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Gruppenbild mit Herren in Olivgrün: Generalinspekteur Carsten Breuer (re.) zeigt sich neben dem ukrainischen Verteidigungsminister Oleksij Resnikow (2. v. re.) und der deutschen Botschafterin Anka Feldhusen in Kiew. (Foto: Twitter@oleksiireznikov)

Deutschlands ranghöchster Soldat zeigt sich uniformiert an der Seite ukrainischer Militärs. Darf er das? Die Bilder kommen in Berlin nicht überall gut an – und sind für die Linke eine Provokation.

Es sind ungewöhnliche, fast schon historische – und umstrittene Aufnahmen. Die Fotos zeigen den neuen Generalinspekteur Carsten Breuer bei seinem hierzulande bisher allenfalls als Randnotiz vermerkten Besuch vor einer Woche in Kiew. In Flecktarn-Uniform ist der höchstrangige deutsche Soldat darauf zu sehen – im Kriegsgebiet, an der Seite des ukrainischen Verteidigungsministers Oleksij Resnikow und führender ukrainischer Militärs, ebenfalls in Uniform.

Craig Murray:

Now Protest Is a Moral Duty

Two other female policemen were filming with a large video camera from three metres away. Thirty yards down the road were large groups of burly policemen in fluorescent jackets, and beyond them the Tactical Support Group sat behind the dark windows of their mesh covered minibuses, fingering their shields and batons.

Facing Martin were the protestors. There were six of us, average age about 70. …  I felt perhaps proud, but rather puzzled, to be taken for a serious criminal danger to the city of Leicester.

Gregor Gysi

I feel I have my finger on the pulse of anti-fascist fashion. White hair is very au courant this year.

Tranquilliser use was higher in Northern Ireland than anywhere else in the United Kingdom. In some later era, the condition would probably be described as post traumatic stress, but one contemporary book called it ‚the Belfast syndrome‘, a malady that was said to result from ‚living with constant terror, where the enemy is not easily identifiable and the violence is indiscriminate and arbitrary‘. Doctors found, paradoxically, that the people most prone to this type of anxiety were not the active combatants, who were out on the street and had a sense of agency, but the women and children stuck sheltering behind closed doors.

—Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing, (London: William Collins, 2018), 58.

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