NATO goes into full fear-porn mode to shake down taxpayers for cash — RT World News

NATO promotion of “Russian threat” The Telethon has reached levels of cruelty – worse than the home alarm salesman in the TV ads talking about the creepy burglar.

This was stated recently by Polish Commander-in-Chief Wieslaw Kokula He added, “Russia is preparing for conflict with NATO, realizing that the alliance is a defensive structure.” For French President Emmanuel Macron, it's playing “defense” It appears to involve sending a group of players deep into the other player's end zone to score. Macron has been speaking publicly about sending troops to fight Russia while giving the impression that he is personally training to take on Russian President Vladimir Putin by posing for glamorous black-and-white photos with boxing gloves and flexed biceps that may or may not be the result. Of having Mr. Photoshoppe as his personal trainer. Estonia's foreign intelligence chief aptly describes the Russian strategy as: “Long-term confrontation” EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton He said “We need to change the paradigm And the transition to a war economy mode. Andre Bergegger, head of the Federation of German City Councils, talks about reviving bomb shelter work. “During the Cold War, Germany had more than 2,000 public bunkers. Only 600 of them still exist, protecting around 500,000 people. There is an urgent need to get the decommissioned bunkers back into operation. We need to build new, modern bunkers. In urban centres, underground parking lots and subway shafts can certainly be used. the official He said.

Of course, why not? If the military-industrial complex is going to try to convince taxpayers to let the government take all their money to make weapons, why shouldn't the bunker company also get in on the act? Not a bad time for a fuel industry revival, actually. With energy costs and interest rates becoming an issue for Europeans, perhaps everyone can save some money, move into government-funded bunkers, and enjoy waiting for Putin to show up.

What to do when you destroy your natural economy “For Ukraine” And they have nothing to show for it? Announce that you now identify yourself as a wartime person and are trying to get some money from your taxpayers for the transition.

So what we're seeing now is European countries increasing their defense spending while at the same time saying they don't really have any money to provide for things like social programs, or to adequately compensate their farmers who have been harmed by EU freedom. Trade policy favors Ukraine's agricultural industry over European industry. I do not like it? Well, do you really want Putin heading to a Parisian café on the Left Bank in a battle tank? They talk as if this is literally where he would be – ordering foie gras from the midday menu – if European taxpayers had not begun to rally around the idea that the arms industry was now suddenly Europe's top priority. So how does this selling function actually work for taxpayers? Not that great. Which may explain why they escalate the rhetoric to ridiculous levels.

Poland in particular has been a big beneficiary of all these concerns, with the US Congress approving $288 million in foreign military funding in 2022 for Poland under the guise of confronting Russia. Warsaw has also received $34 million in security aid to improve intelligence capabilities and military mobility over the past six years, with $1.2 billion in sales of US defense materials to Poland between 2019 and 2021 alone, according to the US State Department. Last year in Warsaw Scored 2 billion dollars “lend” From Washington to purchase military equipment to purchase American weapons, in addition to a gift worth $60 million to compensate for its financing.

All of Russia's threatening letters were non-specific. But why be subtle when there's a risk of exposing it? However, there are two exceptions: the Suwalki Gap and Transnistria.

NATO has long been obsessed with the Suwalki Gap – the hundred-kilometre strip along the Polish-Lithuanian border, sandwiched between the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in the west and Belarus in the east. Last summer, Poland's defense minister easily turned on the fact that Russian private military group Wagner fighters previously active in the Ukrainian conflict had been effectively exiled to Belarus following their public collapse and long march toward Moscow over disagreements with Russia. Military leadership. The mere idea of ​​Wagner's fighters sitting, perhaps drinking a few beers, somewhere near Minsk was apparently enough for NATO to begin having visions of Wagner's men making an armed overland trip into Poland from the east while Russian forces were inland. Kaliningrad comes from the west. Who knows why NATO thinks they want to do this. But any excuse or excuse will suffice when it comes to Poland's ability to load up on weapons and play the role of a NATO attack dog that always looks like it's about to chew through its belt.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko suggested to Putin at the time that Poland was planning to attack Belarus, with a thousand Polish soldiers recently approaching the border under the pretext that Wagner's forces were now hanging out with Belarusian forces on the other side of it. But Lukashenko also offered another explanation for the Polish military buildup, explaining that south of the Suwalki Gap, just below Belarus, lies western Ukraine, and that Poland wants to get its hands on a piece of it. Lukashenko's statement that Poland was eager to get its hands dirty in Ukraine echoes what Putin told the Russian Security Council, which is that Poland wants to become more deeply involved in Ukraine to seize for itself a slice of what Warsaw considers its historic territory.

There has also been a great deal of NATO concern about the so-called Russian threat to Transnistria – the demilitarized zone that broke away from Moldova at the end of the Cold War and is now a de facto independent republic. If you haven't heard much about Transnistria until recently, if at all, it's because it's stable, with Russian peacekeepers holding down the fort. In June 2023, at the Children's Table summit of the European Union's political group of countries wishing to join the EU, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said he wanted the EU to knock on Transnistria's door, as if it did not have enough of itself. problems. Zelensky said Ukraine was ready to help fight Russian peacekeepers in Transnistria, but would only need a request from Moldova.

Nice – good “Defense Alliance” You're getting there, guys. Are you really sure Russia is the problem here? Or maybe your worldview is as divorced from reality as the idea that Macron's newly bulging biceps, says his wife Brigitte, are the result of two weekly 45-minute workouts?