RT.com – Jan 30, 2026
A group of NATO countries is working to set up a new bank by 2027 to help fund military spending and prepare for a potential conflict with Russia, Izvestia reports, citing sources.
Western officials and media outlets have speculated that Russia could be in a position to attack NATO within several years, with the bloc’s chief, Mark Rutte, designating the country as an “enemy.” Moscow has dismissed claims that it plans to attack NATO states as “nonsense.”
Amid the stand-off over Ukraine, European NATO members have embarked on a military buildup, with US President Donald Trump also pushing member states to take more responsibility for defense and raise spending to 5% of GDP.
Izevstia reported that the Defense, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) would be designed to help countries reach the 5% threshold by counting paid-in capital toward the target and by using private funding, lending, and bond mechanics. According to the paper and the DSRB website, the framework would allow some national budget limits to be sidestepped and make the defense sector more attractive for private investment.
The paper’s sources said the bank’s backers aim to finalize its charter in the first quarter of 2026, with an inaugural bond issue expected in the third or fourth quarter of 2026, and a full launch in 2027.
The report said the project would be spearheaded by British officials and aims to fundraise as much as $135 billion, with Ottawa and Toronto mulled as potential locations for the headquarters.
Another facet of the framework is that it provides an incentive for centralized procurement of standardized weapons, the article said.
The framework is also supported by banks such as ING, JPMorgan, Commerzbank, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, and RBC Capital Markets.
Izvestia added that, given what it called NATO leaders’ “aggressive” rhetoric, the structure would likely end up “funding offense rather than defense.”
However, not all NATO members are on board with the plan. In December, the German Finance Ministry rejected the idea of creating new defense financing mechanisms, saying it would like to focus “on the rapid implementation of existing instruments.” According to Izvestia, France and several Eastern European nations are prioritizing their own frameworks.
Eh? The “defence sector” is wholly owned by the kike. It’s probably its biggest cash cow. But sure, “invest” in your own destruction. Why not? It’s the kike way.
LOL…
they say..
‘A group of Nato cuntry’s’…when what they really mean are financialists, speculators, ghouls of capital who have shat the nest so bad that the only way they can derive their cof cof…’valyou’ and ‘prophet’ is to actually open a fucking war bank…to side step any costs they may incur..you know like tax or transparency etc etc.. because they’ll be creating the cash and billing you..
it’s all that’s left..the war economy, you’ve all limped through it and the managed decline since WW2..
jeesh..daddy war bucks is back!!..truth is there IS only daddy war bux.. whether it’s on your mind and freedumbs..or making sausage meat out of you and some other poor sap in some muddy field in the arsehole of the whirled…
it’s like one huge scrap machine that turns anything of use and beauty into fucking landfill…
yup..
That’s a bit creepy isnt it, to set up a bank for investors to invest in a war, privatize warfare, privatize weapons , to see how they do in some fake battlefield. What’s next : become a stockholder of that bank? Yeh, sure as if this isnt something they do now.
And here comes another massive looting of the citizenry since the actual owners of this criminal scheme of a “bank” will certainly be slobbering kikes bludgeoning poor saps with their mechanism of slavery they call compound interest. You know, the usual.
More provocative, warped ranting from that frothing shit weasel Mark Rutte, a limp-wristed twit begging to have his mouth stuffed with dog shit as he gets the piss beaten out of him and violently ass-raped by a mob of randy orc invaders that he’s done nothing about. Then tar and feather that dumb-f*ck and hang him from a bridge.