NATO's Admiral Rob Bauer
A completely outdated militarist mindset and worldview that can only convince the existing believers in the NATO church
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Jan Oberg
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No, in all fairness, the NATO Admiral did not say that NATO should contemplate a ‘preemptive strike’ on Russia - as has been reported quite widely.
But how interesting that he can utter so many black-and-white banalities and the organisers of this seminar are able to discuss this for more than an hour (full video below) and not mention the Biden Administration’s clearly changed policies that Ukraine can now use weapons (that can only be used effectively with NATO technical assistance) to strike targets inside Russia.
As expected, he wants to turn the European economies into war economies and 3% of GDP is the least we can do as an “investment” in our security. Excuse me, what did the European pay to before, the Admiral admitting that NATO is not up to it?
He also has fantastic or fantasy-like ideas about Asia, North Korea and China in particular. He uses an old trick to ‘prove’ that Gorbachev was never promised that NATO would not expand and that its expansion has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine (it was, thus, unprovoked). He must know that he is lying.
He even believes that he can convince his audience that NATO has not expanded! What? Yes, it has only received countries which, at free will, wanted so dearly to join. I mean, he seems to believe this himself.
The discussion, of course, cannot address the fact that NATO, according to its Treaty, has nothing to do in Ukraine or, for that matter, had nothing to do in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
The organizer of this revealingly embarrassing event - or militarist kakistocratic show, the European Policy Center in Bruxelles - has only invited media people who ask supportive questions and the Center’s chief economist and policy analyst both ask friendly questions, the latter being very eager to emphasise that he does not disagree with the Admiral but that he is only reporting that there are - well - someone out there in the larger world who sees NATO and the war in Ukraine in a slightly different perspective…
So, if you want to see a video that proves the point I have made for a long time - that Western leaders/decision-makers operate with ‘groupthink’ inside a preferred, convenient narrative divorced from the reality most of us see - and that this is damn dangerous - this is the one to see!
This Admiral Bauer - “Farmer” - will be a leading decision maker when it comes to war or peace in Europe… Read more about this man who has been in the military - and only there - since he was 19.
Perhaps that is why he comes across as so manifestly narrow-minded and delusional?
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PS If you watch it on YouTube, note how few viewers there are and that - while quite a few may be Russians - the huge majority of those commenting are strongly negative.
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