Germany now kindly mulls the delivery of a field hospital. Heartwarming.
Meanwhile the military head of the German navy has to go and clear his post. During a visit in India he stated the obvious, that
1. the Crimean peninsula is in Russian hands and is very unlikely to ever return to the Ukraine. He also said that
2.the Ukraine will not meet the standards that qualify it for NATO membership. Finally he said that
3.what Putin most likelywants more than anything else, is respect, and that repect is cheap to give and could have avoided the situation that now is rerality.
He got fired, more or less. He was early and voluntarily cleared his post.
The German ambassador to Kiev has been called in and been told in clear and angry words that Kievs finds both irritating, unacceptable and dissappointing.
The admiral is right with points 1 and 2, however. His point 3 I think is true, too, but it was unwise to speak it out so frankly.
Edit.
He also said that
4. the chance for a Russian invasion of the Ukraine were nonsense (meaning it will not happen).
Well, could be that it is all bluff. I dont think so, but possible it is.
Vice-Admiral K.-A. Schönbach.
