Europe Ramps Up Defenses as Russian Hybrid Threats Intensify

All hell is breaking loose as European countries, as the UK are all saying, that they expect the war in Ukraine to spread throughout all of Europe in the coming weeks and months. It is a dire warning, but we're hearing it from essentially all European countries now and the UK this, as the war is escalating in Ukraine and in Russia as well. Donald Trump said during a press conference in the Oval Office on Friday that there is already an ongoing war in Europe and that Russia is currently attacking all of the various European countries. This as Donald Trump says that he will be removing 25,000 or more troops from the United States in Europe. Donald Trump also says that he will not be delivering a lot of weapon systems, not just to Ukraine, but to European countries and to United States allies throughout the world, that the United States committed these weapons too. We've been hearing this consistently over the past week, but it's been especially becoming louder and more pronounced over the past 24 hours. It really started with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warning that Russia plans to launch, quote, hybrid style drone and missile strikes against nations supporting Ukraine, including NATO member Poland as the war enters its most crucial phase. And then we heard from a lot of other European leaders saying the same. I mean, Switzerland announced that it was adopting Switzerland announced it was adopting a new national security strategy in response to an increasingly unstable global environment, citing Russia's war in Ukraine, hybrid threats and critical dependencies. We keep hearing that term hybrid threats. You know, I'm not sure if that's some like euphemism. I understand the word hybrid, but when it comes to actual drone strikes and missile strikes, I'm not really sure what's hybrid about that. It's an interesting kind of phrase that we keep hearing over and over again. So Switzerland strategy includes 46 measures focused on strengthening state and economic resilience, protecting critical infrastructure, improving civilian protections and boosting defense capabilities. You take a look at what multiple other countries are saying right now. For example, you have Sweden announcing the rapid deployment of German and Swedish forces to the Gotland island. That was carried out units from Sweden and Germany are rehearsing swift reinforcement of strategic island protection in order to ensure security of the Baltic Sea. French President Emmanuel Macron says we must remain united in the face of crisis. Donald Tusk also posted yesterday. We all have difficult weeks and months ahead of us. Today in Ukraine, we are showing our solidarity. Finland's president stube tells citizens to "mentally prepare for sabotage and Russian drones." You have in the UK, there the government announced that it wants the people there to prepare for war. The UK government says citizens should prepare for severe disruptions in the coming months to their lives. It wants people to start stockpiling canned food and drinking water, strengthening their civic resilience and planning for the possibility of war. It's not just coming from Prime Minister Burnham, the chief of defense. Sir Richard Knighton says that the Russian threats have made this the most dangerous period of his 35 year military career. And work has already begun in the UK for its so-called war book, where it wants people to start stockpiling canned food, drinking water, and really preparing for the possibility of war. President Emmanuel Macron of France called Prime Minister Tusk and all of these warnings that were hearing sound and well documented and in France saying they're announcing new critical infrastructure protection plans saying that this is from President Emmanuel Macron. Again, you hear this word hybrid. Russian hybrid threat against Europe and France has intensified in recent weeks. And so again, this is something we're hearing over and over again. And it is indeed worrying to hear all of this back to back like this. Here's how one account says it, very worrying signals from European leaders in the last few hours even regarding Russia. It's as if they already know what's about to happen. And it is kind of very reminiscent of when Russia invaded Ukraine. And you kind of heard lots of people saying it's happening. It's happening. It's about to happen. And then people are like, oh, they'll never do that. They'll never do that. And then it happened. I mean, this is also coming out of time where the United States is the weakest that it has ever been. The US is out of interceptors. The US is out of offensive weapons. The US is out of a lot of its equipment. American military bases in the Middle East have been destroyed. America's security umbrella throughout the world is gone. Bloomberg reported the US warned its allies expect delays up to five years on key purchased weapon deliveries due to catastrophically, due to the US catastrophically exhausting its own stocks in the Iran War. Germany was told, wait, five years for Tomahawks. Japan was told its Tomahawks would be delayed up to two years. The US used, you know, most of its stats, most of its patriots. And so the US can't even have its interceptors for itself, yet alone for its allies. But this is also coming out of time where the Trump regime Pentagon is saying it will be withdrawn 25,000 or more US troops from Europe, nearly a third of the American force station there, along with aircraft ships and weapons, despite warnings from NATO allies about everything I've been saying to you that this situation is getting dire and the threat of this hybrid war is becoming very real. This is also coming on the heels of learning that the United States military was about to attack a Chinese vessel after the military received a report that the Chinese vessel was transporting nuclear weapons programs and that it was posing a imminent threat to the United States. But just before moments before the US was about to strike this ship, officials discovered that this report was generated by an AI chatbot and that it was all made up. It was all fabricated. The chatbot just created an entirely fake scenario. So as Medi Hassan says, an AI chatbot uncritically relied upon by idiots in the Trump regime almost kicked off World War III. This as we also learned that a shipment of F-35 fighter jet components from the United States ended up in Hong Kong likely being analyzed by China this past and the summer actually in the past summer in the summer of 2025. These shipment included an F-35 canopy containing stealth technology. It just went to the wrong destination apparently. It was in transit from Australia to the US and the US was not