Thread by @fuecks

"The only thing standing between the perpetrators of Butcha, Borodyanka, Mariupol and their potential future victims at this moment are the Armed Forces of Ukraine." A reply to all who confuse peace with subjugation of #Ukraine. Furious #Thread /1
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28 German academics & artists write an Open Letter to Chancellor Scholz.
In a nutshell: Because we fear nuclear war, Ukraine unfortunately must surrender. Supplying her with weapons is plunging us all into disaster! - An intellectual + political revelation. /2

Starting with what? With the cynicism of accusing the Ukrainian government and all who support it in its military resistance against Russia of being responsible for the suffering of Ukrainian civilians? Classic perpetrator-victim reversal. /3

The Open letter spreads wishful thinking that European peace will be secured if a compromise "acceptable to Putin" is imposed on Ukraine. From a position of Ukraine's defenselessness, there is only a dictatorial peace on Russian terms. /4

Have any of the signatories of this letter taken note of Moscow's declared war aims: Destruction of Ukraine's national autonomy, or at least territorial dismemberment of the country and Russian domination from Kharkiv to Odesa? /5

If Putin gets away with this, the European peace order will be in ruins. Then we have a violent, expansionist superpower on NATO's borders that thinks the West is weak and fearful. This brings the danger of a final war closer./6

Those who fear an escalation should firmly confront Russia's war policy: This far & no further! Not #appeasement, but #deterrence of an opponent ready for war secures peace. Putin must fail on Ukraine,or more disaster looms. /7

On top of all the political incomprehension, there is a complete lack of empathy towards Ukraine. This is particularly astonishing among people who otherwise like to invoke "German historical responsibility". Never again war, never again genocide = surrender at last? /8

What makes a bright intellectual like Alexander Kluge recommend the surrender of Nazi Germany as a model for Ukraine? This literally turns everything upside down: perpetrator and victim, liberation and submission, struggle for self-determination and fascist aggression. /9

Cowardice masquerades as responsibility, partisanship for the aggressor as care for the attacked, wishful thinking as realism, betrayal as an act of reason. I am through with the signatories of this appeal. It is a pity about some of them. /10