Yesterday at 14:20 CET, a military jet flew over my house in north-eastern Germany. It was heading East. There’s a whole load of trouble over there, and I presume this jet had something to do with it in some way.
It’s all very concerning and I worry how this is going to turn out. I have read my history and remember the stories of “July 1914” and “August 1939”. Everybody in the whole damned world knew there was going to be a war and, one month later, there was a war.
I know that feeling. Now.
I hope it never happens. There are indeed many good reasons for hope, including plain incompetence. But I’m getting ahead of myself here.
All this is bad enough. Worse still is the reason for the currently critical situation:
The USA1 betrayed us.
It’s hard to describe my reaction to this. Upset. Shocked. Baffled. I never wondered how I would react to such a betrayal, as it was simply inconceivable. The USAians were always there for us; we were always there for them. No longer. We can’t trust them again either.
Why did they do this?
I’ve got a few ideas, as well as a list of villains to blame. My aim with this blog is to look at this mess and try to understand what’s going on and why it happened.
At the moment, I just don’t get it.
- until it becomes “X, the country formerly known as USA” ↩︎