Torsten Heinrich

Torsten Heinrich referred to new videos of Ukrainian mechanized operations and reports from the Third Army Corps about the use of artillery. He asked whether this meant that systems other than drones may not all be outdated after all. #UkrainischeArmee #Artillerie #Militäroperationen (translated)

Torsten Heinrich criticized the veneration of a person he described as racist and homophobic and held responsible for mass murders. He compared them to a CDU member of the Bundestag who praised Augusto Pinochet and sarcastically asked whether Die Linke could really be considered a normal party. He stated that he would omit a discussion of the economic policies of the two individuals. #Rassismus #Homophobie #Politik (translated)

Torsten Heinrich wrote that the Russian military blogger "Joint Forces Group West" admitted that since the end of September, their own soldiers had been evacuated disguised as civilians from Kupjansk. The soldiers had sought out civilians themselves to form groups and disguise convoys; in some cases, civilians had been persuaded to do so. According to Heinrich, the blogger confirmed recent Ukrainian accusations that civilians had been used as human shields. Heinrich described the evacuation of disguised soldiers as a permissible wartime tactic, provided that it was not intended to kill, injure, or capture Ukrainians. However, the use of civilians to protect military targets, in his assessment, violates Article 51, Paragraph 7 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. #Kriegsrecht #Zivilschutz #Ukraine (translated)

Torsten Heinrich wrote that Rybar reported about a Canadian farmer who fled to Russia because of LGBTQ issues. According to reports, the man has been unable to obtain a residence permit for two years and is instead supposed to sign a contract with the military. Heinrich ironically added that the farmer apparently does not want to intercept a Ukrainian FPV drone with his face. #LGBTQ #Menschenrechte #Flüchtlinge (translated)

Torsten Heinrich wrote that companies shifted their costs onto employees through lower wages and onto customers through higher prices. The same applies to the employer's share of social security: an employer does not calculate with a salary of 2,800 euros, but with total monthly costs of about 3,500 euros. This amount must be generated by the employee, which is why the actual salary is at 3,500 euros, Heinrich argued. The state forces employers to not disclose part of the costs on the pay slip. As a result, many employees believe that the employer pays the employer's share, and they do not notice how high their actual taxes and contributions are, he wrote. He provocatively asked whether the employer takes on a side job after hours for that reason. #Arbeitgeberanteil #Steuern #Arbeitsmarkt (translated)

Anyone looking for international health insurance should definitely stay away from April International #AprilInternational. They approved a treatment for me in advance, only to later reduce the reimbursement amount by 800 euros. Fortunately, I can afford it and won't go bankrupt from it, but not everyone who takes out health insurance has that luxury. Therefore, I would explicitly recommend taking out a policy with another health insurance company. #Krankenversicherung #Hilfe #Erfahrungsbericht (translated)

The truly dumbest "argument." On one hand, you can look at Japanese and German cities in 1945 and, if you are not a right-wing extremist revisionist, you will hardly come to the conclusion that genocide was committed against Germany and Japan. On the other hand, the destruction is so extensive, while at the same time the population in the Gaza Strip has grown and the number of deaths, including those who died of natural causes (and terrorists), is about 4% of the population. One can hardly inflict such destruction while killing twenty times fewer people proportionally if one does not take human lives into account. This does not exclude the possibility that this destruction can be considered a war crime, so-called domicide. It also does not rule out other war crimes (which are practically guaranteed due to the duration of the fighting, the hatred over the cause of the war's outbreak, and the number of combatants). But if you declare destruction as genocide, then the word is worth nothing anymore. #Kriegsverbrechen #Genozid #Zerstörung (translated)

Niemand sollte zu dem Schluss kommen, dass jedes Kind (jeder unter 18) automatisch ein legitimes Kriegsziel war, das getötet werden durfte. Es sollte aber keiner, der tatsächlich an Fakten interessiert ist, ignorieren, dass die Terroristen im Gazastreifen massenhaft Minderjährige rekrutieren und einsetzen. Oft genug gibt es auch Videoaufnahmen aus Gaza, wo klar Minderjährige auf israelische Soldaten und Fahrzeuge schießen. #Gaza #Kinderrechte #Terrorismus

Verantwortungsvolle Regierungen müssten chinesische Fahrzeuge generell in Europa verbieten. Wenn sie doch in Europa verkaufen wollen, müssten sie in Europa oder freigegebenen Staaten des Westens produziert werden und die Software müsste aus Europa oder den USA kommen. Jedwede festgestellte Verbindung zu einem Server in China müsste zu furchtbaren finanziellen Strafen führen. Stattdessen überlässt man China in praktisch allen strategischen Bereichen zunehmend den vollständigen Markt und damit die vollständige Kontrolle. Wenn der Konflikt losgeht, schalten sich Strom und Wasser ab, und kein Fahrzeug fährt mehr. Und ja, das hat man dann kommen sehen. Und reden wir noch gar nicht von den Grundstückskäufen rund um Militärbasen herum. Von wo aus dann Drohnen starten können, um Kampfflugzeuge noch am Boden zu zerstören. Man verkauft den Strick, mit dem man aufgeknüpft wird. #Europa #Sicherheit #Wirtschaft

Merkel hatte andere Optionen als die, die sie 2015 ergriffen hat. Hätte sie anders gehandelt, wäre die AfD heute nahe der 5%-Hürde, unter der sie nach Luckes Austritt im Sommer 2015 war. Merkel hat sich entschieden, "Ist mir egal, ob ich schuld am Zustrom der Flüchtlinge bin, nun sind sie halt da" und "Wir schaffen das." zur Politik auszurufen. Die blanke Realität klärt die Fragen, ob dies alternativlos und ob Merkels Entscheidung gut für das Land war. #Merkel #Flüchtlingspolitik #AfD