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Pope Leo Calls Europe’s Military Buildup A ’Betrayal’ of Diplomacy

Islam Times – Pope Leo XIV condemned Europe’s growing military spending, warning that rearmament betrays diplomacy and heightens…
#Europe #EU #’Betrayal’ #a #already #an #and #betrays #Buildup #calls #condemned #Diplomacy #europes #growing #heightens #in #Islam #Leo #Military #of #Pope #rearmament #spending #tensions #that #Times #torn #War #warning #world #XIV
https://www.europesays.com/europe/43087/

“The #EU and #Australia have signed long-awaited #trade and #security deals as they seek *mutual support* to cope with pressure from #China and the #US. The trade agreement will boost the EU’s access to Australia’s #CriticalMinerals, while the #defence and #security pact will enable Australian companies to participate in the bloc’s €150bn #rearmament programme.”

“Australia meanwhile is seeking to reduce its reliance on China, its biggest trading partner, and has signed trade deals with the #UK, #India and the United Arab Emirates (#UAE) in the *past five years* to #diversify its #exports. It has previously said that the EU deal was “the missing piece of the puzzle”.”

#Trade / #RegionalSecurity / #Labor <https://archive.md/NPuZU> / <https://ft.com/content/4a71ddd6-bb5c-439c-9a10-ce3ad1d4377f> (paywall)

Shadows Over Brussels & Kiev: #Corruption Scandals Challenge #VonderLeyen's Ukraine Agenda
"VdL faced criticism for refus'g to disclose contacts w te #arms #industry amidst an €800bil #rearmament prog, lead'g to legal action by MEP Fabio De Masi. When combined w te “Epstein Files” controversy involv'g fmr Commissioners, a pattern emerges.. Is te push for Ukraine aid a geopolitical necessity, or does it serve as a smokescreen for q'nable budgetary allocatns w'in Brussels?"
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/shadows-over-brussels-and-kiev-corruption-scandals-question-von-der-leyens-ukraine-agenda.html

German Nuclear Plans Denounced as ’Madness’ https://www.byteseu.com/1767992/ #as #branding #calls #denounced #for #german #Islam #madness #Nuclear #plans #politician #proposals #rearmament #rising #Sahra #slammed #the #times #Wagenknecht

Virkistävää puhetta USA:n Hesarin(?) pönkittämästä asevarustelu-kiimasta, https://fair.org/home/as-trump-uses-military-to-threaten-democracy-nyt-declares-military-needs-more-resources/

Euroopan komission deregulaatio-hingusta on sentään ilmestynyt "suomennosta", https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/dissecting-deregulation

#usa #war #varustelu #suomi #pelko #fear #fearMongering #rearmament #media #eu #europe #deregulation #luonto #yhteiskunta

In a valuable video conversation, Carole Cadwalladr and Robert Kagan talk about the world we've known is gone as the US careens towards fascist dictatorship and Europe risks being divided into fiefdoms by rapacious powers who have declared contempt for international law.

#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goGamFRtO0

"Trump has managed in just one year to destroy the American order that was, and he has weakened America’s ability to protect its interests in the world that will be. If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next."

#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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"Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War II, one that will make the Cold War look like child’s play and the post–Cold War world like paradise. ...

Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from inter­national leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer the consequences for years to come."

#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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"The American order is over because the United States has decided that it no longer wishes to play its historically unprecedented role of providing global security. The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used instead to destroy it."

~ Robert Kagan

#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/03/trump-national-security-greenland-spheres-of-interest/685673/?gift=3gozaec2NM6PUSZsUEI9kphswgVLHs-azhwbrEEQgjA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Germany inches towards martial law through mandated Russophobia

To enforce its war policy, the EU and Germany rely on repression. Journalists, humanitarian workers, and cultural institutions are targeted – which means all of us.

by Alexander Kiknadze
peoples dispatch
January 13, 2026

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/13/germany-inches-towards-martial-law-through-mandated-russophobia/

Germany inches towards martial law through mandated Russophobia

To enforce its war policy, the EU and Germany rely on repression. Journalists, humanitarian workers, and cultural institutions are targeted – which means all of us.

by Alexander Kiknadze
peoples dispatch
January 13, 2026

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/13/germany-inches-towards-martial-law-through-mandated-russophobia/

Germany inches towards martial law through mandated Russophobia

To enforce its war policy, the EU and Germany rely on repression. Journalists, humanitarian workers, and cultural institutions are targeted – which means all of us.

