{"id":30835,"date":"2023-03-26T11:19:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/?p=30835"},"modified":"2023-03-28T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T09:38:22","slug":"childs-play1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/2023\/03\/26\/childs-play1\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILD\u2019S PLAY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span lang=\"de-DE\">Victor Grossman \u2013 26. M\u00e4rz 2023<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ydped04b104MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 16pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>CHILD\u2019S PLAY?<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">BERLIN BULLETIN NO. 209<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9198\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9198\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9198\" src=\"https:\/\/info-welt.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Victor_Grossman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Grossman<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I recall a circle game from my childhood; after each round another chair was removed, leaving one more child out. We called it \u201cGoing to Jerusalem.\u201d Last week Israeli boss Netanyahu arrived FROM Jerusalem. \u00a0After two days he was out of the Berlin circle \u2013 one day too early.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Since its founding the Federal Republic has supported even the worst Israeli leaders, aiming, by voicing loud regret for Nazi horror and displaying reform efforts, to win an admission ticket back into western society. Under a media blanket, however, all but the worst Nazi big shots crept back into every sphere, above all government and the economy. Age, death and rebellious young anti-fascists gradually removed most of them, but not their influence \u2013 or the total official support for every Israeli leader, even former terrorists like Menachim Begin and Yitzhak Shamir. Such types now have total power, yet Chancellor Scholz upheld the formula and gave \u201cBibi\u201d an honored welcome. Then the state visit was suddenly cut short! Was it because hundreds of thousands in Israel kept up mass protests against the demolition of democracy, even for Jewish Israelis? Or because of world-wide revulsion at the bloodshed against Palestinians, from well-aimed bullets killing Shireen Abu Akleh, a beloved woman journalist, or the torching of hundreds of Palestinian homes in the refugee camp of Huwwara by illegal Israeli settlers, while Israeli soldiers refused to intervene and then joined in, with ministerial approval? Or because of demonstrations in Berlin, by Germans and Palestinians at the Bundestag and, at Brandenburg Gate, by angry Israeli ex-pats living in Berlin (a historic turn-around), waving Israeli flags while denouncing the new government? It is getting tougher for Bibi and his hate-driven ministers to find comfortably secure chairs anywhere. Perhaps, before long, even in Jerusalem?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30836\" style=\"width: 659px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30836\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-30836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rrt-Kopie-300x128.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rrt-Kopie-300x128.png 300w, http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rrt-Kopie-768x329.png 768w, http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rrt-Kopie.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Accompanied by massive protests, the Israeli prime minister completed his visit to Berlin. At a press conference, German Federal Chancellor Scholz criticized the planned judicial reform.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0But the featured game in Berlin these days was rather \u201cWho\u2019s King of the Mountain\u201d or, slightly altered, \u201cKing of City Hall\u201d (or its queen). \u00a0In an unprecedented decision, the courts canceled the totally-mismanaged September 2021 elections to the Berlin parliament (Abgeordnetenhaus) and ordered new elections, which were held on February 12th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0Since 2016, the city was run by a coalition: Social Democrats (SPD), with their Franziska Giffey as mayor, the Greens and the LINKE (Left). \u00a0Most of the media now expected only minor changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Then came Surprise No. 1. Those three parties, added together, again won a majority, but a far \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0slimmer one, with the SPD suffering its worst loss in Berlin history, a measly 18.4%, far behind the CDU \u201cChristians\u201d at 28.2%. Too many Berliners were fed up, for both good reasons and bad ones. New Year\u2019s Eve fireworks, with angry attacks on the police and some firemen, were immediately blamed by the \u201cBild\u201d and other rags (think \u201cFox\u201d or \u201cNY Post\u201d) on \u201clazy, unruly and violent immigrants.\u201d The coalition parties were accused of \u201cspoiling\u201d them instead of locking them away or deporting them. And the CDU, heavily racist-tainted, joined in.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30838\" style=\"width: 659px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30838\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-30838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lkk-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lkk-300x128.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lkk.