All European Union residents should stock three days’ worth of emergency supplies, the EU urged its citizens yesterday. Have at least six liters of water per person, tinned food, a flashlight, a radio with batteries and a printed emergency plan, it advised.
The warning comes a week after French media reported the government was planning to mail a 20-page survival booklet to every home before the summer. It will give emergency phone numbers and radio channels, advice on dealing with a nuclear attack, and details on how to sign up for reserve units or local firefighting groups. It will also advise citizens to put together a similar three-day survival pack.
Why the sudden interest in disaster response in Europe?
It is tied to Europe’s efforts to rearm.
Europe wants to embark on a massive military spending spree. But only Germany with its low debt can do so easily. Everyone else is close to maxing out their credit cards.
The only way to substantially boost that spending is to make painful cutbacks, such as fewer unemployment benefits, higher pension ages or less health-care spending.
In France in particular, this debate is toxic. The public likes the sound of a more muscular European military. But it doesn’t want to suffer to pay for it.
European leaders need to cultivate a climate of crisis. This new push toward survivalism helps spread the message that nuclear war is a real danger.
Pointing this out is not saying there is no danger. But without the nudge, Europe’s citizens don’t feel they are in enough danger to make large sacrifices for a military.
Eastern Europe does. It is closer to Russia. Lithuania sent out survival manuals in 2016. Latvia published one five years ago and updated it a year ago. Poland published one in 2022. Denmark sent one out digitally last summer. Finland and Sweden sent them out last November. All of these countries have dramatically increased their defense spending; Poland’s has roughly doubled since 2022.
But the French don’t really fear Russian troops marching down the streets of Paris. If the Russians failed to take Kyiv, Ukraine, in three years, they are not going 1,000 miles further west anytime soon.
Europe genuinely fears Russia and fears facing the world without the United States defending it. But there is clearly something more going on: EU leaders want to encourage a sense of crisis to get the military they want. European remilitarization isn’t driven only by fear. Some are creating an opportunity to do what they’ve wanted to do for years.
In 1978, Herbert W. Armstrong wrote: “Europeans want their own united military power! They know that a political union of Europe would produce a third major world power, as strong as either the United States or the ussr—possibly stronger!”
In that same article, he discussed Europe’s fear of Russia, but he warned, “The United States is not loved in Europe.” Europe wants this military power so it no longer has to play second fiddle to the U.S.
Mr. Armstrong forecast this decades ago because it is prophesied in your Bible. Now Europe is making it happen and the U.S. is cheering it on. Europe has benefited from decades of U.S. taxpayers footing its defense bill. But those in Europe pushing for rearmament aren’t doing it because they want to be good U.S. allies. They resent America.
You need to understand the biblical warning. This European power will catch far too many people unawares.
This rearmament has hit some major obstacles already: Some say it has run out of steam as indebted nations struggle to raise cash for more arms. But Bible prophecy also shows that the rise of a new Holy Roman Empire will not be an easy process. It will happen quickly and suddenly. But what emerges is a 10-nation superpower led by a strongman—not a 27-nation economic union led by three different presidencies and a few committees.
Now is the time to watch the rise of this power and understand those prophecies. Our latest Trumpet issue, “Up in Arms,” has articles explaining Europe’s sudden military rise, how Germany is about to get a strongman, and why it already dominates the Mediterranean Sea.
You can read it online here
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https://thetrumpet.com/31237-europe-cultivates-a-climate-of-crisis
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