine's rescue are co-responsible for Russian aggression.

Russia is clearly going against the charter of the UN by invading and bombing Ukraine. Suspend Russia from the UN now and/or remove Russia or its Veto from the UN Security Council - If need be make a new Security Council. Such measures would send a strong signal to everybody in Russia, including all the people who actively or passively support Putin. #KickRussiaOut

To send a strong signal, Russia and Belarus should be removed from all international associations (as is already happening) and to keep up the pressure, all trade should be cut (as is already happening in some sectors). Those countries that do not take part should be subject to a boycott themselves including China, India, Pakistan and Brazil. If governments are hesitant to make sanctions we as individuals should boycott products from countries that undermine our own security! People who answer our questionnaire overwhelmingly support extending boycotts to nations that undercut the sanctions against Russia in one way or another. What is your opinion? Please answer our questionnaire. It is important that we have the opinions of as many people as possible.

Create a No-Fly zone (that applies to the Russian military) over Ukraine, this can be organized by nations that are outside NATO such as France, Sweden, Finland, Israel, India and Saudi Arabia. Either that or accelerate the provision of fighter jets and other heavy weapons to the Ukraine. Ukraine needs this now, waiting just for a day may be too late. If we do not do this and just watch Russia take over Ukraine then Putin is likely to keep on going. He is getting desperate now so use the opportunity when he goes to far to impose the no-fly zone. Wake up world. Is Lithuania the only country that is awake?

It does not make sense to take over another country by war.

It destroys your image and a lot of people will hate you. Not only the people in the country being taken over but also your own people. Because with war comes misery. The German people know this. Even many decades after World War II, the German people are met with suspicion and are not as welcome as they would otherwise be.

What is the use of being the official ruler of a country if the citizens of your country are despised by the locals if they visit, so much so that many would indeed not visit at all.

It makes more sense to work on closer relations between the countries. Through cooperation you have much more to gain.

Young people especially value unrestricted mobility. They want to be able to travel, without being hated, to the country that is or is being considered for take over. This argument also applies to Chinas warmongering against Taiwan.

We should protest all around the world, outside not only Russian embassies but outside Chinese, Indian and Saudi Arabian embassies for without China, India and Saudi Arabia, Russia would abandon its plan.