by Alexander Kiknadze
peoples dispatch
January 13, 2026

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/13/germany-inches-towards-martial-law-through-mandated-russophobia/

Germany inches towards martial law through mandated Russophobia

To enforce its war policy, the EU and Germany rely on repression. Journalists, humanitarian workers, and cultural institutions are targeted – which means all of us.

by Alexander Kiknadze
peoples dispatch
January 13, 2026

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/13/germany-inches-towards-martial-law-through-mandated-russophobia/

Germany inches towards martial law through mandated Russophobia

To enforce its war policy, the EU and Germany rely on repression. Journalists, humanitarian workers, and cultural institutions are targeted – which means all of us.

by Alexander Kiknadze
peoples dispatch
January 13, 2026

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/13/germany-inches-towards-martial-law-through-mandated-russophobia/

"According to the study, tax rates that are increased or newly introduced during rearmament phases generally remain in place at least in part even after these phases end. Fully repealing newly introduced taxes is the exception rather than the rule.

As a result, average tax revenues more than a decade after the start of a rearmament phase were still 20 to 30 percent above their original level, while top marginal tax rates were around 15 percentage points higher.

“The current rearmament in NATO countries is among the largest in Western industrialized countries over the past 150 years, comparable to the rearmament phases prior to the World Wars or after the Korean War. A look at history suggests that this will also entail long-term financial burdens for taxpayers,” says Christoph Trebesch, Director of the Research Center International Finance at the Kiel Institute and co-author of the study “Guns and Butter: The Fiscal Consequences of Rearmament and War.”

In wartime, governments have predominantly financed sharply rising military spending through higher public debt. In addition, new taxes are introduced or existing ones increased, for example to finance rising interest payments.

A similar pattern can also be observed in rearmament phases during peacetime, such as periods of geopolitical threat without direct warfare on a country’s own territory, conditions currently faced by many NATO members. While debt issuance and tax increases are smaller in such threat scenarios than in wars, they have nevertheless often led to noticeable changes in tax systems, including higher income or consumption tax rates."

https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/rearming-for-deterrence-and-war-first-debt-then-higher-taxes/

#War #PublicDebt #Taxes #Rearmament #NATO #Warfare #Austerity

These persons try to convince Europeans that they should starve so their countries would have the money for arms. In the meantime rolling doors work pretty well. https://bewegung.social/@a_watch/115485505417524668
#warmongers #rearmeurope #rearmament #ShutElbitDown #elbit #germany #fuckthewarmongers #classwar

Ps. Of course the support of zionist regime has material interests. You believed it's out of shame?

“The ticking bomb of European rearmament”

by John Rees in Middle East Eye

@UKLabour
@uk_politics

“The news, broken in a widely circulated Financial Times story, that European arms manufacturers are expanding capacity at triple the normal pace has astounded many commentators”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/ticking-bomb-european-rearmament

#Press #UK #EU #Rearmament #Warmongering #Disinformation #Misinformation #Propaganda #Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #Capitalism #Failure

“The German government is misleading the public with an alleged delivery freeze while continuing to approve millions of dollars' worth of military equipment for Israel,” said Lea Reisner.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/33447

#rearmament #armsExports #exports #arms #weapons #armsTrade #Germany #ammunitions #missiles #military #foreignTrade #commerce #genocideSupport #complicityInGenocide

“The German government is misleading the public with an alleged delivery freeze while continuing to approve millions of dollars' worth of military equipment for Israel,” said Lea Reisner.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/33447

#rearmament #armsExports #exports #arms #weapons #armsTrade #Germany #ammunitions #missiles #military #foreignTrade #commerce #genocideSupport #complicityInGenocide

“The German government is misleading the public with an alleged delivery freeze while continuing to approve millions of dollars' worth of military equipment for Israel,” said Lea Reisner.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/33447

#rearmament #armsExports #exports #arms #weapons #armsTrade #Germany #ammunitions #missiles #military #foreignTrade #commerce #genocideSupport #complicityInGenocide

“The German government is misleading the public with an alleged delivery freeze while continuing to approve millions of dollars' worth of military equipment for Israel,” said Lea Reisner.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/33447

#rearmament #armsExports #exports #arms #weapons #armsTrade #Germany #ammunitions #missiles #military #foreignTrade #commerce #genocideSupport #complicityInGenocide

