By Bill Wilson
Every week there is another “hint” or outright declaration that war is coming to Europe. The designated bad guy in the mounting calls to soak the world in blood is, of course, Russia. Nobody explains how a country of less than 150 million people threatens Europe and the United States with a combined population of 800 million and an economic base that is many multiples of that in Russia. But no matter — the global elites clearly want war and they are single focused on provoking one.
Most recently the head of the British Army gave away the script. General Sire Roly Walker advised that the political leadership in the UK are looking to start a “frank conversation” with the general public about the need to prepare for war. He went further in a talk to a group of British troops saying that, “our citizens have got to consent to sacrifices to prioritize defence and security of the nation.”
This follows the comments made by Conservative Party savant Member of Parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg that Britain was likely to be in a war in the next several years and that it was “the duty” of every citizen to do as they are asked to prevent the loss of sovereignty.
And just this last week, the British Defence Secretary, John Healey, the equivalent of our Secretary of War, called on citizens to prepare for a coming war. He openly predicted that within the next 1,000 days — three years — Britian could be at war.
Stark. Terrorizing. Pure propaganda designed to regiment the entire population.
There are many factors in these statements that border on comical but let’s look at the primary reason these statements are delusional. Why would you provoke a war when you essentially have no military? The total for the British Army is less than 180,000 troops. The once vaunted Navy is down to 38,000 sailors operating no more than “commissioned” 60 vessels. This is actually a distortion of the truth. In reality, the British Navey has less than 30 seaworthy vessels including submarines. The rest are coast patrol boats.
The Brits do have one thing that could be potent, however. The British have 225 nuclear warheads with approximately 120 of them operational. Just enough to start a full-scale nuclear confrontation but not near enough to think about winning one. It is akin to giving a toddler a loaded handgun.
But that is the point. Those forces that clearly control the UK — global advocates for world government, bankers and the major elites in business, academia and research — are not thinking Britain, or the EU for that matter, could ever win a war with Russia. They are too weak, too undisciplined and too “woke” to even consider it. But they do have the power to provoke Russia and then call on the United States to yet again bail them out.
The warmongers are counting on Article 5 of the NATO agreement. They provoke a war with Russia, get counter-attacked by the Kremlin and then run to the United States demanding we defend them. That pulls the U.S. into a war than only the neo-cons, the central bankers and a few insane academics in the foreign policy “establishment” want. After all, it will not be their children sacrificed. They don’t live in the mass cities that will be burnt to a crisp.
That is the trap of Article 5 of NATO. It allows the most militarily inconsequential member to provoke a war that is not survivable that then pulls the United States into their scheme. It will result in the total destruction of both Europe and the United States. So why would the elites risk it?
Every war in the 20th Century led to radically increased centralized governmental power. That is the goal. The total centralization of power in the hands of people who have zero regard for concepts like representative government or individualism or freedom. They openly mock America’s First Amendment on free speech. They show utter contempt for their own people and culture. Centralization of power — industrial, political, financial and security — will hand them what they have craved for over the past 150 years; world government with them in charge. And, according to their thinking, if the slate is totally wiped clean, who is to stop them?
The war in Ukraine has always been the ignition switch for these elites. The nation has been little more than a money laundering operation from the start. The west gives Ukraine money and then recycle most of it to western elites. It is an open joke in Europe and the salons of “power” in the U.S. Twice, at least, there have been real opportunities to avoid this war and reduce the risk of a nuclear confrontation. And both times the UK elite and the U.S. foreign policy gurus spiked them.
First, Boris Johnson, the buffoonish Prime Minister for the “Conservative Party” literally went to Ukraine in 2022 to argue for Zelensky to reject an offer from the Russians he was inclined to accept. The whole thing could have been avoided right there from the start. But the power of the British elite was too much for Zelensky so he condemned his people to a slaughter. Now we learn that in 2023, Russia agreed to a peace plan that essentially backed off to the pre-war boundaries. Biden’s handlers and Zelensky rejected it. Pretty clear, these people wanted — needed — the war to continue.
We are being led into a trap and are very close to being snared. The only hope is for a real peace is the proposals from President Trump; or alternatively, an upfront rejection of any Article 5 trick. The British — all of Europe — needs to be put on notice that the NATO Treaty does not give them the power to invoke the United States military and economic power for their own ends. If they start the war with Russia, they better be able to deal with the consequences because we will not bail them out again.
Twice in the 20th Century, America’s youth died on the fields of Europe and Asia to defend the lunacy of the European elites. 57,000 Americans were killed defending French colonial power in Indochina. Many more have been killed defending the prerogatives of dead Empires. Enough! In fact, way more than enough. Time for the Europeans to pay their own bills and defend themselves. As for the backroom powers that are rarely seen but always felt in world affairs, it is time to expose them, prosecute them and ask El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to build a modern Elba where they can rot away while scheming a comeback that will never be realized.
Bill Wilson is the former president of Americans for Limited Government.
