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Who's your daddy? NATO elites pimp Europe's economy for U.S. military racket
June 27, 2025 | By Strategic Culture Foundation
The losers in all this unseemly business are the European public. They are being screwed by U.S.-led militarism and European elites who are pimping their civilian economies.
Mark Rutte, the civilian figurehead chief of the NATO alliance, sparked viral headlines and memes this week after he referred to U.S. President Donald Trump as "daddy".
Even Western news media were taken aback. Reporters questioned whether the former Dutch prime minister was going too far in his obsequiousness and demeaning himself. Without any shame, Rutte doubled down, ladling more compliments on Trump, and praising him for achieving what no other U.S. president has done – forcing European states to ramp up military spending.
The NATO secretary-general's weird choice of words was not merely abject sycophancy. It was a Freudian slip revealing the sinister and abusive relationship that the United States has with its so-called allies.
At one point, the American president joked that if Rutte doesn't like him sufficiently, he would "hit him."
The occasion was the annual summit of the NATO military bloc, which this year was held in The Hague, Netherlands. It wasn't just Rutte who was scraping and bowing. Most of the leaders from the 32-nation alliance were bending over backwards to appease Trump.
Trump has been relentlessly browbeating the Europeans to spend more of their economies on the military. He has scoffed at them for being "freeloaders" on American security and demanded that they increase their annual military budgets up from 2 percent of national economic output to 5 percent.
This week, the NATO alliance declared a "historic transformation" by announcing a formal commitment to reach the 5 percent target by 2035. That translates into trillions of more euros allocated to militarism, inevitably to the detriment of the civilian economy and social development, as well as inflaming geopolitical conflict.
Most of this new military expenditure will be used to purchase U.S. weapons, such as the F-35 fighter jet and Patriot air defense system, both of which are overpriced and overrated in performance. A new study published this week by the Bruegel and Kiel Institutes found that European nations are heavily dependent on the United States for the manufacture and supply of military equipment. That means that the gargantuan increase in NATO budgets will primarily benefit America’s military industry.
Another Freudian slip came from Trump himself, who said of European political leaders at the NATO summit, "these people really love their countries… it's not a rip-off and we're [the US] here to help them protect their countries."
How twisted. These European politicians are betraying the peaceful interests of the European public while serving the warmongering system of US-led military capitalism. Trump’s talk of "protection" is in reality a Mafia-style protection racket, a racket that NATO has facilitated since its founding in 1949 under the guise of "defending" the "free world" against the Soviet Union.
Rutte, who was appointed as NATO chief last year, taking over from Norwegian Yes Man Jens Stoltenberg, has proven himself to be an ideal choice for intensifying the racket. The Dutch former politician is renowned for building consensus, and he has gone out of his way to court Trump’s narcissism. Rutte has deftly lobbied European states on the "need" to spend more on military, by constantly talking up the alleged threat posed by Russia. The Western media dutifully amplifies the absurd propaganda.
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While at the same time Russia is bringing online and testing some pretty advanced weaponry:
Mysterious Russian Guided Glide Bomb Hit Target From Record 100 Kilometers
A continuation of US sales of more glamor weapons the Russians have been consistently shooting down over Ukraine. Recent news reports from late June 2025, specifically around the NATO Summit at the Hague, indicate that President Donald Trump has expressed an openness to the idea of providing Patriot missile systems to Ukraine. If this missile deal does go through it is a kickback (in 2024, Lockheed's total revenue was $71.04 billion and a big chunk of that came out of Ukraine) to the United States of Lockheed Martin. It is standard practice and they don't like to call this "kickbacks." Rather, the industry calls it "receiving financial benefits." To state "war is a racket" and a very sophisticated racket at that is to underestimate the amounts of money (for investors) that are involved:
The United States of Lockheed Martin through their Pentagon offices represented by their sales rep Pete Hegseth (Hegseth's wife owns stock in defense contractors including Lockheed Martin):
Pentagon to request $848 billion in delayed base budget release
Sorry everyone, with Trump at the head of the United States of Lockheed Martin it is war all the way baby!
What the hell. It's only $3.8 trillion:
From Obama to Trump these CEO executives for the US corporation and sales reps for weapon manufactures bomb the shit out of various countries:
Obama Dropped Over 26K Bombs Without Congressional Approval
Obama Dropped Over 26K Bombs Without Congressional Approval
Don't think the United States of Lockheed Martin with its NATO lapdog will stop its proxy war on Ukraine after this:
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