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Thursday, October 17, 2024

19 Arrested At Moldovan Border AsYoung And Not So Young Men Flee To Evade Conscription

 by Egbhert Nohbakkon, 17 October 2024


Desertion is rampant in Ukraine, and attempts to escape military service continue to be a major issue for Ukraine’s armed forces. While young Ukrainians are being rounded up by military recuiters as they leave nightclubs or music and sports venues, othrs between the ages of 16 and 60 who do not want to go to war are finding other ways to avoid conscription. Border guards near the border with Moldova  this week detained two groups of men who tried to escape from Ukraine. They received administrative notices of having committed a crime,” the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported.

Border Officers detained two groups, consisting of 8 and 11 men at the border. In order to flee the country, they had paid $3,000 to $5,000 for online instructions from an organizer via the Telegram channel, which had them split into two groups to be more mobile and less conspicuous. 

Desertion is rampant in Ukraine, and attempts to escape military service continue to be a major issue for Ukraine’s armed forces, reports Do Rzeczy

“Ukrainians who do not want to go to war are looking for various ways to avoid conscription. Border guards near the border with Moldova detained two groups of men who tried to escape from Ukraine. They received administrative notices of having committed a crime,” the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported.

Officers detained two groups, consisting of eight and 11 men. In order to flee the country, they had paid $3,000 to $5,000 for online instructions from an organizer via the Telegram channel, which had them split into two groups to be more mobile and less conspicuous. 

The men have been charged with attempting to illegally cross the state border of Ukraine and of evading conscription into military service..

On Sept. 6, border guards from the Volyn detachment detained two men who intended to illegally cross the state border, and on Sept. 7, four fugitives were detained in Zakarpattia who had been hiking in the mountains for five days and wanted to cross the Tisza River. Meanwhile, in the Rivne Region, fugitives who tried to get to Belarus almost ran into mines. Doubtless many more are crossing undetected every day.

Ukraine is now trying to implement a new law whuch willl ban the mobilization of men under the age of 25. Support for the change was high, and the law is now on President Zelensky’s desk to be signed, although The President-with-the-pisno-playing-penis is likely to veto  the legislation as he now rules as an autocrat, his legitimate term of office having expired in the first half of this year. The coke snorting, cross dressing clown only remains in office because he cancelled elections, fearing defeat even though he had bnned all opposition candidates.

The act would prevent the mobilization of people aged 18-25 who have not completed military service or studied at military universities but fall under the status of so-called “limited usefulness.” This means a person who is not suitable for military service in times of peace due to their health condition but can be called up for service during war.

Another law, however, was passed back in April, whereby a soldier can no longer decide to end his service after 36 months, as had previously been allowed.

Meanwhile the always deluded and now clearly insane Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday and unveiled his latest so-called "victory plan," although there is little hope tha any of Ukraine’s Western backers will support his proposals.

Zelensky’s plan includes five points and three classified sections that he did not make public. The plan is essentially a list of demands that Zelensky has been making of the US and NATO for months. He claimed that if the plan was implemented, Ukraine "may be able to end the war no later than next year."

Most people in the west are aware the only way Ukraine can end this war is by surrendering, which they could do tomorrow, and probably would if NATO leaders told the neo Nazi cabal in Kiev, "No more money for you to stash in your Swiss bank accounts."

Zelensky addressing Ukrainian parliament (photo released by Zelensky’s office)

One of the points in this victory plan is for Ukraine to receive a formal invitation to join NATO, but  that is not going to happen in the near or distant future as it would, by brining NATO into direct conflict with Russia, make cities like Berlin, Rome, Paris and London legitimate targets for Moscows inter - continental ballistic missiles. Ukrainian neutrality has always been a key Russian demand for any peace deal. NATO membership is the red line which if crossed would trigger nuclear war.

The plan also calls for more air defense systems and for NATO countries to help shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine, which  again would mean direct NATO involvement in the war. NATO countries have previously rejected Ukrainian requests to intercept Russian missiles and drones.

Another point in the plan calls for support for Ukraine to use NATO-provided missiles to launch long-range strikes inside Russia, an escalation that would risk nuclear war. So far, the US and the UK have rejected Zelensky’s repeated request for help with long-range strikes.