“The German government is misleading the public with an alleged delivery freeze while continuing to approve millions of dollars' worth of military equipment for Israel,” said Lea Reisner.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/33447

#rearmament #armsExports #exports #arms #weapons #armsTrade #Germany #ammunitions #missiles #military #foreignTrade #commerce #genocideSupport #complicityInGenocide

Interview with Andrew Feinstein on:
• Germany’s role in the international arms trade,
• the reason why there is a push on weapon production in Europe,
• German arms exports to Israel:
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/10066

@palestine

#Feinstein #weapons #armsTrade #diplomacy #narratives #Europe #politics #EuropeUkraine #EuropeanPolicy #rearmament #ReArmEurope #EuropeIsrael #Germany #genocides #GermanGenocides #defence #defense #industry #genocideSupport #complicityInGenocide

The EU has nominal limits on members' spending.

It enforces budget limits for nurses and public services; and authorizes overreach for the military.
It enforces budget limits on countries like Greece and Portugal; and authorizes overreach of Germany:
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-approves-germanys-mega-spending-plan/

#brutalization #GermanProblem #spending #rearmament #ReArmEurope #economy #Germany #EU #industry #EuropeanUnion #euro #euroZone #Europe #debt #budget #defence #defense

The EU has nominal limits on members' spending.

It enforces budget limits for nurses and public services; and authorizes overreach for the military.
It enforces budget limits on countries like Greece and Portugal; and authorizes overreach of Germany:
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-approves-germanys-mega-spending-plan/

#brutalization #GermanProblem #spending #rearmament #ReArmEurope #economy #Germany #EU #industry #EuropeanUnion #euro #euroZone #Europe #debt #budget #defence #defense

The EU has nominal limits on members' spending.

It enforces budget limits for nurses and public services; and authorizes overreach for the military.
It enforces budget limits on countries like Greece and Portugal; and authorizes overreach of Germany:
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-approves-germanys-mega-spending-plan/

#brutalization #GermanProblem #spending #rearmament #ReArmEurope #economy #Germany #EU #industry #EuropeanUnion #euro #euroZone #Europe #debt #budget #defence #defense

The EU has nominal limits on members' spending.

It enforces budget limits for nurses and public services; and authorizes overreach for the military.
It enforces budget limits on countries like Greece and Portugal; and authorizes overreach of Germany:
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-approves-germanys-mega-spending-plan/

#brutalization #GermanProblem #spending #rearmament #ReArmEurope #economy #Germany #EU #industry #EuropeanUnion #euro #euroZone #Europe #debt #budget #defence #defense

The EU has nominal limits on members' spending.

It enforces budget limits for nurses and public services; and authorizes overreach for the military.
It enforces budget limits on countries like Greece and Portugal; and authorizes overreach of Germany:
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-approves-germanys-mega-spending-plan/

#brutalization #GermanProblem #spending #rearmament #ReArmEurope #economy #Germany #EU #industry #EuropeanUnion #euro #euroZone #Europe #debt #budget #defence #defense

"Who can doubt where all this is leading? For the first time since the cold war, Europe, Asia and the Middle East are being transformed into potential nuclear battlegrounds, with the difference, now, that atomic bombs and missiles are viewed not as deterrents but as offensive, war-winning weapons."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/10/world-nuclear-oblivion-opposition-us-russia-cold-war

#rearmament

"To proclaim the right of peoples to determine their own destiny in an international framework based on sovereignty, peace and cooperation among equals."

"Rearmament could reactivate the model tested during the eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Countries like Spain, Italy and Greece, with structurally high debt levels, will face serious difficulties in financing their war effort."

https://braveneweurope.com/hector-illueca-augusto-zamora-r-antonio-fernandez-manolo-monereo-how-to-save-europe

#diplomacy #narratives #EU #Europe #EU27 #EuropeUkraine #EuropeanPolicy #rearmament #ReArmEurope #sovereignty

The False Premise of #European #Rearmament https://www.thenation.com/article/world/europe-war-ams-nato-russia-weapons/

Have European leaders stopped to consider the Orwellian implications of gearing up their nations for perpetual war?

📢 Concentració i Roda de premsa
#No al #rearmament
#No al #genocidi
#NoALaGuerra
📍Pl Universitat
Us hi esperem!

