NATO summit

A NATO summit is a particularly pompous meeting of globalists that can have terribly harmful consequences, particularly for the United States as costs and burdens are shifted to the American people by the globalists. The location of this meeting near the Lithuania-Russia border is itself a provocation of Russia.

"NATO’s summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11-12 has been touted as one of the most important ever held by the alliance," declared Barron's a week prior in 2023. The status of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) will be high on the agenda.

Globalists seek to add Sweden to NATO, which Turkey opposes. Globalists also seek to entangle further the U.S. in the NATO war in Ukraine, by demanding advanced weaponry from America and even a pathway for placing American troops in combat against Russia.

One observer noted: "The upcoming meeting of NATO in Vilnius (July 12 and 13) will be rancorous. Poland continues to carp at Germany about paying reparations. France is burning and political turmoil is building. And Turkey is furious with Sweden over the recent desecration of the Koran while Swedish police stood by and did nothing. NATO is far from united and there is no evidence of a growing consensus to give more money and weapons to Ukraine. Hungary, for example, is calling for a halt in sending anything else to Ukraine."

A week before the summit on July 3,2023 as reality set in, Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky publicly admitted for the first time that his missile defense system failed, and a Russian missile strike on the Ukraine Security Service (SBU) internal secret police headquarters in Sumy had indeed been successful, killing several officers.

On the Weapons and Strategy substack, Stephen Bryen wrote: {{quotebox-float|"Part of the Western foundation for Ukraine's offensive was the introduction of modern technology on the battlefield, represented especially by the appearance of the Leopard tank. Unfortunately for NATO, the Leopard tanks have not saved the day for Ukraine. So far, between 16 and 20 Leopards have been knocked out on the battlefield along with lots of other NATO-supplied armor including infantry fighting vehicles such as the US Bradley and mine clearing systems like the Finnish Leopard 2R HMBV and the German Wisent 1.

Leopard, along with the US Abrams main battle tank, form the armor backbone of NATO's land defense. While the US and its allies have superior airpower, they have sparse and inadequate air defenses compared to what Russia can bring forward. That means that a land defense needs to stand up to Russian artillery, attack helicopters armed with missiles, lethal drones and air launched mines.

The failure of the Leopard in Ukraine represents a huge challenge for NATO and signals that the current NATO "tripwire" strategy may not work. Under the tripwire paradigm, the idea is that an initial Russian attack (most likely in the Baltic states because Russian forces are very close to [[Estonia] and Latvia) can be held for some days while the US ships heavy forces into Europe. But if the tripwire is illusory, then NATO is exposed to rapid Russian advances in Europe should an attack be launched. The bottom line is that NATO's strategy needs revision or, alternatively, that the Europeans and Russians work out a mutually acceptable security arrangement. It is exactly such an arrangement that Russia proposed to NATO in December, 2021 and which was rejected without discussion.

Now the ammunition cupboard is bare, even in the United States. The Russians are learning how to counter advanced western systems, a negative development for NATO's security. It could not be a worse time to risk Europe's security on the basis of being able to stop a Russian attack. It may be easy for British politicians to scream they want NATO to fight in Ukraine, but it isn't Londo that is likely the first target of Russia's missiles. Cracks in the alliance are emerging more quickly than anticipated, and Europe's weak governments are in trouble."}}