NATO chief warns that Putin wants long-term confrontation with Europe after Ukraine

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to “wipe Ukraine off the map” and could come after other parts of Europe next, as he urged Europeans to press their governments to ramp up defense spending.

“It is time to shift to a wartime mindset,” Rutte told security experts and analysts at the Carnegie Europe think-tank in Brussels. He said people should gird themselves for the prospect that Russia might try to use “swarms of drones” in Europe as it has to deadly effect in Ukraine.

Putin “is trying to crush our freedom and way of life,” Rutte said. The former Dutch prime minister listed Russia’s attacks on Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, and the all-out invasion launched almost three years ago.

“How many more wake-up calls do we need? We should be profoundly concerned. I know I am,” he said. “Russia is preparing for long-term confrontation. With Ukraine, and with us.”

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NATO chief warns that Putin wants long-term confrontation with Europe after Ukraine

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to “wipe Ukraine off the map” and could come after other parts of Europe next.

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[Margery]

That is a big YES! That is an important part of Russian thinking that remained the same thru the centuries. Europe was always a threat. China and the muslim hordes were always a threat.

It's why Russia invested in destabilizing the West thru spies, and disinformation spread thru media as well as university. It's why western universities are hotbeds of communism and leftist propaganda. It's been going on long before the Russian Revolution but it was turned into a fine art during the cold war years.

It didn't change with the fall of the USSR.

Russia exists in permanent paranoia, and they routinely interpret the world around them as a potential threat that needs subjugation.

NATO is part of that threat, but even if NATO didn't exist, Europe is the home of Napoleon, and Hitler both of whom invaded Russia in recent memory. They stand as examples of why Russia must never trust the West, and must always be ready to lose huge numbers of Russians and satellite countries (Belarus, Ukraine, Poland) as throwaway shells in the millennia long war against the "Catholic" West, the East (China) and the South (the Ottoman Empire, the Muslim "stans")

Every single thing that happens that can possibly be viewed as a threat (like NATO and Biden) are blown up to the point of existential crisis.

The ONLY reason Russia has been a non threat for a few decades since Reagan's Star Wars sent them into bankruptcy trying to compete, is because they were dead broke.

Russia will ALWAYS use it's available resources to counter the threat they see coming from Europe (and America) aka "the West", as well as China (that's why they pulled China into the BRICS, into the SCO etc- keep your friends close, enemies closer) and why they are partnering with Iran and other Muslims, including another threat from their own muslims the Chechens.

 

[Cheeky200386]

That is a big YES! That is an important part of Russian thinking that remained the same thru the centuries. Europe was always a threat. China and the muslim hordes were always a threat.

It's why Russia invested in destabilizing the West thru spies, and disinformation spread thru media as well as university. It's why western universities are hotbeds of communism and leftist propaganda. It's been going on long before the Russian Revolution but it was turned into a fine art during the cold war years.

It didn't change with the fall of the USSR.

Russia exists in permanent paranoia, and they routinely interpret the world around them as a potential threat that needs subjugation.

NATO is part of that threat, but even if NATO didn't exist, Europe is the home of Napoleon, and Hitler both of whom invaded Russia in recent memory. They stand as examples of why Russia must never trust the West, and must always be ready to lose huge numbers of Russians and satellite countries (Belarus, Ukraine, Poland) as throwaway shells in the millennia long war against the "Catholic" West, the East (China) and the South (the Ottoman Empire, the Muslim "stans")

Every single thing that happens that can possibly be viewed as a threat (like NATO and Biden) are blown up to the point of existential crisis.

The ONLY reason Russia has been a non threat for a few decades since Reagan's Star Wars sent them into bankruptcy trying to compete, is because they were dead broke.

Russia will ALWAYS use it's available resources to counter the threat they see coming from Europe (and America) aka "the West", as well as China (that's why they pulled China into the BRICS, into the SCO etc- keep your friends close, enemies closer) and why they are partnering with Iran and other Muslims, including another threat from their own muslims the Chechens.

But to kiss the Quran?! That’s crazy what Putin will do to keep his enemies close.

 

[Margery]

It's getting really crazy in Russia right now.

Food rationing. one of my favourite Russian sources reporting on it here: - YouTube

disclaimer, I haven't watched more than the brief intro- but it lines up with other stuff coming out of Russia outside the mainstream media. They are getting desperate and things are going crazy.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

It's getting really crazy in Russia right now.

Food rationing. one of my favourite Russian sources reporting on it here: - YouTube

disclaimer, I haven't watched more than the brief intro- but it lines up with other stuff coming out of Russia outside the mainstream media. They are getting desperate and things are going crazy.

Also i think fairly recently the Hungarian PM stated that the balance of power in the west is over and that Europe will be the focus of the world again.

 

[Margery]

Also i think fairly recently the Hungarian PM stated that the balance of power in the west is over and that Europe will be the focus of the world again.

I think he's a bit premature about the balance of power in the west being over, but he's 100% right that Europe will be a focus of the world again.

 

[1LoverofGod]

It's getting really crazy in Russia right now.

Food rationing. one of my favourite Russian sources reporting on it here: - YouTube

disclaimer, I haven't watched more than the brief intro- but it lines up with other stuff coming out of Russia outside the mainstream media. They are getting desperate and things are going crazy.

I just posted over in the Israel/Middle East forum in reply to @Spartan Sprinter regarding the motivation for Russia to go after Israel's "spoil".
Russia's economy is in trouble. They have been the supplier of natural gas to Europe but the war in Ukraine has impacted exports that is hurting Russia's economy and by self infliction because Putin halted supplying the natural gas because of NATO's involvement with allowing Ukraine to use the missiles that the West supplied Ukraine with.
Then recently the US added to Russia's burden
Read this:

A key pillar of Russia's wartime economy could soon be taking another hit​

On Wednesday, the Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, signaled that the US was eyeing new restrictions on Russian energy exports, which have been a key revenue source for the Kremlin's war chest.

In response to the news about the potential new oil sanctions, Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, said on Wednesday that the outgoing Biden administration would leave a "difficult legacy" in US-Russia relations, according to the TASS state news agency.

The US has been tightening its noose on Russian energy revenues.

Complete Article

A key pillar of Russia's wartime economy could soon be taking another hit

Oil demand is down while supplies are ample — which allows the US to tighten energy sanctions against Russia without a surge in prices.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[bigMoose]

Russia exists in permanent paranoia, and they routinely interpret the world around them as a potential threat that needs subjugation.

NATO is part of that threat

Thank you Margery, great insight in your post.

 

[Margery]

The food crisis is worsening in Russia. I saw a headline on my Russian YTuber. I have a bad headache today so I didn't even open it up, and Canadian politics are ripping wide open so it's in flux up here.

2024 is going out with a bang.

 

[1LoverofGod]

The food crisis is worsening in Russia. I saw a headline on my Russian YTuber. I have a bad headache today so I didn't even open it up, and Canadian politics are ripping wide open so it's in flux up here.

2024 is going out with a bang.

Lord of Mercy please place Your tender touch on Your daughter's head and give her Your Grace by relieving her from that headache and bless her with a good rest of her day, in Jesus name I pray

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

The food crisis is worsening in Russia. I saw a headline on my Russian YTuber. I have a bad headache today so I didn't even open it up, and Canadian politics are ripping wide open so it's in flux up here.

2024 is going out with a bang.

Hopefully a rapture bang LOL !!!!