Posted on 04/25/2022 6:25:38 AM PDT by hardspunned
Edited on 04/25/2022 6:30:51 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Getting prepared for the coming hunger wars.
Its not American subsidized if the Germans, finally, get closer to their 2% GDP commitment. Whats happening right now is what Trump was asking for. If they had listened to Trump this mess wouldnt have happened.
You forget we’ll soon have the new 800 mile Swedish/Finnish frontier to arm and man. You did notice that 40% of ALL military spending is American borrowed.
Sweden has no real land frontier. Finland has had its frontier since WW2, and most of it is militarily impassable. Finland effectively gets a Swedish reinforcement, which they didnt really have in WW2, plus “strategic depth”, and Sweden gets a forward defense line far from Sweden, and the ability to interdict naval threats from Russia far from Swedish shores.
This is in effect a Finnish-Swedish alliance, which has made a ton of sense since forever. Better together.
40% of military spending is American, full stop.
Which overstates things because the US system is vastly inefficient.
Sure thing, nothing to worry about. No US/NATO dollars or commitment will ever grace that border. What a fool! This is part of the new generational arms race/Cold War we have just been committed to. The US has already pi$$ed $20B away, not including a like amount in dark money, in Ukraine. The Russians will do this border on the cheap like Reagan and Thatcher in ‘83, a whole new class of intermediate range nukes in the Baltic. You just watch over the next decades how expensive NATO becomes. I’m 66, I’ve seen this movie over and over and over and over again.
US/Nato commitment was already present in northern Norway, precisely because of worries about northern Finland/Sweden.
It was a weak spot in the line. Now its a less-weak spot.
And if the Russians want to consider it a threat, then there is that much more frontage to spread themselves along. Works both ways.
The way I figure, Nato just got a major reinforcement in an are where they always had worries.
Add to that - the worst Nato weak spot is the Baltics -Lat Est and Lith. Guess who is close by to provide air cover? Plus the Swedish air force working out of Finland too. Both also to be integrated into Nato air defense systems. Swedes and Finns with AWACs. Whee!
Unfortunately, the big moneyed NATO spenders (borrowers) will be our grandchildren. Russia’s benefactor, Xi, would much rather see our grandchildren bogged down in a new European Cold War nuclear arms race than spending that money on new pacific carriers. Don’t tell be me you’re as slow as the nimrods running this CF and didn’t realize the effect the Eastern European regime plans of our White House thugs were going to have on Sino Russian relations.
The Chinese are not doing so well lately, or havent you noticed? Their idea of internal consumption taking over from export oriented manufacturing financed by FDI is crashing as we watch.
The real risks are short term, not long. That China gets so internally screwed up that someone decides to “wag the dog”, prematurely.
Well, I guess the Biden foreign policy is working out great for you then. The bumbling commies are no match for the brainiacs in DC and Brussels. We’ve really got them on the run. We just need our grandkids to pony up the blood and treasure for “Ukrainian Freedom 2.0” and “Taiwan Freedom 3.0” and “Scandinavian Freedom 4.0”. With the DC neocons giving free reign to the idiots in the DC regime, we haven’t been this overextended since 1942.
Its not Bidens foreign policy. That guy thinks foreign policy is a brand of adult nappies. Nor is it his team of wire-pullers and ventriloquists.
No, the world has many players on the stage, not just one (or one team). This achievement is Putins own, just his, for which he deserves all the credit.
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