Resisting a German Military Industrial Complex

The aroma from the stack of Russian Central Bank assets in EuroClear is still permeating the EU Commission.

Published: 2025-12+21

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A former German Minister of Defense, who failed upwards to become President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen (UvdL) and a German, former employee of the asset management fund Blackrock, elected as German Chancellor, Merz, have failed to immediately manufacture billions of dollars of European debt from Russian assets to invest in a to-be revitalized German arms industry. Instead, they used borrowed using the EU’s budget.

The European Union’s leaders began their crucial summit on Thursday [2025-12-18] aimed at converging around the Commission’s proposal to use Russian funds frozen in Europe to guarantee a “reparations loan” to Ukraine. ... As the meeting opened, seven members — Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Bulgaria and Malta — had opposed the proposal. Germany, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and the three Baltic countries were its main supporters. ... In the early hours on Friday, they opted instead to extend a loan of €90 billion backed only by the EU’s own budget.

[Molly O’Neal, redordered by YxN]

The EU Commission has not given up its desire to steal the Russian assets, writes Peter Hansler:

If Russia does not pay—which I believe is certain, because it is the losers and not the winners of a war who pay reparations—the EU reserves “the right” to use the frozen funds to repay the loan.

[SONAR21]

Whatever the case, the EU Commission along with the coalition of the unpopular leaders of France, Germany and the UK have committed Europe to a political course of increased debt and war. Towards the end of this article we meet the clearest warning against this diabolical and suicidal path of a continued European war with Russia. It was issued by Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán.

A Pile of Kickbacks

We pick up the story via b. from Moon of Alabama. He, along with many others, including Alex Christoforou of The Duran, have been carefully watching maneuvers by European and EU political leaders who have had the scent of vulnerable money wafting up their noses for years.

The most alluring scent has diffused from the pile of Russia Federation Central Bank [RFCB] foreign reserve assets ledgered in a bank account managed by Belgian bank, EuroClear. The EuroClear offices which control access to that pile of seductive cash are just down the road from the executive capital of the EU. Oooooh, the temptation. Billions and billions of kickbacks just asking to be “leveraged”.

Part I of the asset theft plot was a wedge.

The interest on those RFCB funds has already been siphoned off (stolen) and provided to the corrupt government of Ukraine to further the money making exercise known as the defence of Ukraine. Western media wants us to understand that war as a defense against a full scale, unprovoked Russian attack against, not just Ukraine, but all of Europe and all like minded civilized people worldwide.

The Lost War

The war in Europe is killing Ukrainians, some Russians, destroying Ukraine and providing parts of Ukraine’s territory to the Russian Federation. Continuing it will continue this process of destroying a European state and feeding as much of its land to the Russian Federation as the Russian Security Council deems prudent to guarantee the safety of the Russian speaking people of the Donbas against an expansionist NATO allied with modern Ukrainian Nazis.

The war was provoked by NATO expansion and an eight year long, US controlled, campaign of terror against the Russian speaking population of the Donbas. That under reported terror campaign was called a “civil war” in Western media. The US installed government in Ukraine began their part of it as an “anti-terror” operation using its military. The Armed Forces of Ukraine bombed hospitals, schools, civilian housing, markets and other off-limits locations for years. Did Ukraine stop attacking civilians when Russia entered the war? Ask the people of Belgorod. Or Sudhza.

Nope

The wedge of the interest on the RFCB assets was just a small contribution towards continuing this conflict. Reasons for this, beyond war profiteering, remain unexplained. The big prize of $185 billion of debt, to be manufactured by thieving Russian assets, has just been denied to the German politicians representing the financial peaks of the EU, its Commission and the German economy.

Who were among the alliance which denied the conspirators their bags of debt based on Russia’s Central Bank assets?

One part was the Western banking establishment. The banksters understand that their system of providing “financial services” is dependent on “customers” putting their money into accounts. Should those monies in those accounts be made available for thieving by local political organisations the future of the banking businesses would become rather grim. For obvious reasons, EuroClear and organisations like the European Central Bank, and individuals like Christine Legarde from the International Monetary Fund, have been warning against the danger of the conspirators’ ploys.

The other part was composed of elected political leaders from some European states which sit geographically between Russia and Western Europe. The leader of this group of politicians has been Viktor Orbán.

Orbán was not pointing at the dangerous idea of a massive Keynesian investment in German arms manufactures, including Reinmetal. His warning to the European citizenry was that funding the lost war via debt commits Europe to war:

For this money to ever be recovered, Russia would have to be defeated. That is not the logic of peace but the logic of war. A war loan inevitably makes its financiers interested in the continuation and escalation of the conflict, because defeat would also mean a financial loss. From this moment on, we are no longer talking merely about political or moral decisions, but about hard financial constraints that push Europe in one direction: into war.

The Brusselian war logic is therefore intensifying. It is not slowing down, not easing, but becoming institutionalised. The risk today is greater than ever before, because the continuation of the war is now coupled with a financial interest.

[Viktor Orbán]

Orban understands the danger of the German van der Crazy and German Merz half of the current European drive to continue the lost war in Ukraine at any cost. Poland, if it looked to its history, would see equal danger in the other half of the coalition of European warmongers, the French and British.

Phase 1 of Part II of the push to fund a German centred European Military Industrial Complex to drive a European recovery from the economic disaster of the US destruction of the NordStream pipelines has been averted. The irrational “5% of GDP” bill, which the US has placed on its willing EuroVassals, waits to be used by them as justification for another shot at a similarly misplaced approach to an economic recovery which will probably further divide an already divided Europe.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson provided the most concise summary of the old narrative around that 5% dream. It amounts to the EU borrowing money, to buy weapons from the US, which the US does not have, to supply non-existent soldiers in Ukraine, to continue a war, which NATO has already lost.

The new narrative amounts to the same, with some of those funds to be invested in building a German arms industry.

Has Europe lost its mind?

Addendum

From Lux (see comments):

Another explanation for the sudden (panicked) German “elites’” eagerness for remilitarization of their country and the entire (sub)continent can be found in the current status of free fall of the German economy. Earlier this month Volkswagen shut down a factory in Dresden, which marks the first ever occurence of the company terminating production on German soil.

Just by looking at the German numbers for unemployment, economic output and the overall sentiment one understands that what we’re dealing with here is a “Weimar Republic 2.0” scenario with VdL and Merz channeling the “growth and recovery program” of the National-Socialist Workers Party in 1935.

As Orban’s ingeniuos remarks which are quoted in the text point out, the Germans (as well as the French, Brits, Balts, Scandinavians and most of EU-27) are putting all of their eggs in the war basket, in an attempt to mobilize the European societies for a war against Russia, all in order to save their own skins from accountability for destroying their own countries in every imaginable way.

See the Helmer interview for German arms manufacturing company stock value data. Profits have soared. T’hey have just started to temper.

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