EU and NATO v Russia and China. NATO head calls for wartime economy, sacrifice health care by SIGNYM

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EU and NATO v Russia and China. NATO head calls for wartime economy, sacrifice health care

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UPDATED: Friday, March 28, 2025 14:12
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Sunday, December 15, 2024 4:21 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

About time to end the fiction that the war in Ukraine is "Russia v Ukraine". NATO and the EU are putting everything they can, short of official boots on the ground, into "Project: Destroy Russia".

The truth will out.

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NATO Head Says "Wartime Mindset" Needed; Redirect "Pensions, Health, Social Security" To Military Spending

Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who was this year selected as the Secretary General of NATO, has stated that Europeans need to “shift to a wartime mindset” and that military spending must be increased, likely at the expense of things like health care.

Rutte made the remarks at, ironically, a meeting of The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Brussels, declaring that Russia is trying to “crush our freedom and way of life.”

“Hostile actions against Allied countries are real and accelerating… These attacks are not just isolated incidents. They are the result of a coordinated campaign to destabilise our societies and discourage us from supporting Ukraine,” he added.

I guess Russia attacked some European nations?

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Rutte further asserted that Russia is using unconventional “hybrid warfare” attacks against Europe, circumventing NATO’s traditional defence and bringing “the front line to our front doors. Even into our homes” .

“Ukrainians are fighting against Russian swarms of drones. That’s what we need to be prepared for”, Rutte told the conference.

No examples of this anywhere.

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Rutte’s call to institute a wartime mindset among Europeans was also recently echoed by Admiral Rob Bauer, the most senior military officer at NATO who said that “luxuries” will have to be sacrificed for freedom.

“If you ramp up your deterrence and if you ramp up support to Ukraine, nthere will be less money to spend on other things. It will take away some of our luxuries, it will require sacrifice,” Bauer stated.

MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-head-says-wartime-mindset-
needed-redirect-pensions-health-social-security

Yes, so according to Rutte, Europe should expect a Russian invasion any day now? Maybe Russia will send their drones into people's homes?

Notice how Admiral Bauer conflates deterrence with "supporting Ukraine"?

So much hysteria. I hope nobody believes this bullshit.

But it seems like the EU and NATO are doing a pretty good job of crushing the "European way of life" all on their own, based on the hysteria they've been fed.

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Sunday, December 15, 2024 6:38 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Old Empires have been dying or died off, the French Empire, the British Empire, the USSR.

The new Russia is basically dying like the old Empires, its got the same issues of 'wartime economy' and worse, it is a full on war economy with tech exports going backward, its losing its men and Russia's buddies are Belarus, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea. Its not terrible tough Russia can barter it is a big country with resources to trade.

Not quiet Sri Lanka level collapse but Russia is among pariah outcasts

Even with the Western sanctions the advantage is Russia has minerals, gas other resources that the world wants so can trade old school style.

The Russians risk falling behind India not just behind Brazil or China

it will be one of the economically weaker leaders of 'BRICS'

There are other players arriving outside of the USA, NAFTA, EU, the ASEAN the
APEC group or Asia Pacific Economics.

What Does Ruble's Sharp Fall Mean for Russia's Economy?
https://www.newsweek.com/what-does-rubles-sharp-fall-mean-russias-econ
omy-1992933

having hundreds of thousands of Russian men half blown up won't do much for their 'health care'

its like both 'The West' and Russia are racing to the bottom

With the war ongoing that Russian economy is in a very dire state, even worse, you could argue Ukraine is in a worse situation than Russia.

a lot of civilians died in Iraq but the USA only lost approximately 4,400 US troops were killed there are other injuries, 31,994 wounded in action WIA but that's over a 20 year period

independent Russian media project iStories, citing sources close to the Kremlin, reported that more than 90,000 Russian soldiers had been killed, seriously wounded, or gone missing in Ukraine

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Sunday, December 15, 2024 7:00 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

TRANSLATION OF NATO STATEMENT: GIVE US MORE MONEY!

