Why Politicians Should not Lie

That politicians lie and adjust the truth to fit their goals and self-presentation, is no secret and well proven throughout history. (Just see Prof. Dr. John Mearsheimer's book "Why Politicians Lie" for enough examples.)

But in one certain example, I am of the opinion, that a publicly proclaimed lie and transformation of true events backfired and resulted in the 'new cold war' between the Western Powers and Russia in combination with the 'New South' and also directly in the creation of the War in the Ukraine.

The US President Bill Clinton declared, that the US had won the Cold War and also had reached the German unification by its strength of Western politics.

But how did he come to these erroneous conclusions, when the US had not won anything and had not had an active hand in the Unification of the two German states at all?

A discussion of American historians brought me to the conclusion, that in the US and Canadian universities, the knowledge about the true events how the German unification came about, is not part of their curriculum.

They discussed the presidency of Ronald Reagan and they could not find a clear indication, how he was able to begin the appeasement politics with the UDSSR and Mikhail Gorbachev.

My answer to that is, they look in the wrong direction, if they want to find leads, those were not in the US, but rather deeply set in Germany and on a personal level between politicians.

Under Helmut Kohl, the clear result was declared, that to reach the 'go-ahead' from the United States, they would hand over the 'success' to the Americans, so that they would not prevent the German reunification. But all the required steps and discussions leading up to this step solely (!) resulted from the personal friendship between Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Nothing else lead to the reunification of Germany.

No winning of a 'cold war', 
no economic supremacy,
no democratic superiority,
no moral leadership,
as well as no other stupidity ...

 The sole reason for the German reunification was the personal sympathy between Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev and especially the Western sympathies Mikhail Gorbachev held and his interest in Western culture.

So I find it disgusting, how now, before his death and after the beginning of the Ukrainian war, Germany and especially Bavaria treated Mikhail Gorbachev,

and also how disgusting the German former Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to erase Helmut Kohl from history and negated his unique political status and successes for Germany, which would not have been possible without him.

But as a consequence of this 'German lie', the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, thought, that his country was successful in a way it was not and that lead him to declare himself and his country erroneously the winner of the Cold War', which it was not.

This hybris was responsible for his confrontational policies towards the economically weak UDSSR, which also suffered under its very ill and consequentially weak leader Boris Jelzin,

It enabled that the US thought themselves the winners and subsequently could sell out the loosing Russian side, which they sold out under the noses of the Russian population to their economic disadvantage.

Only a strong lead under Vladimir Putin slowly was able to turn this economic disaster for the Russian population around and heighten living standards, income and economic success for his citizens.

With this new-found strength, Vladimir Putin, who, like Mikhail Gorbachev held a very positive Western world view and sympathies for European and German culture, approached a new economic and political defense system, to make all sides happy. He even followed the declared intentions of Helmut Kohl, who saw appeasement politics based on the interests of both sides as the logical solution for a peaceful and prosperous future for the Eurasian continent.

But the US as the 'winners' could not accept a sovereign Russian state, who took up his position in world economics and defense considerations and with the Ukraine supported a country to 'keep Russia down'. There is no other interpretation possible, with all the political and secret service papers lately revealed, which expressly formulated those exact doctrines.

So in my opinion, the fact that Germany did not express the truth about the true reasons for the German Re-Unification, but instead let the U.S. take the 'success' it did not deserve, is one main factor that caused the War in the Ukraine.