By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-25 17:03:02 | Updated at 2024-11-27 03:53:34
1 day ago
Top NATO official calls on business leaders to prepare for 'wartime scenario'
Reuters ^ | 11/25/24
Posted on 11/25/2024 8:56:50 AM PST by EBH
BRUSSELS, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A top NATO military official on Monday urged businesses to be prepared for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly, in order to be less vulnerable to blackmail from countries such as Russia and China.
"If we can make sure that all crucial services and goods can be delivered no matter what, then that is a key part of our deterrence," the chair of NATO's military committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, said in Brussels.
Speaking at an event of the European Policy Centre think tank, he described deterrence as going far beyond military capability alone, since all available instruments could and would be used in war.
"We're seeing that with the growing number of sabotage acts, and Europe has seen that with energy supply," Bauer said.
"We thought we had a deal with Gazprom, but we actually had a deal with Mr Putin. And the same goes for Chinese-owned infrastructure and goods. We actually have a deal with (Chinese President) Xi (Jinping)."
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Is the West finally catching on?
1 posted on 11/25/2024 8:56:50 AM PST by EBH
To: EBH
Blackmail vs. sanctions....
Is there really a difference.
2 posted on 11/25/2024 8:57:38 AM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
To: EBH
This time the suicide of the West will be successful
3 posted on 11/25/2024 8:57:50 AM PST by PGR88
To: PGR88
If they held an honest election on whether to join this war, what percentage of the Euro and US populations would vote Yes. I imagine less than 10 percent, not that the warmongers care.
4 posted on 11/25/2024 9:01:15 AM PST by laconic ( )
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