Europe risks a self-fulfilling prophecy over the threat from Russia
With a Ukrainian endgame looming, European concerns over a future Russian attack against a Nato country are acquiring a new sense of urgency, even inevitability.
In November, Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius invoked warnings by military historians that “we already had our last summer of peace”.
Soon afterwards, Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte prophesied that “we are Russia’s next target” and “must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured”.
Sir Richard Knighton, the UK chief of defence staff, echoed such sentiments when he called on the nation’s “sons and daughters” to be ready to fight in the event of a Russian attack on Britain.
Russian elites to engage in mirror imaging. They claim that it is Europe, re-arming, that is preparing to wage war against Russia, with the aim of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on the country.
Hanna Notte FT 19 December2025
https://www.ft.com/content/f3b75869-6bb0-4c45-ae51-855066a7f13a
The financial crisis of 1914 — which began in July, before the war itself broke out — was the biggest in history, bigger even than the crisis of 1929
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-financial-crisis-of-1914-which.html
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
Augusti fjorton, av Alexander Solsjenitsyn
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https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/03/1914-2014-jamnt-100-ar.html
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