1. Europe is weak and divided and few would waste their lives to confront Russia’s 5000 Nukes … 2.The 800 billion would have to go for inferior US Arms 3.Without US Satellite Net and Elon’s Starlink Europe would last 3 days.
on March 16, 202 by DANTE BARONTINI at Obsadmin via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-GkY Telegram.. t.me/thefreeonline/2598
Leer en Castellano: Rearmar Europa”. Un juego peligroso, casi suicida
What kind of “strategic autonomy” can a group of 27 countries with often divergent objectives that depend on a private satellite network and the nuclear cover of a “reluctant ally” have?
Nothing cuts through the chatter and power like war. Are you for or against it? Do you vote for “war credits”—as the social democratic parties of the Second International did in 1914—or not? Are you going on the streets to demand an extension of the war or to say “enough is enough” ?
As everyone knows, Ursula von der Leyen launched her €800 billion “ReArm Europe” plan because “ something fundamental has changed.” Our European values—democracy, freedom, and the rule of law—are under threat. We see sovereignty being called into question, but so are ironclad commitments. Everything has become transactional. “The pace of change is accelerating, and the actions needed must be bold and decisive .”
A demonstrator is holding a placard depicting a skull that reads ‘Russians burn in hell’ in Warsaw, Poland
A tangle of falsehoods and lies that “Anonima Maltese” handles masterfully , while here we try to explain what is happening.
Let’s also ignore for a moment the curious contradiction according to which one would want to rearm to “defend democracy” but, to do so, circumvents democratic institutions and proceeds “autocratically” (the “plan” will not be voted on by either the useless European Parliament or the 27 national parliaments). Translated: in whose name are we rearming ?
It’s also clear that these €800 billion are largely a three-card game, because in reality—with the exception of a portion consisting of new debt issued by both the European Union and individual nation states—a large part of them are transfers of funds intended for European “cohesion funds.” That is, the financial instruments created to ” reduce economic, social, and territorial disparities between EU Member States and regions ,” with the aim of ” promoting harmonious and sustainable development by strengthening economic, social, and territorial cohesion within the Union .”
In practice, Rearm Europe will authorize individual states to take these funds and, instead of spending them on building better infrastructure, wind or solar farms, modernizing water and sewage systems, or providing vocational training for the unemployed or young people, use them to buy weapons.
A vile game, but generally simple, like any low-budget hack.
The real problems, however, begin when you move from “finding the money” (it’s very easy to get into debt) to what to do.
‘The deranged European “elites” will fail, one way or the other. Their perception of reality is distorted by delusions, their resources – military and also intellectual – are far too small, and their aims make no sense. But the problem for the rest of us is that they may yet cause enormous damage on their way down the rubbish chute of history’.
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