EU defense Spending

NATO – Deal No Deal Stoltenberg Threatens War in EU

Posted on by Helena

Jens Stoltenberg of NATO has openly declared that previous peace and expansion agreements with Russia don’t exist.   Archived documents – disagree and contradict the statements being made by Stoltenberg.  

“In early February 1990, U.S. leaders made the Soviets an offer. According to transcripts of meetings in Moscow on Feb. 9, then-Secretary of State James Baker suggested that in exchange for cooperation on Germany, U.S. could make “iron-clad guarantees” that NATO would not expand “one inch eastward.” Less than a week later, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to begin reunification talks. No formal deal was struck, but from all the evidence, the quid pro quo was clear: Gorbachev acceded to Germany’s western alignment and the U.S. would limit NATO’s expansion.

Nevertheless, great powers rarely tie their own hands. In internal memorandums and notes, U.S. policymakers soon realized that ruling out NATO’s expansion might not be in the best interests of the United States. By late February, Bush and his advisers had decided to leave the door open.

After discussing the issue with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on February 24-25, the U.S. gave the former East Germany “special military status,” limiting what NATO forces could be stationed there in deference to the Soviet Union. Beyond that, however, talk of proscribing NATO’s reach dropped out of the diplomatic conversation. Indeed, by March 1990, State Department officials were advising Baker that NATO could help organize Eastern Europe in the U.S. orbit; by October, U.S. policymakers were contemplating whether and when (as a National Security Council memo put it) to “signal to the new democracies of Eastern Europe NATO’s readiness to contemplate their future membership.

Boris Yeltsin, Dmitry Medvedev and Gorbachev himself protested through both public and private channels that U.S. leaders had violated the non-expansion arrangement. As NATO began looking even further eastward.” ~

“Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion” ~ Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson.

Angela Merkel made the same Deal No Deal when the Minsk Agreement was signed between Ukraine and Russia.  In 2022, she admitted that the Minsk deal was a joke and they never intended to actually uphold it.   The Russians relied on a gentleman’s handshake deal and a legal written deal – both of which the West now claims never existed despite national archival details to the contrary.

In 2015, Russia declared that the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe signed by 22 countries was no longer valid given that NATO had continually violated the Convention.   When Deals and Agreements have zero value –  party’s learn the consequences.  When Merkel and Soros ruled the Minsk Agreement was a joke, and allowed Ukraine Nazi’s to murder thousands of Russian speaking east Ukrainians, Putin defended The People.

NATO, in a meeting with Ukraine’s Chief Defense Minister, has declared that the largest ever NATO military exercises will take place utilizing 90,000 of its 300,000 troops on Russia’s Border from now until May.  The decision was based on Ukraine’s Ministry statement that Russia was losing the war.

General Cavoli of US Command stated in the NATO meeting on January 18 that last summer Allied heads of state and governments gave the green light for the US to offload its military equipment on Ukraine in order to modernize US inventories.   Cyber and Space are considered the newest means of destroying an enemy and have been implemented with the land, sea, and air protocols.  Collective strength is necessary because of the nature of distance.   North America needs Europe for its proximity to Russia and Europe needs the US for its military might – which will be expanding with the new illegal immigrant recruits.

Within the vein of expansion, NATO announced the creation of the Allied Reaction Force (ARF) temporarily based in Italy which is a new multi domain military force in training capable of responding quickly to threats in Alliance territory.  It is anticipated this ARF military will be ready to deploy in July 2024.

Suggesting that NATO intends to go to war with Russia over its Alliance – Ukraine.  And Europeans are being warned to prepare.

Of course, all of this comes with a price tag.   And Stoltenberg is attempting to whip up support by declaring Russia persona non-grati – forever.  As in; either Putin gives up Russia to the Zionists or war is the inevitable outcome. 

China remains the uninvited guest at the party given that a China/Russian alliance would make taking Russia in a war much more difficult.   That means ensuring China refrains from providing lethal aid to Russia and pressing China to deny inaccurate narratives pushed by Russia.  Taking the doubt out of the scenario, The Wilson Center & Stoltenberg declared that, “An increase in China’s material support for Russia could dramatically tip the scales of the conflict.”    It is anticipated that the next Summit to be held in DC in 2024 will determine that China is now a systemic threat…

And 2024 will determine if ARF can be NATO’s default army against Russia and China.

Problem:   The US and EU depleted their weapons significantly for Ukraine and now Israel.

Stoltenberg is demanding that member countries get off their arse and push for greater than the 2% mark for defense spending.   To date only 7 of the 31 NATO member countries even meet the basic 2% requirement.   While the US picks up the tab.  Germany is currently in a recession.  France is on the brink of economic deterioration.  The UK and Italy are also in crisis financially.   According to Reuters, the decline in Europe is likely to continue thru 2027.   Making Stoltenberg’s war seem like either a pathetic propaganda scheme, or an incapacitated intelligence daydream, or a means for ‘election interference 2024’.

