Where does NATO, particularly its European members, come up with the money to wage war against Russia? From Pepe Escobar at stategic-culture.su:
The Europeans will never be able to replicate the time-tested Hegemon money laundering machine, Pepe Escobar writes.
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats tho’ unseen amongst us, -visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower.-
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening,-
Like clouds in starlight widely spread,-
Like memory of music fled,-
Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
As the de facto North Atlantic Terror Organization celebrates its 75th birthday, taking Lord Ismay’s motto to ever soaring heights (“keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down”), that thick slab of Norwegian wood posing as Secretary-General came up with a merry “initiative” to create a 100 billion euro fund to weaponize Ukraine for the next five years.
Translation, regarding the crucial money front in the NATO-Russia clash: partial exit of the Hegemon – already obsessing with The Next Forever War, against China; enter the motley crew of ragged, de-industrialized European chihuahuas, all in deep debt and most mired in recession.
A few IQs over average room temperature at NATO’s HQ in Haren, in Brussels, had the temerity to wonder how to come up with such a fortune, as NATO has zero leverage to raise money among member states.
After all, the Europeans will never be able to replicate the time-tested Hegemon money laundering machine. For instance, assuming the White House-proposed $60 billion package to Ukraine would be approved by the U.S. Congress – and it won’t – no less than 64% of the total will never reach Kiev: it will be laundered within the industrial-military complex.
Yet it gets even more dystopic: Norwegian Wood, robotic stare, arms flailing, actually believes his proposed move will not imply a direct NATO military presence in Ukraine – or country 404; something that is already a fact on the ground for quite a while, irrespective of the warmongering hissy fits by Le Petit Roi in Paris (Peskov: “Russia-NATO relations have descended into direct confrontation”).
Finland has a Sun Tzu type warmaster leader ready to lead them to 1000 years of glorious victories. (s/)
Ivan trembles in fear of the rump vassals and just wait until they go full Joey Goebbels Total War mode with unheard of levels of mass production.
A long fuse in the former CCCP but now they have awakened.
LMFAO! YTube has the full JG Totaler Krieg speech from 1943 at the Sportpalast with a ban sign over the swastika meanwhile 666 and other symbols are hidden in plain sight on all kinds of Omni Consumer Products logos, after all revelation of method is in the cards.
BBL-off for a little sport und spiel.
Mr. Escobar writes well, if complicated posts, that succinctly address what needs to be said. Offers no hope really at all, and solutions, well, who in the world that is human could hope to come up with any? Cold water, indeed. My hope is brutal. That we lose the electric grid, world wide, and every day people can take back control of their lives from Globohomo, the Blob, whatever you call it. We produce power for them, which they in turn bludgeon us with, to death. I think we’d all be better off if they had a lot less power. Reform will only provide us with respite from the monsters.