safeguarding it and it ended up in Hong Kong. Also Donald Trump announcing two things as well. Number one, the Trump regime wants to sign really big business deals with Russia before the war in Ukraine ends. This is according to the New York Times marking a ship from Trump's claim that we would only do economic or he would only do economic deals with Russia once the war was over. But the Trump regime says let's do deals with Putin now, which if you say doesn't that contradict the fact that right now the United States Congress passed a Russian sanctions bill that Donald Trump had to sign into law and which he did sign into law. But ultimately the enforcement mechanism to take care that the sanctions are actually implemented requires Trump to activate the sanctions themselves, particularly the potent secondary sanctions against people who do business with Russia. But if you've been watching what's been taking place this past week and just watching in general, I mean the US sent an envoy to Belarus to open up more trade there. Donald Trump can't wait to greet Xi Jinping, which of course does a lot of business with Russia and Iran. And so ultimately, you know, I think that Donald Trump's not going to actually execute the law and impose secondary sanctions over here. You take a look at what's happening in Odessa right now in Kiev right now throughout Ukraine. Again, the war escalating there. Let me share with you the moment of this strike in Odessa that looks like it was hitting the Ukrainian railways, but also it was right by a residential area as well. Let me play this clip. More video footage of Odessa right here where you'll see looks like a command center of the Ukrainian railways, but it also looks like it's very close to a a residential area, let's play it. And a Russian strike, here's another angle hitting the Ukrainian railway. You can see it for yourself right over here. With all of these deeply serious things going on as well, Pete Hegseth rolled out his plan with Mandatory Testosterone screening on Friday. He says we're going to have high tea service members. So there's Mandatory Testosterone screening for Mal-US service members, age 30 or older. And according to the report itself and the Mandatory screening guidelines, the Trump regime will be checking spontaneous erections and the quantity of erections of service members over 30 to see if they need to have testosterone supplements, which interestingly, testosterone supplements have not been proven to actually help with physical activity performance of people age 30 or over. It is known to increase sexual drive, but they're going to be doing erection tests right now in the United States military. Also with all of this taking place, flights in and out of Luxembourg's Findel Airport were temporarily suspended yesterday on September 18 following suspected drone activity there. And this incident comes as various European leaders warned of this growing hybrid threat of Russia. There was a notice to air missions, a no-tam, which basically shut down lots of the airport for a significant period of time. And this is as we learned about similar incidents previously taking place in Europe. This is what Donald Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday about how Europe is under tack already from Russia. You can hear for yourself here, play this clip. President, Polish leaders have expressed concerns that Russia may attack Ukrainian allies. Do you agree with that assessment? I think they already have a tack Ukrainian allies. They've been attacking Ukrainian allies for approximately five minutes. Earlier yesterday, Putin said I want to thank Russian weapons manufacturers for their initiative and innovation for serious, intense and sometimes simply heroic work without any exaggeration. Putin also said, "Modern and in many ways unique weapons and equipment are being created, which are rightfully considered not only in our country, but also in the world among the most reliable and effective. Russia has been increasing its Shahid drone capabilities and the speed of the Shahid drones, as well as the capabilities of their ballistics working with Iran for that." Netanyahu also said, "Since the Trump regime wants to give F-35s to Saudi Arabia, while the Trump regime lost F-35 parts in Hong Kong, Netanyahu's regime says, 'Well, then we need to extract some sort of benefit because we don't support the U.S. giving these F-35s. So you need to arm us with more weapons, Trump regime, to compensate us for the fact that you're giving these weapons to Saudi Arabia. Israel is expected to seek additional weapons systems since, as compensation, perhaps classified defense projects, hour four, hour five, intercepted cooperations because of the F-35s being given over to Saudi Arabia. And then the Trump regime announced on Friday, what it said was a deal where it's basically going to be taking over Greenland and Donald Trump made this whole post and says, "You know, we made this really strong deal, it's ours, but when you really look at what the deal is, it basically looks like the same agreement as 1951, it's just restating the agreement, but Donald, we're going to put all of our military troops inside Greenland. Greenland, like Oral and Jolson are saying, "Our fight against Trump's ambition to take over Greenland has been won. The new agreement explicitly recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark and the Greenland and people's right to self-determination. Thank you to everyone who has stood with us and supported Greenland." And so in Greenland, they're looking at it as a win that they maintain their sovereignty, but Donald Trump is using it as a way to attack Greenland and Denmark further with all of this going on. Finally, I'll just say this, both Ukraine and Russia, if there's anything uniting them, they both hate Whitkoff and also likely Kushner, but they definitely hate Whitkoff. Everyone hates Whitkoff, Kiev independent rights. Kiev and Moscow are growing increasingly frustrated with the U.S. mediated process and Washington's envoy Steve Whitkoff. They're like, "All Whitkoff wants to talk about his like restaurants." They're like, "We don't even know what this guy's even doing." He seems uninterested in the process. He just seems enamored by Putin and his friendship with Russia envoy Karel Demetriyev and Yuri Yushakov. And they're like, "Witkoff's just like a weird guy doesn't know what he's doing. Putin thinks he's a weird guy, Solinsky thinks he's a weird guy, and he is a weird guy." And so is Kushner. It's a strange thing that they're involved in this process at all. Well, there you have it, everybody. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. 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