Tag: EU

Ill-Suited for War

It turns out that the profit motive tends to undermine actual military performance, which is why Clown World has long preferred subversion and color revolution to direct conflict:

Spiegel published a quite eye-opening piece yesterday, which reveals the long-kept truth about the performance of German weapons systems in real wartime conditions:

A German military assessment exposes major issues with NATO weapons in Ukraine.

The PzH 2000 howitzer, while advanced, is so technically fragile that its combat usefulness is in doubt. The Leopard 1A5 tank is used mostly as makeshift artillery due to weak armor. The Leopard 2A6 is too expensive and complex to maintain at the front.

Air defense systems also face problems. The IRIS-T works well, but ammo is too costly and scarce. The Patriot system is called “unsuitable for combat” because its MAN carrier vehicles are outdated and lack spare parts.

This information was revealed in a transcript of a lecture given by the deputy military attaché of the German embassy in Kiev. The summary of the paper is very clear: “Hardly any large German piece of equipment is fully suitable for war.”

The report cites “an internal paper of the Bundeswehr” about the real practicality of Germany’s top weapons. We can assume that the very same results extend to the entire constellation of NATO weaponry in general, since they are virtually all constructed with the same design philosophies, often even with interoperable systems—like the 120mm Rheinmetall tank barrels shared between the Abrams and Leopard series.

Also, for the sake of thoroughness and to establish context, Spiegel explains that the ‘report’ was taken from a lecture given to junior officers of the Bundeswehr by a ‘deputy military attaché of the German embassy in Kiev.

None of this should come as a surprise. The so-called “military-industrial complex” is neither military nor industrial; it’s really just another way of feeding off federal funds through government grants, no different than Politico making a living by selling massively overpriced subscriptions to USAID.

And the more things change… overengineered, expensive, hard-to-maintain weapons systems have been a German tradition since at least WWII, one that the USA inherited when it imported all the German scientists in the post-WWII migration that launched the US space program.

Which, of course, is also a fraud. No wonder the Russians are entirely confident of victory even if they have to face the entire continent of Europe alone. Simply living in objective reality instead of a hazy fog of financialization and rhetorical fever dreams is a material advantage that cannot be overcome, no matter how many delusional sales pitches are pronounced by unelected politicians.

Here is a useful metric: if a leader has no genuine followers, he’s a puppet and everything he says will be intrinsically false and is intended to be misleading.

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Saving Democracy

Requires breaking the rules of the organization and stripping an entire nation of 9.6 million people of its right to express its collective opinion.

The EU needs to deprive Hungary of its voting rights within the bloc to ensure sanctions on Russia stay in place, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna has said. Budapest has long advocated a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict and called for restrictions against Moscow to be lifted.

Hungary is allegedly “playing on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s team” and “not on our European team,” Tsahkna told the German newspaper Rheinische Post in an interview published on Saturday. He stated that Budapest could bloc some key decisions related to the bloc’s policy on Russia in the near future, since they require unanimity.

In particular, Hungary could block the next extension of sanctions on Moscow, Estonia’s top diplomat said. “If they block this in June, not only will the sanctions expire, but we would have to hand over the €240 billion to Putin,” Tsahkna said, adding that EU nations would then have to fund Kiev’s war effort with the money “from our taxpayers.”

How does anyone manage to listen to these sanctimonious clowns and take their opinions seriously? The inversion that comes out of their mouths on a regular basis is so diametrically opposed to observable reality and basic terms from the dictionary that it makes one wonder how they manage to successfully feed themselves. Are they so engulfed with lies that they can’t even tell the difference between truth and falsehood anymore?

And at some point, shouldn’t they be able to see that if their “democracy” requires all of these extreme measures simply to function at all, perhaps it isn’t worth preserving?