Ukrainian MP Oleksii Honcharenko, a member of the European Solidarity party, criticized Zelensky’s plan. "First of all, it’s not a plan. Plan means something with concrete steps," he said, according to The Associated Press. "It’s kind of a wish list from Ukraine for our partners, how they can and should support us. And it doesn’t look realistic. We were waiting for some real serious conversation about the situation and the strategy, and this is not that."

Zelensky unveiled the plan as Russia continues to make advances in eastern Ukraine, a reality Honcharenko called "contradictory." Russia's foreign ministry responded by saying: "They need to sober up in Kiev."

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

In War Truth Is Always The First Casualty, And That Has Never Been Truer

 

Two weeks ago, when the Ukrainian army crossed the border into Russia's Kursk region, most well informed commentstors expected the Russia army to repel the Ukrainianexpeditionary force quickly. That did not happen because Russia did not pull troops back from the Donbas front to deal with the incursion but brought troops forward to establish a new battlefront in Kursk. This took several days and gave the Ukies time to dig in, which may have been exactly what The Kremlin hoped for

Though the size of the force Ukraine had made available for the operation was initially undrrestimated it is now thought to be a numberin the range of 10,000 to 30,000. And it now appears the Ukrainian army attack has been stopped though it is still trying to expand what it holds in the very rural area while Russia surrounds it with artillery and bombards the Ukie positions.

We do not know how much truth there is in any of this of course, but while mainstream media continues to parrot the "Ukraine is winning narrative," sources on X and Telegram and a few blogs such as Moon of Alabama and The Duran tell different stories of Ukraine taking heavy losses as their leaders run round like headless chickens.

Be that as it may - the operation, even at first when it seemed audacious enough to succeed in part at least, made no sense at all either strategically or politically and did not even deliver any useful propaganda.

It gave a temporary moral high to the Ukrainian army and may have given Zelenski and the British sponsors of this operation an opportunity to guilt trip the NATO allies into privinding more support to prolong the war.

Moon of Alabama: The plan in Kiev is not to negotiate but to prolong the war and to convince the west to further finance it. This would have the advantage of moving billions of additional dollar from western sources into the various pockets in Kiev with Zelenski and Yermak cashing in the largest share of it.

But all this comes at an enormous cost to the Ukrainian defense in Donbas where Russian forces are advancing ue to Ukrainian efenders having been withdrawn for the Kursk offensive, where they are no just cannon fodder for Moscow's guns.

So what are we to make of mainstream media reports telling us the UKies are still gaining ground in Kursk while Russian forces are retreating in chaos?

 CGW posts in a Daily Sceptic comment thread:

There is a pertinent article on pseudo-reporters from the Russian Foreign Ministry, dated 19th August. It regards the presence of western reporters in the Kursk region:

“ … criminal proceedings have been instituted against a number of such representatives from foreign media outlets for illegally crossing the state border of the Russian Federation. All such incidents are carefully recorded, and appropriate action will be taken against violators.

“From the journalistic perspective, these pseudo-reporters can only be regarded as traitors to the profession who have stooped as low as direct involvement in the fabrication and dissemination of Ukrainian Nazi propaganda. The nature of the stories published following their forays, including staged videos with Bandera followers holding POWs and civilians at gunpoint and interviews with militants openly flaunting Nazi stripes, clearly indicates the true purposes of this media operation on the occupied Russian lands – to whitewash the criminal Kiev regime, conceal the crimes it commits against the civilian population, further destabilise the information landscape by manipulating public opinion, rehabilitate Nazism and create enabling climate for the West’s continued support of the terrorist Kiev clique.

“It is quite telling that when such journalists are caught demonstrating Nazi symbols (which is a criminal offence even in their own countries), they scramble to remove or retouch the compromising content. For example, Ilario Piagnerelli, with the Italian state media Rai News, has expunged an interview with a neo-Nazi militant wearing an SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler cap from his social media accounts. The journalist did not even think of apologising for his actions, but simply removed the posts, as if nothing had happened. By these manipulations, he clearly showed no sign of sincere repentance for what he did.”

