14 Replies to “Down The Primrose Path”

  1. Kremlin has been been financing watermelons in Europe and North America for along time. It is a part of their long term strategy going back decades well into Cold War. They were also buying every European politician they could Schröder is the best known example, also just a tip of the iceberg.

  2. In the period 1907-1914 Germany completed the widening of the Kiel canal. (Original was completed 1895) This would have allowed the Germans to trade freely throughout the the Baltic lands, without the necessity of using the the Denmark straits, and paying tribute to the British patrolled North Sea.

    Germany celebrates widening of the Kiel canal in 1914, allowing transit of dreadnought warships between Baltic and North Seas
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09WGU9USriI

    Within two weeks of completion, WWI was on…

    https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher
    “In 1908, John Fisher predicted that war between Britain and Germany would occur in October 1914, which later proved accurate, basing his statement on the projected completion date of the Kiel Canal, which Germany needed to move its warships safely from the Baltic to the North Sea.”

    This is again happening:

    https://deme-group.com/news/joint-venture-including-deme-awarded-contract-kiel-canal-widening-germany#:~:text=The%20eastern%20part%20of%20the,is%20important%20for%20international%20shipping.

    Now the completion of the Nordstream 2 pipeline, created another free trade between Germany and Russian once again in a very eerie historical echo in the current time frame.

    But who reads history these days? What could possibly go wrong?

    Free trade between Germany and Russia, can’t have that… And once again the artillery opens up.

    I believe Count De Monet was a man ahead of his time! 🙂

    Cheers

    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  3. Why wouldn’t Gazprom finance the long-term dependency of Europe on Russia?

    They obviously have a strategy that extends more than twenty minutes into the future.

  4. “Related…”

    We click on the link and we get the dramatic headline:

    “Europe’s powers gave Ukraine no new military pledges in July, data shows”

    Meanwhile back in the real world:

    https://www.forumarmstrade.org/ukrainearms.html
    July

    On Friday July 29, Germany announced the donation of 16 Biber bridge-layer tanks to Ukraine on top of the recent howitzer announcement (see media). North Macedonia announced they would send soviet-era tanks of an unknown quantity to Ukraine (see media).

    On Wednesday July 27, Germany announced a sale of 100 tank howitzers to Ukraine, reportedly worth 1.7 billion euros (see news).

    On Friday, July 22, the United States announced $270 million in additional security assistance for Ukraine (see US Department of Defense news, factsheet).

    On Thursday July 21, the United Kingdom announced they would send 50,000 artillery shells, artillery guns, drones, and more anti-tank weapons to Ukraine numbering the hundreds (see UK government resource). Lithuania announced it would send M113 and M577 armored personnel carriers and ammunition to Ukraine (see media source).

    On Wednesday July 20, the United States announced four more additional HIMARS would be sent to Ukraine, totalling 16 HIMARS sent to Ukraine by the United States (see US Department of Defense news).

    On Monday July 18, the European Union announced an additional 500 million euros in military aid to Ukraine (see media source).

    On Monday July 11, Netherlands Prime Minister stated they would provide “heavy weapons, armored vehicles and self-propelled howitzers” to Ukraine (see news).

    On Friday July 8, the United States announced $400 million in aid to Ukraine. This drawdown package included four additional HIMARS, precision artillery rounds, 126 155mm Howitzers, 20 Mi-17 helicopters, and numerous other munitions, systems, and other materials (see Department of Defense factsheet, news, and press release). ​

    On Monday July 4, upon a visit to Kyiv, Australia’s Prime Minister announced they would pledge $68 million to Ukraine, which would include drones and 34 armored vehicles (see media source).

    On Friday July 1, the United States announced an additional $820 million to Ukraine. This aid is set to include HIMARS ammunition, two Surface-to-air Missile Systems (NASAMS), four counter-artillery radar systems, as well as 155m artillery ammunition (see US Department of Defense press release).

      1. You mean, you do not want factual corrections, relevant to the cited articles to be posted here?

        1. What will you do once Ukraine surrenders and is partitioned? Will the cognitive dissonance destroy what’s left of your mind?

    1. Why did you include US, UK and Australian “announcements” on that list?

      Try to keep your feverish copy-pasting at least marginally relevant.

      1. To give an ulcer to those who like you, who when their dream point is compulsively debunked become pedantic while ignoring that they have already lost the argument.

  5. “Hard to find much U.S. media on how Nord Stream 2 was finished under weight of U.S. sanctions.”

    Simple Answer. The Nord Stream 2 was finished AFTER F. Joe Biden removed the Trump initiated sanctions in May 2021. The Stupid Senile B@st@rd has done all he could to stop every other pipeline from Keystone XL to the Israeli-Cyprus-Europe Natural Gas Pipeline. Every other pipeline EXCEPT the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 Pipeline.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-waive-sanctions-firm-ceo-behind-russias-nord-stream-2-pipeline-source-2021-05-19/

    Who is the Russian Stooge?

    1. Even after Russia was getting feisty with Ukraine in December 2021, F. Joe fought his own party to prevent any sanctions on the Nord Stream 2.

      “Biden’s push against sanctions on Russia’s pipeline puts Democrats in a bind”

      https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/bidens-push-sanctions-russias-pipeline-puts-democrats-bind-rcna7263

      Who is the Russian Stooge?

      Want to bet F. Joe stiffs WV Senator Joe Manchin on his pledge to support the WV Gas Pipeline that Joe Manchin horse-traded to Biden for Manchin’s vote for the “Inflation (NON) Reduction Act?

      1. That’s not even a bet, that’s guaranteed. Manchin is the biggest sucker in the last twenty years. Sacrificed his integrity and his seat in Congress just so he could be one of the cool kids.

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