Rearmament. Cartoon of 15/03/2025 in CTXT
Translation of the cartoon: "We call it a peace project".
One thing we are hearing a lot about, and will continue to hear in the coming months, is rearmament.
Scenarios for a country's rearmament are usually justified with some logic, although rearmament based on ambiguous conditionalities or unlikely or non-existent threats are also possible.
These circumstances may follow a previous period of disarmament, either because of defeat, or a shortage of supplies following the expenditure of killing implements in a war, or self-limitation, for whatever reason.
And then there are the more cheerful interpretations that speak of a move to reinforce "defence and security" understood as an "obligation" in the face of more or less imminent threats, even if they do not exist. The classic,"just in case". This is where anything goes, since it is in the name of security that we are accustomed to doing almost anything under the argument of obligatory prevention.
And this is the joker Europe is using, to which they add another lame-sounding excuse to make themselves look good: reamarse is "a peace project".
At a special summit on 6 March 2025 in Brussels, the representatives of the EU countries announced that some 800 billion euros would be mobilised for the "rearmament of Europe".
They say that the bulk of this money, some 650 billion, would come from new debts taken on by individual EU countries, not joint debts. The remaining 150 billion, they claim, would be guaranteed by credit assistance from the EU budget. All debts that they insist we will not pay, that they will be paid by who knows who because potatoes. Or so they try to make us believe.
Make no mistake, this is not something that was cooked up two days ago - back in 2022, at the NATO summit in Madrid, there was talk of arming to the teeth and beyond.
But another of the jokes is that the rearmament plan supposedly aims to stop depending on the United States at a time when the European arms industry is at a low point with respect to the countries that make the big money in the war business. Be that as it may, the posturing and the"buts" are already beginning to appear.
And it is impossible not to laugh at an EU defence rearmament plan, now renamed the "peace project", which has enabled, supported, financed and armed Palestinian genocide, not to mention other recent shit.
