In the now infamous exchange between Tucker Carlson and British politician Jacob Rees-Mogg, Rees-Mogg said that Britishers needed to prepare for war with Russia.
Rees-Mogg is not the only European plumping for what would be a global war. Two weeks ago, the Danish intelligence service laid out the arguments that Russia is already at war with NATO.
The report asserts, “The security situation has deteriorated further. Russia has intensified its use of sabotage, destructive cyber-attacks and is attacking targets in Europe with drones. The hybrid war is escalating.”
Apparently, there was a foiled drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane at the Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany, which, according to the Danish report, German officials say “had been planned by Russia over a period of several months.” The drone failed to explode. The German government says that was only the tip of the drone iceberg. The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) claims the Russians have launched more than 1,000 drone flights over military sites and critical infrastructure in 2025, plus 321 suspected cases of sabotage.
The Danes also talk about an incident in the Baltic Sea in September “when a Russian frigate in the waters off Gedzer fired flares at a Danish military helicopter…”
Rees-Mogg is not the only European plumping for what would be a global war.Tweet ThisA year ago, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, “We are not at war, but we are also no longer at peace.” Not long after that statement, the head of the German intelligence service Martin Jäger warned that Europe was living in an “icy peace” and that a hot war could come at any time. “We are already under fire today,” he said at a public hearing of the Bundestag’s intelligence oversight committee.
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said, “We are not at war, but we are a daily target of hybrid warfare.” As a warning of impending doom, consulates and other diplomatic outposts are being closed, including the Russian consulate general in Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin. Poland and Germany have already closed diplomatic offices in Kaliningrad.
Do you have any idea where Kaliningrad is or what Kaliningrad is? Are you ready to send American troops to Kaliningrad? Are you ready to have a nuclear exchange over Kaliningrad?
Kaliningrad is roughly 6,000 square miles of land now in Russia, nestled between Poland to the south, Lithuania to the north, and the Baltic Sea to the west. Over the centuries, it has shifted between countries, including Germany. Today, it is the site of Russia’s only Baltic Sea port without winter ice. It is also home to a plethora of Russian military personnel and hardware, including nuclear capability.
In recent months, a war of words has erupted between Russia, NATO, and various European capitals. Russia has warned NATO of dire, even nuclear, consequences if NATO countries try to isolate Kaliningrad from the rest of Russia.
NATO chief Mark Rutte said last December, “We are Russia’s next target.” He said allies needed to prevent a war “on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.”
The French defense chief said that forces should be ready “in three or four years for a shock,” i.e., a confrontation with Russia.
Are you ready to send American troops to Kaliningrad? Are you ready to have a nuclear exchange over Kaliningrad?Tweet ThisIt very well could be that Russia shot flares at a helicopter in the Baltic Sea. It very well could be that Russia is sending drones over NATO countries. It very well could be that Russia is targeting sabotage attacks against European defense industries. Russian subs could be sniffing around transatlantic cables. All of this very well could be true. But what is quite obviously true is that the war party is pushing for what would be a global conflagration that would kill millions. Is it the Russians? Or is it the Europeans?
On the other hand, I am old enough to remember the Gulf of Tonkin incident, a phony attack that acted as a pretext for the United States going to war in Vietnam. I am old enough to remember all those chemical weapons the Bushies said were piled high as the sky in Iraq. And then history shows us how the accidental explosion of the USS Maine brought the United States into war with Spain.
One thing that has changed for me, and maybe for you, over the past decade or more is my understanding that governments and the media lie, lie, and then lie a whole lot more. We saw this with so many hoaxes perpetrated against Donald Trump. We saw this most clearly during the COVID crisis. I am inclined not to believe the establishment elites in my own government, and I am profoundly disinclined to believe the establishment elites in foreign governments.
The Gulf of Tonken incident was deliberately orchestrated by the US State Dept. to start the Vietnam war.
The answer to the question “who won the Cold War” is not as obvious as most make it out to be. If you view it in terms of “East vs. West” then the West obviously won. But if you view it terms of freedom vs. communism (which is the correct way of viewing it) then it is not as obvious. The West, especially Western Europe, has been drifting toward left-wing dictatorships ever since then, more akin to the USSR that the USA (especially pre-1991 USA – the USA has been drifting in that direction too, but is not as far). It is possible to make the case that communism won the Cold War.