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Results of the parliamentary elections in Berlin<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Other heartstrings &#8211; in the tender breasts of car-drivers &#8211; were struck by the Greens\u2018 efforts to slow auto velocity and limit car traffic, even barring four-wheelers from a downtown shopping street, to increase the number and width of bicycle lanes and stop the extension of a big highway further into the city. Blood pressures behind steering-wheels rose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Thirdly, Berlin\u2019s less prosperous majority was angry at the ruling trio\u2019s failure, despite its promises, to keep rental costs from soaring, prevent evictions, and build anything near the necessary number of affordable apartments. A referendum demanding the confiscation of all apartment buildings owned by big housing giants (with adequate repayment) had been dramatically approved by over a million voters, 59%, but was sabotaged by SPD-mayor Giffey, given only lukewarm support by the Greens and really backed only by the LINKE \u2013 but even then pushed into \u00a0\u201cma\u00f1ana\u201c status by that party\u2019s accommodating, status-quo wing which is dominant in Berlin. So people asked: Where is the promised genuine rent control? Who has really fought for affordable housing! Many, dismayed or disgusted, decided to sit out this repeat election!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But many did vote. And to complicate the messy situation, both SPD and Greens got 18.4% &#8211; about 280,000 each! The SPD was ahead &#8211; by only 105 votes! Then almost 500 uncounted mail-in votes were found; would they give the Greens first place and a \u201cGreen woman mayor\u201d? Suspense was huge, but in the end the SPD was ahead by a just 53 votes, enough to save the status quo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But the top vote-getter gets first shot at forming a government. The CDU-\u201cChristians\u201d led the field with 28.2%, giving them 52 seats (out of 159), far from a majority. With neither the LINKE (22 seats) nor the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD &#8211; 17 seats) as possible allies, their right to a first chance seemed a useless formality. But the CDU kept up its usual loud-mouth bragging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Surprise No. 2, it paid off! In an amazing switch, Franziska Giffey, whose unpopularity as Social Democratic mayor helped cause their losses, announced her decision to dismantle the leftish-sounding trio alliance, abdicate her position and take her party into a junior partnership, giving Berlin its first CDU boss since 2001. The probable new mayor, Kai Wegner, like his party, works hand in glove with the real estate lobby, and it\u2019s a wide-open hand. He once assured these behemoths: \u201cThe exchange with you, our cooperation, has always offered me a great deal. As you know, I was often closer to your side than to the other side.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Giffey had never angered that side either; Berlin seemed in for five years of right-wing government.\u00a0 The SPD was trading any remaining left-over principles for a second prize, half the well-rewarded cabinet chairs. The Greens and the LINKE were suddenly relegated to cold opposition seats!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But halt! In Berlin\u2019s SPD, majority approval by the party\u2019s 53,000 members is needed for such major decisions; there is a call for rejection in some boroughs and in the SPD\u2019s Young Socialist organization (Jusos). Will party discipline and pressure prevail in the end? The curtain has not yet descended on this topsy-turvy puppet theater stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Similar confusion and controversy abound on the national level, where Social Democrats and Greens share coalition rule not with the LINKE but with the small, pushy pro-big-biz Free Democratic Party. This FDP, now threatened with political bankruptcy, is trying to win back hearts and votes by moving closer to the Christians, now in opposition but drooling at a chance to overturn apple-carts as in Berlin. So the FDP is bucking its Green coalition partner by preserving Germany\u2019s \u201cno speed limit\u201d stretches on its Autobahns, which it tries to extend more than climate-friendlier rail traffic, and further hindering, as much as possible, postponed plans to cut down on carbon-spewing coal and gas heating and close down atomic energy plants. It alienates its SPD partners, now trying to regain lost working-class support, by resisting aid to the financially deprived while resisting taxes on the obscenely wealthy; the well- worn label is again \u201cdeficit-cutting\u201d. Chancellor Scholz is trying to please everyone but the cracks widen while the CDU aims at becoming King of the Mountain. Like in Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">One theme unites German coalitions; total support for continuing the Ukraine war. Many citizens base their support on an abhorrence of killing and destruction, on sympathy for Ukrainian refugees, over a million mostly women and children who have arrived in Germany. And for those left behind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But men like Armin Papperger, the CEO of Rheinmetall, Germany\u2019s main producer of tanks and other big weapons, have hardly been affected by human sympathy alone. His annual pay last year stood at \u20ac 4,4 million while his company, happy since 1889 at all weapons orders, raked in $28.22 billion last year. &#8222;The war in Europe has ushered in a new era for Rheinmetall,\u201d Papperger said. Nor would a long war require more hankies for executives at Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing and the like, or US coal and gas producers who, after years of