APOCALYPTIC BLINDNESS - Patrik Baab on the rise of European militarism

“The European Union and Brussels is nothing else than a transmission belt of NATO. And this is part of warfare. They want to implement censorship, a complete censorship in the European Union [via the Digital Services Act] to prepare the population for an upcoming war against Russia. Those people want war, and they want war in the next years… People in Germany are in a state of apocalyptic blindness. They could see what's coming up, but they don't want to see.

[Europe is] mobilizing Russiaphobia - and this is a sort of racism in my mind. And they want to press millions of Western European people into a war against Russia, because the United States wants to European-ise the war in Ukraine. They want to focus on [their] fight against China. So the European vassals have to take over the job. And they invested so [much] money in the Ukraine war, more than €1 trillion. They made so many debts that these debts cannot be paid back in peace times. They need war. This is the only option Western European elites have.

As the head of the Netherlands, the Dutch government, Mark Rutte signed contracts with the Ukrainian government and with the company Shell, in the zero years, for the exploration of the gas fields in eastern Ukraine, and they invested billions of dollars, huge contracts. But now these regions are in the hands of the Russian Federation and there is no return of investment… they need new collateral for ‘mad’ loans.

And this collateral over the credit is the Russian gas fields, the Russian oil, the Russian minerals, rare earth and all that. So first they want to occupy and to win Ukraine, and then they want to break up Russia, to make the financial system go again… The banks are facing a new great banking crisis. If they cannot get new collateral for their loans, for all the loans, they need a return of investment. And they cannot get this return of investment in peace times. They speculated on Ukrainian minerals, but they don't have it because it's occupied by the Russian Federation. And they speculate to occupy Russia to get their hands on the Russian minerals.”

Patrik Baab, German journalist