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Friday, December 22, 2023

Total Defeat Of Ukraine By Russia Is Only A Matter Of Time

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Financial Times columnist and founder member of the Vobblyvoddymyr Zelensky piano playing penis fan club, Gideon Rachman has a talent for stating the obvious which he displays in a recent article on the state of play in the Ukrainian conflict 'Ukraine and its backers need a credible path to victory - archived.  As the Financial Times is behind a paywall with no monthly allocation of free articles, below is a sommary of the most importyant section:

As Ukraine goes into the new year short of ammunition, money and diplomatic support, there is another important deficiency. The country and its western backers no longer have a convincing strategy for victory, if the ever truy did.
As 2023 the year of the Ukrainian counteroffensive's catatrophic failure, ends with Russia back in the ascendant, inflicting huge casualties on Ukraine's armed forces and gaining more territory fear are growing among Ukraine's erstwhile allies that  2024 will be the year that Russia overruns Ukraine and inflicts total defeat. The worst-case scenarios are that, if western aid is cut off, Ukraine could be in serious trouble by the summer.

Without a credible strategy and thus no apparent path to the promised victory, pressure on the Ukrainian regime to negotiate a settlement will continue to mount mount. The Ukrainians might make a deal even if it involved making territorial concessions  if they had any confidence that Russia would stick to it. But Ukrainian officials cite a litany of agreements that Putin has made and then broken. They believe that any cessation in the fighting would simply be used as an opportunity for Russia to rearm.

While most of the article is in line with what other mainstream media reports are concluding about Ukraine's likely fate, Rachman omits to list any agreements Russia is claimed to have broken. Does he mean the Minsk agreements brokered by former French President Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel which the Ukraine rejected to fulfill? Or is it the Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty that Ukraine in 2019 refused to renew?

Unlike the U.S. and its allies in the proxy was with Russia, The Kremlin sticks to its treaties.

But up to a point Rachman is right. There is currently no 'theory of victory' (to use his phrase) for Ukraine. In fact there never was and the only surprise is that so many in the west fell for the narrative that Ukraine was winning and if only the NATO allies would grant the Ukrainians enough aid in high tech and low tech weapons, support thechnology, ammunition, money, food, medicines, aircraft and troops on the ground Washington's goals in sponsoring the war, regime change in Moscow and the break up of the Russian federation could be achieved. The truth was, Ukraine could never win. Even if NATO had been willing to provide as history shoes us, air support and troops on the ground any conventional war with Russia The question now is how badly will Ukraine lose and how much territory will it have to cede to end the pointless slaughter of its young (and now not so young and even elderly) men?

On the Russian side, President Vladimir Putin has said:
"There will be peace when we achieve our goals, which you have mentioned. Now let’s return to these goals – they have not changed. I would like to remind you how we formulated them: denazification, demilitarisation, and a neutral status for Ukraine."

It is the guaranteed neutrality that has been the sticking point. This blog, as we often remind readers, reported in mid - 2022 that as early as April of that year when Turkey's President Erdogan had arranged peace talks between the combatant nations and Russia was willing to make peace in return for Ukrainian neutrality and guarantees on the security of Ukraine's breakaway Russian speaking provinces it was the USA and UK that blocked any negotations insisting that Ukraine must not negotiate and deal without prior approval from the USA.

Russia has made some progress toward those aims but not all have yet been achieved, in particular the European Union and NATO are stupidly still making noises about admitting Ukraine to their ranks. 

As long as this kind of idiocy goes on, Russsia will continue the war until the Ukraine agrees to some kind of negotiations territorial concessions and neutrality. If it does not do so anytime soon Russia will continue the now one sided conflict until Ukraine is completely crushed and can no longer function as a nation.

The Ukrainian outlet Strana has analyzed how that might happen (in Russian, machine translation):

Only a few events can bring Ukraine to the brink of complete defeat:

1. Capture of Kiev.

2. Cutting off Ukraine from the sea - the capture of the entire Black Sea coast of the country and the withdrawal of Russian troops to the borders of Romania and Moldova. This will be a catastrophic blow to Ukraine both economically and militarily-strategically.

