Past days have seen the European political classes turning up the volume to maximum on clearly concerted – and shared – speaking-notes: “War with Russia is coming; Russia intends to strike NATO; we must prepare; stock up on bottled water, tinned food, and be ready to offer your children to military conscription” – “Many will die; but it is their duty to defend their country.” What nonsense! To make the point, European leaders, including EU High Representative Kallas and German Chancellor Merz, recently deliberately dressed in field camouflage to signal “defence readiness” during the European Arctic Summit on 14 September. (These European politicians can be viewed in military fatigues here). They look absurd. Yet that cannot detract from the question – What exactly is this hysteria gripping European technocrats? On the face of it, the unified messaging that Russia is about to attack Europe and that war is coming makes no sense at all. Europe has neither the men, munitions, the finance, nor the industrial capacity to wage war on what today can be considered a leading military “great power,” as well as the state possessing the highest nuclear weapons inventory. ZeroHedge observes that, Among the loudest purveyors of this unsubstantiated narrative [of threatened Russian …read more Source:: Ron Paul...