Finian Cunningham – Strategic Review June 15, 2023
The NATO military alliance holds its largest-ever air force maneuvers since the bloc was formed 74 years ago. From June 12-23, the German Luftwaffe will lead the massive mobilization across the Baltic territories and Central Europe in an undisguised provocation to Russia.
The United States will deploy the most warplanes out of the 25 participating NATO partners. But Germany is the lead nation for the drills.
What’s even more provocative, the date for the so-called Air Defender 23 exercises falls on the 82nd anniversary of Operation Barbarossa. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis allies launched the biggest military invasion in history, against the Soviet Union. That invasion turned out to be a military disaster for Germany, heralding its historic defeat nearly four years later, along with horrific suffering and millions of deaths.
It’s not just the dates that provide an uncannily grim echo. The sinister symbolism today of the German balkenkreuz (Teutonic cross) emblazoned on warplanes flying close to Russia’s border is reinforced by the participation of many of the Third Reich’s former Axis allies in the present day. Finland and the Baltic territories were the staging post for Hitler’s master plan to conquer Russia and carry out its Final Solution of genocidal extermination.
Meanwhile, on the ground in Ukraine, German Leopard tanks also bearing the balkenkreuz are today pounding Russian forces from Ukrainian territory, which also served as the invasion path for Operation Barbarossa. So far, many of these modern German tanks have been destroyed in today’s battles, which does not bode well for NATO’s sponsored Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Of course, Air Defender 23 pales by comparison of scale with 1941. NATO’s warplanes flying in exercises over Germany and the Baltics number 250 with a total military personnel of 10,000 taking part. In Operation Barbarossa, the number of aircraft was at least 10-fold greater and involved up to 4 million ancillary soldiers. Nevertheless, the symbolism is conspicuous and staggering for anyone with a keen sense of history. Amazingly, no Western media have made any historical reference to Barbarossa, not even in brief passing. Then again, that’s not that amazing when you consider the Western media’s role is to propagandize this war against Russia.
And it’s not simply a mere symbolic historic echo, appalling though that is of itself. The NATO leaders are increasingly openly talking about the objective of “crushing Russia”. The air mobilization over the next fortnight is billed as rehearsing offensive scenarios against Russia.
The timing of the NATO-sponsored ground offensive beginning last week in Ukraine in conjunction with the unprecedented deployment of air power this week has the hallmarks of a real contingency plan to catapult the proxy war in Ukraine to an all-out war between nuclear powers.
The deployment of nuclear-capable warplanes by the United States and its NATO allies is matched by the move by Russia to install tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus next to Poland and the Baltic states. Moscow and Minsk are roundly condemned in the Western media for that move. But there is hardly any mention by the same media of the hundreds of tactical nukes that Washington has stationed in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, and Turkey. The NATO drills this week will involve rehearsing their launch against Russia and Belarus.
At a time when Washington and the NATO powers should be urgently exploring diplomacy to de-escalate the war in Ukraine, the U.S.-led NATO alliance is criminally fueling ever more conflict. The staging of Air Defender 23 and its stated aim to show force to Russia is a reckless lurch toward the abyss. An elite Western political class is inciting war despite growing Western public opposition to relentless NATO military support for Ukraine.
Such diplomatic effort is premised, however, on the vain assumption that the United States and NATO are interested in finding a political resolution with Russia. But evidently, the Western powers are not interested in that. They are motivated by defeating Russia.
This week, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg called for victory over Russia during a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington. Elsewhere, in Paris, the French, German and Polish leaders explicitly said the objective of the war in Ukraine is to “crush Russia”.
When the NATO alliance was formed in 1949 – it was a mere four years after the routing of the Third Reich largely by the Soviet Union’s Red Army. The bloc was created by Washington and London along with the remnants of Nazi Germany and its European collaborators for the purpose of fighting the next war against the Soviet Union. By “next war” we really mean the continuation of WWII.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the supposed end of the five-decade-old Cold War did not produce world peace. Far from it. NATO wars proliferated and now finally have converged on Russia. That’s because NATO’s mission was always about an aggressive projection of Western imperialist power. The relentless expansion of NATO forces since 1991 all the way up to Russia’s borders is proof of that.
