Economist: Let’s Start A War To Get Europeans Used To It

  moon of  alabama

The Economist, the British media outlet of the Rothschild banker clan, has long been pushing for war against Russia.

It is troubled though, because the population of (west-)Europe has no interest to die for those who profit from such conflicts.

Various surveys in Europe have found that people have no interest in ‘defending their country’, when that ‘defense’ is proposed to happen on the east side of the Dnieper river.

The editors have thus invited a U.S.-financed scholar to provide ideas on how the Europeans can be enticed to war.

Nathalie Tocci, a James Anderson Professor of the Practice at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Europe, took up the invitation (archived):

EUROPEAN LEADERS understand that conflict is closer than ever—hence the sharp rise in defence budgets, as showcased at NATO’s recent summit in Ankara.
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Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, European leaders have often expressed awe at Ukrainian resilience. But there is something else behind Europeans’ amazement: fear that they may not show the same resolve. This is not because of some inherent courage in Ukrainians which Europeans lack. It boils down to the fundamentally different predicaments, physically and psychologically, of nations in war and peace. Can the spirit needed to deter war be summoned in Europe without fully entering one?

Mrs. Tocci’s answer, as we will see, is “no!”

There follows some ‘political science’ blubber about the ‘sorry’ state of populations unwilling to die in a far away a war that is not the slightest in their interest.

The solution then is to ignore the will of the people but to expand the war until it becomes personally relevant to those who are not yet involved in it:

One way to toughen up populations is to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. For months, a European coalition of the willing has drawn up plans to deploy a “reassurance force” to Ukraine after a ceasefire. These discussions have not led anywhere because a truce is not in sight.

Russian officials have left no doubt that any foreign forces in Ukraine, be they “reassurance forces” (reassurance against what exactly?), or in any other form, will be regarded as hostile and are destined to be destroyed.

But getting our troops destroyed, Mrs. Tocci seems to believe, is exactly what is necessary to drive the rest of the continent into a war against the only (nuclear armed) European super power:

A European reassurance force would, then, do little for Ukraine. But deploying it now, before a hypothetical ceasefire, could benefit Europe, encouraging citizens to develop a mindset that would better prepare them for war. Yes, it would put European soldiers in harm’s way—any such move would infuriate the Kremlin—but the continent is already in a hybrid conflict, even if many refuse to recognise it.

So we should put our “soldiers in harm’s way” i.e. get them killed, to “benefit Europe”? (What “benefit”, in concrete terms, are we talking about?)

And to provoke a bloody shooting war with many dead and wounded does not matter … because we are already getting infused with a propaganda construct named ‘hybrid’ war? (Tocci probably means those ‘Russian drones’ ‘hybrid attacks’ over Copenhagen, which, as The Economist later reported, no-one had even seen):

In June Danish police closed their probe, saying they were unable to confirm there had been any drones, let alone determine who had sent them.

What, exactly, Mrs. Tocci, is the “benefit” of having ones brethren killed (archived)?

Were European soldiers to be stationed in Ukraine, it would bring reality closer to home. And perhaps a fraction of Ukraine’s courage, humility and creativity could infect other European societies. European troops would not be put in harm’s way out of sheer generosity, but to help prepare for war—and prevent it from spilling into the rest of the continent.

Oh – sending German, French and Italian soldiers to Ukraine to kill Russian’s would “perhaps” bring a “reality”, which today does not exist,  home?   It would prevent the war “from spilling into the rest of Europe”?

So German, French, Italian soldiers sent to kill Russia soldiers in Ukraine would deter, not provoke, Russia from sending Oreshniks, or even larger nuclear missiles, to Berlin, Paris or Rome?  (If you believe that please contact Mrs. Tocci’s sponsor.)

That would, obviously, not be the case.

But to prevent a larger European war is, as Mrs. Tocci writes ‘on invitation’ by The Economist, not the real aim of such an endeavor.

Her concern is to “encouraging citizens to develop a mindset that would better prepare them for war”. To do so, she says, we should provoke a war that is guaranteed to engulf us all.

Let me encourage you, Mrs. Tocci, to lead by example in this. The Ukrainian Commander in Chief, General -the butcher- Syrsky, will surely find an appropriate role for you in one of his assault regiments.

Posted by b on July 17, 2026 at 17:29 UTC | Permalink

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