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By Rhod Mackenzie

The German Ministry of Defence's large-scale plans to station thousands of German troops in Lithuania have encountered unexpected challenges. Despite the numerious  incentives offered by the German government, including financial bonuses and promises of comfortable lving conditio...

By Rhod Mackenzie

It appears that military build ups are all in vogue across Europe allegedly to combat the imaginary threat they allege is going to come from Russia. Now it seems that the Poles and the Germans are now at the forefront of his militarisation that is taking place
Now Poland has de...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Now despite its humiliating defeat in the Ukraine NATO members are still attempting to provoke Russia into a conflict.
It is looking to use Finland to establish control over both the Northern Sea Route and the Baltic Sea.
In the Baltic Sea  they will also utilise Estonia and Fi...

By Rhod Mackenzie

It has been reported that the US Department of Defence , better known as the Pentagon have communicated to their European counterparts in their NATO allies that the United States intends to discontinue funding for its current military support programmes on NATO's "eastern flank"....

By Rhod Mackenzie

Despite challenges related to their public finances, the Baltic countries are committed to increasing their defence budgets several fold. Consequently, Latvia, with a public debt of almost 50% of GDP, is planning to take out a substantial loan to cover its imagined defence needs...

By Rhod Mackenzie

China continues to demonstrate its not afraid of a trade conflct with the USA  and is strangling the US military industrial complex by restricting the supply of rare earth metals to the US companies . The impact of this is causing particuar  problems for the US defence industry,...