Published: 2024-07-18
The West's arms production cabal, via its industry body NATO, has foreseen trouble brewing on the political horizon from random statements by The Donald. Naturally, The Donald is a problem because he has his own ideas and the price of his allegiance remains undiscovered by the CIA, Mossad or anyone else.
While the spooks, financiers, pimps and other arms of the corporate conglomerate are playing 3-D chess with The Donald's peccadilloes, a strategy has been required to secure an income stream for the blood-soaked arms manufacturers. The idea is to take the two important structures, used to secure their funding stream pinned on "never-ending support" for the corrupt Nazi-infested-dictator-led-democracy-with-a-state-controlled-media government in Ukraine, out of being under direct US control and Trump-proof it under NATO. The initial firehose sockets of tax-payer money were the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (AKA 404-Love) and the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine (SAG-U, alternatively Fuk-U). These are to be merged and replaced by a new NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU, or "we're going to NSAT-U").
NSATU will be located in Weisbaden, Germany and headed by a US bloke who wears three, pretty stars on his lapels. Beneath him will be a moderate administration of just 700 people. And before people get annoyed about this, they should remember that Russia is killing more than 3 times this number of off-the-streets cannon-fodder every day. This 7 company-sized administration of brave administrators are trying to continue this process. I mean, do you think the Russians would be killing the AFU soldiers if they didn't have any weapons? Or, how would it be possible for the more extreme elements of the AFU to force their new recruits to the front lines if they also didn't have weapons? No weapons, no AFU. No AFU, no war. No war, reduced profits. C'mon!
For an as yet unexplained reason NSAT-U needs a sales office in 404. The NATO Representation in Ukraine (NRU), not to be confused with Ukraine's GRU, will be headed by a Brit, one Patrick Turner. The Senior Representative will "act as a focal point for NATO’s engagement with the Ukrainian authorities in Kyiv" said outgoing industry body leader Stolty. How the hell this is going to work is anyone's guess because nobody seems to know who the "authorities in Kyiv" are. A member of the ruling part in the Ukraine Rada, Mariana Bezuglaya, recently accused both the former and current head of the AFU of colluding to prevent a Ukrainian victory. She accused the two generals of being a part of a "mafia". Whatever the case, the Trump-proofing of the spigot of public funds must be secured and the front office in Ukraine, which will be talking to uncertain representatives in the war torn country, seems to be important to the arms industries' leading body.
Returning to the cause of all of this trouble, the bullet dodging presidential candidate recently clarified his approach to the looming war which the industry body is trying to create in east Asia. The Donald is consistent. Just as the mad Europeans should pay their fair share for protection by the outproduced, ineffective arms lobby, so should Taiwan. To The Donald's eyes, US protection is an insurance, and people should pay for the policy:
I think, Taiwan should pay us for defense. You know, we’re no different than an insurance company.
The industry representative body may not enjoy being compared to a protection racket, in just the same manner as the current and former AFU leaders dont.
The Donald continued his economic analysis of the island "9,500 miles away [and] 68 miles away from China" by zooming in on its prime industry, integrated circuits. He suggested that the reason that China has not just fired artillery barrage after artillery barrage across the straight at the island is "because they don’t want to lose all those chip plants". He might have a point. Then again, perhaps the US doesn't want to lose all those chip plants either? This prompts the question of why the arms manufacturers and US executive are provoking China by selling tranches of weapons to the Taiwanese in the first place.
China has been rightly miffed by the West's arms manufacturers, and the US in particular, arming the Taiwanese. A loose translation of the recent diplomatic statements by China's representatives would be "why should we waste our time listening to you, when you don't listen to anything we say?" AKA "piss off". Please feel free to validate the translation yourself:
“Over the past weeks and months, despite China’s firm opposition and repeated protest, the US has continued to sell arms to Taiwan and done things that severely undermine China’s core interests and the mutual trust between China and the US. This has seriously compromised the political atmosphere for continuing the arms control consultations,” Lin said.
“Consequently, the Chinese side has decided to hold off discussion with the US on a new round of consultations on arms control and non-proliferation. The responsibility fully lies with the US,” the spokesman added.
Moving across the "pond" to examine the European vassals' side of the West's current diplomacy reveals that a block of the European parliament are pressuring the EU executive to remove Hungary's voting rights in the political organisation which is, at least theoretically, based on voting. This extreme justification for Hungary to walk away from the EU was prompted by their Prime Minister Orban having the audacity to actually try to establish some diplomacy to end the war in Europe.
This is how isolated the West has become. China wont talk to the US because its a waste of time, and the EU wants to give Hungary a very good reason to leave the organisation because its leader is trying to end a war on their doorstep.
But, nobody in the leading arms industry body is concerned about this, not the least because they can at least keep selling weapons to the Zionists for their genocide. The same reason explains the lack of NATO commentary on the recent assassination attempt of The Donald. The shooter was a) a shooter and b) using a weapon which one of their member organisations produced.
Don’t take offense. Its just business.
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Sources
NATO Appoints Senior Official To Represent Alliance in Ukraine, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-07-17
NATO’s Trump-Proofing Efforts Are Floundering, Anchal Vohra, Foreign Policy, 2023-06-26
NATO agrees to take on coordination of some Ukraine security support. How that will work, Lolita C. Baldor, AP News, 2024-07-11
Zelensky party MP claims top general wants Ukraine to surrender, RT, 2024-07-15
Trump Says Taiwan Should Pay the US for Its Defense, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-07-17
China Stops Arms Control Talks With the US Over Arms Sales To Taiwan, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-07-17
Members of European Parliament Want To Punish Hungary for Orban's Peace Mission, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-07-16
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Good post.
More on this theme: Luxembourg, which has no real military....but makes money hand over fist on the financing of the lucrative weapons profiteering industry....has signed up to this "NATO" farce in Ukraine:
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/07/13/luxembourg-goes-to-war/