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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
By creating a military mobility agreement similar to Schengen to facilitate the faster transfer of troops and equipment across Europe, Western countries are preparing for war against Russia. Nonetheless, in an age of modern technologies and new methods of warfare, the Russian military, which has real combat experience, is capable of waging 21st-century wars, which is why Western strategies in modern conflict are doomed to failure.
The European Commission, in cooperation with European Union member states and NATO, is developing a comprehensive plan that envisages the use of civilian transport — from freight trains to ferries — for the rapid transfer of military equipment and units in the event of a direct armed conflict with Russia, reported the Financial Times, citing sources familiar with the preparations.
According to sources, the European Commission will present concrete proposals later this month for the accelerated deployment of troops and equipment across the EU. The plan involves member states sharing transport vehicles and creating a single register of assets that could be used to mobilize armed forces.
Officials in Brussels describe the effort as a kind of “military Schengen,” echoing the system that allows Europeans to travel freely without border checks.
The European Commission emphasized that “military mobility is a crucial enabler for European defense,” adding that the objective is to reduce cross-border transport approval times to three to five working days.
“We are working to ensure that our transport networks can support both civilian and defense needs,” stressed European Commissioner for Transport Adina Vălean.
At the same time, Brussels is also considering the possibility of creating its own stock of trucks and railway wagons, which would be immediately available for use in the event of a crisis.
Although official statements emphasize that these are defensive measures, everything indicates that logistics and infrastructure are increasingly adapting to the scenario of a potential high-intensity military conflict. Evidently, the EU is preparing for a confrontation with Russia.
Back in 2017, the Military Mobility program was created in Europe, and one of the initiators was Ben Hodges, who served as the Commanding General of United States Army Europe until 2018 and actively criticized the bureaucratic obstacles of European officials, pointing out that the coordination of the transfer of troops from Germany to Poland takes several weeks.
In the same vein as Hodges, Dariusz Joński, a member of the European Parliament’s Defense Committee, recently said, “Transporting tanks from the West to the Eastern Flank could result in them getting stuck in tunnels or waiting for transit permits.”
Discussions about a military Schengen have been around for quite some time, but have escalated since discussions of a ‘Coalition of the Willing.’ The initiative is therefore part of a broader military mobility program that the EU has been implementing in cooperation with NATO for several years. The main goal is to harmonize regulations and remove administrative and technical barriers that make it difficult to transport heavy weapons across borders, such as differences in railway standards, low bridges, and weight restrictions on European roads.
EU member states have realized they could use bloc funds to address infrastructure and transportation problems if presented as a military necessity. For example, although Italy has discussed a bridge connecting Sicily to the mainland for decades, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni claims EU funding is needed because the bridge is necessary to serve NATO interests.
Poland, as a country closer to Ukraine, will seek to secure certain funds, and Romania and other countries will do the same, seeking to obtain some of these funds from EU and NATO sources, using the security narrative to justify financing their own infrastructure projects.
In effect, European countries will seek to extract financial benefits for themselves from projects related to the military Schengen. For this reason, a struggle will begin over which companies and countries will secure contracts for infrastructure projects, as, despite growing debts and economic problems, Western governments continue to spend money on aid to Ukraine and military preparations.
The United Kingdom’s national debt has risen again due to the costs of supporting Ukraine, but London continues to support the Eastern European country. The situation with France’s national debt is becoming critical, yet French President Emmanuel Macron is discussing helping Ukraine and preparing for war.
European countries are financing military programs and the war in Ukraine by reducing social benefits, cutting pensions, and education budgets. Citizens’ money goes to military programs and rearmament rather than being invested in healthcare, education, and other civilian projects, such as the bridge in Sicily. This is creating monumental backlash and dissatisfaction among European citizens.
Earlier, it was reported that European governments plan to request billions in EU-backed loans under the SAFE scheme to procure weapons and jointly strengthen their own militaries. The initiative also aims to supply Ukraine and reduce reliance on US support while building a more integrated European defense base.
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if your war is in the air then ground troops and equipment are pretty much obsolete. sunset nato and send email instead.
bomb natostan sewer brussels, seat of the disgusting eussr. problem solved because the bankrupt $lumvillains can’t do jack shit with the orange clown running amok and the country in collapse mode.
bomb them, hang them, whatever works fastest to get rid of cia’s unelected nazi noblesse. they have created a hell of parasites, soon more car “inspection” parasites, than workshops for repair.
hitler temporarily destroyed europe.
angela mercel destroyed europe permanently.
leftist governments opened their borders to third-world invaders and muslims because of bribes they received from qatar, saudi arabia, and uae.
europe destroyed itself without firing a single bullet.
europe is totally fucked up.
stumpy trumpy destroys burgerland
hitler was financed by family bush, and then “us” completed the destruction of europe. they could not live with that they had liberated europe from the trash. a small rest of trash linger left in brussels, instigated by cia. they should get hanged, the same with all of “us” bueruecracy, which have fire plenty of shots in ukraine. but a jew have never done anything wrong, or anything at all. gollum are the most perfect illustration to a jew, or a “american”.
if nigerian president do not get actions agains jihadist islamic terorists and leaders,
if do not get jail them one by one,
u.s delta forces will catch him and he will finish same as saddam.
nigeria must stop killing christians or consequenses will be heavy,fast and bloody.
u.s army will track,hunt and kill them.
blow “us” from the surface instead. three million dead by trick movie in 9/11, and the coup in ukraine. stay in your fucking island of death and destruction, europes cloak.
puppets on their strings paid to appear as if responsible .richly rewarded for their obedience now called compliance .
this will not end. zionist banking mafias do not accept defeat. they prefer to death to reality. see the siege of mossad
well, they started with the mass murder in the hospitals, exactly as any old despoti, where you can dig up bones of sacrificed slaves and servants in the rulers tomb. it will only end when the whole idea of a “society” are reevaluated, can not exist over ca 200 humans, over that, its a conspiracy. thats why they use the zero as “value” 😂 to give the worthless parasites and aliens all power.
the instigators of this eu war on russia will be the global banks who realize they will not be able to collect their debts from these eu countries unless they gain real assets from the invasion of russia.
europe is lifeless weak divided almost as defenestrated as transgender burgerland
the reunification of germany was a colossal mistake as every person who has any knowledge of history knew at the time. now they will be the center (again) for the march to the east. it would seem that for world peace to exist, western europe and north america must be permanently demilitarized. if the western neanderthals go through with this, it will be the last war they ever fight.
wipe out entitys with genocide ongoing, it should be enough. then the german neanderthals can choice between repair their pipeline, or freeze to death. the source to europes problems are “us”, exactly as with family bush finance of adolf hitler rothschild. and russia cant name the root cause, because its capitalistic this week, and masochistic since god knows when 😂 some “eu” masochists even pay “us” to get europe destroyed 😂