EU Is Going to Have Their NATO War Against Russia – With or Without President Trump

On Monday and Tuesday, Russian oil refineries in NATO countries Hungary and Romania suddenly, and simultaneously, have mysterious explosions and catastrophic fires {citation}}. On Wednesday, NATO head Mark Rutte comes to visit President Trump in the White House, and at the end of the day, the same Russian company, Lukoil, whose refinery exploded in Romania, suddenly becomes sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury. These events are not disconnected.

President Trump then disputes a Wall Street Journal report, further saying he did not give approval, nor does he know where NATO long-range missiles are coming from that were launched from Ukraine into Russia.

President Trump saying, “wherever they may come from,” is alarming in itself. We all know that British PM Starmer, French President Macron, German Chancellor Merz and NATO Secretary Mark Rutte are all in alignment to push NATO into a direct conflict with Russia using the non-NATO state of Ukraine to do it.

“If Pootie is so evil, why has the Europe been buying Russian energy all along...?”

Europe diched as much Russian energy as it could. 100% is difficult. Hungary and Slovakia are the large buyers Russian energy. NOT Germany, France, Italy etc
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The EU has been phasing out Russian energy imports since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but exemptions persist for certain landlocked countries like Hungary and Slovakia due to infrastructure limitations.
As of October 2025, the EU Council has approved measures to fully phase out Russian gas imports by the end of 2025, targeting holdouts like Hungary and Slovakia.
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You’re absolutely right—Hungary and Slovakia stand out as the EU’s primary remaining buyers of Russian pipeline gas and crude oil in 2025, thanks to geographic and infrastructural factors that have earned them temporary EU exemptions. This contrasts sharply with larger economies like Germany, France, and Italy, which have aggressively diversified away from Russian supplies since 2022, relying instead on alternatives like Norwegian gas, US LNG, and renewables. France does import some Russian LNG (making it #3 overall), but that’s a fraction of what it used to take in pipeline gas, and it’s not comparable to the direct pipeline/oil dependence of Hungary and Slovakia. Germany and Italy, meanwhile, have zero direct Russian pipeline or oil imports and only trace indirect LNG exposure.

Come to think of it, the majority of WWII wasn't fought in the trenches like it was in WWI, and there was more air and naval warfare than in WWI, and Japan was an ally of ours. They declared war on Germany.

My take on the Versailles Treaty is that Europe failed miserably to police Germany after the war. Most countries reduced their military, and ignored what was going on in Germany. At the Nuremberg trials, the Kopp Corporation, Germany's biggest armourer, had admitted that it had never stopped producing weapons of war after the Treaty was signed. Germany also ignored the limits on a standing army, and an Air Force. Germany was producing planes for war and saying they were for commercial flight. They violated the Treaty multiple times. It took the asshats almost 100 years to finally pay off their WWI reparations.

"Unresolved issues from ww2 did cause ww2 with the same combatants."

Since WWII, this country has fought proxy wars against Russia and China in Korea and Vietnam, both of whom were allies of ours in WWII. Nobody really wins proxy wars. Since WWII, the U.S. has never had a complete and total victory in any of the European, Asian/Middle-East country's our troops have fought in. Could it be because there was no CIA until after WWII ended? Since its inception, they've been involved in coups, attempted coups, paying off foreign politicians, and gathering mostly bad intelligence. They've lied to every President since the agency has been around, probably even Obama at some point.

Basically, the only unresolved issues from WWI was that Europe refused to enforce the rules it placed on Germany. Had Germany been broken up after WWI, like it was after WWII, perhaps there would never have been a Hitler to rant and rave about how badly Germany was treated, and incite the population of a country to think they could beat the world. It's not that Europe didn't notice Hitler's rise. It's that they chose to ignore it, and pretend it didn't exist. Nobody wanted to go to war again so soon after the last one, but by ignoring Hitler's saber rattling and then appeasing him over and over, Europe created a perfect storm that could only have led to war.

The result of unseen consequences.

Napoleon was the father of Germany - he came across the Germans states and to make life easier for his empire, he merged them. Even to today the language in Swabia is not understandable to a person in Hamburg. I knew a polylinguist who was learning Polish at the same time I was (and she, a SwitzerDeutsch knew Italian, French, Swiss German, Standard German, English, Swabian, Czech and Russian) and she told me that some of the german “dialects” are further apart than many of the Slavic “languages”.

If there had been a southern German union under Austria, and Prussia had been crushed by Napoleon, then there would have been multiple Germanic states (like quite frankly “Dutch” speaking Nederlands is a Germanic state) or nations

I just discovered your last comment to me which I found very interesting. It's amazing that woman you met was fluent in so many languages. My father was born in Holland in 1904. Came to the U.S. in 1913 with his two brothers and their parents. The Dutch language is very much like the German language.

My oldest son speaks German fluently and visits Germany and surrounding countries once or twice a year. He's going to Berlin next month. In 2006, I booked a 3 week bus tour of the British Isles for myself. I also wanted to visit the D-Day landing beaches in France, and I wanted to visit the small village my father had been born in. It wasn't that far over the border from Bruges, Belgium. I made arrangements for my oldest son to go over with me. He'd been traveling overseas for several years before. I'd never been overseas, so I figured he'd be the one I wanted to go with me for the first part of my trip. AAA planned all the details, including making arrangements for us to lease a car to drive into Holland. We flew into Brussels, took the train to Bruges, stayed overnight there, got up the next morning, took a taxi to the car rental, and drove over the border into Holland, staying overnight in Schoondijke where my father was born. We drove around the area, visited Groede which my grandparents had also lived in before going to Rotterdam to catch the ship that brought them all here. Schoondijke and that whole area was under German control during WWII. The village itself had been heavily damaged by allied bombing. It was finally liberated by Canadian Forces. It was good that my son was with me, because he was more or less able to read Dutch because of his knowledge of German.

The next day we drove back to Belgium, dropped the car off, took a taxi to the train station and hopped our train to Paris. I checked into my hotel, and my son took an overnight train ride to Berlin. I visited the D-Day beaches via a full day tour, and was in Paris for a couple more days. Visited the Louvre. Took the EuroStar to London the next day, had a week in London to knock off my bucket list, then took the bus tour. I was gone a total of 33 days. I'm glad I went when I did because all these years later, physically, I couldn't do it now.

When we were kids, we used to laugh at my father when he'd call oven gloves "hand shoes." We couldn't figure out where he got it from. Not that many years ago, I was watching a British TV show. The people were in Holland and they were looking up Dutch words in the language book. One of them asked the other if they knew what the word for glove was. His friend didn't know, so he said "Handschoenen" which translates to "hand shoes" in English. The German word for gloves is "Handschuh," again the English translation is "hand shoe."

There was an old windmill just outside my father's village. During WWII, the de Hulster family that owned the windmill hid allied pilots until they could connect them with resistance individuals to get them out of Holland. We wanted to visit it, but it was closed the day we were there. Here's a link to pictures of it:

hulsters molen

The word Mill in Dutch is "Molen." In German, it's "Die Mühle." And New York retained the Dutch word "koekje," pronounced "koo-kyes." In German it's pronounced "Keks."

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