THE WEST'S DESCENT INTO FASCISM — In a carefully choreographed press conference in Copenhagen today Mette Frederiksen, Denmark's undisputed social democratic supreme leader, announced her hard right regime's plans for what she herself terms "a faster rearmament".

Flanked by minister of defense Troels Lund Poulsen and foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, in what was intended as a display of internal regime unity, the supreme leader went on stage before a select audience of loyalist reporters in the government compound's oppressively grey-tinted hall of mirrors with a stark message for the Danish public: Evil forces are looming, a rapid militarisation of society is necessary and sacrifices will have to be made by the common people.

Spending Soaring

Frederiksen's regime is sparing no expenses in their aggressive military buildup. Already this year military spending will exceed the minimum of two percent of GDP imposed on Denmark by it's American overlords and reach 2.4 percent of GDP. Over the next ten years the regime intends to spend DKK 190 bln. (almost USD 28 bln.) on the military.

The money is going to be spent on purchasing among other things armoured vehicles, surface to air missiles and anti-submarine weapons.

Frederiksen stated that Denmark "shouldn't be a country sheltered by others", tapping in to repeated regime messaging about the windswept Nordic kingdom not contributing their fair share to the American NATO pact.

Forced Service To Solve Recruitment Woes

A large part of the plan consists in expanding the use of forced military service despite human rights concerns. Today only young Danish men risks being conscripted into military service for the regime. In the future young women will also be affected. Regime messaging tried to cast this as a stride forwards for gender equality.

Not only will all genders be at risk of forced military service, more of them than today will be press ganged into the military and they will be there for longer.

In a break with previous policies, where only volunteers were deployed to active duty, conscripts will now face the risk of being deployed to NATO pact rapid response brigades.

The increased use of forced military service happens to solve a perceived recruitment crisis in the Danish military. When asked why increased salary to troops has not been attempted before using forced conscription, minister of defense Poulsen deflected, claiming that salaries were "a union contract issue".

"Europe is at a fateful moment"

"We are not rearming because we want war," said Mette Frederiksen "We are rearming to avoid it". She was seconded by her minister of defense who claimed that the military is "facing a monumental task" and said that "Europe is at a fateful moment " before he went on to talk about how the perceived threat of alleged Russian aggression had increased over the last year.

Foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen went on to state that Russia was not a direct threat to Denmark at the moment but claimed that rearmament is necessary to prevent them from becoming one in the future.

Economic Hardship Amid Military Spending Spree

The dominant reactionary factions in Denmark's rubberstamp parliament has already made positive statements about most of the regime's grandiose military plans, making it a near certainty that significantly increased parts of the Danish national budget will go to the military.

Mette Frederiksen states that the aggressive military buildup going to mean that "in the future we can't afford everything we want", echoing her statements in a Financial Times interview earlier this year where the supreme leader claimed there were no money available for further investments in social welfare due to the alleged necessity of splurging on the military.

While funding for the military seemingly has no end, the picture is grimmer in most parts of the Danish public sector where lack of investment has left essential services such as schools and hospitals chronically understaffed and underfunded. This dire situation is exacerbated by a recent inflation crisis caused by economic mismanagement in the capitalist bloc causing hardship for poor and marginalised Danes.

WTF was William thinking? “Ordinary people, worried and wondering why, if the photo has indeed been doctored, William couldn’t just take a bloody normal family snap on his phone and post it! We all do it, many times a day. We didn’t want or expect a perfectly posed shot, just a little something to stop us worrying. And we had been worrying ever since that woman was papped in a car, driven by Kate’s mother, last week? I for one got no sleep at all.”

It’s like watching Bambi learn to walk: “Given what is possible with AI and digital trickery today, isn’t it even more important for the Royal Family and its minions to be authentic and transparent in all their dealings with the public and Press, given we all pay for their palaces and their privacy? It is such a blunder, so catastrophic for our faith in the monarchy and I believe that, yet again, Kate has been badly let down by the Palace media operation and advisers.”

The lack of statements from KP about Kate’s health: “No updates beyond the bland and meaningless, allowing the distasteful speculation about her health and the state of her marriage to proliferate on social media and in the foreign press – New York Times and American Vogue – to ponder. Why could they not have simply released a photo for Mother’s Day of Kate from the Coronation, say, with a small note from her? That would have been fine. We don’t expect her to put on make-up during her hiatus.

Was it all a lie?? “Now we are thinking: did she even write the message that accompanied the controversial snap? And more. Why were there as many as 16 anomalies on the photo? Was the photo an old Christmas one, simply repurposed? The children certainly look as hysterical and excited as they would have done on Christmas Day. Why wasn’t an accredited photographer with decades of professional standing sent in to do the shot? Was she too ill for that? The Palace clearly can no longer be trusted, given what transpired on Monday morning when, finally, an official tweet from Kensington Palace arrived.

Kate’s statement: ‘Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I want to express my apologies for any confusion…’ It is signed with a ‘C’. What??!! But Kate is not an ‘amateur’, she is an experienced photographer (She is, after all, patron of the Royal Photographic Society). And it was William who took it! She is a perfectionist and would never do a bad job with anything! Now, I don’t want to accuse KP of lying. But I think the Palace, not the Princess, treats the general public with disdain. The Palace thinks we are all stupid, and will never question anything the Waleses say.

Kate would never bungle this so badly: “I am certain that Kate, as a young, media savvy, empathetic person, who never puts a foot wrong, is never caught with the wrong expression, or wearing something that doesn’t quite fit or is creased, would not make a mistake like this. I believe she had no hand in this photo, or any mistakes made after. What we do know is that this debacle is fuelling even more speculation – even that she is refusing to co-operate with the Palace. Whatever is going on, I can only imagine Kate’s distress, her shock, her anger. And whoever is responsible needs to be sacked. Today.