Afghanistan without the visuals: It is all NATO’s Fault

This looks like Afghanistan without the visuals but people are running next to the airplanes while the airplanes are trying to escape.

The United States intends to transfer leadership of the defense campaign in Ukraine to NATO – writes @neinsider

If @neinsider is correct here and by and large I think so, the hegemon has chosen West Asia and the South China Sea as their next adventure, economic or military or a fusion. Russia is proving to be too tough a nut to crack and somehow they think China will be easier, at this stage. This is erroneous but, it is their thinking. Also, bear in mind that Stoltenberg is ‘noising’ about ‘preparing’ the European Union’s Nukes. I am not very sure what he means and I wonder if he knows.

Read this bearing in mind Pepe Escobar’s exposition of how the collective west and the EU and the US want to transfer the income from Russia’s frozen assets, at the end of his latest column: Hegemon orders Europe: bet on war and steal Russia’s money).

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@Neinsider states:

Last week, the US agreed to a plan to make NATO responsible for efforts to arm and train the Ukrainian military, marking the beginning of a gradual US distance from military control in Ukraine. It is noteworthy that this happened before the signing of a security agreement between the United States and Ukraine.

Ed Note:  The Biden/Zelensky so-called security agreement is a dead letter as Zelensky has no status to enter into agreements such as this. In fact, Biden can cancel that, whenever he wants.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, speaking at the start of a two-day ministerial conference on Thursday, said defense chiefs had gathered in Brussels to put the finishing touches on the concept, which is expected to be finalized at NATO’s July summit in Washington.

Ed Note:  A new NATO leader, widely expected to be the Netherlands PM Mark Rutte would also be in the Chair and Stoltenberg can escape while pretending he prepared all of this as a NATO platform and he feels he can look good and leave a legacy.   Europe or the EU mainly can feel that they are taking their own defense firmly into their own hands, not realizing they are being led by the nose.

In recent months, there has been a move at NATO headquarters to take control of the initiative that was launched by the Pentagon, and there are real prospects that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s initiative group, also known as the Ramstein group, could be disbanded. Meanwhile, NATO’s new plan will have implications for the US-led initiative at Army Europe headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, which has been Ukraine’s main military equipment center since 22.

The Security Assistance Group for Ukraine, known as “SAG-U” (USAF), and created by the Americans in 2022 at the headquarters of the US European Command in Stuttgart, will be transferred to Wiesbaden, remaining under the leadership of EUCOM General Christopher Cavoli, and the General himself instead positions in the US Armed Forces will take a position within the NATO senior command.

The idea of ​​holding NATO responsible arose in April, when Stoltenberg floated the idea at a meeting of the alliance’s defense ministers. At the time, Washington was deadlocked over defense spending and lawmakers were divided over future arms support for Ukraine. Within the alliance, the situation has raised concerns about the reliability of American support for Ukraine, as well as interest within NATO in taking on a larger role.

“We certainly appreciate what the United States and other allies have done. This is unprecedented. At the same time, we saw that the United States spent six months agreeing on additional measures for Ukraine.” – Stoltenberg stated.

All this, and especially Stoltenberg’s initiative, looks like an attempt to wrap up in a beautiful package the fact that in July at the summit in Washington, the Americans will point out to the Europeans that a further war will come at their expense, and will remind them of the notorious 2.5% of GDP for the maintenance of NATO (which many did not pay), but these expenses will also be controlled by the Americans, in the person of General Cavoli. And there will be American weapons, only now exclusively with European funds. It is planned to create a relief fund with a minimum limit of $100 billion, the money to which will be sent by the member countries of the alliance, but not by the United States.
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Ed Note:  Finally, The war conference on Ukraine (a.k.a. “The Piss Summit”), which took place in Bürgenstock, was not peace negotiations. A peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict requires Russia to be at the negotiating table.  ️This was stated by the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

What a change!

Can you see the planes taking off and the Europeans running next to them to try and hold on to a strut or something to safeguard themselves?