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ChatterX's avatar

This is exactly why the most precise definition of Fascism is "Dictatorship of Financial Capital".

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youtube.com/shorts/FdgXBP9idCA

Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

While they promote military manufacturing as good for the economy, it is actually non-productive (and destructive) work, but moreover, this is one debt pill too big to swallow, that will put the Atlanticist West into poverty for decades, if any survive an actual attack by Russia. Grand Theft and Grand Idiocy.

ChatterX's avatar

"Israel is doing our dirty work"

-Friedrich Merz, German Chancellor and fmr BlackRock executive

youtu.be/SuNHt1-uWjE?t=317

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BTW, look up who Merz's grandfather was..

countercurrents.org/2025/06/the-nazi-heritage-of-germanys-chancellor/

Abhishek Singh Chauhan's avatar

Western media keeps pumping the same fantasy: Ukraine is “holding strong,” Russia is “on the brink,” and Zelenskyy is some Churchill‑clone who just needs one more NATO cheque to win a war already lost on the ground. It’s propaganda on autopilot. Ukraine is bankrupt, depopulated, and bleeding territory while its leadership performs for Western cameras, begging for billions that vanish into a black hole no auditor ever touches. A few drone strikes on Russian oil sites are paraded as “turning the tide,” but they don’t change the frontline reality: Ukrainian defenses are cracking, manpower is exhausted, and morale is collapsing. Yet the cheerleaders keep chanting for escalation, no negotiations, no peace — just more weapons, more money, more destruction. Demonising Russia has become a ritual, a substitute for strategy. Zelenskyy’s chest‑thumping in NATO halls won’t resurrect a collapsing state or reverse battlefield losses. It’s a performance meant to keep the West writing checks while Ukraine sinks deeper into a war it cannot win and a future no one is honestly preparing for.

Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

It's part of America's Grand Bargain going back to about 1988, to stage-manage WW-III to be fought on Europe's soil, so the U.S. stands safely to the side, instead of the Cold War stalemate of mutually-assured destruction. Now, EU holds up an escalation ladder hoping Pres. Putin starts climbing, but he's not stupid like they are, and knows the end of escalation is the destruction of Europe, which Russia could do in 1/2 hour.

Bojan Korsika's avatar

The situation regarding Ukraine is approaching a critical juncture. With robust support from the EU, Ukraine has begun successfully targeting Russia’s strategic vulnerabilities, effectively pushing Moscow into a corner. Given this, it is inconceivable that Russia will simply stand by and watch as its energy infrastructure is dismantled. We are facing a squaring of the circle: the EU and Ukraine have effectively undermined all of Trump’s peace initiatives. Yet, simultaneously, Ukraine is demanding an 'unlimited' supply of Patriot missiles, while both Kyiv and Europe expect the United States to act as their ultimate security guarantor in the event of a Russian escalation. It is highly probable that Trump will soon make it clear to them that this approach is no longer sustainable.

Howard Feldman's avatar

We are reminded once again of Trump’s true colors—and they’re not exactly red, white, and blue.

As Trump prepared to leave the recent NATO summit in Ankara, his security detail reportedly learned of a credible missile threat against Air Force One as it prepared to depart Turkey. The security team devised an elaborate escape plan: Trump would very publicly board the plane, then secretly slip off and be whisked away in a catering truck.

There was just one troubling detail - the plane would take off with the traveling press corps still on the plane.  The administration and security team were unconcerned with the welfare of those left on the plane and willing to use them as human decoys. Of course, it is only the press.  One wonders how Trump might have responded if the plane was full of Republican donors.

dboing dboing's avatar

There might be a misconception in the middle

If defense of territory is cheaper than the type of weapons that make the financial economy needing only the war economy as its salesman pitch Ponzi scheme to get the reality optional financial economy sucking dry all the mere mortal and their reduced to military and security institutions to get the human war cattle turnover markets going (I don’t really know why they need the peasants anymore. Just as consumers? So I go for war from scarcity competition and migration continued pressure and etc.

Get the world wealth transfer sucking going. Again no need for metropole population to keep content with loot scraps they would be bred to keep going and none of that peace market turn over slow down.

Where was I

Yes the big

The sales pitch for war vendors might need the expensive stuff for make it worth their salesman pitch efforts.

Unless they are seeing big and genocide ok. Then they might cartel playgrounds inrotation. But wait maybe thst was already the thing.

Don’t listen I am doing free association of most sociopathic fuckeries that could still be rational in the simplified (democracy was annoying) game theory or Ponzi scheme or both they could keep finding better sustainable profits

They need something that would keep promising

Moebius Infinity's avatar

Europeans did not get it.

Rutte screwed the Dutch over 14 years. But now he screwed all of Europe for 14 decades into the future.

He is animal farms pig. Napoleon.

Robert Billyard's avatar

Governments of the West pledging allegiance to the corporate welfarism and the militarism that is the ruination of the West, and NATO as the powder monkey.

Robert Billyard's avatar

Governments of the West pledging allegiance to the corporate welfarism and the militarism that is the ruination of the West, and NATO as the powder monkey.

Reginald Duquesnoy's avatar

War by algorithmic capital...between the devil and the deep blue sea...or are the lemmings totally misreading the current "rapport de forces"?