The ancient catastrophes films, a very popular genre in the eighties and ninety of the last century, a similar scheme followed almost all: a terrifying threat for a population or for the entire planet and the government arose, which knew it, hid it or minimize it not to sow panic.
What a strange concept for the current viewer, right? A government that does not want to sow panic, with how useful it is to control the masses and shout for more control by power. Panic sowing and you will reap votesit seems to be today the slogan.
Of those fiction catastrophes, before which the rulers struggled to take importance to a real problemwe have gone to the opposite extreme of shouting that the wolf comes, a terrible and very voracious wol seek the protection of the pastor without asking annoying questions.
Cynically said the former Chicago mayor, Rahm Emmanuelthat a good politician never missed a good emergency, and from there we have lived Apocalypse in Apocalypse They are masked Financial crisisThey excuse the impoverishment of the common and justify the abolition of elementary public freedoms. And without pauses in between, that of anthropogenic climate change we have gone to the World plague And from this to imminent Russian invasion.
But they have had to think about mandarins of Brussels that it is best to compress them all in one, so they announce the already famous’72 -hour survival kit‘That we should all have on hand, and that the same applies to a pandemic as for a climatic emergency or a preventive attack by Moscow.
The subtext could not be clearer, although I do not think it is the message loved by the authorities: there you manage, which does not give us life. Curious, at least, when the constant and growing slogan of the last decades has been that they already care about our well -being and our security and that We must put ourselves in your hands.
In parallel, Europe has already launched, at least from nozzle, its last plan for get money out of nowhere And to unveiling to paroxysm to national economies: the plan to rearma to combat against Russia, which is said to attack Europe in 2030, just when it is estimated that we will have already rearmed. What detail by the Kremlin.
The idea is that our great ally, the true guarantor of the security of Western Europe since the end of World War II, USAhas left us in the stake when negotiating with the Russian enemy a peace plan for Ukraine, and Europeans have reacted like a headless chicken.
Is there any reasonable indication that Russia will invade us? With what is costing to advance in Ukraine, does not seem likely at all. But as ‘coconut’ to get fear in our body and justify a colossal injection of money in our languishing economy is perfect. If Russia attacked us, the conflict would become at the speed of lightning into a Nuclear war that the old continent would turn into a lot where the 72 -hour kit would help us.
But the interesting thing is that the millions run, because as a European army germ with possibilities it has little tour. The Marras Plan requires increasing the defense expense of the states by 1.5% on average, a collective total of 650,000 million euros more in the next four years; loans worth 150,000 million euros for investments in defense; pull the EU budget; and mobilize private capital for it. Supposedly, this will generate 800,000 million euros In common defense, an impressive and definitive figure if everything were a matter of money.
Let’s start with the most obvious: there is no European army. Is the NATObut NATO is fundamentally the United States, which is not for the work of supporting ourselves in our warlike delusions and from which it is rumored that could leave the alliance or, at least, of its most onerous ends.
For the rest, where will that money be spent to make us allegedly independent? Our defense industry gives for what it gives, and it is already estimated that two thirds of purchases will be made, as usual, in USAwhich we will continue, therefore, depending.
As much as Úrsula is committed, the European Union is not a military alliance and, much less, a mega -state. In real Europe each country has its own military interests (is anyone interested in our southern border?) That each one would try to impose, breaking the unity of essential objective in any war force.
But we will always have the 72 -year -old kit, which will accumulate dust on the storage room Waiting for an invasion that, such as the melting of the poles, never just arrived.
