As reported by “NachDenSeiten", an ominous “Initiative Mission 2044,” run by Markus Federle and his Cayman Islands-based hedge fund Tholus, gathered German Mittelstand representatives interested in the military buildup for a discreet event at the Industrie-Club Düsseldorf on Oct. 21 including pro-war speakers such as former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and former NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Christian Badia. Fischer said that the Germans must stop being “structural pacifists.” Badia put it even more bluntly: “NATO is not a defensive alliance and only has defensive weapons. We have to go on the offensive.” We must achieve “deterrence below the nuclear threshold.” Society must be prepared for this, Badia insisted. “We must create a ’dilemma’ for Russia. Russia must no longer be allowed to even consider whether it wants to attack.”
It should be added that the choice of the Industrie-Club for beating the drums of war fits: It was right there that Adolf Hitler made a breakthrough 92 years ago, in February 1932, in the reception by industry which before had, with the exception of August Thyssen, been skeptical about the Nazi Party. Some 650 entrepreneurs had been recruited to listen to a speech by Hitler—the prelude to building the war economy from 1933 on.