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Secret note reveals Russia using Telegram bots to control drones attacking Ukraine — Russia can attack Europe 2-4 years after war’s end, faster with lifted sanctions — ‘Russia is not winning this war,’ EU defense commissioner says — Latvia urges EU-wide halt to Russian visas over security concerns — Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Debunking the Kremlin’s ‘root causes’ claims… and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/tuesday-may-27-2025/

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Secret note reveals Russia using Telegram bots to control drones attacking Ukraine — Russia can attack Europe 2-4 years after war’s end, faster with lifted sanctions — ‘Russia is not winning this war,’ EU defense commissioner says — Latvia urges EU-wide halt to Russian visas over security concerns — Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Debunking the Kremlin’s ‘root causes’ claims… and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/tuesday-may-27-2025/

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Secret note reveals Russia using Telegram bots to control drones attacking Ukraine — Russia can attack Europe 2-4 years after war’s end, faster with lifted sanctions — ‘Russia is not winning this war,’ EU defense commissioner says — Latvia urges EU-wide halt to Russian visas over security concerns — Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Debunking the Kremlin’s ‘root causes’ claims… and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/tuesday-may-27-2025/

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Secret note reveals Russia using Telegram bots to control drones attacking Ukraine — Russia can attack Europe 2-4 years after war’s end, faster with lifted sanctions — ‘Russia is not winning this war,’ EU defense commissioner says — Latvia urges EU-wide halt to Russian visas over security concerns — Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Debunking the Kremlin’s ‘root causes’ claims… and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/tuesday-may-27-2025/

"Upon leaving politics in 2009, the well-connected and effortlessly Anglophone Merz became a senior counsel for Chicago-based law firm Mayer Brown and the supervisory council chairman of the German operations of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager."

by Dominik A. Leusder at Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2025/05/germany-merz-chancellor-cdu-neoliberalism/

#recession #Germany #assetManagement #law #CDU #budget #austerity #Merkel #industrialPolicy #AngelaMerkel #FriedrichMerz #Merz #ReArmEurope #rearmament #EU #exports #mercantilism #neoliberalism #Jacobin

the #Vatican is second only to the U.S. when it comes to diplomatic relations, but unlike the U.S., it is not in the hands of the #militaryIndustrialComplex: that's why it can still do a lot against #war and #rearmament

The #UK has circulated plans for #European countries to establish a “supranational institution” that jointly purchases #military equipment, stockpiles #weapons and helps to finance large-scale #rearmament across the continent.

https://www.ft.com/content/93d7168b-75a3-41e3-ba5a-4f378b93a709

#europe #rearmeurope #rearmament #rearm_europe
One F at a time.

Flipant amb la #FestaCaqui? Doncs, prepara't: "keynesianisme militar d'incertes conseqüències", cap majoria social a Alemanya, França, Itàlia i Espanya en favor del #rearmament, "acabarà rosegant l'Estat de benestar", perill que l'extrema dreta capitalitzi el no a les inversions militars i reforci resultats electorals... @jordiborras @CentreDelas

this is the biggest manipulation of public opinion since #Iraq invasion:a monstrous #rearmament plan,#ReArmEurope rebranded as #Readiness2030 to deceive EU public+troops to be sent to #Ukraine as *peacekeepers* when in fact arms giants,like #Leonardo,pressure for their deployment

Cognitive dissonance

Until February 2025, Europe had been a willing tool of US foreign policy. Realizing it just now, the rulers cannot change their belief in standing for good versus evil. So they choose to change their narrative from one of enlightenment to one of rearmament.

"In spite of all the grand-standing and posturing, Europe has been reduced to a geopolitical appendage of the United States, following Washington’s lead in prolonging the conflict while shouldering the costs. While the EU sees itself as a global moral authority, it has been sidelined in actual negotiations. Instead, peace talks are being brokered by the U.S. and China, with Europe playing no decisive role. Even within the European Parliament, there exists a near-religious belief in a narrative that contradicts basic military and economic realities."

(Read or watch) https://pascallottaz.substack.com/p/the-eus-decision-to-die-on-the-hill

#change #changeManagement #narratives #loomingDefeat #EU #Europe #defeat #EuropeanParliament #Europe #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #VonDerLeyen #UvDL #EuropeanCommission #EU27 #KajaKallas #Kallas #Ukraine #EuropeUkraine #UkraineSupport #foreignPolicy #StandForUkraine #growth #policy #greyTransition #RearmEurope #RearmEuropePlan #rearmament #debt #money #industry #weapons #armsIndustry #economy #Germany #Starmer #Macron #Merz #France #UK

Rearmament is an opportunity for capital to obtain reductions in welfare and public services, at the cost of lower profitability.

