Europe’s manufacturing powerhouse, Germany, is in crisis. President Biden’s ecocidal sabotage of NordStream 1, with the abject acceptance if not full-on collaboration 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 – or in the case of a burgeoning precariat, see their children shiver and go hungry 1 – firms go under or relocate in the USA. Since Europe has little to trade and long ago ceased to feed itself, while sunset on Western supremacy erodes its ability to extract global rents from finance capital, its prospects seem bleak. Indeed, the one thing Washington can rightly claim as an unalloyed gain of its backfired war against Russia is a demotion of Europe’s status vis a vis the USA 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.
I guess that’s my monthly sarcasm ration spent. Is she a US agent or just stupid? Like so many others of her globalist ilk, she has a huge sense of entitlement. In a September post I wrote of the betrayal of European interests by leaders who – as Canadian academic and much besides, Radhika Desai – said:
… 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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- Those who think they can avoid the fate of their urban compatriots by cultivating land in the sticks show remarkable faith in the rule of law. A fortnight of food scarcity will send bands of city dwellers deep into the countryside; hitherto law abiding folk armed with kitchen knives and pick handles, and in no mood to take no for an answer.
Call me alarmist but at the pinnacle of my nightmares is the collapse – post WW3, post environmental catastrophe or post economic betrayal by hubristic dim-wits like Ursula – of the rule of law. We do so take it for granted …