The above is also why NATO should have been dissolved in the early 90’s. The fact that it was not is indicative of a change of mission. Rather than protecting Western Europe its mission changed to destroying and splitting up Russia to make it more susceptible to Western influence – regardless (and perhaps even because) of it abandoning communism. This has been a long time mission of Western intelligence agencies.
The war in Ukraine was 100% started by the West, who orchestrated the overthrow of the validly elected pro-Russian government in 2014, installing a (a corrupt and shady) government that literally shelled its own people (ethnic Russians in the east), prompting Russia to invade to protect them, starting the war. The goal then of the West has been to sacrifice Ukraine, for the purpose of weakening Russia. By pouring enormous amounts of weapons and money (which often mysteriously disappears) into Ukraine the West already is fighting a proxy war against Russia, a war it started and is forcing Ukraine to not accept any peace terms, thus forcing it to fight to its own extinction. Even if a military coup overthrew the leaders of Ukraine the West would likely step in and install another puppet government, to keep the plan on course.
Russia has actually exhibited great restraint in Ukraine, keeping it as a conventional war, largely because it considers the eastern parts Russian territories and it even considers many people in the western parts “ethnically close people, with a shared history, caught in a bad situation”. A war against the West, however, would not be conventional because Russia could not win a conventional war against the West, and does not have any sort of sympathies for the West. It will likely go nuclear within a matter of hours. Also, the MAD doctrine of the past no longer applies, because with the modern supersonic ICBM’s Russia has it can vaporize cities in Western Europe before the launch is even detected. All the major cities and military bases in England (the worst of the Western provocateurs) likely have nukes targeted at them 24/7, and would probably be the first to get vaporized.
This then gets into the scary question “Who actually controls US foreign policy?” The post-WWII history of the US, combined with the bad and puzzling foreign policy of the second Trump administration, leads me to believe the State Dept. and CIA (all unelected) actually have more control than the President. I often suspect that Trump attacked Iran because it is an item on the CIA’s “wishlist”, and by expending lots of military resources there he can use it as an excuse to not escalate things any further with Russia (for lack of resources), which I am sure they are pressuring him immensely to do. The Obama/Biden administrations (those responsible for the Ukraine war) were in lock step with the CIA.
It also explains the absolute worst part of the second Trump administration’s foreign policy. This is NOT the Iran war. It is the lack of withdraw of troops from Europe. While Trump unfortunately cannot pull out of NATO on his own as Commander in Chief he does control troop deployments, and could start withdrawing troops from Europe. The fact that he has not, even after western Europe derailed his peace negotiations with Russia, indicates that he is afraid to go up against the CIA, who obviously wants them there.
Article 5 only applies defensively, in theory. If England were to attack a Russian ship in the Baltic and the ship fought back, torpedoing the English ship and sinking it, in theory the US is not under any oblation to respond because it was England who provoked the situation. But if England uses that as a pretext to ramp up naval aggression in the Baltic and Russia finally snaps, and vaporizes some military bases in England, while the US is still under no obligation, if it loses several thousand troops from the nuclear blasts there will be a strong clamor for war in the US. The continued presence of US troops in Europe puts us on course for war, and for all intents and purposes turns Article 5 into an *offensive* alliance. What is going on with Iran is insignificant in comparison to this.
As far as I am concerned, the nations of western Europe should actually be considered enemies of the US right now. Russia should be considered more an ally than any of them. At the moment they are all broken, left-wing petty soft dictatorships. In a few decades England will be “Western Pakistan”, France “Northern Algeria”, Spain “Northern Morocco”, and Germany “Western Turkey”. Neither now nor then are they our allies, and we should not waste any money and certainly no US lives protecting them. After all, the ancestors of most people of European decent came to the US to get away from Europe. The ones who really liked how things were in Europe stayed there.
With the same memories I am similarly inclined to disbelief.
The microcosm of the west, Spain, is exhibit A for not trusting a prolific socialist mafia that controls most of the press and vitiates the levers of government and the separation of powers while distracting the masses with false narratives. Meanwhile, abortion, euthanasia and subsidies of illegal immigrants with no intention of assimilation.
Somethings never change as a NATO lead Germany is yet itching for a war with Russia while a paranoid Russia listens intently. Germany’s boldness is predicated upon Article 5 “that an attack on one is an attack on all”. Least we forget that according to Germany, Poland provoke the German invasion of Poland in Sept 1939. Russia safety is predicated upon a buffer state or two between Germany and Russia whose safety is compromised sharing a border with a German lead NATO.