Would someone with a heart and a brain please reopen the cuckoo's nests! They slither amongst us! pic.twitter.com/lqQJ76htkc

— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) July 18, 2026

by Andrew Korybko

Ideological, economic, and personal interests are responsible for the ruling liberal elite’s fateful decision that’ll lead to Germany replacing the US as Russia’s top perceived adversary.

The Financial Times reported in early July that “Germany to borrow €800bn for rearmament in historic shift”. The larger context concerns the “NATO 3.0” concept that the US is implementing whereby it’s pushing the European members of the bloc to take more responsibility for their security. In practice, this means that the EU will lead Russia’s containment in Western Eurasia per the new “cordon sanitaire” that Trump 2.0 built around it over the past year, with Germany planning to play the main role in this theater.

It’s presently competing with Poland for leadership over Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) in coordination with its Ukrainian junior partner, but even if Poland manages to carve out a “sphere of influence” for itself, Germany’s planned €800 billion remilitarization ensures that it’ll remain a force to be reckoned with. It’s already the case that “The EU Poses A Much More Credible Threat To Russia Than The Inverse”, but now, “Germany Might Replace The US As Russia’s Top Perceived Adversary”.

Former President and incumbent Deputy Chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned in early May about the 1941-threat posed by Germany’s remilitarization, and recently, top Russian expert Dmitry Trenin argued that it’s now the EU – and not the US – that’s fanning the flames of war with Russia. Since Germany is the bloc’s de facto leader, it therefore follows that it’s the country most responsible for placing NATO and Russia on the path to clashing around 2030 like Moscow now expects is possible.

The main driving forces behind this development are ideological and economic. As regards the first, the ruling liberal elite conceptualize their theater of the New Cold War as a struggle between “democracy and dictatorship”, while the second relates to the military-industrial complex convincing the elite’s more cautious members that massive investments in this sphere can avert Germany’s deindustrialization. High energy costs and competition from China, however, are what’s actually responsible for that trend.

Nevertheless, the ruling liberal elite already decided to compete with Poland for leadership over CEE and within the European part of “NATO 3.0” as a whole, though this is indisputably at the expense of its socio-economic stability after British media recently observed that “Germany is quietly falling apart”. Containing Russia, which has absolutely zero interest in testing its nuclear-armed American rival’s commitment to Article 5, nowadays takes precedence over improving the lives of the German people.

The ruling liberal elite’s commitment to the aforesaid ideological cause, which some of them have been misled into thinking is the key to rejuvenating their country’s declining economy, might also be influenced by the perceived prestige that they expect to accompany playing this geopolitical role. Being celebrated across Europe by their fellow elites for this, not to mention receiving public approval from the American elite to whom they look up per their inferiority complex, is personally important to them.

From Russia’s perspective, Germany is rapidly becoming its most serious security threat in Western Eurasia by far, and no policymaker should assume that Germany will deviate from this trajectory. A preemptive strike is unrealistic due to Article 5, and reminding average Germans that they’re now in Russia’s nuclear crosshairs due to their ruling liberal elite’s policies won’t change anything. Be that as it may, nobody should doubt that Russia would retaliate with nukes if the German-led EU ever attacked it.

Nato’s Warlords in Brussels are doing their utmost to provoke a full-blown war with Russia as they did during 2021 — but they won’t like it when they get their wish. Listen to this interview

The next hearing is Tuesday 28 July, 2.15 pm. Barry would love to see you outside the Wellington District Court in Ballance Street. As, we are sure, would the Old Bailey lawyers’ pub round the corner. (The MoH lawyers may not. 🙂 )

See earlier posts.

From the news: “The two new Cook Strait ferries will be named Kupe and Cook. Minister for Rail Winston Peters has also confirmed KiwiRail will operate the ferries, once they arrive in 2029. The government is buying two rail-enabled ferries, to be built by Guangzhou Shipyard in China, to replace the current ageing fleet.”

Some Far Left extremists were, as expected, unhappy about the coice of ‘Cook’:

Well, stuffing yourself with a hot dog isn’t good for you, says the University of Michigan:

Eating a hot dog could cost you 36 minutes of healthy life, while choosing to eat a serving of nuts instead could help you gain 26 minutes of extra healthy life, according to a University of Michigan study.

The study, published in the journal Nature Food, evaluated more than 5,800 foods, ranking them by their nutritional disease burden to humans and their impact on the environment. It found that substituting 10 percent of daily caloric intake from beef and processed meats for a mix of fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, and select seafood could reduce your dietary carbon footprint by one-third and allow people to gain 48 minutes of healthy minutes per day.

“Generally, dietary recommendations lack specific and actionable direction to motivate people to change their behavior, and rarely do dietary recommendations address environmental impacts,” says SFSI affiliate Katerina Stylianou, who did the research as a doctoral candidate and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at U-M’s School of Public Health. She currently works as the director of public health information and data strategy at the Detroit Health Department.

Read more here.

It makes you wonder, with everything that is said to be bad for you that people consume, how come our parents’ generation is living ever longer? The sensible approach is simply to regard things that aren’t so good for you as occasional treats only. –Eds

Why? Because they’re no longer crashing back to ground and land on apartment buildings. Unlike Nato, Russia doesn’t target civillians.

A year ago, I pointed out that when the Ukrainians have no interceptors, Kiev is a much safer place for civillians than when they do.

Nothing has changed https://t.co/uoAFWDWOdB

— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) July 19, 2026

The message is a bit different from her expression …

Yesterday was Starmer’s final day as UK Prime Minister; Monday their time, he hands the reins over to Andy Burnham.

No-one is expecting any significant change to the most disasterous policies and attitudes that have characterised the last 2 years under Starmer. The main failure that Burnham has recognized, publicly at least, is that the Starmer regime shouldn’t have been as silent as it has been on Israel’s ‘population thinning’ in Gaza since October 2023, and currently in south Lebanon.

However, one other significant change he intends is scrapping previous plans for digital ID cards to focus on ‘cost of living measures’. Unusally for a Leftist regime, he plans to decentralize the government by establishing “No. 10 North” in Manchester, overhauling the Whitehall structure, and explore the devolution of business rates to support high streets and pubs. Potentially regional mayors will get control over a share of national taxes. [1, 2, 3]

Should it still be called Starmerland? It’s the same question that occurred after Comrade Jacinda quit in NZ in January 2023. Probably not, but the country will remain just as unpleasant and dangerous as it has been.

It looks like a less salubrious part of Starmerland. Although instead of going to this trouble, why not simply adopt the lovely ginger cat?