The War Before the War – Part 7
Wars do not begin with the first shot. They begin with the removal of every obstacle that has so far prevented it. Treaties are terminated, infrastructure is adapted, industries are converted, language is shifted. Sixteen concrete changes between 2014 and 2026 have transformed Europe from a peace order into a state of war readiness - without any formal decision, without parliamentary approval, without the public grasping the whole. From the end of the INF Treaty through the "Military Schengen", the conversion to a war economy, and the dissolution of command chains, to the dismantling of international crisis communication: each step on its own plausible. All of them together, a pattern. An inventory of what has already happened before the word war is even spoken.