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Germany and UK to sign ‘historic’ defence pact – Sunday Times

RT | October 20, 2024

The UK and Germany will sign a bilateral defense agreement this week, paving the way for both nations to step up their military drills near Russia’s borders, The Sunday Times has reported.

Under the terms of the deal, Britain and Germany will cooperate on arms procurement and development, with the agreement serving as a “first step” for a larger deal between the UK and EU next year, the British newspaper reported.

The pact “is expected to enable British and German forces to conduct joint military exercises on NATO’s eastern border with Russia, most probably in Estonia and Lithuania,” The Times noted, without offering further explanation.

Britain and Germany already take part in NATO exercises, such as this year’s ‘Steadfast Defender’ drills. Conducted near Russia’s western borders, ‘Steadfast Defender’ involved 90,000 troops from all 32 NATO states, and was perceived in Moscow as open preparation for “a potential armed clash with Russia.”

In addition to these multilateral exercises, Germany already takes part in smaller-scale bilateral exercises, such as Germany’s ‘Grand Quadriga’ drills with Lithuania earlier this year, and its ‘Baltic Tiger’ maneuvers with Estonia in 2022. The Times’ article suggests that Britain could join these exercises once the new deal is signed.

British Defense Secretary John Healey told the newspaper that the deal is modeled on the 2010 Lancaster House agreement between the UK and France. Under this agreement, Britain and France pledge to create a joint expeditionary force to take part in military drills, to collaborate on developing drones and submarine technology, and to share nuclear-weapons data with each other.

During a two-day NATO summit in Brussels this week, Healey also announced that British troops stationed in Estonia will receive new drone warfare equipment and training, and that the UK will work with Germany, France, Poland and Italy to create new long-range missiles for Ukraine.

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  1. Apparently, Central Europeans have forgotten about all those murders committed by the Western Occident/USA European Gladio programs. The assassination of Italy’s Enrico Mattei who’s stated platform was to buy oil and gas from the cheapest sources (the former USSR) and had he not been assassinated would have made Northern Italy far, far, wealthier today. The popular German Banker, Alfred Herrhausen, a man who clearly stood outside the fishbowl of politicians and businessmen compromised by Zionist lobbies was assassinated for this very reason. Herrhausen ‘s murder coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and his announcement of an upcoming speech to be delivered in NYC titled, The New Horizon’s of Europe put forth an all-together new economic platform aimed at forming German-Russian alliances…Unfortunately it was snuffed out by that ‘ol “Instant Karma” tool of the CIA-again, murder cutting short the hope of a diplomatic and economic bridge between Germany and Russia. Instead of combining the vast riches, both in terms of commodities and the unmatched technical expertise found in Russia, the Germans decided to align themselves with venture capitalists, tax dodgers using banking secrecy jurisdictions to hide themselves from any social obligations, currency speculators and derivative marketeers who, in a collective action will eventually bring down the entire world into financial collapse, bankruptcy and total war.. DUMB choice Germany!

    The Baltic nations had such a nice arrangement during those pre-collapse years, managed by CCCP apparatchiks. Citizens had summer homes and owned their primary residences and in fact, still do. It would be wise for Estonians to recall the generous gifts of the recent past and take great pause to consider that if City of London bankers presided over them during the 50’s and 60’s the Baltic peoples would still be holding two mortgages and titles to their current lodgings would be held at the bank.The western Occident suffers bank closures every day, not so in today’s Russia-Think! will you ever ?

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