Rumors Of War - On A Massive Scale

Amid talks of peace, the pale horse of Revelation appears ready to make its bloody ride through Europe and the world

Leo Hohmann

World leaders have been ratcheting up the war rhetoric of late to alarming levels. And it seems like Russia is in the crosshairs.

Look at some of the headlines out there from just the last two days:

• Macron labels Russia “a threat.”

  
  

• US ‘destroying world order’: ex-Ukrainian army chief

  
  

• EU must win arms race: Poland

  
  

• EU state detains six people over alleged pro-Russia treason plot

  
  

• EU agrees to raise additional $862 billion for defense

  
  

• Ukraine cut off from HIMARS targeting data (by Trump).

  
  

• Minister urges Dutch citizens to ‘prepare for war’

  
  

• China says it is ready for 'any type of war' with US

  
  

• US Defense secretary Pete Hegseth says US ready for war with China.

The headline that really grabbed my attention today was the first one on the above list. French President Emmanuel Macron’s bombastic threats against Russia while trying to make it sound like Russia is the aggressor. Yes, he even used the “N” word. N for nuclear.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday, in response to Macron’s provocative statement, that Moscow sees his words on possible use of nuclear weapons as a threat.

There’s that word again. Threat. Both sides are threatening to respond violently to perceived threats. That’s not a good sign. And it’s all over the place in the news. Are we witnessing the lead up to a global conflict, a hot war of massive scale, the kind of war Donald Trump said repeatedly he would prevent?

Macron said in a nationally televised address on Wednesday that Russia has become a direct “threat” to France and Europe as a whole. 

He urged his fellow Europeans to ramp up defense spending and, even more controversial, to open a discussion on the use of France's nuclear weapons to defend the entire European Union.

According to the Russian news outlet Sputnik International, Lavrov told reporters at a news conference:

“Of course, this is a threat to Russia. If he [Macron] considers us a threat, gathers a meeting of the chiefs of General Staff of European countries and Britain, says it is necessary to use nuclear weapons, prepares to use nuclear weapons against Russia, this is, of course, a threat.”

Earlier this week, British PM Keir Starmer said he was ready to “put boots on the ground and planes in the air” in Ukraine, even though he admitted such a war against Russia could not succeed without the participation of America.

Given that truth, why doesn’t Donald Trump dial up Macron and Starmer and tell them to cool their jets? Tone down the rhetoric, boys, or get ready for some new tariffs.

In addition, the Russian official said that French President Emmanuel Macron's statement about Russia and Ukraine was nervous and very verbose.

"Macron, as I understand it, said in his lengthy, rather nervous statement yesterday [March 5] that the war should not be allowed to end with the surrender of Ukraine," Lavrov said.

Macron is calling for a European-wide army to be raised, through compulsory conscription.

It’s interesting how Macron framed his verbal attacks on Russia, painting them as the aggressor that wants to take over France and all of Europe. I don’t recall, in all of history, Russia ever having invaded France. That’s something that can’t be said in the reverse.

And that irony was not lost on Lavrov in his comments Thursday. Lavrov compared Macron to Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte, saying the current French President is likewise looking to impose a strategic defeat on Russia.

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