How NATO trashed Europe’s military and economy
How NATO trashed Europe’s military and economy
I can think of nothing more destructive than forcing allies to give their armaments to the Nazis to defend against a make-believe enemy and crashing the industry of these allies by eliminating their main source of fuel.
That is exactly what the US and NATO did to Europe, whose weapons are now dangerously depleted and its economy in the toilet as a consequence of western sanctions on Russia, a potential ally mendaciously portrayed as an “enemy” that conducted an “unprovoked” invasion that was in fact provoked by the US.
Thus if a REAL enemy surfaces, we have succeeded in alienating Russia, which is a natural ally, without the false narratives of the Neocons, but will probably not help. Further, we will not have the arms to defend ourselves. Plus, our “allies” are broke and disarmed!
For years, the US urged Europe to pour their best weapons into Ukraine and to fund a war that perspicacious observers could see from the outset was going to be lost.
This in a nutshell is how the “defensive” alliance NATO has only impoverished and imperiled our world.
This is what happens when you invent enemies and provoke friends.
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Here’s your air strike update for Dec 24, 2024
Search phrases for those who want to do their own research:
EN phrase for translation: Dec 24, 2024, russian missiles, drones, bombs hit Ukraine
Translated into RU: 24 декабря, 2024, российские ракеты, беспилотники, бомбы поражают Украину
Google translate:
https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&op=translate
To optimize results, searches must be done in Yandex search –
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
December 24, 2024, 21:09
The Russian army launched a massive strike on the Ukrainian military rear
On the map, the locations of our new high-precision strikes on the Ukrainian military rear: Kyiv and its environs, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv oblasts. The Ministry of Defense reported that the infrastructure of military airfields, arsenals, and drone depots were damaged.
The daily report shows about one and a half thousand militants destroyed. An entire temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed in the area of Chasov Yar.
Among the destroyed equipment, there is a lot of Western production. For example, a MaxxPro armored personnel carrier brought from the States, on the Selidovo-Pokrovsk highway in the DPR.
And in the Kursk border area, our operators destroyed an American Bradley infantry fighting vehicle with a couple of drones. The first one entered a low trajectory into a weakly protected part of the hull. Judging by the picture until the last moment, it is on fiber optics. The second one has already finished off the enemy vehicle.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://ria.ru/20241224/svo-1990976829.html
12:23 24.12.2024 (updated: 12:28 24.12.2024)
Russian Armed Forces hit infrastructure of military airfields of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
Russian Armed Forces hit airfields, ammunition depots and UAVs, and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
MOSCOW, 24 Dec - RIA Novosti. Russian aviation and artillery hit the infrastructure of military airfields, ammunition depots and drones, concentrations of manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 146 districts, air defense systems shot down 65 drones, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.
"Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups damaged the infrastructure of military airfields, ammunition depots and unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment in 146 areas," the defense department said in a statement. Air defense systems shot down four US-made HIMARS multiple launch rockets and 65 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
12/24/2024 08:46 Viktor Sokirko
SMO report, morning of December 24. Polish mercenaries killed before their tea got cold
The "tea ritual" for Polish mercenaries in the Kurakhovsk direction in the DPR turned out to be extremely unsuccessful. The militants had barely had time to brew their morning cup of tea at the forward positions of the stronghold when Russian attack aircraft unexpectedly came to visit them. According to company commander Stefan Sazonov, call sign Kobra, quoted by RIA Novosti, the mercenaries were not prepared for such a meeting.
The result of the "ceremony" turned out to be sad for the Polish mercenaries. They understood the offer to surrender, which was made in Russian, perfectly well, but tried to shoot back. As a result, two mercenaries were destroyed.
According to the Russian officer, the Polish mercenaries are well equipped and armed. At the same time, only a small part of them have any combat experience. The rest were literally recruited as "soldiers of fortune" somewhere on the street and have no idea how to act in a combat situation. Plus, the Ukrainian command does not adjust their actions, and the mercenaries have a poor understanding of the situation, which leads to large losses. In general, the Poles have some trouble with tea.
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Alexander Mercouris: Putin meets Fico. US-Russian summit mooted. EU in denial. Zelensky warns NATO.
https://yandex.ru/video/preview/5303613068896704487
Yesterday’s feature article, focused on a presentation by Jeffrey Sachs, showed that the US does not wage wars of defense but only offensive wars that make enemies, and is really the main problem.
The narrative has been that NATO couldn’t fail because it has 31 members and the number is constantly increasing.
How could Russia possibly lose to so many countries?
Well, if the large number of members could just focus on improving their collective economy or individual economies and if this impressive number could succeed in increasing the total number of weapons in NATO, then the alliance could possibly be useful.
But here’s the problem:
NATO, being a creature of Washington, can only wage wars on fictional enemies, and worse, the entire collective West, being ideologically bound to a peculiar version of capitalism, cannot significantly boost the volume of weapons it needs to fight a war with either a real enemy or a traditional make-believe enemy like Russia, China or Iran because of the sacred concept of the profit motive. Thus, if the CEO of a weapons maker receives a request to manufacture x number of artillery shells within a given time frame, he or she must ask him/herself if this would, for example, require a significant expansion of the company’s factory output capacity.
Increased output might require building a new factory, in which case, the CEO needs to know roughly when the war might end, and if it would end within a short time, would the output requirement last long enough to justify the cost of the new production increase.
Normally, the government issuing the request cannot predict when the conflict will end, and in that case, the expansion of production will be a risk, possibly an unaffordable risk that makes the investment unfeasible.
This is the main reason the capitalist West cannot increase the shell output.
Russia, though also capitalist, does not have this problem. The Russian government can subsidize a shell output that does not depend on the duration of the war. It can afford to build up an unlimited surplus based on the fact that it has an unlimited number of REAL enemies seeking to destroy it based on an irrational Russophobic ideology, and it cannot ever have too many shells on hand.
An extremely politically incorrect but accurate and well-documented analysis of the origins of Washington’s Russophobia was penned by Philip Giraldi and is worthy of your attention.
Further, an accurate explanation of Washington’s warmongering for Israel was presented by Jeffrey Sachs per my yesterday’s feature article.
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Protesters in Panama burn US flag and portrait of the Donald
https://mamul.am/en/news/311140
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Putin Shocks Netanyahu, Sends ‘Special Team’ To Iran To Help Fight Israel?
Yesterday, when discussing the Israeli plan to destroy 7 countries, we saw that the only one that remained to be invaded and occupied was Iran, and I speculated that this would fail because of the strategic partnership with Russia, which had already caused a bombing attack on Iran to fail.
Here is the latest development on that.
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Christmas tree burning in Syrian town illustrates failure to protect Christians
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But Jewish people will sell them the goods.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulokirk/p/round-ups-buffalo-wild-horses-wolves?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319
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