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EU Hit From Both Sides

The EU’s reaction to getting a taste of its own medicine is downright humorous:

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyden has three big concerns with the new trade/tariff reset. I strongly suggest everyone to read the EU concerns slowly to fully absorb decades of hypocrisy now surfacing:

  • The EU will not be able to compete for U.S. market share with 20% general tariffs and 25% auto tariffs.
  • The EU must deploy countermeasures against the risk of losing industrial capacity and manufacturing to the United States.
  • The EU must defend itself against China dumping cheap products into the EU now rejected by the USA.

Von der Leyen is concerned mostly about the extremely valuable U.S. consumer being leveraged by President Trump, essentially blocking exploitation from EU and Asia. The EU will not tolerate losing access to the most valuable customers in the world, Americans.

So, just to be clear, the EU is now going to a) fight a shooting war with Russia, b) fight an economic war with the USA, and c) fight an economic war with China.

I strongly recommend exiting the so-called Union at the earliest opportunity to every leader of an EU member state. The EU is the last surviving vestige of the neo-liberal world order and it’s going to collapse soon.

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Performative Bluster and Sychronized Idiocy

Things are not looking good at all for the core nations of the European Union. The smart thing to do for the smaller nations is to get out of it as soon as possible… although the moronic strategeries of the Starmer regime in the UK demonstrate that simply leaving the EU isn’t enough, the point is to abandon their commitment to suicide by Clown World.

Mr. Trump, the uber-realist, knows that the Russians are going to roll up in Ukraine this spring and there is increasingly not much that can be done about that, except to try to put the best face on it — which is, that it wasn’t his war. As long as the coke freak Zelensky remains in charge, Ukraine will be negotiation-unworthy, as the Russian phrase goes. So, US-Russia peace talks were largely diplomatic showbiz. Both Putin and Mr. Trump were painfully aware of this, and hence, Mr. Trump’s latest performative bluster about “more sanctions” will probably not amount to anything.

And also hence, the synchronized idiocy on display in France, Germany, and the UK. They were all-in on the neo-con scheme that is now falling apart and its failure has driven them plumb crazy. As the US drops out of the stupid proxy war, they declare their intention to take it from here and go beat-up Russia. Their war-drums are teaspoons beating on so many quiches.

Soon-to-be chancellor Friedrich Merz proposes an 800-billion-Euro debt spree to finance the re-arming of Germany, which, just now, is utterly incapable of war. He is insane.

German industry is collapsing from a lack of affordable natural gas (as arranged by “Joe Biden” blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, danke schön). Turning Volkswagen factories to missile production will not help the German people one bit. It probably will remind them about the Weimar hyper-inflation, though.

Macron pledges to put French boots on the ground in Ukraine. Ain’t gonna happen.

Today, his stooge judiciary found political rival Marine LePen guilty of a Mickey Mouse offense in order to bar her from running against him in the next election. Ain’t gonna work. He will provoke the biggest national uprising since the Bastille. His government will be too busy putting down French Revolution 2.0 to play war games in history’s graveyard of armies. Maybe he’ll try nukes. I’m sure that’ll work — if you’re eager to see Russian hypersonic “hazelnuts” rain down on the Île-de-France.

And then, there is the amazing idiot PM Keir Starmer in the UK, calling on his “coalition of the willing” to step up and intervene in the lost cause that is Ukraine.

How many hands went up on that call? For practical purposes, the Brits have no war-fighting capacity whatsoever, and no resources for generating such capacity. And, anyway, they are facing some dreadful combo of a civil war / internal jihad against their own indigenous population, plus an economic collapse cherry-on-top.

In short, Europe has so many incipient existential problems that the whole story is about to shift its focus from the already-sealed fate of Ukraine to the very dark prospects for the core nations of Old-World Western Civ.

At this point, Vladimir Putin merits the Nobel Peace Prize several times over in light of his refusal to respond to the various casus belli he’s been repeatedly provided by the USA, Germany, France, and Britain, as per the New York Times.

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Europe Gambled and Lost

It turns out that betting on satanic globalism that seeks to eradicate your own nations is not the smart way to bet:

The Ukraine war is going to be concluded soon. Attempts to prevent the outbreak of peace are being bypassed by direct negotiations between the US and Russia.

