Europe’s manufacturing powerhouse, Germany, is in crisis. President Biden’s ecocidal sabotage of NordStream, with the abject acceptance if not full-on involvement of Europe’s comprador leaders, has robbed it of the cheap energy which kept it competitive. As Europeans pay through the nose to stay warm and put food on the table, firms go under else relocate in the USA. With Europe having little to trade and unable to feed itself – even as sunset on Western supremacy erodes its ability to extract global rents on finance capital – its future looks bleak. Indeed, the one thing Washington can rightly claim as an irrefutable gain of its backfired war on Russia is that Europe’s status vis a vis the USA has been demoted from junior partner to semi-colony.
But, hey look on the bright side! Europeans can be thankful for the wisdom of their humble EC president. Here she is in September 2022, taking just eighteen seconds to share her searing insights on how things stand in the Russian Federation.
Well that’s my monthly sarcasm ration spent. Is the woman stupid? Like so many others of her globalist ilk, she has a huge sense of entitlement. In a Septemberpost I wrote of the betrayal of European interests by leaders within and beyond the EU, and followed with Radhika Desai on men and women who …
… have been through the US ideological factories … the think tanks, the annual meetings etc. You know, the Leaders of Tomorrow programs for which these people go to the USA on junkets, and become part of a network of leaders with a similar understanding of what is to be done, both domestically and internationally. People like Starmer, Macron, von der Leyen and Annalena Baerbock … they belong to these circles. So in answer to the question – why are European governments acting so manifestly contrary to the interest of their economies, their people etc? – the only reason I can find is that the people Washington has groomed have taken power in major European capitals.
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