NATO is anti-Europe, and only billionaires benefit from wars.
26 July 2026, posted by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here. ) —— https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=t_OLhQDeaKA “NATO Pushes Europe Toward Total Collapse - Countdown to ALL-OUT War Has Begun | Dr. Jan Oberg” 25 July 2026 00:00 JAN OBERG: You have a total military production 00:02 dependence very strong at least of the
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice. 26 July 2026, posted byEric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seenhere. )——https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=t_OLhQDeaKA“NATO Pushes Europe Toward Total Collapse – Countdown to ALL-OUT War Has Begun | Dr. Jan Oberg”25 July 202600:00JAN OBERG: You have a total military production00:02dependence very strong at least of the00:05US because we’ve always stupidly00:08believed that the US was there for us. 00:11The US is here for the US, and the idea00:15with NATO has never been to protect00:17Europe. The project called NATO00:21is a US project to secure that if there00:24is a war it will be in Europe and not on00:26US soil. That’s forward defense. This is00:29the idea of deterrence. This is American00:31nuclear weapons in Europe. It is to have00:33the fight here. The West00:36which is 12% of humanity is going down. 00:40We are now the last empire. That empire00:43is getting weaker and weaker, more and00:44more desperate and cannot tolerate that00:48there are different views. I mean the00:51more weak you are, the more intolerant00:53you are. 00:56LYANNA PETROVA: Welcome to World Affairs and Context00:58everybody. I’m Lyanna Petrova and today01:00I’m honored to welcome back a fantastic01:03guest Dr. Jan Oberg. Jan is a Swedish01:05peace and conflict researcher, author01:08and co-founder of the Transnational01:10Foundation for Peace and Future Research,01:12which is an organization I absolutely01:14admire and I follow on Substack and on01:17Twitter or X. I highly highly recommend01:19that all our viewers subscribe to it as01:22well. Jan, welcome back to the program. 01:24Thank you so much for joining. 01:26>> OBERG: Oh, it’s a great pleasure for me being01:28with you. I think you’re doing such good01:31and important and highly relevant,01:33urgently important work. So, I hope I01:36can contribute to it. So, we have some01:38synergy from sitting here. Let me just01:40add to your introduction that um the01:44Transnational Foundation is completely01:47independent of government01:51funding and corporate funding. We are01:53only people financed, and we are all01:55volunteers, 50 people around the world. 01:58I just want to say that because there’s02:00very little really truly free research02:03and public education left in the western02:05world in this area. 02:08>> PETROVA: Absolutely. And thank you so much for02:09clarifying. I think it is very very02:11important to know that because there is02:12a big difference between the research02:15produced by government funded uh think02:18tanks and and institutes and those that02:20are independent like yours. Yeah,02:23absolutely. Um recently I came across02:27two outstanding articles that you02:28published on your Substack and um you02:32discussed um basically you focused on02:34the European Union’s transition to war02:36economies and I think this is the most02:38important topic of of of02:42today because this touches upon every02:45single aspect of our lives and it02:47increasingly feels as though Europe as a02:50whole is heading toward a major military02:53confrontation. 02:54that we haven’t seen since World War II. 02:57Um, Jan, would you give us a sense of03:00what you are observing across the EU in03:02terms of economic and security policy03:04transformations?03:07>> OBERG: Well, I chose a perspective that has not03:10been discussed as part of this03:12rearmament in Europe, which comes as a03:16very unfortunate consequence of the03:18stupid NATO expansion that was responded03:21to in an counter-productive way by by03:25Russia invading Ukraine and both parties03:29being happy to use the Ukrainian03:32people for their battle. Um and that03:35perspective was the economic one. 03:38[clears throat] I was motivated by the03:40fact that you’ve heard secretary03:42generals of NATO, you’ve heard the03:44Danish prime minister, you’ve had a lot03:46of European leaders say that it’s a one03:49it’s one way to get the wheels running03:52in the European economy is to invest in03:55the military and switch to a war03:57economy. There’s all I mean it’s not I03:59don’t think the term war economy has04:01been put into any official document but04:03that’s what they do from a civilian04:05peacetime economy to converting it to a04:08military basically like the military04:11should be uplifting the rest of the04:13economy, and then I was reminded of the04:17fact that in the 70s and 80s we were a04:20number of peace researchers and04:22economists04:23who worked with the issue of what was at04:27that time called conversion and that was04:29the idea could you convert the military04:32industry to civilian industry and get04:35a beneficial effect of that, for04:38instance there was the Swedish diplomat04:40or disarmament minister Inga’s big study04:44in the United Nations of this and I sat04:47at the time at the Danish government’s04:49security and disarmament commission and04:52the whole thing about what is the04:53relationship between military04:55investments and civilian investments04:58is something that we should discuss now05:01because I can tell you now at that time05:05and today there does not exist any05:09study, any piece of research, any book,05:13any dissertation that proves that you05:16get more beneficial um effects of05:20military investments than you do from05:22similar civilian investments in the05:25economy. So if you want to waste money,05:28go for the military. If you want to05:30waste and get less employment effects,05:34innovative effects, spillovers to the05:36civilian sector, uh worse hospitals,05:39less cultural life, less welfare for the05:41people, keep on militarizing your05:43economy. It’s: there is nobody who has05:46proved the opposite of what I just said. 05:49Interestingly enough,05:52those who say this today are not05:54research institutes. We are the only one05:56here in Sweden, not in the only one in05:58Sweden, we the only one in Europe, who06:00have published this analysis saying06:04these things. 06:06No other research institute have done06:08it. Not CRI, not PO, not the other peace06:11research, not those you would expect06:12knowing about economy and military and06:16beneficial or nonbeneficial effects of06:18it. It’s the banks06:21and the bank studies you will find if I06:24remember correctly the one is from the06:26Danish National Bank and I think the um06:29European bank too are clearly saying06:33thatthere are less effects from06:36military investments than there would be06:38from comparable equally large civilian06:41investments. So if you want to I mean06:45Europe is in deep economic crisis. 06:48Germany is falling apart as everybody06:50knows. Volkswagen is probably going to be06:52taken over by China. You have written06:55you have you’ve given a lecture in your06:57own program which is excellent about06:59these things which I was happy to07:01repost. Everybody knows that we are in07:04crisis, and there are competitors such as07:06China and Russia to a certain extent and07:09the US is giving us all these kinds of07:11problems with Trump and tariffs and god07:14knows what. We’re now choosing European07:17leaders are now choosing something that07:20they must know if they are not ignorant07:23beyond uh permissible07:26will make the economy less growth07:29oriented, less welfare oriented, less07:32innovative in the civilian sector. And07:35therefore I call the subtitle of my07:37article “Are they ignorant or do they lie07:41deliberately?” because they cannot all07:43these leaders basically everybody has07:45said it is that state leaders they07:48cannot not know from their experts if07:51they lose any um from their banks etc. 07:54They cannot be ignorant about the fact07:56that I’ve just told you there is no07:58study that proves that what they [Europe’s leaders] say is true. 08:01…———————Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book,AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U. S. -and-allied billionaires. 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