Aside from the obvious desire to stop the killing, arguments about cost are being made. The broader strategy of the Trump administration is to present its foreign and domestic policy as an efficiency drive to cut waste. There is no difference between foreign and domestic policy of course. This means regime change abroad means regime change at home.

Under the former grand strategy of liberal globalism, it made “sense” to sponsor social revolution, coups and military regime change abroad. If your strategy changes, as it has, then all this becomes “waste” overnight. It also quickly becomes “corruption”.

The main reason for all this is that the United States was going to go bankrupt if it did not abandon the global empire model of the liberal consensus.

Globalised economics, social policies and grand strategy have produced a record debt and have met with hard limits in a changed world. This model is no longer practical, realistic or affordable and so it has been replaced.

Governments such as in Britain and France and Germany were formerly partners in this consensus. Their political and financial fortunes were invested in a project to overextend and destabilise Russia. This has failed.

The reward would have been immense. A Balkanised Russia would have been absorbed into the liberal-global system, giving the backers of the war which broke it immense strategic and political power in the resulting geopolitical arrangement.

In short, Western Europe gambled everything on the collapse and domination of Russia and lost.

Now all of the European regimes are going to fail. What the EU calls “democracy”, which of course is closer to anti-democratic rule by a corrupt retarderati that has sold their souls and sold out their nations, is going to come to an end within the next ten years and probably sooner.

Once Germany goes bankrupt, the other European Clown World states will rapidly follow suit. And all the post-WWII Enlightenment appeals to fake virtues that are only honored in their absence will lose the final remnants of their rhetorical power.

The nations will rise again and Clown World, or as Susan Cooper called it, The Dark, will once more be driven back into the shadows on the periphery. Because one can only war successfully against Nature and Nature’s God for so long before reality exerts itself on one’s delusions.

And in a reflection of the global return to Great Power Balance, the EU finds itself the enemy of both Russia and the USA due to Denmark’s claim to Greenland. Which is going to be claimed by the USA, especially in light of Zelensky announcing that he’s going to default on Ukraine’s war debt by redefining US loans as grants. Which is an object lesson in why one should never loan money to anyone known to be prone to redefining words.

Like in the 1860s, when Russia wanted the United States to take control of Alaska to curb the power of the British Empire, and the Americans also used it to smash the Japanese Empire during World War II, both of whom were major threats to Russia, the United States takeover of Greenland would eliminate the socialist European powers military threat to Russia in the Arctic, while also curbing socialist European Union economic threats to America—and in viewing the current dynamic, it caused world-renowned Norwegian international relations expert Florian Vidol to most factually observe: “In the power game that is developing over Greenland, there is one big potential loser, and it’s the European Union…It needs the resourse for its energy transition…It’s heavily reliant on Greenland…And it faces the potential danger of being squeezed out”.

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Protecting the Automotive Industry

The God-Emperor 2.0 is slapping 25 percent tariffs on all foreign cars. It’s about two decades too late for this, as GM already went bankrupt back in 2009, but it might start turning things around for the USA’s beleaguered industrial capabilities. Regardless, it’s time to buy domestic if you need a car; hopefully they’ll start making real cars that run on gas and don’t have all that worse-than-useless computer gadgetry in them.

Donald Trump has warned the European Union and Canada they can expect to contend with ‘large scale tariffs’ if they seek to do ‘economic harm to the USA’ in an unsettling post early this morning. The US President plans to impose a 25% tariff on imported cars and light trucks starting on April 3, and earlier this month rolled out an increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports from the European bloc.

This prompted the EU to retaliate with a series of duties on US industrial and agricultural products from April 1, setting the foundation of what could prove to be a damaging trade war.

Posting on his Truth Social platform this morning, Trump declared: ‘If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!’