Chatham House: “Politicians will have to brace themselves to reclaim money through cuts to sickness benefits, pensions and healthcare.”

Britain’s finance minister Rachel Reeves, who has been steadily cutting spending on child credits, winter payments for the aged and disability benefits, announced that the remit of the Labour government’s new National Wealth Fund would be changed to let it invest in defence.

More military spending spurs growth but can damage the ‘health’ of the capitalist accumulation process: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/from-welfare-to-warfare-military-keynesianism/

#growth #policy #greyTransition #RearmEurope #RearmEuropePlan #rearmament #debt #money #industry #weapons #armsIndustry #Europe #EU #LoomingDefeat #defeat #EuropeanCommission #VonDerLeyen #UvDL #EuropeUkraine #UkraineSupport #foreignPolicy #allies #defense #defence #deficit #stateViolence #UK #Britain #Starmer #welfare #publicServices #economics

Government, administration, nation-state, do not go bankrupt… as long as they issue their currency and maintain an army to enforce it.

In 2020, the Fed "directly lent to corporations or they bought corporate debt off of financial market participants who had this corporate debt, or anyone who really needed to sell it. […] They just made sure that anyone who needed liquidity essentially had it." https://www.crisesnotes.com/musk-in-your-computers-paul-krugman-interviews-nathan-tankus/

#openData #payments #Krugman #PaulKrugman #rearmament #DOGE #paymentSystem

what's going on is so serious that I feel the duty to do what I've done for the #JA and #WikiLeaks case: search for the truth and inform the public about an unprecedented threat: the destruction of our #WelfareState to proceed with a useless #Rearmament programme (#ReArmEU)

"La France Insoumise MP David Guiraud told Jacobin in January that France’s manufactured deficit crisis was part of a premeditated plan to cut social spending.

“French capitalists have never tolerated social security,” Guiraud said then. “When it was created . . . it was hundreds of billions of euros which escaped the logic of the private sector, hundreds of billions of euros which they couldn’t make a profit off of. They know that they’re breaking social security. They know it. I think they do it deliberately for the most part.”

Boosting military spending while trying to maintain “fiscal discipline” will result in the same thing. A column by Janan Ganesh in the Financial Times on March 5 titled “Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state” gave away the game even more directly.

“[T]he welfare state as we have known it must retreat somewhat: not enough that we will no longer call it by that name, but enough to hurt,” Ganesh wrote.

The threat of war is a useful motive.

“Chronic discomfort isn’t enough,” Ganesh elaborated. “An element of real fear has to come in, as perhaps it has now.”"

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/france-eu-defense-spending-austerity

#EU #France #Macron #RadicalCentrism #Rearmament #WarfareState #WelfareState #Austerity #PublicDebt

#Budget constraints or spending stimulus?

"#Germany’s Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz (after winning the recent election) has adopted the same story. In a complete about-face from his election campaign, when he opposed any extra fiscal spending in order to ‘balance’ the government books, he is now promoting a plan to inject hundreds of billions in extra funding into Germany’s military and infrastructure, designed to revive and re-arm Europe’s largest economy. A new provision would exempt defence spending above 1 per cent of GDP from the “debt brake” that caps government borrowing, allowing Germany to raise an unlimited amount of debt to fund its armed forces and to provide military assistance to Ukraine. And he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment to set up a €500bn fund for infrastructure, which would run over ten years. Suddenly, there is plenty of cash and borrowing to be made available for arms and military ventures."

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/trumps-little-disturbance/

#rearmament #constitution #industry #arms #weapons #armsTrade #Europe #Ukraine #production #ammunitions #missiles #military #debt #austerity #stimulus #economy #tariffs #foreignTrade #commerce #exports #inflation

"Italy and Spain support issuing common EU debt — which is effectively free money — for defense."

EU member states not wanting to have any outsider saying what you should do include Poland, Finland.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-leaders-fear-european-commission-power-grab-defense-donald-trumps-exit/

#rearmament #debt #money #industry #weapons #armsIndustry #Europe #EU #LoomingDefeat #defeat #EuropeanCommission #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #VonDerLeyen #UvDL #EU27 #EuropeUkraine #UkraineSupport #foreignPolicy #allies #defense #defence #commonDebt