Print money.

While shares of Lockheed, Northrop, General Dynamics and Boeing rose on the exact same day in October 2023 based on news of new contracts, shares have been relatively flat since.   Perhaps economic numbers and a budget deficit of $2.6 Trillion for FY 2023, contributed to the pause.

The West is ill-prepared for a war against Russia and China.   The military intelligence for all commands failed miserably in Ukraine, the PR campaign is laughable, and the propaganda is rife with ignorance.   But The Order is desperate and desperate people act with folly and futility hoping to recapture past Control.   That gamut has passed them by via Social Media – and censorship will not deter the New Wave.

Germany: A Welfare State Subsidized by the US

Posted on by Helena

Germany has pledged to spend $40 billion on climate change initiatives claiming the goals established under the Paris Accord might now be reached by 2030 (although Germany failed to meet goals in 2015, 2018, and 2020).   The plan is to stimulate the purchase of electric vehicles, provide more electric power stations, tax polluting vehicles, improve heating systems and charge a green tax on airfare.  

As of 2016, 84 coal plants provide 42% of electric power.   While Germany has tried to reach sustainable renewable power through wind, solar, and biofuel, with emphasis on wind, a huge snag put a dent in that scheme. Wind farms that were supposed to have a useful life of 20-25 years are dying after 15 years, five years before their financial breakeven. Dismantling the worthless windmills is costly, includes transportation to a windmill ‘dump’ and has created a windmill graveyard.

But hey, Germany has a balanced budget, and a great economy! Right?

That is particularly true however, it is due to the fact that Germany initiated unfair trade tariffs with the US and has consistently refused to meet their 2% of GDP obligation on defense spending.   In 2017, Germany spent just over $45 billion representing 1.2% of GDP. Why the shortfall if they have the money within the budget ‘surplus’?

Because they don’t want to pay, its FREE socialist money extracted from US citizens.

Out of 26 EU countries comprising NATO, 3 contribute their fair share or more: Greece, Poland and Estonia.

The US has 35,000 troops and 13,000 civilians stationed in Germany for defense. When the US asked Germany to ante in some troops to aid in the Syrian conflict – Germany declined stating ‘they couldn’t move hastily’.

Rules of engagement – they decried!

We defend Germany. US taxpayers pay for the shortfall of 23 EU countries including Germany so that Germany can have a balanced budget. In fact, in 2014 Germany’s surplus budget was .6%. If they had held to their contractual obligation for defense, they would have had a budget deficit. Each and every year.  And instead of their debt shrinking – their debt would have been growing – just like the US.

In fact, including Germany 9 EU countries had a surplus budget, and eight of the nine contributed 25%-80% less than the required 2%: Netherlands, Sweden, Czech Republic, Denmark, Luxembourg, Bulgaria and Austria.

In essence, this means US taxpayers have been subsidizing the EU’s wealth to the detriment of our own trade and budget.

Germany’s response?

They have determined that by 2024, they ‘hope’ to reach a 1.5% defense spending level… Obviously contractual obligations between the EU and the US are meaningless to Germans. Nationalist pride – for Germans, disdain for the evil Americans.

Back to wind energy.

Wind turbines cost about $4million each.   There are roughly 30,000 wind turbines in Germany today.   That would require an investment of $120billion. Given the legal ramifications, Germany now has a two year wait for a wind turbine permit.  Issues have arisen that have hit the industry, including; distance from residential neighborhoods, legal disputes, a shorter lifespan than estimated, conservation, noise and endangered species killed by the blades.   And by 2021, thousands of the existing turbines will be demolished as they have outlived their lifespan, lifeless monuments.

So how will Germany supply the electricity for the mandated electric cars?   Coal.  That dirty, nasty coal that makes Germans sneer at the US.

$40 billion for electric cars to run on coal fired electricity generating plants – while demanding the US continue subsidizing the EU’s defense spending on NATO.

NATO has obviously outlived itself and become ‘nonessential’.

But Germany and France in particular need NATO as long as the US pays for it. Germany’s military is a disaster.   Their equipment is obsolete.  Jets and helicopters useless junk.  Merkel’s own military plane – defective.  A total of 3300 deployed military personnel.  Dysfunctional weapons.   Unfit naval vessels.   If Germany were attacked today, they would be obliterated without the US.   The US pays 14times what Germany and France each contribute to defense despite the US economy being just 5 times that of Germany and 6 times that of France.

So while the German economy looks inspiring from a simplistic view, the truth is it has thrived on the back of US taxpayers for decades while defending unfair tariffs and providing -0- military strength. Of course the Germans don’t like Trump. Trump has vowed to make Germany, France and the EU responsible for their defense obligations while normalizing tariffs. That will eliminate any surplus while creating a truth, a real Germany, economically accountable, reliant on its own defense.

Germany is essentially a welfare state of the US.  And Germans have come to believe they are entitled to US taxpayer income ‘redistribution’ to prop up their wealth.