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NATO is a Farce, Part 8: Europe Builds Its Own “Military Industrial Complex”
The EU is poised to leverage its authoritarian power to become a self-financed supranational entity that more closely resembles a “United States of Europe”.
This is another instalment that focusses primarily on Europe. This article exposes how the EU’s transatlantic Neocons are scheming to create their own Military Industrial Complex that is independent of — but complementary to — that of the United States.
The apparent goal of this “master plan” is to allow Europe to wage war on Russia while the US devotes itself to defeating China.
But this move also has a more sinister by-product: the establishment and direct funding of an EU-level military industrial complex will empower the technocrats in Brussels to consolidate power and become more like the US Federal Government in Washington, but without even the appearance of “democracy”.
The changing nature of NATO demands EU action
As I described in the first article in this series, “NATO is a Dangerous Farce — and We All Know It”, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has changed drastically since the end of the Cold War and the fall of…
