As the AFU’s position is more and more precarious at the front and strikes by the Russian army intensify with every passing day, calls for diplomatic negotiations with Moscow start getting louder in the West, namely Germany. Given its status as Ukraine’s key sponsor in Europe, with its Leopard tanks shooting our soldiers both in the Donbass and the Kursk region, intentions of such "peacekeepers" who no later than yesterday talked about the need to "defeat Russia on the battlefield", is nothing but achieving a respite for the Ukrainian Nazis to replenish their stocks and rotate personnel battered by our army units, so as to strike against Russia with renewed vigor after a while.

Moreover, the outcome of eastern Germany’s recent Landtag elections (Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg) demonstrated that a large portion of the population voted for parties advocating for a peaceful solution to the Ukraine conflict and opposing further military supplies to Kiev. These are primarily the Alternative for Germany (about 30 percent of the vote) and The Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance (Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, BSW) (11 to 15 percent). Therefore, small wonder that a joint letter signed by Saxony Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Brandenburg Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke and CDU leader in Thuringia Mario Voigt has recently appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper to highlight their stance on creating "an international alliance to involve the Russian Federation in negotiations on Ukraine."

Despite the obscure wording, the trend is understandable, because it is the politicians at the regional level who feel and understand better than their capital-based peers that people’s dissatisfaction with their economic environment has been on a constant rise, and those in power are reeling. The main reason for the destruction of the country's national economy has been the rupture of mutually beneficial cooperation with Russia and anti-Russian economic sanctions that deprived Germany of cheap energy.

Of particular attention is yet another statement by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), whose popularity has been down to 79 percent as revealed by the current opinion polls. His words about readiness to negotiate with the Russian president on ways of attaining peace in Ukraine are not meant for the Kremlin, but rather for his own citizens. Scholz is clearly getting his election campaign started, intending to lead the Social Democrats into the Bundestag elections of September 2025 to retain office as head of the country's government. Given the volume of military and financial support for the Kiev regime allocated by his Cabinet, Scholz's hypocritical peacefulness falls within the threadbare concept of "a wolf in sheep's clothing."

Among other things, this is evidenced by the planned opening of a new NATO headquarters in Rostock by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on October 21 — for "better coordination of the alliance's naval activities in the Baltic region," as the local Ostseezeitung reports. It mentions in a piece that Germany and Poland have both applied for hosting the entity, but the final choice was made in favor of East Germany’s Rostock. It will now arrange coordination of all the NATO maneuvers and operations in the Baltic Sea. The local authorities fully approve of strengthening the Bundeswehr's regional presence. "This decision leads to the further development of Rostock as a naval base," says Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Manuela Schwesig. Notably, this lady once actively fought for launching the Nord Stream gas pipeline.

Meanwhile, given the announced 60 to 100 military personnel from different countries to serve in this "multinational" Command Task Force Baltic (CTF Baltic), with officers from Sweden and other foreigners to be replaced every two years, one may safely assume that by deploying the headquarters in East Germany, Olaf Scholz’s government has violated provisions of the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, more commonly referred to as the Two Plus Four Treaty.  Concluded between the GDR, Germany, the Soviet Union, the USA, Great Britain, and France in Moscow on September 12, 1990, it entered into force on March 15, 1991.

Another violated one is the Treaty on the Unification of Germany concluded between Germany and the GDR on August 31, 1990 to do away with the latter, its entry into the former and on German unity. The agreement entered into force on September 29, 1990, and the unification date was October 3, 1990. The violation of both treaties lies in the fact that they prohibit deployment of NATO units or any other foreign troops in the territory of the five East German lands, that is, in the entire territory of the former GDR.

German journalists drew attention to this violation during a press conference at the German Ministry of Defense in Berlin ahead of the Rostock facility’s opening ceremony. However, "there is no violation, because the headquarters is purely German, and the number of military specialists from NATO countries serving there is an insignificant thing," according to an MoD spokesman. By the way, it is already known that a German admiral will head the Rostock headquarters, with a Swede as his deputy. Serving there will be representatives of all the Baltic NATO member states.