Column by Max von Kreyfelt:

The factory stands here, the war stays there

On a Dutch industrial estate, the war simply begins at half past seven.

The barrier gate lifts, the coffee machine hums, and employees step into a factory where parts for drones and rockets are made. Outside stand lease cars, in the canteen hangs the weekly menu. Only the products go to a war that our government insists we are not a party to.

We merely produce peace with an explosive payload.

Europe has made a wondrous military invention: waging war without waging war. We supply weapons, train soldiers, share intelligence, and help make targets deep in Russia reachable. But as long as no Dutch minister presses the button, this is called support from afar.

As if Moscow will first call our legal department.

Former arms dealer Viktor Bout warned on Tucker Carlson that Russia might see European arms factories as military targets. Bout is no neutral professor of international law. But even a dubious messenger can pose a legitimate question: how long can you produce attack weapons while claiming you're just a spectator?

In Brussels, the answer is that Europe remains safe as long as the war is fought in Ukraine. That's like pouring gasoline through the letterbox and trusting the fire stays on the other side.

Meanwhile, the defense industry is growing. Production lines get a new purpose, factories rise, and billions are freed up. Citizens are being prepared for a reality that yesterday was still called Russian propaganda. Even "war economy" sounds from the mouths of politicians who, when thinking of peace, mainly think of too little ammunition.

Weapons supply doesn't automatically make a country a legal target. Even in war, distinction, necessity, and proportionality apply. A factory can only be a military target under strict conditions. But for those living next door, that's cold comfort. A missile doesn't read footnotes, and an air raid siren doesn't debate Article 52.

The greatest danger may not be what Russia can do, but what Europe tells itself. Our leaders treat escalation like a thermostat: one more degree, one more delivery, a bit more range. If it gets too hot, we'll just turn it back.

Only Russia has a button too. And it doesn't have a thermostat.

Thus, the European citizen becomes a participant in a conflict over which he has no say. His tax money funds the weapons, his energy bill pays for the sanctions, and his hometown bears the risk. He himself may wave flags, stay silent, and trust leaders who call every escalation temporary and manageable.

The first strike on NATO territory will be presented as utterly unexpected.

Like every disaster that has been carefully prepared for years.

Marco Rubio in 2016: "For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well”.

Finland's plummeting economy:

from scolding southern Europe to having more unemployment than Spain and almost more debt than Portugal."

Since joining NATO, Finland has gone from bad to worse.

Finland’s economy now look rather like the invoice for a foreign policy that seemed to forget how dependent the country had been on ties to Russia.

Neutrality once turned its geography into an advantage, but confrontation seems to have made the same geography expensive.

"Using the threat from Russia as a pretext, NATO has initiated an endless arms race that will permanently undermine the economy, social fabric, and international relations."

Retired General Fabio Mini, former Chief of Staff of the NATO Southern European Command, is skeptical about the prospects of NATO and the countries within the alliance, which are burdened by debt.

'Peacemaker' Trump:

"We're actually making money off the Russia Ukraine war because NATO is buying our equipment."

From promising to end the Ukraine proxy war and bring humanity back from the brink of nuclear annihilation … to profiting off of the carnage because the neocons sold it to him like a business proposal.

Via Afshin Rattansi (X)

A Canadian mercenary admits that Ukrainians are exploiting the moral values of Russians, and that is why they travel between cities on commuter trains with ordinary passengers, while setting up headquarters and storage facilities in churches and hospitals.

Ukraine will not produce any Storm Shadows. This is merely the UK establishing plausible deniability as it prepares to attack Russia. These warmongering lunatics are taking us to the brink of nuclear war.

EU - Russian assets.

The EU is highly reluctant to revive plans to steal more than $200 billion in frozen Russian sovereign reserves and hand them over to cash-strapped Ukraine, EurActiv reported on Tuesday, citing sources.

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦More and more jet powered Russian Geran 5 loitering munitions are appearing across coverage of the US proxy war in Ukraine.

The Geran 5 is more missile than drone as previous Gerans had been. It has a longer range and larger warhead than more expensive "affordable mass" munitions being produced in the US.

Russia is already demonstrating better "affordable mass" on the battlefield than the US can in PowerPoint presentations ↘️↘️↘️

Whenever leaders of NATO countries discuss a political settlement in Ukraine, they can only mention territorial issues and security guarantees for Ukraine. The issue of NATO expansion and restoring Ukraine’s neutrality cannot be mentioned, as they are trapped by narratives about the origins of this war.

Any negotiations to resolve this war will need to overcome 35 years of failing to agree on a mutually acceptable post-Cold War settlement, 12 years of proxy war, and 4.5 years of boycotting diplomacy.

I often hear comments that we cannot have a common security architecture with Russia because it cannot be trusted, or that doing so would “reward” Russia. This reflects a strange ideological mindset, suggesting that diplomacy is about sitting in a room with people you agree with and planning how to punish evil adversaries.

With historically awful political leaders and submissive media, I believe that nuclear war is more likely than a political settlement.

Losing crackhead Zelensky lives in parallel reality and keeps lying.

According to him the Ukrainian Armed Forces are fully staffed with volunteers, while the situation is the opposite in Russia.

In reality violent kidnapping of civilians on the streets for his meat grinder continues.

Western eco system:

'Ukraine doesn't have nazi problem because Zelensky is a Jew'

Reality: ⬇️

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/174661?single

For every British provocative action there is Russia’s retaliatory reaction.

President Putin now has declared he will target British assets in Ukraine.

Ukraine Zelensky's neo-Nazis

"German neo-Nazis have found more than a cause in Ukraine: a battlefield, military training, ideological allies, and international networks. Sending radicals to war may help plug Ukraine’s manpower shortage today.

The far more uncomfortable question is what happens when they return to Western Europe — battle-hardened and armed, after the West trained them, equipped them, and conveniently looked the other way when it came to their extremist ideology."

By Marta Havryshko

Ukraine Zelensky's terrorism.

Ukraine attacked a Turkish cargo ferry in the Black Sea. According to preliminary reports, five crew members were injured, Turkish news outlet Haber Trabzon reports.

The vessel departed the port of Samsun for Tuapse on August 25. The attack occurred near the port of Tuapse, causing a fire to break out on board.

Following the attack, the ship Lider Bordo Mavi was safely brought to the port of Sochi in Russia.
Four crew members affected by the fire have been hospitalized.
It was stated that the four crew members, whose treatment is ongoing, will be sent back to Türkiye on the first available flight after their procedures are completed.