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| Europe is being turned into the Fourth Reich |
| 2023-09-14 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Victoria Nikiforova [RIA] Europe is arming itself. In the "Garden of Eden" conveyors for the production of shells are being launched, new buildings of military factories are being built. Purely peaceful enterprises are moving onto a war footing. The European Commission, having forgotten to fight for gay rights, issued a large-scale order on the topic of a coordinated increase in the volume of weapons produced in the EU. The process is being closely watched from overseas. The New York Times notes that European governments have made “herculean efforts” to finance their military-industrial complex. However, there are still a lot of problems in the European defense industry: they were shown by the training ground called “Ukraine”. “Ukrainian soldiers are faced with the fact that 155-mm shells from one manufacturer sometimes do not fit Howitzers produced by another manufacturer,” American journalists reproach European defense workers. “Ammunition and spare parts are often not interchangeable, which leads to frequent breakdowns and complicates repairs ". The report is illustrated with photographs from the Swedish Saab plant. He is well known among us for his cars. We should not forget, however, that for almost a hundred years Saab has been one of the leaders of the European military-industrial complex. In the 1930s, the Swedes sheltered German aircraft manufacturers: Germany's aircraft production was prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles. Throughout World War II, Swedish-German companies provided the Third Reich with aircraft. The Saab-18 was a good bomber, the Saab-21 a fighter. After the war, the concern successfully sold its aircraft and weapons for export. For the last year and a half, it has been supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces with anti-tank guided missiles. Today, when Sweden has already crossed the NATO threshold with one foot, it is time, the Americans believe, to make the Swedish concern one of the leaders in the European arms race. The problem is that the European military-industrial complex is deeply competitive within itself. Manufacturers produce weapons for export, adapting to certain foreign customers. If they change the characteristics of their products, they will lose customers. Uniformity is also not helped by the fact that EU national governments cling to sovereignty over their defense industries. This is too tasty a piece of production; they are trying not to give it to overseas owners. It is not surprising that there is complete inconsistency in the range of manufactured weapons. Only 18 percent of the products of the European military-industrial complex comply with the declared NATO standards for weapons and ammunition. The Americans are dissatisfied with the fact that today Europe produces 27 different types of Howitzers, 20 types of fighters, 26 types of destroyers and frigates. But this is a disgrace! “Europe must unify its defense,” commands The New York Times from overseas. A similar opinion is shared in London. The peaceful “weekend” for Europe is over, it faces a decade of war: “No matter how the war in Ukraine ends, <...> a wounded, vengeful Russia will remain a threat as long as Vladimir Putin or his like-minded followers remain in power.” . The most intelligent newspaper The Guardian approvingly quotes the prominent Nazi Rudolf Hess. "Guns or butter?" — journalist Paul Taylor slightly paraphrases his famous statement and answers in full accordance with the original: of course, guns! Don't complain, Europeans, that the arms race will leave you without schools and hospitals; if the Kremlin villains attack, you will be left without schools and hospitals at all. But where to get the money for all this? The average annual salary of a worker at Saab is about 53 thousand euros. Add to this a social package, training, and insurance. Moreover, if previously European manufacturers successfully made money from arms sales, now they are asked not to sell them, but to store them in anticipation of a military conflict with Russia. “Waiting for the barbarians,” so to speak. Well, what if the barbarians don’t come? Then it will turn out that the arms race has finally finished off the European economy, completing what was started by coronavirus lockdowns and anti-Russian sanctions. This appears to be exactly what Washington and London are working towards in concert. Europeans will really have nothing left but war with Russia. This is exactly how London and Washington acted in the 1930s to pit Germany against the Soviet Union. On the one hand, they sponsored the military-industrial complex and invested in the local defense industry. Who did not invest in Hitler - Henry Ford and Prescott Bush (grandfather of the future US president), Morgan and Rockefeller. On the other hand, they kept the population of Germany on a starvation diet - only the completely impoverished people could be sold nonsense about expanding living space to the east. There is no butter - well, the burgher goes to the front to earn at least enough bread and margarine for his children. The Anglo-Saxon plan today looks exactly the same. It is perhaps not advisable to introduce a tax on military spending in the EU, argues Paul Taylor from London; it is better for the European Union to take out a joint targeted loan for the defense industry. Where to borrow? Needless to say, in London and Washington. The condition of the loan is the requirement to close ranks and completely unify the defense complexes of all European countries - under the strict supervision of the Anglo-Saxons, of course. Their main idea is to turn Europe into one huge defense plant, where screwed-up burghers rivet shells, and after work they train at shooting ranges and spend five minutes hating Russia. A single army, a single military-industrial complex, a single ideology based on fear and hatred of our country, large-scale preparations for an offensive to the east. As they say, find ten differences with the Hitler regime. There was a "Garden of Eden" - there will be a Fourth Reich. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Pure bleat and projection from a Russian apparat that was hoping Europe would stay asleep. Good ol' Vlad managed to wake up at least some of them. Strong work! |
| Posted by: Nero 2023-09-14 11:31 |
| #2 Gotta agree with you on that 1 grom |
| Posted by: Chris 2023-09-14 10:17 |
| #1 Funny. I think of them as EUSSR. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-14 00:42 |