{"id":327030,"date":"2026-05-15T06:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327030"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:38:47","slug":"new-european-military-bloc-for-war-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327030","title":{"rendered":"New European Military Bloc for War Against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jeffrey D. Sachs \u2013 The Unz Review May 13, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Europe\u2019s political class is sleepwalking into a catastrophe of its own design. In a sweeping, blistering conversation with Glenn Diesen, economist and diplomat <strong>Jeffrey Sachs<\/strong> lays out how the continent\u2014once poised to build a \u201ccommon European home\u201d with Russia\u2014is instead resurrecting the most dangerous instincts of the 20th century. What began as NATO expansion for \u201csecurity\u201d has metastasized into a new, explicitly European military bloc built <strong>not with Russia, but against it<\/strong>, and without the American umbrella that once restrained escalation.<\/p>\n<p>Sachs argues that this isn\u2019t strategy\u2014it\u2019s <strong>madness<\/strong>: a lethal mix of Eastern European Russophobia, German political amnesia, British imperial nostalgia, and Washington\u2019s long project of hegemony. The result is a Europe preparing for a war it cannot win, against a nuclear superpower, over a security architecture that could have been inclusive, stable, and peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>This interview is a warning flare: Europe is not drifting toward war. It is <strong>building the machinery for it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8WeTG3rAFs?si=TAs9VfCimywQNGJZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D8WeTG3rAFs\">Video Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highlights <strong>\u201cNATO would not move one inch eastward.\u201d<\/strong> Sachs cites the explicit 1990 U.S.\u2013German promise to Gorbachev\u2014now erased from Western memory\u2014as the original betrayal that set today\u2019s crisis in motion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The rejected alternative: a \u201ccommon European home.\u201d<\/strong> Gorbachev offered a demilitarized, inclusive security system \u201cfrom Rotterdam to Vladivostok.\u201d Europe and the U.S. chose bloc politics instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NATO expansion wasn\u2019t about defense\u2014it was about hegemony.<\/strong> Sachs: U.S. strategists like Brzezinski saw NATO as the military arm of a unipolar world, with Ukraine as the \u201cgeopolitical pivot\u201d to keep Russia permanently weak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Germany broke its own word\u2014and its own strategic brain.<\/strong> Sachs argues that German leaders\u2014from Merkel\u2019s capitulation in 2008 to Mertz\u2019s open militarism today\u2014abandoned the country\u2019s historic role as Europe\u2019s peace\u2011anchor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eastern Europe\u2019s \u201cvisceral Russophobia\u201d is steering the EU.<\/strong> The Baltics and Poland, shaped by Cold War trauma, now drive Brussels\u2019 most aggressive policies\u2014while Western Europe follows to preserve EU unity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2008 Bucharest Summit was the point of no return.<\/strong> Merkel knew NATO\u2019s pledge to bring in Ukraine and Georgia was a <em>casus belli<\/em>\u2014and folded anyway. Sachs calls this the moment \u201cEurope lost it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Maidan coup as the hinge moment.<\/strong> Sachs describes the 2014 U.S.-backed overthrow as the event that finally installed a government willing to pursue NATO membership despite prior Ukrainian neutrality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Europe is now preparing for war\u2014without the U.S. shield.<\/strong> Sachs: A new European military bloc including Ukraine \u201cjust means war with Russia. It\u2019s nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drone programs = escalation, not deterrence.<\/strong> Mass\u2011produced long\u2011range drones aimed at \u201cstriking deep into Russia\u201d reveal Europe\u2019s shift from defensive posture to offensive capability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis is madness. 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