The Soviet Union was not actually the definitive enemy of Western imperialism. The definitive enemy can be identified as any nation that does not prostrate itself as a vassal in order for Western capital to have free rein to ruthlessly exploit. Russia, China, and the other nations that do not conform with the U.S.-led “world order” are necessarily deemed to be enemies that must be targeted, sanctioned, menaced, and ultimately vanquished. History is at that inherent and compulsive war stage again.
Nazi Germany was a Western imperialist attack dog whose mission was to barbarically ravage the Soviet Union on behalf of the Western capitalist powers, which had covertly and often overtly funded the build-up of Germany’s war machine during the 1930s and early 40s. Ford, General Motors, DuPont, IBM, Wall Street Banks and the Bank of England, were just some of the Nazi industrial partners and financiers. The subsequent temporary alliance during World War Two between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union was merely an expedient arrangement for the West to eliminate its German attack dog that had gone rogue with its own ambitions.
When that war was over (or more accurately, arrested), it was then back to the real imperial business of pursuing hostilities by other means against Moscow in order to eliminate any international geopolitical obstacle to Western imperialism, as well as to exploit the greatest earthly reserves of natural resources under Russian soil.
In this perspective, Hitler’s “lebensraum” plans for Russian conquest were merely taken over by the Western powers who were – thanks to Western media deception and revisionism – deftly able to dissemble their criminal imperialism with a facade of “democracy”, “human rights”, “law and order”, and latterly, “rules-based order”.
In short, NATO’s ever-culminating war moves against Russia are a continuation of Operation Barbarossa, not an echo. Air Defender 23 just sounds more palatable – as with so much Western rhetoric and platitudes.
Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, Germany’s parliamentary defense committee chairwoman, reportedly said of the Air Defender 23 war drills this week: “History has caught up with us. We have a hot war in Ukraine.”
This warmongering German politician seemed to be oblivious to just how profound her words could be construed. She, like other Western politicians, pundits and media, portrays the Ukraine conflict with fairytale simplicity as a “defense against Russian aggression”.
No doubt, if they were around, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler would be cheering on their NATO incarnation – albeit 82 years too late.
Cunningham is being disingenuous.
“On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis allies launched the biggest military invasion in history, against the Soviet Union.”
Context?
The invasion was to thwart the USSR invasion plan for ALL OF EUROPE called Operation Thunder.
“…Hitler’s master plan to conquer Russia and carry out its Final Solution of genocidal extermination.”
And there we have it folks. Cunningham is a shill for the ((( chosenites ))).
As I stated yesterday, the jews that control britain and america aren’t going to stop because the jewkraine has been slaughtered – there’s all the other eu countries to use as cannon fodder yet. They want control of the rest of the world, because they already have complete control of you. And they want the oil back. Why else trash all the old weapons and force you to pay to replace them with nice shiny new ones? Why else implement the digital control grid? Fascists won’t stop until the last of their slaves are dead. Time to start practicing to eat with half your face blown off.
Cunningham, as usual, is deliberately twisting the facts of WW2. It is true Russia is in the right of this NATO(U.S.) proxy war of aggression of 2022 and 23. But the facts of 1941 were very different. The Soviets had been conspiring with Britain to entrap Germany between two fronts and had built up the largest invasion force in history to hit western Europe. Operation Barbarossa was a preemptive attack that came within a Ace of succeeding. The defeat of bolshevism, had Germany succeeded would have been very welcome as we see in the world today.
So the Germans were just following Anglo/American orders when Hitler’s army invaded the Soviet Union…
So the Soviet Union lost the war along with Germany. I can see why the Anglo/Americans never want those two nations to become allies. Russia has made a break and is now out from under the heel. Germany however is not.
Best thing that can happen to Germany now is for NATO to collapse. And it just might…
Did the US help the Soviets in WW2?
