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Intermezzo at the Apocalypse Host
When the atmosphere is prepared, when the pie of the war is ready, when everyone around them are hungry or convinced that they have to try a piece, everyone is served.
The first pieces reach who you do not think, then those who will remain customers for an indefinite period are served, only the sponsors are still in the shade, they also know that it is not good to find out who paid the meal.
And at first all the goodies are sweet, they seem to bring after them other tasty surprises, other pleasant attempts of the senses.
The war is like a banquet, prepares in advance, everyone is invited and has to enter the ballroom, in the morning those who are still will gather those who have not resisted drink and clean the broken glasses and furniture destroyed.
Or what's left of the casino building.
Or what can be recovered from the city.
Maybe from the country where the fast event took place.
Wars begin by being invoked as solutions, as inevitable perspectives, people get used to falling asleep in the evening listening to the newspapers, even dreams are infiltrated with fighter holograms, the next day brings other calls of the goddess Minerva, the one who was also wise.
We would say today that this is a combination against nature, but perhaps, in those times of ancient times, restraint and diplomacy were not considered to have too high status, wars resolved disputes and were considered a proof of wisdom.
These days there is a background noise that seems to prepare, as before, the companies for confrontation. The spectrum of positions are narrowing more and more, tending to only two colors, black and white, blue and red, blue and yellow, according to preferences, who is not in one part of the spectrum is, of course, in the other, the undecided or indecisions are the suspects of each camp.
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At the end of September 2025, the Ukraine War seems to have reached a stage of balanceboth on the front, behind him and internationally, if you follow what is delivered to you by the media, if you listen to the official statements, if you read the conflict analyzes.
Russia attacks terrestrial, in several directions, but successes are local, nothing resembles an offensive, because the front is no longer the one that has been learned in military academies.
They are only fortified points of resistance, with wide spaces between them.
There, at the contact line, which is also a gray area of several kilometers, in fact, the two drones are confronted, supported by two guns and missile systems.
When the space has been cleaned by the human force on the ground, the assault, Russian or Ukrainian groups, can advance through the already desolate territory and can occupy another number of square kilometers, placing the flags on what has remained more visible in the area, a block skeleton, a house with the roof.
Ukraine also has a reply, sending in recent days strokes of drones to targets in energy infrastructure, sometimes over a thousand kilometers in the depth of Russian territory.
Russia responds with night attacks, hundreds of drones and rockets (soon the threshold of 1000 will be exceeded, every night!) Rastening the Ukrainian territory and even further, amusing the neighbors, to see if they are awake and vigilant.
And everyone makes calculations how to keep or put an end to this balance.
No one likes a war to whom the victory is not shown.
Investment in the war can bring victory. And no, it is not in the pocket of Europe the thicker wallet.
And it doesn't matter how thick the military wallet is if you can't buy what you have proposed.
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“The Atlantic”one of the well -informed publications in Washington, oriented, is true, more to the democratic half of the American political spectrum, analyzes very recently, the optics of the Trump Administration on weapons sales.
In an article signed by Vivian Salma, an x -ray of changing the Pentagon position is made regarding a potential contract with Denmark, even greater than the Danish annual budget – 9.1 billion dollars, more precisely – for the purchase of performing anti -aircraft defense systems, it is of course the Patriot system.
The Danish procurement option came in the context in which many states in Europe felt the need for, in front of the Russian threat, to equip their own armies with modern equipment, to cover the national endowment needs, after some of the equipment provided were already donated to Kiev.
And the acquisition in the US was in the logic of the previous position of the White House for Europe to procure as many American weapons as possible in order to transfer Ukraine, or to strengthen the European component of NATO.
But it wasn't to be.
The Pentagon again made the calculation of its own resources and learned that it has only 25 percent of its own intercepting missiles for Patriot systems, as a result, not to sell outside what would be good on the shelves in American ammunition deposits.
It is possible that the Pentagon's decision only refers to certain critical equipment, but, as is usually the case, those need to partners, from NATO or the steppe.
Bad luck.
The journalist from “The Atlantic” also asks a few questions about the direction from which the Trump administration sees that the major threat to the US comes if the one on the Operation Theater has passed in the second plane, or what happens to the research -development sector if the money from the big contracts no longer appear.
He did not learn answers to them, Denmark found one in Europe, orienting to the SAMP / T system, produced by the Franco – Italian Eurosam (Thales / MBDA) concern.
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Returning to the wallet, you can see with the naked eye, researching the military budgets, that the situation is not really pink in Europe.when placed on a column parallel to Russia's military investments.
According to an analysis by Patricia Marins, an expert in budget problems for defense, equipment and military technique, between 2022 – 2025, Russia invested $ 1 trillion in the Ukraine war, half of the amount from the official defense budgets, the other part of other sources.
These “other” sources are funds provided by the big companies Gazprom, Rosatom, Rosneft, Rushidro, companies that have sponsored projects and numerous double use but also directly related to war effort: explosives, ammunition, research and even weapons.
The Russian sovereign funds, reduced to half in the same period, begin to recover and reached $ 200 billion.
The gold reserves, 2,300 tons before the war, are now 2,800 tons.
For the period 2026 – 2028, defense expenses are estimated, totaling about $ 500 billion.
For the same period, the big Russian companies intend to contribute about $ 180 billion for various projects.
The conclusion is that Russia can carry this rhythm of investments in the war for at least three years.
Are the European figures somewhere around these amounts?
The Russian war effort is seen not only on the front line but also in the infrastructure behind it, in the military projects and programs that have changed the face of the Russian army, of the defense industry.
On the other hand, according to public data / Kiel Institute, in three years of war the West (US, Western Europe, Japan, Canada, etc.) supported Ukraine with about 309 billion euros ($ 360 billion) in military, financial and humanitarian aid:
– military support – 149.26 billion euros ($ 174 billion);
– Financial support – 139.34 billion euros ($ 163 billion);
– Humanitarian aid – 21.04 billion euros ($ 24 billion)
Almost half of the amount was used to ensure the operation of the Ukrainian state on the waterline and to pay the invoices.
Rounding the direct expenses for the war effort, it results in $ 200 billion, one fifth of Russian investments.
Thus, as a detail, it can be added that the Western weapons are three – four times more expensive than the Russian ones, the European defense industry has just begun to reoxym, there is no steel through Europe, a series of raw materials are under the end somewhere through the Far East, and the Ukrainian forces have a more and more obvious problem.
It is true that, on paper, the Russian wallet is not as thick as that of the West, but the count in the fair does not take into account what is in the home chamber.
Equally true is the fact that even for Russia the war effort cannot be unlimited, as time passes, the more West can find the antidote to Russian military investments.
If he really looks for him.
