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The countries of the fascist 'axis' are again going on a campaign against Russia
2023-03-02
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Victoria Nikiforova

[RIA] An amazing thing happened in Germany - the top of the most popular politicians was suddenly headed by the newly appointed Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius. This is an unprecedented thing for a country weighed down by such a terrible historical memory.

For decades, the Germans remembered the Bundeswehr only when another sex scandal flared up there. In 2019, for example, a lieutenant colonel commanding a communications battalion stationed near Berlin announced that he was now Anastasia and went to post his photos on social networks, luring sexual partners. The command reprimanded him, the lieutenant colonel went to court, the journalists got excited. The public wondered: is it right to pour hundreds of millions of euros into such an army?

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius makes a statement in front of the Bayerischer Hof Hotel, venue of the Munich Security Conference

Accordingly, the Minister of Defense of Germany has always modestly shied away somewhere on the periphery of the information field. But suddenly Pistorius happened. The new minister has already managed to take a picture in the Leopard tank and promised to send these combat vehicles to Ukraine. He just said that the joint exercises of the Bundeswehr with the American and Polish units should "send a clear signal to Putin: <...> NATO is by no means as weak as it seemed to him."

Pistorius constantly demands money from the government, declares that the notorious two percent of GDP as spending on defense is not enough, and has already planned where he will spend the hundred billion euros that the Bundestag allocated to the army last year. His program includes the debureaucratization of the Bundeswehr (the minister complains that sometimes it takes as many as twelve instances to make a decision), increasing the productivity of the military-industrial complex and increasing the size of the German army.

At the height of the Cold War, more than half a million people served in the ranks of the Bundeswehr. Today, that figure has dropped to 180,000. With such crazy budgets that Berlin allocates, the Germans have every chance to return to their previous numbers, thus creating the strongest and most technically equipped army in Europe. Who will it be directed against? Naturally, against Russia, no one hides this.

Surprisingly, Pistorius is by no means some kind of "hawk", he is not a military man at all. Having served on conscription in 1980, he has since worked as a lawyer, then was the burgomaster of his native Osnabrück. And it fell to this gray little man to "liberate Germany from the specter of historical guilt" - that is, to do what the Americans and the British had long demanded of Berlin.

It is simply unbelievable that this daring militarization is taking place in a country that the Russians have saved and revived many times. First, they were freed from Hitler, at the end of the war they were saved from the British, who planned the complete fragmentation and destruction of Germany, and finally, they allowed the FRG and the GDR to peacefully reunite. And now - in gratitude, so to speak - Berlin is planning another "Drang nach Osten".

It is very symbolic that the advanced Ukrainian detachments of the Bundeswehr are completely decorated with Nazi tattoos and do not hesitate to imitate the SS. Obviously, the German elites sincerely like this coven, they themselves would take part in it with pleasure, they are just a little shy for now.

German politicians love the same Pistorius for the frankness with which he formulates the anti-Russian aggressive policy of Berlin. "People like his directness," Alexander Miller, a spokesman for the ruling Free Democratic Party, compliments . As you can see, some in the German establishment are still shy to completely copy Hitler, but the Minister of Defense has already completely freed himself from the chimera called conscience.

Exactly the same liberation from the "ghosts of guilt" is in full swing today in Japan. Contrary to their own constitution, they recently adopted a national security doctrine that allows them to "hit" opponents. Among the opponents - quite predictably - are China, North Korea and Russia. In essence, Japan is abandoning the commitments it made after World War II and wants to fight again. More than three hundred billion dollars have been allocated from the budget for the army - that is, the Land of the Rising Sun will spend the most on its "defense" in the world, except for the USA and China.

The Japanese plan to buy Tomahawks from the United States, while they themselves will produce hypersonic missiles, and the entire range of these winged monsters will be placed in Hokkaido, near the sea border with Russia. Their plans are to resolve the "Kuril issue" by force.

In the past, Japanese and German leaders were marked in history by the most heinous war crimes. Their innocent victims are countless. Nevertheless, the American masters are hard at work pushing precisely these countries into the UN Security Council. At the same time, the Germans have already been supplied with American nuclear weapons, and as for Japan, it is hinted that it "itself" can suddenly produce it.

The anti-Russian symbiosis of Tokyo and Berlin repeats one to one the configuration of the countries of the fascist "axis" sharpened in the 1930s against the USSR. Today, Rome is also being heavily dragged into this company - so that there are absolutely no differences.

The Italians regularly slashed defense spending, but last year the far-right George Meloni came to power and promised to nearly double it, to the notorious 2 percent of GDP.

Naturally, the "axis" is being hammered together under the strict supervision of Washington. Plans are already ripening there to throw their army against China, and leave the Europeans to their fate, spitting on the fifth article of the NATO Charter. Let the European vassals fight Russia and not rely on the American nuclear umbrella. Ukraine is somehow coping, which means they will succeed too.

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