Kraken🟡 Military Industry | 7/10
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Germany reorienting industry from automotive to defense production
Germany is reorienting its industry from the automotive sector to defense production, effectively transforming itself into a "weapons factory".
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻“The #EU and #Australia have signed long-awaited #trade and #security deals as they seek *mutual support* to cope with pressure from #China and the #US. The trade agreement will boost the EU’s access to Australia’s #CriticalMinerals, while the #defence and #security pact will enable Australian companies to participate in the bloc’s €150bn #rearmament programme.”
“Australia meanwhile is seeking to reduce its reliance on China, its biggest trading partner, and has signed trade deals with the #UK, #India and the United Arab Emirates (#UAE) in the *past five years* to #diversify its #exports. It has previously said that the EU deal was “the missing piece of the puzzle”.”
#Trade / #RegionalSecurity / #Labor <https://archive.md/NPuZU> / <https://ft.com/content/4a71ddd6-bb5c-439c-9a10-ce3ad1d4377f> (paywall)
Joseph Lim 
Shadows Over Brussels & Kiev: #Corruption Scandals Challenge #VonderLeyen's Ukraine Agenda
"VdL faced criticism for refus'g to disclose contacts w te #arms #industry amidst an €800bil #rearmament prog, lead'g to legal action by MEP Fabio De Masi. When combined w te “Epstein Files” controversy involv'g fmr Commissioners, a pattern emerges.. Is te push for Ukraine aid a geopolitical necessity, or does it serve as a smokescreen for q'nable budgetary allocatns w'in Brussels?"
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/shadows-over-brussels-and-kiev-corruption-scandals-question-von-der-leyens-ukraine-agenda.html
"VdL faced criticism for refus'g to disclose contacts w te #arms #industry amidst an €800bil #rearmament prog, lead'g to legal action by MEP Fabio De Masi. When combined w te “Epstein Files” controversy involv'g fmr Commissioners, a pattern emerges.. Is te push for Ukraine aid a geopolitical necessity, or does it serve as a smokescreen for q'nable budgetary allocatns w'in Brussels?"
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/shadows-over-brussels-and-kiev-corruption-scandals-question-von-der-leyens-ukraine-agenda.html
LupposofiVirkistävää puhetta USA:n Hesarin(?) pönkittämästä asevarustelu-kiimasta, https://fair.org/home/as-trump-uses-military-to-threaten-democracy-nyt-declares-military-needs-more-resources/
Euroopan komission deregulaatio-hingusta on sentään ilmestynyt "suomennosta", https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/dissecting-deregulation
#usa #war #varustelu #suomi #pelko #fear #fearMongering #rearmament #media #eu #europe #deregulation #luonto #yhteiskunta
As Trump Uses Military to Threaten Democracy, NYT Declares Military Needs More Resources
Devoting seven editorials to boosting the US military when the country’s own democracy is under threat, the Times reaffirmed its commitment to militarism.
William Lindsey 
In a valuable video conversation, Carole Cadwalladr and Robert Kagan talk about the world we've known is gone as the US careens towards fascist dictatorship and Europe risks being divided into fiefdoms by rapacious powers who have declared contempt for international law.
#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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Europe needs a dramatic strategic revolution - now: historian Robert Kagan
"Trump has managed in just one year to destroy the American order that was, and he has weakened America’s ability to protect its interests in the world that will be. If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next."
#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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"Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War II, one that will make the Cold War look like child’s play and the post–Cold War world like paradise. ...
Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from international leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer the consequences for years to come."
#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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"The American order is over because the United States has decided that it no longer wishes to play its historically unprecedented role of providing global security. The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used instead to destroy it."
~ Robert Kagan
#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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arvindGermany inches towards martial law through mandated Russophobia
To enforce its war policy, the EU and Germany rely on repression. Journalists, humanitarian workers, and cultural institutions are targeted – which means all of us.
by Alexander Kiknadze
peoples dispatch
January 13, 2026
#Germany #Russia #RussoPhobia #MartialLaw #Europe #EuropeanUnion #EU #journalism #culture #politics #colonialism #imperialism #capitalism #war #rearmament #militarization #GlobalNorth #GlobalSouth
Rosa Luxemburg Conference 2026 proposes alternatives to Germany’s war path
Thousands attended the 31st Rosa Luxemburg Conference and the Luxemburg–Liebknecht demonstration, rejecting Germany’s rearmament and militarization drive.
by Ana Vračar
peoples dispatch
January 13, 2026
#Germany #Europe #EuropeanUnion #EU #RosaLuxemburg #NATO #war #rearmament #militarization #colonialism #imperialism #capitalism #GlobalNorth #GlobalSouth
