by Peter Koenig, Global Research:
Important article by Peter Koenig
“War is coming, War is coming,” it replaces nominally, “The Russians are coming, The Russians are coming…”, and yes, it is a brainwashing war, and NATO is winning.
NATO is controlling all of Europe, via its long arm, the European Union (EU) which is intricately guided by NATO.
NATO just won in Switzerland against a people’s Initiative for Neutrality.
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Brainwashed by Swiss Government war propaganda, the Swiss people rejected the Neutrality Initiative (NI) with over 70%.
The NI requested that Switzerland be indeed a neutral country, and that neutrality be enshrined in the Swiss Constitution, which is so far not the case.
What is equally important to know for those adamant NATO supporters is that
“The Three Musketeers,” one for all, and all for one, the (in)famous Article 5 of the NATO statutes, does no longer universally apply, if it ever did.
In short, the Article points out the NATO foundation principle of collective defense. It states that an armed attack against one member state is considered an attack against all members.
However, President Trump has made it amply clear, that the US would no longer intervene in Europe; that the European NATO states are responsible for their own defense, they had to pay up, spending by 2035, some 5% of their GDP on their own military budget, as the US has paid enough in the past. It is now up to the Europeans to pay for their / NATO’s defense (war) costs.
The wording of Article 5 is vague enough to leave room for different interpretations. See full text here
From Europe to East Asia, US allies face a hard question: how far would Washington go to defend them? NATO’s Article 5 offers a revealing place to start. See also this.
Does the Swiss Government which is moving ever closer to NATO, or you may call it, is intimately schmoozing with NATO, realize what it means to be dependent on NATO? They probably do, and in one way or another, are pressured to become another puppet of NATO via the EU. There are many ways of “pressuring”, some of the modes are bordering on blackmail.
But let us also be realistic. Not all of the “pressure” comes from outside. There are tremendous business interests within Switzerland that want closer relations with NATO, and the best vehicle to get there is the EU. It is a little known, or understood fact, that Switzerland may be the only western industrialized country that allows her parliamentarians to be seated in as many Boards of Directors of corporations, banks, insurance companies – you name it – as they wish. Some have up to 30 director mandates.
Guess, where their first interests are? Certainly not the people, they are supposed to represent, but the corporate domain they are representing.
Aside from the coming NATO dependence for defense against the Russian danger – which is pure fear-fantasy and imaginary, DOES NOT EXIST, NEVER EXISTED, Switzerland would have to increase her military budget by 2035, from currently CHF 6.3 billion (US$ 7.6 billion), or 0.7% of GDP, to between CHF 30 billion (3.5% / GDP) to CHF 43 billion (5% / GDP), an up-to 5-fold increase.
Where would the money come from? Always from the same sources, as in Germany, France, the UK and all the EU countries – the social sectors, pensions, health care, unemployment and other poverty relief programs.
In other words, measured by Swiss standards of living, the at-risk-of-poverty figure stood in 2025 already at 16.4%, meaning an income below 60% of the national median. Poverty rate is at 8.4%. In Switzerland, one of the reputed richest countries in the world, it is taboo speaking about poverty. These military expenses would be paid for by different types of tax increases, but predominantly by reducing social program expenditures. This, plus the steady influx of immigrants, might increase the Swiss poverty level substantially over the coming decade.
