Moscow fumes as European leaders rally behind Ukraine

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   carmel debono

   March 3, 2025

   Putin(Dictator) did a whole mess. He thought he would defeat Ukraine in a week. Finland and Sweden have joined Nato. Europe is going to spend more on Defence and European nations are more united then ever.

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   1male11

   March 3, 2025

   This is great, let it accelerate. It seems incredible to me that when Trump said at Davos that the rest of the NATO members should increase their defense spending to 5%, he was met with a room full of blank stares if not outright derided. And now funnily enough after the diplomatic fallout between the US and Europe, European leaders have hastily gathered in London to announce an increase in defense spending… Starmer blabbing about that they cannot accept a weak deal like Minsk for Russia to breach with ease and all that. These people a real nutcases. Wasn’t’ is Merkel herself that stated that the Minsk accords were just a means of buying time for Ukraine to arm and train its troops? Let’s digress because it’s quite superfluous now. Nooooow this git wants all of the member states to contribute whatever they can to support a lost cause to save face.

   He mentions that not everyone will be able to contribute… Most NATO members are already below the current 2% target so let alone being able to contribute more. The US itself only contributes 3.5% and soon 0. Countries like France and Italy despite all the platitudes are in no shape to start increasing defense spending without serious tax raises or internal spending cuts that would inevitably effect votes.Sure more borrowing is an option but that could spark market panic an a run on bonds.

   The euro elites are simply biting more than they can chew and it is a good thing. This will have a seriously destabilizing effect on the EU as a whole. Germany as usual will be required to foot the larger share of the bill while their industry is the one suffering the most from sanctions on Russia and the covid measures before that. Obviously eastern-block states will be required to provide most manpower and the western euro states are full of zoomers that are not willing to fight and would not be of much use in a combat situation anyway. Turkey will be a joker as usual but Erdogan does what Erdogan does.

   So after the failure of operation Poseidon Archer meant to protect shipping lanes in the Gulf, it’s worth noting that only US and British vessels took part… Now the euros want to commit themselfs to a decade-long “peace-keeping” operation in Ukraine. Quite a commitment, if you want an idea of how long these things can be, Britain still has troops in Kosovo, and the US still has troops in Germany for the last 80 years. To sum up this summit in London was just a flashy exhibition of euro leader talking tough and nothing more. Might give a temporary boost in the polls, but that will start to change when one has to start selling harsh economic choices to voters, so they can continue to live under the shadow of nuclear war. It really is back to the 80s. Not to mention that softened euro populations will be extremely adverse to caskets coming back with dead solders.

   The jingoistic fervor will soon pass as Starmer admits that they still need the support of the US. Did you know that all the servicing and maintenance of the British nuclear arsenal is outsourced to US military contractors… among other existing defense maintenance contracts with the US. And if euros were to truly go at it alone with no US backing, they would have to increase their average defense spending to more than 5% of GDP and a lot of that would have to go in just logistics, that would not necessarily increase their front-line presence. European defense spending already doubles the Russian spending but are around a decade behind in hypersonic missile tech, newer generation aircraft and analogous to Britain most European air-forces heavily lean on US F35 platforms. Their own 6th generation jets are not envisaged to enter service before at least the early 2040s. So hubris and empty words is all these eurocucks have.

   If Europe really wants to go for a rearmamet route, it couldnt have a worse leader than Ursula Vonderpippen who has already been investigated in her native Germany for a scandal involving 100s of millions of euros going to external consultants, during her time as difense minister. So it seems Putin managed to achieve his major objectives of capturing the Russian speaking east of Ukraine plus holding Crimea and maintaining access to the warm-water sea port of Sevastopol. Highly unlikely he’s going to negotiate those away. With the fall of Asad in Syria threatening the only Russian access to the Med, one can say this has hardly upset the strategic balance in Ukraine as the Biden admin hoped. On top of it the US wants out of NATO and their 350 billions one way or the other.

   Now consider that the Russian navy is small and mainly consists of a submarine force. If Putin didn’t manage to take Keiv, how is he exactly expected to be rolling over European capitals further west beyond the big red line of NATO states and article 5? So baring a full-blown non-conventional exchange (in which case no one wins), Russia is not a real threat to Europe, as long as the US remains committed to NATO. On day the eurocucks may come to regret their sneering ingratitude to the NATO alliance…. As for Starmer, looks like he’s trying to fashion this crisis as his own Falklands moment, except Margret Thatcher had the balls that he doesn’t, amongst other things. He thinks he can use this moment on the world stage to boost his failing domestic popularity. It might have a short-term effect but this is not the Falklands and it definitely will not be a swift morale-boosting victory. The election is a long way off and as the cost of a peace-keeping operation mounts, it’s popular support will crumble as the electorate resists the tax burdens or spending cuts required to maintain the conflict. Then the European infighting on who is not paying their fair share will begin and the long-suffering German tax-payer will probably end up footing the bill.

   Even the Vietnam and Iraq wars had slight majority approvals when they began. They are not so fondly remembered now. A Ukrainian peace-keeping operation will be lengthy, expensive and risky, and European elites in their hubris might just have gambled more than they can wager.

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