Military Madness > The Madness Behind the Benghazi catastrophe; NATO's Rutte selling 'Wartime Mindset' to gullible Europe; Poland says "NO" to EU military

 

I have no verification on this story, but nothing in it rings anything but truth, IMHO.

Many times on this blog I have documented American weapons on both sides of a war. The War Industry is happy as long as the inventory is moving. If the War Industry is happy, the Democrats are happy.

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Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.

Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in

Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.

It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”

Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!

THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.

Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.

So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.

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NATO must get on ‘wartime mindset,’

military alliance chief urges

By Sean Previl  Global News

Posted February 13, 2025 9:08 am

 Updated February 13, 2025 9:25 am

 3 min read

The chief of NATO says the military alliance needs to shift to a “wartime mindset.”

How stupid is that? NATO has been at war for 3 years and has been in a wartime mindset for 11 years. 

Rutte is the Salesman-in-Chief for the Western War Industries and he is selling you a bill of goods that Europe doesn't need. It's like selling refrigerators to Eskimos.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Thursday that members recognize “the need to invest much more,” making the comments after the U.S. told members the day earlier that Europe must “own responsibility for its own security,” including support for Ukraine.

“We are producing more and faster than at any time in decades, but we can and must do more to ensure the credibility of our returns in defence for years to come,” Rutte said.

“We need to shift to a wartime mindset and we need industry to shift with us. The demand signals are clear and they’ll continue to grow.”

Rutte, who spoke after a meeting of alliance defence ministers, said he believed the officials would return to each of their countries with a “greater sense of urgency” to ramp up spending.

Did Rutte sell time-shares before becoming PM of the Netherlands?

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NATO chief backs Trump’s call for equal Ukraine aid, urges higher defence spending

His comments came a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth repeated calls from U.S. President Donald Trump that more investment needs to be made by other NATO allies.

“The United States remains committed to the NATO alliance and to the defence partnership with Europe. Full stop,” Hegseth said.

“But the United States will no longer tolerate an imbalanced relationship which encourages dependency. Rather, our relationship will prioritize empowering Europe to own responsibility for its own security.”

A total of 23 of the 32 member countries met the organization’s commitment of spending two per cent of gross domestic product on their national defence budgets last year, but a third still do not.

Canada is among those who continue to fall short.

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US warns Ukraine NATO membership “unrealistic objective” of peace talks

Ukraine was also a primary focus in the meetings, with Rutte saying the alliance discussed the importance of continued support.

Trump said Wednesday that he had spoken by phone with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and said Ukraine could neither have all of its land back nor join NATO.

The remarks have raised alarm for both Kyiv and the European allies in NATO who said they feared the White House might make a deal without them.

“We, as a sovereign country, simply will not be able to accept any agreements without us,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He said Putin aimed to make his negotiations bilateral with the United States, and it was important not to allow that.

Asked if Ukraine would be starting any negotiations from a position of weakness, Rutte disagreed. “Even if talks start, they will not end on day one or day two, so there is, let’s say, a path where we have to make sure that talks are successful,” he said.

“It is important that we get to a peace deal and, at the same time, to make sure that Putin understands that the West is united, that Ukraine is getting all the support it needs to prevail.”

U.K. Defence Secretary John Healey told reporters at NATO headquarters, “There can be no negotiation about Ukraine without Ukraine. And Ukraine’s voice must be at the heart of any talks.”

Responding to reporters’ questions on European involvement, Rutte said allies are consulting “among each other,” including the U.S., and said they’re working to get “to the same page.”

While it’s yet to be seen what could occur during peace talks, Rutte stressed that though the alliance committed to a future NATO membership for Ukraine, it was not a part of peace talk discussions.

“What I have consistently said is we have to make sure that whatever the outcome is, we have to make sure that Vladimir Putin will never, ever try to attack Ukraine,” he said.

“But it has never been a promise to Ukraine that as part of a peace deal, they would be in NATO.”

— With files from Reuters and The Associated Press

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Poland rejects Zelensky’s call for bloc-wide army

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has reiterated his country’s position

against a unified military

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. ©  Marek Antoni Iwanczuk/Getty Images

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has dismissed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s suggestion for an “army of Europe.” Poland has consistently rejected the idea of a unified EU military, and has strongly supported the US keeping its dominant role in security on the continent.

“I think we should be careful with this term because different people understand different things. If you understand by it the unification of national armies, it will not happen,” Sikorski told state news channel TVP World on Saturday. He added that strengthening the bloc’s defense component should complement US-led NATO efforts, not replace them.

Zelensky called for the creation of a unified EU force at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, a day after US Vice President J.D. Vance levelled heavy criticism at European nations. Vance showed that “decades of the old relationship between Europe and America are ending,” Zelensky said.

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 Majority of foreign offenders in Poland are Ukrainian – media

Some 22 EU states are currently members of NATO, with the US-led pact effectively determining security policy on the continent since the start of the Cold War. However, several EU leaders have in the past floated the idea of pooling their militaries into a common force independent of the US.

Then Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said in November 2023 that “any competition between [NATO] and the EU when it comes to security is a very bad thing,” and that Warsaw had chosen a close partnership with the US over “some imaginary European army.” The country has significantly bolstered its military collaboration with Washington in recent years. Warsaw purchased $10 billion worth of HIMARS rocket artillery systems, secured a $2 billion loan from the US for military modernization, and now hosts its first permanent US base in Poznan.

Before the Ukraine conflict, French President Emmanuel Macron and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel were among the most vocal advocates of establishing an EU army. In 2019, Macron described NATO as “brain dead” and urged European leaders to pursue a policy of “strategic autonomy” from Washington.

Italy voiced the idea of a joint military last January. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has argued that the bloc cannot have a credible foreign policy without a joint military.

The conflict in Ukraine has apparently put a damper on such discussion. Macron has shifted his rhetoric on NATO and now supports the expansion of the US-led alliance. Merkel’s replacement, Olaf Scholz, still speaks of the need for “a more sovereign… European Union,” but has remained silent on the idea of building what Merkel called “a real, true European army.”

When talk of an independent European force first surfaced two decades ago, then US Secretary of Defense William Cohen called the idea “a threat to the very existence of NATO.”

NATO should have been dismantled three decades ago when the Soviet Union collapsed. Since then it has been searching for a raison d'etre in places like the Balkans, Libya, and Ukraine. 

Their real purpose now is as a storefront for Western War Industries. There needs to be active wars to keep the War Industry's inventories moving, unless they can convince Europe that it needs to build a huge military almost from scratch. 

This is how Trump can bring peace and still keep Deep State from assassinating him.