pressure, finally succeeded in forcing western Europe to cancel imports from Russia and build new ports for far more expensive liquefied gas from fracking sites in the USA. In the second and third quarter of 2022 alone, American oil producers made $200 billion in profits; explosively capping off such successes, according to master journalist Seymour Hersh, was the blasting of the Russia-to-Germany pipelines on the Baltic sea bottom. German politicians and media could hardly blame this convincingly on Russia, which constructed the pipelines. And they feared the political consequences of blaming either the obvious culprit or Zelensky, Washington\u2019s man in Kyiv, now the most-feted star in Europe, well ahead of King Charles (not to mention Macron). So they tried to just keep quiet and hope people would forget about it. Not enough did, so a Washington-CIA-Berlin legend was hatched about \u201cnon-governmental Ukrainians\u201d in a boat so small it could never have carried the weight of explosives and devices. So they became mum again. Or are they now trying to hatch up some more credible alibi?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But not only the city-state Berlin, teetering coalitions or exploded pipes are making news, but their effects. Low-paid working-people, single parents, pensioners, have been hit hard by soaring prices for foodstuffs, higher rent, fears about increasing prices for heating, cooking, commuting to jobs. Many are now fighting back. On Monday, March 27th, a giant one-day warning strike is shutting down rail service, key airports, much of urban public transportation. Kindergarten teachers, garbage collectors, civil servants, university staff; some well-paid pundits are weeping over this \u201crehearsal for a general strike!\u201d while Britain and France seem closer \u2013 as models for action! Some companies (and public institutions) are hoping for public animosity because of the resulting inconveniences but, often surprisingly, there is widespread public support for the strikers by all those who feel the same pains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Such disputes, difficulties and struggles should be of advantage to a party dedicated to better lives for all the people, with no lobby pressures or dependence on corporate donors. Sadly, however, the LINKE is also split, now mostly on questions involving the Ukraine. Its stronger group, called by some the \u201creformers,\u201d stands largely in line with the main parties and media, unconditionally condemning Putin and Russia, approving weapons shipments to Zelensky, calling for victory against the aggressor and condemning all doubters. Angrily opposed to them are those who voice (or demand) unconditional support for Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But many &#8211; or most (?) \u201cdoubters\u201d condemn the Russian invasion but point to the map and the constant, aggressive push by NATO, led by Washington, to surround Russia, strangle its approaches to the world\u2019s oceans by blocking the Baltic and the Black Sea while stepping up dangerous military and naval maneuvers along its borders, coupled with open political interference in Ukraine and thinly-veiled calls to defeat \u201cauthoritarian governments\u201d, meaning Russia (and Cuba, N. Korea, etc.), while snuggling up to or installing some of the world\u2018s worst tyrants. These \u201cdoubters\u201d ask what the USA would do if a hostile alliance conducted atomic-armed maneuvers near San Diego, Houston and Detroit, and as an answer they recall the Cuban crisis of 1962\u2013 almost atomic war! They also recall the bombing of Belgrade \u201cto defend the rights of oppressed Albanian-speakers in Kosovo\u201d and ask if there was no parallel to the very bloody repression of Russian-speaking Ukrainians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The split on these questions threatens the existence of the LINKE. When its most prominent member and best orator (or Germany\u2019s), Sahra Wagenknecht, spoke in the Bundestag against a break in trade relations with Russia and called for peace negotiations, some prominent \u201dreformers\u201d called for her expulsion. But In TV talk-shows, usually attacked four against one, she always ends up a calm, polite, smiling victor. She was the main organizer of the great peace rally of 50,000 in Berlin on Feb. 25th, which outraged the media &#8211; and opponents in her own party. But in their total rejection of a peace rally they isolated themselves. Then, in early March, Sahra, 53, stated that she would not again run as a candidate for the Bundestag but \u201cretire from politics and work as publicist and author \u2013 unless something new turns up politically.\u201d This hint at a possible new party, further to the left, possibly polling at 14% (and leaving the LINKE with 2%), was seen even by some of her enthusiasts as unfortunately vague, further splitting the party yet without offering any definite plan, thus with her strong voice muffled as if by a covid face mask. Her message is not uncomplicated: she charges a neglect working class rights \u2013 and of German workers &#8211; with endless attention and bickering about divisive and academic identity and gender questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Most recently the two national chairpersons of the LINKE, both opposed to Sahra, though not as angrily as other leaders, formulated a new policy statement for debate which, at first reading, seems to be a move toward bringing together all but the most uncompromisingly opposed party members and leaders. It is perhaps a chance to rescue the party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It has become so urgent to rally all those who oppose the most bellicose elements now panting