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JAYNZE, you're wrong about Russia.

The only reason why other nations are afraid to trade with Russia is bc of the risk of secondary sanctions by the USA. The USA is bullying much of the world, and it's the USA that risks becoming a pariah state.

Meanwhile, most EU nations have slit their economic risks on the altar of globalism. They've welcomed millions of culturally and educationally incompatible migrants, which they're finding impossible to assimilate. They've cut themselves from cheap reliable energy, chasing two phantoms: green energy and "destroy Russia".

Now they're running like lemmings to throw money into a military buildup that would have been completely unnecessary if they simply had not threatened Russia by expanding NATO eastward and engineering regime change operations on Russia's border.

Russia doesn't want an empire. They want border security. Once western policy makers stop their hysteria, self-serving propaganda, and hallucinatory impulses; and come to the realization that Russia is just seeking security, they can come to a real security solution for themselves as well.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Friday, March 28, 2025 7:19 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

news and opinions

Era of close ties with US 'is over', Canada PM Carney says
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250327-era-of-close-ties-with-us-i
s-over-canada-pm-carney

Trump was naive to think he could negotiate with Putin
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/trump-was-naive-to-think-he-could
-negotiate-with-putin/

European Council chief: No backing down on Russia sanctions
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-chief-no-backing-down-on-russia-san
ctions/

Russia and Ukraine Commit to Black Sea Truce. What Does That Mean?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/europe/russia-ukraine-black-s
ea-cease-fire.html

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Friday, March 28, 2025 9:09 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Dutch Minister of Defence Ruben Brekelmans said the Netherlands faces almost daily hybrid attacks, including cyberattacks on hospitals and maritime ports, espionage and sabotage preparations. He cited cases of unidentified drones near military bases, fishing boats that photograph petrochemical installations, and vessels on the North Sea that are secretly mapping internet cables, gas pipes and wind-energy parks.

He said the Netherlands is in fact no longer living in peace, but finds itself in a grey zone in between war and peace. “We’re not at war with Russia, but Russia, in hybrid form, is with us.”

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/03/27/russia-seen-ready
-for-big-troop-move-year-after-ukraine-truce-dutch/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, March 28, 2025 9:23 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Undependable Americans

Aligning with Russian interests in Ukraine, the administration temporarily suspended aid and intelligence support to Ukraine. Trump has launched a trade war with fellow NATO country Canada with the bizarre aim of making it a U.S. state. He has vaguely threatened to take Greenland from Denmark, another NATO member.

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was one of the first European leaders to grasp the long-term implications of the American lurch toward authoritarianism. Europe must achieve “strategic independence” from the United States, Merz said in February. German lawmakers moved quickly to establish a funding mechanism for a huge increase in German defense spending; now Sweden is following suit.

One priority is to wean Swedish forces off of the American-maintained GPS navigation system, in part by spending more on the European alternative, the Galileo system. Another priority is a more robust rocket artillery force, now that NATO can’t count on U.S. Army High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System batteries.

Replacing the Patriots might be the most challenging pivot for the Swedes. “I would see that as a high priority,” Oscar Jonsson, a war scholar at Sweden’s Defense University, told Sweden Herald. But there’s really just one alternative to the 90-mile-range Patriot: the Franco-Italian SAMP/T—and missile-maker MBDA builds just a handful of batteries a year.

If the Swedish government is serious about ending its—and NATO’s—military dependence on the United States, look for Sweden to make inquiries about joining, and expanding, the SAMP/T program.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/03/28/sweden-is-rearming-fo
r-war-with-russia/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, March 28, 2025 2:12 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

FUCK UKRAINE.

And you're all going to lose your free healthcare since you have to pay for your own military now.

Good luck keeping your people in agreement with continuing on the war effort when their already obscene tax burden increases while you also take away stuff they were taking completely for granted.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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