3. The capture of Dnipro and Zaporizhia – the largest rear, industrial and logistics hubs of the Ukrainian army, which will mean a critical threat to the entire Southern Front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as most of the eastern one. ...

4. A strike from Belarus through the Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia regions with the aim of reaching Transdniestria from the north and maintaining control over this line.
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[T]he apocalyptic scenarios described above for Ukraine can only be realized if at least one of the following events occurs (we leave out the options for using nuclear weapons or entering the war on the side of the Russian Federation of large third countries, as they can lead to a world war, where there will be completely different scenarios):

1. A catastrophic drop in discipline and morale in the Ukrainian army, when entire units begin to surrender or leave their positions without orders, exposing large sections of the front.

2. Internal destabilization in Ukraine, acute conflict within the military-political leadership, loss of control by the authorities over the processes in the country, the collapse of the army management.

3. Falling to a critically low level of both military and financial aid from the West.

4. A sharp (much faster than similar actions of Ukraine) increase in Russia's army size, quality and quantity of weapons used, which will radically change the balance of forces at the front.

At the moment, none of these situations are observed.

However, Russia is obviously actively working to make these points a reality.

And that about sums up the situation.

Aid to Ukraine has fallen off a cliff as nations refuse to bankrupt themselves funding an unwinnable war. New aid from the U.S. or E.U. is seriously in doubt. If either fails to agree to donate new $£€billions or send more tanks, guns, missiles and vehicles the other will too. Additional problems come from the west where Polish truckers, now joined by farmers, continue to block the border crossings with Ukraine. Shortages in ammunition have already led Ukraine to scaling down its current operations.

Russia has increased the size of its army but still has more troops in reserve than on active duty in the war zone. With the economy on a war footing it produces way more weapons and ammunition than the Western allies combines can deliver to Ukraine.

Should Russia win and take over most of Ukraine it could negate Ukraine's debt, making the West pay double for its adventure.

That would be a just punishment on the USA for the Biden administration's failure to dismantle Russia.

 

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Sunday, July 02, 2023

Just Another Day In Bizarro World: Colonel Forced Out Of TheArmy For Saying 'Men Cannot Be Women'

 Just when you think the tide is turning against all the woke, transgender fuckwittery and taking a few tentative steps back towards sanity along comes the army, probably the whackest woke breaucracy anywhere.

A colonel has said he was forced to quit the Army after he was criticised for stating that “men cannot be women”. The Telegraph has the story.

Dr Kelvin Wright, 54, had been a Reservist commanding officer with 14 years’ unblemished service, including two tours in Afghanistan, before his “honour was attacked” with a transphobia complaint and an investigation he described as “hellish”.

In May, he shared a post on his private Facebook account from Fair Play for Women, a campaign group that works with governing bodies to preserve women’s sport for those born female, which consisted of a quote from Helen Joyce, a feminist campaigner backed by the author J.K. Rowling.

The quote, shared without any additional comment, said: “If women cannot stand in a public place and say ‘men cannot be women’, then we do not have women’s rights at all.”

 A junior officer was triggered by this outrageous example of common sense (or hate speech as the woke wankers prefer to call it,) to warn his or their, (depending on the soldier's preferred pronouns,) superior officer that such gender-critical views were at odds with Ministry of woke, inclusive, non - binary Defence position on transgenderism on the front line. The warning in turn triggered what Dr. Wright calls the Army’s “LGBT champions” to draw up a seven-page dossier about his “substandard behaviour” – which he was not allowed to see.

Dr. Wright, who led a team of 60 troops in 306 Hospital Support Regiment alongside working as an NHS intensive care consultant, has this month felt forced to retire six years earlier than planned, slashing his total Army pension in the process. He is being supported by the Free Speech Union, which has appointed an employment barrister to defend him, as the investigation is still ongoing.

Just another day in Clown World, where sane folk are persecuted for stating biological facts. This article is about transgender people serving in the U.S forces. I mean, whatever next? Women being in control of their own reproductive systems?

