Tomio Okamura is the leader of the SPD political party in Czechia. He is a multicultural Czech: his father was Japanese and his mother Moravian.
In the following video Mr. Okamura declares his opposition to the proposed stationing of American troops on Czech soil. He also emphatically opposes the placement of nuclear weapons in Czechia.
Many thanks to Xanthippa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:01 | US troops in the territory of the Czech Republic? | |
| 00:04 | Fiala’s ruling coalition has prepared a defensive agreement/treaty | |
| 00:07 | between the Czech Republic and the USA, | |
| 00:10 | and on behalf of SPD [Tomio Okamura’s opposition party] | |
| 00:13 | I state clearly that we do not want, on our territory, any foreign troops | |
| 00:16 | or a base with foreign troops, | |
| 00:20 | nor the creation of conditions for a such potential build-up in the future. | |
| 00:23 | It is also necessary to clearly refuse | |
| 00:27 | the potential placement of nuclear weapons on the territory of the Czech Republic. | |
| 00:31 | We have rid ourselves of one set of troops after thirty years [of occupation] | |
| 00:35 | and we do not wish [to have] others on our territory. | |
| 00:38 | Also, the timing of the approval [of the treaty] by Fiala’s government is unique. | |
| 00:43 | The presence of foreign troops on our soil must, in every case, | |
| 00:48 | be subjected to the approval of the [House of] Commons and not that, on the basis of this treaty | |
| 00:52 | the government alone should decide. Moreover, according to us, | |
| 00:56 | this treaty is unfavourable to the Czech Republic and also it is redundant. | |
| 01:00 | For one, the USA has closed [such treaties] with only 24 member states | |
| 01:04 | and that is from the total of 31. Moreover, we already have a treaty, so-called NA TO SOFA. |
Tokyo Okamura is like Tucker Carlsson, in that he makes good comments about the “obvious” only after the whole “alternative scene” is on the topic in full swing. Not that I would hold it against him, somebody has to be the final “let’s make it public” guy, but that’s the way he works – toothless – is the word that comes to mind.
The Czech Republic is currently under full NATO control, there will be no problem for the NATO and the USA to pass that treaty, which will let US troops to use the Czech Republic as a base for their operations.
Czechs are big USA supporters, so I don’t think that the US Army would not be welcome over here, but the comparison between conduct of the armies of the warsaw pact and the NATO of today – it’s basically the same thing. Small countries being used by the big powers to advance the goals of the Empire.
Re: “Czechs are big USA supporters, so I don’t think that the US Army would not be welcome over here, but the comparison between conduct of the armies of the warsaw pact and the NATO of today – it’s basically the same thing. Small countries being used by the big powers to advance the goals of the Empire.”
You’re so right. I have a great deal of sympathy for the nations of Eastern Europe -in particular the smaller ones – because of the cynical and amoral way the “great powers” use them.
The Biden regime and its war hawks seem content to fight Moscow to the last man and the last cartridge, as long as that man is a Ukrainian. One gets the sense that when the Ukrainians have been killed off, they’d be just as happy to use Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, whoever else can be induced to “see the elephant” (go to war, in G.I. slang) on behalf of the NWO.
If they are made uneasy by the actions behind them of the drab bureaucrats and perfumed princes in their resplendent uniforms in Brussels and Washington, the poor nations of Eastern Europe don’t see anything better in front of them. They don’t trust Russia and have good reasons for that state of mind.
Within recent historical memory, they were caught under the boot of the Soviet Union as members of the Warsaw Pact. In the event of war with the West and NATO, guess whose countries would most-probably be devastated first? They, the nations of Eastern Europe, in all likelihood. Would Moscow use their men as cannon fodder and their homelands as battlefields? In a word – yes. And moreover, the members of the Politburo would not lose even a minute of sleep over it.
The Russians have long-regarded eastern Europe as a cordon sanitaire or buffer zone between Russia and her potential adversaries to the West, chiefly Germany, but also Britain. Since Russia has no oceans or other geographic barriers protecting her flanks, the next-best alternative would do – a belt of neutral or friendly states on her western border. The trouble is, no one asked those nations how they would like such an arrangement!
Since the end of the Second World War, the U.S. & NATO alliance has used the region as a geopolitical football in the chess match with the USSR. The fact that Eastern Europe might be devastated in any war between the two super-powers did not seem even to occur to anyone, let alone actually bother them.
The people of Eastern Europe are caught between a rock and a hard place. Do they even yet realize the danger in which they find themselves?
The safest course of action is probably to emulate the example set by the Visegrad Four nations, in forming an alliance of Eastern European nations for mutual security and safety. It would seem like the only path forward if they find the alternatives unpalatable. That way, they would at least be able to steer their own course, and not find themselves being used as pawns of much larger nations.
yeah well until the government changes the Czech Republic is “out” of the Visegrad Group. The current government of the republic is full on “globalist”. The hints are coming that there will be war between Russia and Poland, and how would the Czech Republic provide support to our polish neighbors etc.
But at the same time – most people are not really interested in fighting for NATO, against Russia… Don’t know about the Poles, who are much more “warlike”, but chances are that the Czechs would just go to war, and then “not fight” – just like they did in WWI when the Austrians sent Czech Regiments fight on the Eastern Front. The Czechs would simply not fight for the “Empire”, instead they took the transsiberian railway all the way to Vladivostok and the USA – and I have a feeling that it might be very similar this time also.
@ Barn Swallow
Re: “yeah well until the government changes the Czech Republic is ‘out’ of the Visegrad Group. The current government of the republic is full on ‘globalist’.”
I did not know that, so thanks for the info. I do my best to keep up on current events, but sometimes important events get missed, or don’t make it into the news at all on this side of the pond.
Re: “The Czechs would simply not fight for the “Empire”, instead they took the transsiberian railway all the way to Vladivostok and the USA – and I have a feeling that it might be very similar this time also.”
Good for them! A soldier must know for whom he risks his life and why. To use an analogy, sometimes, when you find yourself in a crooked poker game, the best move isn’t to try and out-cheat the crooked dealer, it is to leave the game entirely and find a new one, so to speak… which is what those folks did by heading to the U.S.A. back then.
Refuse to play their game.
Apropos of the present-day situation, there has been speculation from certain quarters, that as the empire’s demands for cannon fodder get more extreme, NATO may break up entirely. Already, there are significant numbers of people in Germany calling for that nation to leave NATO; if events continue on their present course, they won’t be the last to consider that option.
And the French, British, Dutch, etc. aren’t blind: They can see that Biden and company have used Germany as a sacrificial lamb to the NWO and suspect, probably correctly, that they’re next on the menu.