Prospect Of War Goes Nonsensical

Historical record is so clear, only idiots ignore

• The Anti-War coalition is no longer opinion, it is the only sane voice

• German rearmament is unjustified, warlike and destructive

• Ethnicity be damned — stand for what’s right.

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See also:
Nazi Bargain And The Post-War Order - Part 1: Did the WW2 settlement cloak plans to revive the fascist project? (Oct 27, 2021)
Quandt And The Post-War Order - Part 2: Did the WW2 settlement cloak plans to revive the fascist project? (Oct 28, 2021)

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Mar 26, 2025

Some people are moved to stand with Ukraine; others take a more dispassionate, analytical view. What none should ignore, however, is the beating of drums for a broader, longer war.

To quote the strategist Martin Armstrong:

“We gotta basically just tell the truth to everybody so that they wake up and look at what's going on out there because I've never seen the mainstream media lie so much.”

Practically every politician is ignoring the economic problems at home and pointing the finger "over there," to Trump in the White House planning to take over Canada; to Putin in his bunker plotting to take over Europe.

They say that Europe can and should take on Russia without the United States, yet at the same time warn that Europe is doomed if Ukraine falls.

The chief of Germany's federal intelligence service, the BND. Bruno Kahl, told Deutsche Welle on March 9 that if the war in Ukraine ends before 2029 or 2030, Russia will pose a threat to Europe.

In other words, the war must continue for another five years while they rebuild their weapons factories power plants.

Clearly there is a calculation here. The mainstream press won't examine it. Which is why you're at Moneycircus.

Germany's incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is not the first to propose rebooting the economy based on military production.

Economics minister Robert Habeck of the Green Party commissioned a study in 2022 that called for a strategic coordination unit to manage the funding of key technologies in the German defence industry.

The German Economic Institute (IW) found investment flows into already developed competencies like naval and vehicle construction and sensors, but not into high potential areas like electronic warfare, command and control software, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, and artificial intelligence.

The security and defence industry was lacking in "high quality technology" and none of these sectors was based in eastern Germany.

Research was done in-house at Rheinmetall, KMW and their supplier. There was no ecosystem of startups in the defence sector. [1]

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Habeck launched a €100 billion fund to kickstart military investment but without much success.

Military Keynesianism

Those with a historical perspective are using the phrase "military Keynesianism" and comparing with the rearming of Germany in the 1930s.

Hjalmar Schacht, Reich finance minister from 1933 to 1936, would implement Keynesian economic theory, in so far as big government spending could compensate for high unemployment and low business confidence. This began with a ban on trade unions and freezing workers wages.

Later on the government moved on to a more specific sect of Keynesian economic theory, the aforementioned military Keynesianism.

Germany would abandon the distinction between the economics of peacetime and the economy of war, unifying them into the Wehrwirtschaft, or preparedness economy.

Defined as the necessities of life, "the economy delivers the arms, and the army is expected to secure the nation and the economy. Peace economy is either a Wehrwirtschaft or else it is not a real national economy, for it bears the same relation to the nation as a standing army." (Amos Simpson, 1956, "Wehrwirtschaft: An Aspect of Nazi Economic Theory)

Who gains?

What is the motive this time around?

They know Russia is not planning to invade Europe.

“War is really f***ing good for business,” Serge Varlay, a technology recruiter at BlackRock, told O'Keefe Media Group's undercover reporter in 2023.

We know that. In WWII for some companies margins were 10 times those of peacetime. It works for some families and corporations, but does it work as an economic model?

U.S. corporations would find wartime profits so tasty, that they pressured to keep the economy on a military footing even after the end of WWII.

See Nazi Bargain And The Post-War Order - Part 1: Did the WW2 settlement cloak plans to revive the fascist project? (Oct 27, 2021)

Quandt And The Post-War Order - Part 2: Did the WW2 settlement cloak plans to revive the fascist project? (Oct 28, 2021)

No, to peace

Europe is pursuing re-militarisation at the cost of austerity and it's only just begun.

Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz refuses to form a coalition with the Alternative for Deutschland (AFD) because he accuses them of right-wing extremism, yet is preparing Germany for war against Russia.

100 years ago we are told a right wing leader took Germany into a European war, and against Russia.

Merz wants has loosened the purse strings, and could see €1.7 trillion spent on military rearmament.

The change to the Basic Law, the U.S. imposed rules that replace Germany’s constitution, exempts military spending from the debt ceiling if it exceeds one per cent of gross domestic product.

The Greens expanded the definition of military spending. Now it includes civil defence, population preparedness, intelligence services, related information technology systems, and even aid to other foreign states attacked in violation of international law.