A retired U.S. Army officer Major Hopewell, who was awarded the Bronze Star as a prescribing psychologist in Operation Iraqi Freedom, was asked to write about the issue for Combat Stress magazine. Under the Biden administration, the U.S. Army changed its rules in 2021 to allow those with gender dysphoria—confusion and distress over biological sex—to serve.
Gender identity would “no longer be a basis for involuntary separation or military discharge, denied reenlistment or continuation of service, or subjected to adverse action or mistreatment,” according to an explanation of the policy changes on the U.S. Army website.

As a neuropsychologist able to write prescriptions, Hopewell spent much of his career determining if soldiers were fit to serve in the Army.

Though the military is allowing transgender personnel, it appears no studies have been done on how the prescription drugs they need to maintain a “gender transition” may impact combat readiness, he said.

As a general rule, Army soldiers who need more sophisticated health monitoring cannot be deployed on a mission to a place where medical access is limited, he said.

Medications that transgender patients need could even cause health and mental problems, he said. Testosterone, the male hormone used to help women appear more masculine, has been connected to “roid rage,” characterized by sudden outbursts of intense anger.

Transgender patients take “massive” doses of testosterone or estrogen, cross-sex hormones that disrupt the entire physical system of the body and the brain function, he said.”

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Colonel Dr. Wright told the Telegraph:

This attack on my honour made my position completely untenable. I could no longer remain in an Army which treated its officers with such disrespect. What message does it send to women in the Army, that merely for noting the existence of women and women’s rights even a colonel can be placed under investigation?

Whether it is this soldier being hounded out of the army, Nigel Farage having his bank accounts shut down or some academic being sacked from a university for saying the COVID vaccines are not  safe or effective and should be investigated, people are drawing up reports and making comments on other people and the people concerned are not being shown these reports and comments. This is the stuff of tyranny and oppression, 1984 was supposed to be a warning not a handbook on how to do it!

The decisions made by our increasingly disreputable institutions are having effects as devastating as those of any judge in a court of law. And yet these decisions are not subject to cross examination, scrutiny, witness statements or any sort of fact or reality check.

The right to a trial by jury dates back centuries, even before it was enshrined in law by the Magna Carta which stated that a freeman should not be imprisoned without the lawful judgment of his peers.

These actions by the army over this guys statement of the utterly and absofuckinglutely obvious, these actions by the Banks over Farage’s accounts, the whole cancel culture and other exa,ples of woke tyranny are completely counter to our rights as set out in the Magna Carta and the Geneva Conventions. The fact that our MPs, judges and journalists are supine on this issue indicates how far we have sunk into authoritarianism, I am afraid we do not need an election, we need a revolution.

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Friday, March 25, 2022

Niall Ferguson On Misunderstanding History: "Biden Is Making A Colossal Mistake"

 

Authored by Niall Ferguson, op-ed via Bloomberg.com,

Biden is making a colossal mistake in thinking he can bleed Russia dry, topple Putin and signal to China to keep its hands off Taiwan...

“The language people speak in the corridors of power,” former Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter once observed, “is not economics or politics. It is history.”

In a recent academic article, I showed how true this was after both the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001 and the “9/15” bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Policy makers used all kinds of historical analogies as they reacted. “The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today,” President George W. Bush noted in his diary, late on the night of the attacks, to give just one example, though many other parallels were drawn in the succeeding days, from the Civil War to the Cold War.

Seven years later, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and New York Fed President Tim Geithner were the first members of the Federal Open Market Committee to appreciate that, without drastic measures, they risked re-running the Great Depression.

What kind of history is informing today’s decisions in Washington as the war in Ukraine nears the conclusion of its first month? A few clues have emerged.

“American officials are divided on how much the lessons from Cold War proxy wars, like the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan, can be applied to the ongoing war in Ukraine,” David Sanger reported for the New York Times on Saturday.

According to Sanger, who cannot have written his piece without high-level sources, the Biden administration “seeks to help Ukraine lock Russia in a quagmire without inciting a broader conflict with a nuclear-armed adversary or cutting off potential paths to de-escalation … CIA officers are helping to ensure that crates of weapons are delivered into the hands of vetted Ukrainian military units, according to American officials. But as of now, Mr. Biden and his staff do not see the utility of an expansive covert effort to use the spy agency to ferry in arms as the United States did in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union during the 1980s.”

