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Angela Merkel: no credible response to Medvedev
by BBC staff report via rialator - BBC Friday, Oct 3 2008, 4:19am
international / social/political / commentary

German Chancellor, Agela ‘uber alles’ Merkel, responded to Russian President Medvedev’s pragmatism and realism with double standards and hypocrisy during talks in St Petersburg this week. Medvedev stated fact in relation to the demise of the USA as economic superpower and serious force in the region. Merkel, fully cognisant of the pipeline corridor/energy wars raging at present, responded with criticism of Russia’s actions in Georgia. She accused Russia of a “disproportionate” response to the unprovoked western-backed attack on innocent civilians in South Ossetia! Merkel may have been thinking of Germany’s clandestine role in the ILLEGAL secession of Kosovo when she added that Georgia's ‘territorial integrity’ "is non-negotiable!"

Dimitry Medvedev

Germany’s covert operations in Kosovo and Bosnia in support of criminal secessionists, which extended to supplying intelligence, hi-tech hardware, weapons and training, are well known today yet Fraulein Merkel had the audacity to criticise Russia for responding to the US/Israeli instigated attack on innocent civilians in S. Ossetia! What you smell, dear reader, is the foul stench of HYPOCRISY and DOUBLE STANDARDS. Do better next time, Fraulein, much, much, better!

I wonder whether Merkel views the combined attack of NATO and US forces on tiny (former) Yugoslavia in 1999 as ‘proportionate’ – give us a break, Fraulein!

Germany is party to the theft of Serbian sovereign territory (Kosovo) yet Merkel shamelessly made an international display of that old Nazi Teutonic audacity and arrogance, as she attempted to gain the ‘holier than thou’ ground from Medvedev. However, Germany is too firmly embedded in the quagmire with the USA to make any ‘ground’ whatsoever!

Merkel also faces the prospect that she may be called upon to explain the covert operations of German forces in the former Yugoslavia – the whole world would then become aware of the ‘murky' ground Germany really occupies.

Perhaps it would be prudent to guard your tongue in future, Fraulein – we wouldn’t want to make a bigger fool of ourselves than Dick Cheney, would we?

'US dominance is over' - Medvedev
BBC staff report

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that the era of US global economic dominance is over.

Speaking after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in St Petersburg, Mr Medvedev said the world needed a "more just" financial system.

Mrs Merkel's visit is seen as an effort to ease tensions between Moscow and the West over the war in Georgia. Russia is backing two breakaway regions there.

But Georgia's territorial integrity "is non-negotiable," Mrs Merkel insisted.

Mrs Merkel, like other Western leaders, has criticised Moscow's actions in Georgia in August. In the brief war Russian troops pushed well beyond the borders of breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

On Thursday Mrs Merkel called Russia's intervention in Georgia "disproportionate".

The talks come a day after European Union observers began patrolling in Georgia to oversee a withdrawal of Russian forces from "buffer zones" around the breakaway regions.

Russia has kept troops there since ousting Georgian forces. It has promised to complete its troop pull-out by 10 October, but it plans to keep nearly 8,000 troops in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Gas deal

In St Petersburg, Mrs Merkel and Mr Medvedev signed a long-awaited energy deal giving the German firm E.On a stake in a Russian gas field that will supply the Nord Stream undersea pipeline the two countries intend to build.

Germany's European Union neighbour Poland objects to the pipeline, which will deprive it of lucrative transit fees.

Some 40% of the natural gas Germany imports comes from Russia.

Merkel and dubya

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7647729.stm