The EU retarderati clearly has absolutely no understanding of its lack of power and influence. The EU can no more win a trade war with the USA than it can win a shooting war with Russia, and here its leadership is blithely proceeding to enter into both. This is, of course, because the EU “leadership” is nothing more than Clown World puppets who know nothing about either military history or economics and will simply repeat whatever rhetoric they are instructed to repeat, as many times as they are told to repeat it, no matter how obviously nonsensical it is.

Kaja Kallas, the Vice-President of the European Commission, is exemplary of the absolute ineptitude of the current EU puppet-leaders. She combines ignorance with vacuity, a complete lack of experience with accountability, and a pretty woman’s unfamiliarity with being told no. She’s the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, which is supposed to be the highest diplomatic position, but she’s been acting as if she’s the prime minister of a belligerent party, which isn’t at all the same thing.

At this point, I won’t even be surprised if both the USA and Russia break ties with Europe in the coming years, just to give the poor European nations a chance to break free of their satanic would-be masters and their fake, unelected “democracy” and their self-destructive economic and immigration policies.

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You and Him Fight Won’t Fly

But Macron and Starmer are probably going to get a lot of young French and British soldiers killed trying to draw the US military into the war in Ukraine:

  • U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that European defense and military leaders will meet in London on Thursday, as planning for a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine enter an “operational phase” with over a dozen countries having agreed to participate in such a mission.
  • European countries that agree to send a military contingent to Ukraine, allegedly for an observation mission, can do so without Russia’s consent, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with Le Parisien. “Ukraine is a sovereign country. If it asks for allied troops to be present on its territory, it is not up to Russia to decide whether to agree or not,” he said. According to the newspaper, the Franco-British plan to send so-called peacekeepers to Ukraine is in the final stages of being agreed upon.

It’s the same old classic “fake it til you make it” act: they are merely trying to turn the ‘prophecy’ into a self-fulfilling one by treating it as if it were real. But there is no real consensus, and their plan has little chance of conjuring it from thin air, particularly given that the US has already counted itself out of any troop involvement.

Both the French and British know how politically risky the move is—if their troops begin coming home in body bags from Russian strikes, and there’s no Mommy US to back them up, their fragile political regimes would crumble from public outrage, especially since they’re already hanging on by a tenuous thread.

The West has a Sunk Cost problem: they’ve invested everything not only into the Ukraine war itself, but now into the image of their own strength and ability to manifest peace at will. In other words, they told the world Russia was weak, and that they had the global clout to bring Putin to the table anytime they saw fit.

Instead, the rampaging bear has not slowed, and Western puppet leaders are panickedly fighting the narrative current, pushing inertia for its own sake to signal faux-strength and leadership on global issues.

First, you don’t get to send in “peacekeepers” when you are one of the belligerent parties, which both France and Great Britain absolutely are. Second, it’s not 1940 anymore. Not only do most Americans not care about Europe, a substantial minority of US citizens aren’t even European and never had any historical connection to, or affection for, the European countries. They have absolutely no interest in “saving Europe” again, especially not a European Union that was quite literally created in order to harm American business interests and create an economic counterweight to the US market.

And third, the God-Emperor 2.0 has already made it very clear that the US will not send troops to fight Russia, not even if the French and the British are dumb enough to stick their collective heads in the jaws of the Russian bear.

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Canada Folds

Sanity prevailed, as someone appears to have explained the tariff math to the Premier of Ontario:

Canada folded to President Donald Trump after he vowed the nation would pay a historically big ‘financial price’ for the electricity tariff it imposed on the United States. Hours later, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he would cancel the 25% tariff on Canadian electricity to Michigan, New York and Minnesota that he put in place on Monday.

That move was an escalation in response to earlier tariffs from Trump as the trade war between the two countries has intensified.

The Premier said he spoke with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about the situation and they agreed to meet on Thursday to discuss reciprocal tariffs that Trump wants to put in place on April 2. ‘In response, Ontario agreed to suspend its 25 per cent surcharge on exports of electricity to Michigan, New York and Minnesota,’ Ford said. Trump, in response, agreed not to double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium to 50%. They will stay at 25%.