Reading this carefully, I conclude that the U.S. intends to keep this war going. The administration will continue to supply the Ukrainians with anti-aircraft Stingers, antitank Javelins and explosive Switchblade drones. It will keep trying to persuade other North Atlantic Treaty Organization governments to supply heavier defensive weaponry. (The latest U.S. proposal is for Turkey to provide Ukraine with the sophisticated S-400 anti-aircraft system, which Ankara purchased from Moscow just a few years ago. I expect it to go the way of the scuttled plan for Polish MiG fighters.) Washington will revert to the Afghanistan-after-1979 playbook of supplying an insurgency only if the Ukrainian government loses the conventional war.

I have evidence from other sources to corroborate this. “The only end game now,” a senior administration official was heard to say at a private event earlier this month, “is the end of Putin regime. Until then, all the time Putin stays, [Russia] will be a pariah state that will never be welcomed back into the community of nations. China has made a huge error in thinking Putin will get away with it. Seeing Russia get cut off will not look like a good vector and they’ll have to re-evaluate the Sino-Russia axis. All this is to say that democracy and the West may well look back on this as a pivotal strengthening moment.”

I gather that senior British figures are talking in similar terms. There is a belief that “the U.K.’s No. 1 option is for the conflict to be extended and thereby bleed Putin.” Again and again, I hear such language. It helps explain, among other things, the lack of any diplomatic effort by the U.S. to secure a cease-fire.  It also explains the readiness of President Joe Biden to call Putin a war criminal.

Now, I may be too pessimistic. I would very much like to share Francis Fukuyama’s optimism that “Russia is heading for an outright defeat in Ukraine.” Here is his bold prediction from March 10 (also here):

The collapse of their position could be sudden and catastrophic, rather than happening slowly through a war of attrition. The army in the field will reach a point where it can neither be supplied nor withdrawn, and morale will vaporize. … Putin will not survive the defeat of his army … A Russian defeat will make possible a “new birth of freedom,” and get us out of our funk about the declining state of global democracy. The spirit of 1989 will live on, thanks to a bunch of brave Ukrainians.

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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Eastern Europe Sold Down The River By brussels Euronazis


Defense and foreign ministers from 23 European Union countries signed up to a plan to establish the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), which will allow countries to cooperate more closely on security operations and building up military capability.


EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini described the signing of PESCO as a "historic moment in European defense."


The decision to launch PESCO indicates Europe's move towards self-sufficiency in defense matters instead of relying solely on NATO. The EU, however, also stressed that PESCO is complimentary to NATO, in which 22 of the EU's 28 countries are members.


NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the launch, saying that he saw it as an opportunity to "strengthen the European pillar within NATO." Stoltenberg had previously urged European nations to increase their defense budget.


"I'm a firm believer of stronger European defense, so I welcome PESCO because I believe that it can strengthen European defense, which is good for Europe but also good for NATO," Stoltenberg said.



This can only underline what an enormous threat to world peace and national sovereignty the EU has become and how right Brtish voters were to vote for Brexit. The EU is no longer an economivc union, it is on the way to becoming an authoritarian, InterNational Socialist Empire. If we remind you of a story run by the left wing and staunchly pro EU newspaper The Guardian during the referendum campaign:



The Guardian now claims they simply got it wrong. If they did they are a bunch of incompetent wankers who should not be running a news organization because EU Commission President, Jean Claude Juncker, European Council president Donald Tusk and President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz were all on record as having stated that an EU army was essentiale. More likely however is that jouranists and editors did what lefties always do when face with inconvenient truths. THEY LIED.


Leader of this push for pan - Euroipean militarism is the usual suspect whenever world domination ambitions are mentioned. Yes, Germany Is Quietly Building A European Army Under Its Command


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... populist social conservatives are regularly topping the polls across the Europe, but have been victims of EU orchestrated stitch ups to keep them out of power and ddeny the democratic will, in France, Sweden, Holland, and now Austria – and anti-migrant populists are already in power in Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Mr. Junker’s definition of “far right” is somewhat broad, noted by him previously describing Hungary’s conservative president, Viktor Orbán, as a "fascist".