By the end of October, the first Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union was on its way. The United States entered the war as a belligerent in late 1941 and thus began coordinating directly with the Soviets, and the British, as allies.
The Western Allies provided support to the Soviets in the form of Lend-Lease as well as air and naval support.
How much did USA give USSR in WW2?
$11.3 billion
Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.”10 May 2020
A Google search is not likely to find anything about the Anglo/American powers contributing to Germany’s military army before and during WWII.
Hey Germany, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. That’s if they were fooled?
Did America really help to make Germany an advanced military power?
So it would attack Soviet Russia???
But we armed Soviet Russia. Wow.
@ Sam,
“Fascists won’t stop until the last of their slaves are dead.”
THIS STATEMENT SHOWS THAT YOU HAVE NOT A FUCKING CLUE WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!
Fascism was formed , solely, to fight against jewish bolshevism.
Read this excellent book relating the tenets of Fascism:…. AND LEARN.
https://archive.org/details/fascism-100-questions-asked-and-answered-oswald-mosley_202010
The British wanted a war with the Soviets because they wanted control of the Heartland knowing they could control the world. It has always been the prize. But Hitler decided to beat them to it not knowing of the British plan. When the British saw the intensity of Hitlers invasion they backed off and decided to let him go for it. Realising with US help they could probably take Germany later on. The Soviets didn’t have any plans to invade Europe that’s a false premise. There was no build up among the Soviets to suggest this. Caught off guard by Hitler they had to industrialize very quickly and with this they had US help. The Soviets did 80percent of the heavy lifting against Hitler and this is just a fact westerners will never be able to hide. Did you know that more American women died in industrial accidents including explosions than men that died crossing the Pacific. A true fact of war.
@ Gabreal Jones and those who are incapable of grasping fundamentals and enter into the realm of Psychotic ramblings.
“Foreword: Some ill-informed, and not very well read people, will suggest Hitler was a Controlled Agent, or even that he was jewish or a Rothschild… some type of Controlled Opposition – saying that Adolf Hitler wasn’t genuinely fighting against the New World Order and the jewish banking cartels. Honestly, these people have either not done the relevant research or are incapable of critical thinking – and many of these people in the alternative media who say these things are disinfo agents – Controlled Opposition Zionist shills. Below is the main body of an article by an excellent blogger called ‘diggerfortruth’, there are some additional quotes and links as well:”
“(And all who are knowledgeable, and well read, know this New World Order / One World Government / Globalization agenda is a jewish agenda, stemming from their doctrines: the Talmud, the Zohar, the Kabbalah… and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion)”
“why did Hitler abolish usury [debt slavery]? The jew’s number one control weapon. Why oh why would the jews allow a leader/agent to show the results of a country without this parasitism, knowing this would be broadcasted all across the world? ‘Look, look what can happen when you rid your country of the parasite and the parasite’s main tool’. An agent? Come on”
Adolf Hitler was not a Controlled Agent. He was not a Rothschild.
entityart.co.uk › adolf-hitler-was-not-a-controlled-agent
“It takes 2 to tango 0.55 “..You have never been told what the origine of Nazi is / NA is National Socialism / the German nazis….in 1923 a double agent said to Hitler : look your National Socialist party is not getting of the ground you need an alliance…. / he suggested an alliance with the Zionist party/…they joined hands & ever afterwards became known as the NA/ZI ´s…”
“Hitler an agent – wotta crock’a shit.”
One has to be a special kind of stupid to buy into this mumbo jumbo in the first place.
Adolf Hitler was not a Controlled Agent. He was not a Rothschild.
http://entityart.co.uk/adolf-hitler-was-not-a-controlled-agent-opposition-rothschild-jew-iewish-controlled-opposition-lies-zionist-bank-funding-soldier-david-irving/
The comparison is spurious, as the two sides have more or less swapped over since then, with a Commie West and a more free Russia. In 1965 ben-Gurion predicted this swap-over
Did Amerika really help to make Germany an advanced militairy power?
Well .. Germany had the biggest GE laths in the world in the 1930’s ..