Old Socialist confronts the revelatory Cast of Characters! But the full scale Anti-Russian near hysteria is really the central attraction!
Mar 14, 2025
Editor: The Reader has to wonder at the employment of the use of ‘peaceniks vs. hawks’ in the the year 2025? The desperation for a compact solution, for a title that won’t eat up too much space?
Europe | Rearm fast!
Europe’s other front: peaceniks vs hawks
Not all voters favour rearming. Hardly any like paying for it
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/03/13/europes-other-front-peaceniks-vs-hawks
Editor: the cast of characters is a place to start the inquirery into this 1050 word monstrocity?
Wendela de Vries, The ReArm Europe, NATO, Mette Frederiksen, Mette Frederiksen, Donald Tusk, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Pal Jonson, Pauli Aalto-Sepala, The Left party, AfD, Social Democrats (SPD), Friedrich Merz, Ralf Stegner, Geert Wilders, Emmanuel Macron, National Assembly, Five Star Movement, far-left groups , Alessandro Marrone, the Institute of International Affairs, Giorgia Meloni, YouGov!
Editor: the final paragraph of this Propaganda:
That will leave politicians scratching their heads. And spending money is only part of what European countries must do to defend themselves. They must also recruit soldiers—and in most countries few young people are interested. (The Nordics are in better shape: they conscript.) Countries must consolidate their fragmented defence industries, though perhaps not too much: research in Romania by Eoin Power of the University of Texas at Austin shows that voters are more likely to support defence spending that creates jobs in their own country. Above all, they have to convince their citizens they need stronger armed forces. Many Europeans accept that message; fewer are willing to pay for it.
Editor: The Reader might contemplate what the possible final disposition of this manucatured war in Ukraine might be? A possible denoument of this political melodrama might be: the dissapearnce of Zelenskyy from the center of contoversy, as he and his minions decamp?
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