EU Vows To Use Powers To Block All Elected ‘Far Right’ Politicians From Power

... populist social conservatives are regularly topping the polls across the Europe, but have been victims of EU orchestrated stitch ups to keep them out of power and ddeny the democratic will, in France, Sweden, Holland, and now Austria – and anti-migrant populists are already in power in Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Mr. Junker’s definition of “far right” is somewhat broad, noted by him previously describing Hungary’s conservative president, Viktor Orbán, as a "fascist".


The Labour Case For Brexit by Kate Hoey M.P.

After my short intro is a savage indictment by Brexit supporting Labour MP Kate Hoey of the way the Labour Party has abandoned the working class and is now trying to betray the party's proud heritage and its roots in the industrial areas by taking Britain into an undemocratic, corporate controlled, capitalist friendly, elite dominated globalist control freak project.


EU's Bureaucratic Dictatorship Is Losing The Support Of The Most Loyal Nations

When the unelected bureaucrats of the European Union Commission decided, without consulting member states, to comply with the wishes of the warmongering rent - boy in The White House and impose sanctions on Russia, after Vladimir Putin ordered the annexation of Crimea (to prevent the US backed neo - fascist government in Kiev carrying out a genocide of ethnic Russians in Crimea,) the idiotic goons were as usual duped into doing Washington's dirty work.


Orban Blames Liberal Babble For Europe’s Decay

Europe, so many years after the Cold War, is ideologically divided into a new East and a West. This time, the schism is over multiculturalism. What Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has termed “liberal babble” continues to govern Western Europe’s response to the challenges that migration and Islamic terrorism have brought, especially to personal security. … Continue reading



Cameron's Hopes For EU Membership Reforms For UK Torpedoed By Tusk

David Cameron’s hopes of winning serious concessions on sovereignty, border controls, contributions, trade agreements, human rights and labour laws so he could claim to have won a better deal for Britain by the time the in / out referendum starts next year European Union suffered an early blow when European Council President Donald Tusk warned that reaching a deal would be “very tough” ...


EU tiring of confrontation with Putin.

Huge reversal: the EU seeks a normal relationship with Russia. It seems that the EU is being greatly affected by the actions of Vladimir Putin in Syria: suddenly the EU President Jean-Claude Junker is saying that the EU must not let the US dictate their relationship with Russia.


Disillusionment With EU Grows as Swedish Support Slumps By 30%

A new opinion poll carried out on support for the European Union in Sweden has produced some shock findings as a massive turnround among Swedish voters probably due to mass immigration and migrant related crime waves in cities. From being one of the most solidly pro-EU member states, Sweden now has a substantial majority against membership of the EU.


Fears Over Threat To Sovereignty Could Wreck EU European Army Plan

No they're not Star Wars Imperial Stormtroopers, they are German soldiers assigned to an international peacekeeping force, showing how like Imperial Stormtroopers a pan European army might look (Image source)


The Real Refugee Crisis Is In The Future
Perhaps Angela Merkel thought we didn’t yet know how full of it she is. Perhaps that’s why she said yesterday with regards to Europe’s refugee crisis that “Everything must move quickly,” only to call an EU meeting a full two weeks later. That announcement show one thing: Merkel doesn’t see this as a crisis. If she did, she would have called for such a meeting a long time ago, and not some point far into the future.


A Perfect Metaphor For The Spread Of Islamic Extremism In Europe

Saw this in an online comment thread and it struck me as a perfect analogy for the way Europe’s ruling elite have, for the sake of earning politically correct brownie points from Washington and The United Nations, allowed and even encouraged the spread of Islamic extremism throughout Europe, to the extent at Islamist violence and … Continue reading



Armed Forces Minister: Obama ‘Woefully Ignorant’ of Threat EU Membership Poses

Referring to a statement Mr Obama made in the Telegraph on Friday in which he said: “The European Union doesn’t moderate British influence – it magnifies it,” she responded: “Unfortunately this opinion betrays a woeful ignorance of the practical reality of the EU’s impact on our security, and the interests of the U.K. and the US.”