for more weapons, more billions, militarization, even the draft and, basically, more war. Foreign Minister Baerbock, the new Defense Minister Pistorius, EU boss von der Leyen and NATO-leader Stoltenberg all seem so close to Washington military policy they deserve a Stars-and-Stripes flag sewed on their pants or at least a USA lapel pin. Others, full of talk of \u201ceast flank\u201d and \u201csouth flank\u201d and tactics for 2026 or 2067, dream once again of Prussian glory. They want regime change in Moscow, the opening of vast reaches of Eurasia and a springboard toward China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Till recently China was Germany\u2019s peaceful trade partner, its biggest. Now, with one provocative visit to Taiwan after the other, with a German warship, fighter planes and soldiers back in old German colonial areas, it is joining in with an encirclement of China like that against Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Olaf Scholz just visited Japan to increase trade and cement common policies. &#8222;We are united by democratic principles,&#8220; the SPD politician made clear, as he does at virtually all state visits. A leading Japanese journalist noted that \u201cin view of the current world situation, our coordination and cooperation with Germany in dealing with Russia and China are very important.\u201d And Premier Kishida stressed that &#8222;Japanese-German relations are stronger and closer than ever before!&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He was not quite correct. They were once even closer. If, like the legendary American long-sleeper Rip van Winkel, I had fallen asleep in 1936, I might have read, before drowsing off:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201c\u2026 the following November (1936) saw the ratification of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty between Germany and Japan; Italy joined the Pact in 1937\u2026 It aimed at \u201cformally integrating the military aims of Germany, Italy, Japan, and later followed by other nations\u2026 to stand side by side and cooperate in their endeavours in the Greater East Asian region and the European territories, their primary aim being to establish and maintain a new order of affairs capable of promoting prosperity and welfare for the peoples there.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">On awakening today I would have been amazed at some similarities, such as the aspects on Russia and China! To quote Yogi Berra: &#8222;It&#8217;s like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again.&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">There was a major difference from 1936; today\u2019 German-Japanese friendship is under the aegis of that other major power, which also likes to promote prosperity and welfare but is more blatant about its goals \u2013 and more frightening. It would have been a rude awakening!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cTwentynine Palms, Calif.: \u201c\u2026a half-dozen officers of the Hawaii-based Third Marine Littoral Regiment took a very short break from days of fighting \u2026 The war, they said, was going well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThe unit, newly created and innovative in nature, was facing its toughest test yet \u2014 a 10-day mock battle across Southern California\u2026developing new tactics to figure out one of the service\u2019s highest priorities: how to fight a war against Chinese forces in their own backyard, and win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp24049658MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cOver the next two years, the new unit will have a relentless schedule, with about four or five times as many exercises as most infantry regiments. Its next big test will be in the Philippines in April.\u201d <i>(<\/i><i>NY Times, 3.5.23)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ydped04b104MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/info-welt.eu\/?s=Victor+Grossman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">More by Victor Grossman<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp98f3594dMsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span title=\"Dabei muss man nicht grundlegend um die Meinung der Redaktion handeln. \">Only the author is responsible for the content of this article.<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t have to be the opinion of the editorial board.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/2020\/04\/03\/spendenaufruf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-29256 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/pay-300x69.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/pay-300x69.png 300w, http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/pay-1024x237.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/pay-768x178.png 768w, http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/pay.png 1297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 10px;\"><a title=\"zur Startseite\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrebel.de\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/back_ar.png\" alt=\"zur\u00fcck zur Startseite\" width=\"156\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1683837971860223\/permalink\/1987214344855916\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ar_zu_fb.png\" alt=\"hier geht es zur Facebook Diskussionsgruppe\" width=\"353\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#respond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ar_kommentar-1.png\" alt=\"Sag uns deine Meinung zum Artikel mit einem Kommentar\/Leserbrief\" width=\"627\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Grossman \u2013 26. 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