In the meantime, the God-Emperor 2.0 has moved on to the EU and the UK. The UK is being smart about it.

Keir Starmer is resisting pressure to retaliate today after failing in his bid to persuade Donald Trump to spare Britain from brutal tariffs on steel. The US president has pushed ahead with the 25 per cent levy on steel and aluminium imports despite desperate pleas for an exemption. Britain exported 166,433 tonnes of steel to the US in 2023, the last full year for which figures are available.

The EU, not so much:

Brussels said counter-measures to the tariffs, which would affect around 26 billion euros (around £22 billion) of EU exports, will be introduced in April ‘to defend European interests’.

I am beginning to conclude that these particular tariffs aren’t about economics at all. This is about the US President attempting to rebuild the US industrial capacity that presently renders the USA unable to fight a war with either China or Russia. Which the USA simply cannot do when its steel industry is so susceptible to foreign competition and steel suppliers that will be inaccessible and useless in times of war.

The various foreign countries should accept these tariffs on industrial materials without demur, because the USA really doesn’t have any choice in the matter if it is going to remain one of the top three global military powers.

CORRECTION: Canada has not learned.

Canada announced $21 billion in new tariffs on Wednesday targeting imports of U.S. computers and sports gear. It is the latest escalation of the increasingly bitter and costly trade war engulfing Washington and Ottawa. The latest move comes hours after President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum went into effect.

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The Actual Autocratic Antidemocracy

The absurd hypocrisy of the unelected European Commissioners decrying “autocratic” elected leaders like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Xinping when they are actively overturning elections and openly denying the will of the people is highlighted by their subversion of democracy in Romania:

Romanian presidential hopeful Calin Georgescu has branded the EU a “dictatorship” and stated that his country is “under tyranny” in response to the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) in Bucharest shooting down his candidacy for the upcoming election re-run.

The BEC dismissed Georgescu’s bid late on Sunday, having received more than 1,000 challenges against him, largely revolving around his allegedly “anti-democratic” and “extremist” stance. According to the ruling published on Sunday evening, Georgescu had “failed to comply with the rules of the electoral procedure, violating the very obligation… to defend democracy.”

The presidential hopeful, who was a clear favorite in the upcoming election and was polling between 40% and 45%, strongly condemned the decision.

“A direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide! I have one message left! If democracy in Romania falls, the entire democratic world will fall! This is just the beginning. It’s that simple! Europe is now a dictatorship; Romania is under tyranny!” Georgescu wrote on X.

This is more of that satanic inversion that permeates Clown World with its sulfuric stench. Orwell certainly had their number, as they define war as peace, black as white, and autocracy as democracy. The EU is the last current redoubt of The Empire That Never Ended, and the European nations will not be free until the European Union is shattered and its wicked “leaders” are driven from power and influence.

Fortunately, the Russians are waging open war on it, with the support of China and the new pro-American government in Washington.

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US Troops in Europe

ITEM: The United States has told its allies that it does not plan to participate in military exercises in Europe, according to reports. The move, the latest in Donald Trump’s pivot away from the bloc, would see America pull out of exercises beyond those already scheduled for this year. The withdrawal concerns exercises that are on the “drawing board”, according to Swedish newspaper Expressen. It means that Nato countries will be forced to plan exercises without the participation of the US military, the largest in the alliance.

ITEM: US President Donald Trump is considering withdrawing American troops from Germany and redeploying them to Hungary, The Telegraph reported on Friday, citing a person close to the White House. Trump reportedly could remove the troops or move them elsewhere, as his administration has split with many of its allies in Europe over how to deal with Russia and resolve the Ukraine conflict.

I think the most likely outcome is that the God-Emperor gradually eliminates the US military presence in Europe. But I don’t think we can entirely count out those troops eventually being used to prevent the EU governments from using its puppet militaries against the European nations, possibly in alliance with the Russian army.

It’s fairly apparent that since Clown World has been driven out of Beijing, Moscow, and Washington DC, its remaining strongholds are New York City, Brussels, and Jerusalem.

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