“[Putin] does not stop stressing what he’s really longing for, like, a renaissance of the Soviet empire,” Pistorius said of Putin. “He wants to be the dominant power in Europe. […]”
Germany’s biggest defense contractor, Rheinmetall, and its subsidiaries have won a commanding share of recent government contracts.
Rheinmetall was one of Germany’s major arms producers during WWI and WWII.
It wouldn’t be surprising if this whole thing blossoms into a war between Russia, allies, and NATO. NATO wants the balkanization of Russia, U.S. wants that because it would hurt China. It would be very prolonged because modern war is fought very differently, but western Europe would eventually have its teeth smashed in the same way as Ukraine.
However this could all still easily happen when you look at it from the perspective of a failing blood empire rapidly losing at chess.
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What is to be done is modern war and revolution within the empirical core. Look at the statistics on infrastructure destruction and civilian casualties within Ukraine and Russia over the past three years (from Marxist-adjacent news sources, yada yada information warfare fuck wikipedia free Donbass). This war has primarily been fought by cheap, easy to produce, post-capitalist standardized robots. The number of deaths in the Ukrainian military is contributed by NATO wanting to sacrifice Ukraine as a geopolitical testing ground for war against Russia. The material conditions in the west will end with the hanging of landlords or the quiet and slow death of an abrahamic-based, pedophile run, pseudo-religious ethnostate. Either way is good for me. Fuck my country.
Tldr; the last three years have shown us how WW3 would go. Severe social and infrastructure damage from fighting within Europe, the sacrifice of a ton of ground troops to socialist drones playing a war of attrition that the western powers will burn themselves out to prolong because they know they will lose no matter the human and nature cost.