NATO is funding 'Putin's Warmachine'.
Let me explain. According to Adam Smith, the 'father' of capitalism, every dime spent on the military beyond defensive needs is a waste. I'm talking *classic* capitalism. This notion fuelled American isolationism, until the US 'reinvented' itself as an imperialist entity. As the defacto 'Ruler of the Unipolar World'. Within that concept the military *are* important to tell the 'peasants' what the Ruler wants them to do. That system is called 'Feudalism', not capitalism. But the more important 'tool' for the Ruler is the money.
If that concept is alien to you, nothing of what I have to say about this conflict with Russia makes any sense. But I insist. Go and look it up. Educate yourself. Not because I want to be *right*, but to save yourself, and your loved ones, from finding out the hard way. Because there is not all that much time left, by the looks of it. Which is why I can be this 'rude'.
Wars are expensive, even though banks and speculators fund them to make money for themselves, as highlighted in my previous essay. But those institutions *shouldn't* be allowed to 'print' money, or bet on the outcome of a war to begin with. Military production, nor the military themselves, should be privatised as a means to profit from war. Again, *classic* capitalism. Adam Smith. A different 'beast' from what we made of his theoretical concepts, under the influence of 'thinkers' like the founder of the Rothschild banking empire, who allegedly said that he didn't care who ruled a country, as long as he could print the money. Sadly used to encourage anti-semitism, while it isn't even certain that he ever said that. But truckloads of likeminded souls acted on that notion. Again, see my previous essay and the link embedded in it.
Understand that NATO *did* have a plan to topple Putin, using Ukraine, and Syria, as bait, to have an excuse to unleash 'Sanctions from Hell' on Russia. I've directed my readers to that 'Rand Corp' plan, published in 2019, well before the SMO was launched, often. It does read like a script of what happened. A playbook. Those who composed that strategic plan were clearly under the impression that Russia was a 'Gasstation pretending to be a Country', a 'Paper Tiger'. And no lack of people who insist that this is true even today, after almost four years of war, which drained NATO and destroyed Ukraine. Not Russia. In fact, the Russian economy was growing spectacularly in 2024, and had to be 'cooled' by raising interest to levels which would kill every Western economy instantly, because of the insurmountable debt burden. What happened?
Because of the sanctions, and wider economic warfare, the money made in Russia suddenly *stayed* in Russia, looking for investment opportunities *in* Russia. Instead of all those revenues ending up in the West. This was sold to the hapless people in Europe and the US as 'funding Putin's War Machine'. That was not *our* fault. That was not *our* consumption of gas, fuel and other natural resources coming out of Russia, but the sanctions-regime. This misguided economic warfare. And it is *not* killing the Russian economy, but ours. Jens Stoltenberg, in charge of NATO when this plan to 'Overextend and Unbalance Russia from Advantageous Ground' was executed, today a Norwegian banker, sitting on a *very* large 'sovereign wealth fund', urged European countries to cut back on healthcare, education and social expenditure so as to continue the war, and prop up Ukraine.
The US is buying uranium from Russia in large quantities. Taiwan increased the volume of naphtha bought from Russia, Various banks and individuals are making enormous amounts of money by buying and selling 'rerouted' Russian oil and gas, while the EU is at war with it's own people, draining them to fund their war, which is a losing prospect. Europe doesn't have the weapons, and is running out of money to buy them in the US, which made them switch to far more expensive American carbon-energy, worse for the climate and environment to boot.
Any country which is essentially an autarky, and Russia is these days, does *not* need to export anything, because there is no need to import anything. They can keep going endlessly. Which is not to say they *want* this war. Or that they don't seek certain imported goods. But if the West won't provide them, China, or India, or developing African nations will. And if we don't buy those raw materials from Russia, they will switch to China, which is already a peer-competitor at *every* level of manufactured goods, including 'tech'. Germany, the UK, France and Italy will 'crash and burn' because of Brussels' policy. And Europe *doesn't* stand a chance if a kinetic war breaks out. This delusion of being *far* stronger militarily is already a *huge* threat, but Russia with Chinese backing is *way* too strong. And even rebuilding a military which may 'hold the line' will ravage the European economy, which is leaning on various subsidised activities, with the European countries taxing imports in various ways, directly, or indirectly through their ever shifting Rules, and by 'printing' large sums backed by inflated GDP-listings through borrowing to pay for all of that. Stealing money from Russia by effectively confiscating the 'frozen assets' will put the last nail in the coffin of the Euro, in a 'fiat' system which relies on trust.