Europe is preparing for war against Russia. A war against the most powerful military nation and superpower in the world. How stupid is that? Only delusional narcissists can up with such dangerous madness and take everybody with them to a potentially nuclear Armageddon.
I wrote a thesis on the EU as a peace project. I should have known better as I’m an historian and know that the path of humanity is not smooth or predictable
Jeffrey Sachs' comments highlighted the USA's subordination of Europe, and the lingering effect of the American 'Partition of Eurasia' after 1945, as the historian John Darwin put it. But he did not talk much about the institutions and people in Europe that might at last end the USA's de facto occupation of Europe. Emmanuel Todd recently said peace will return to Eurasia when ultimately American power is destroyed and the USA leaves or is thrown out of Eurasia. Here again Europe is a natural partner of Russia and China, and Japan and India. Could you interview Emmanuel Todd?
The wider shared context here is the historical failure of social democracy as a policy brainchild of the 1930s, in the US and Europe. The impulsive instinct today e.g. in Germany or Pennsylvania is nationalist industrial policy. But the political base of social democracy no longer exists, the old industrial proletariat is now one among many interest groups defending their place in national society. Most of the world today is petit-bourgeois in orientation, nobody aspires to be a proletarian as they did in the 1930s. The cult of the small business entrepreneur is what fires people up in places like America or Brazil, because that's the main engine of economic betterment at the scale of the family. Europe needs an economic miracle, but so does America and so does China. Economic growth miracles are not so easy to come by. What worked for America and Europe in the 1990s no longer works. But these national political economies are still based on the social democratic settlement of the 1930s. Remember the Meiji restoration in Japan, that's the kind of bold transformation that's needed if America or Europe want to reinvent themselves. Otherwise things will go on as they are now and as they have been since the 1930s. At least until until the Boomers and their children die off.
For the beginning the separation of Europe from Big daddy I would call it a “Haitianisation” it’s more than an isolation, it’s back to the 19 century. All depends how Germany will recover from this blow and with this recovery, France, GB and the rest of Europe might benefit also. France is not the economic driver, it has always a follower of Germany.
Germany will never recover from the loss of cheap Russian energy.
Their “friends” in USA, Qatar and Norway are now selling them gas at 3-4-5x the price of Nordstream and at 2-5x the co2 emissions.
There is nowhere more to squeeze their masses. The German immigrants have done if the highest child poverty rates in any rich European country and among the native population the economic squeeze over 10-20 years now has seen them turn to right wing extremism. There is nowhere to squeeze at home without backfire.
Oh and then they have pledged huge percentage of GDP to enriching the shareholders of Raytheon, Boeing, Rheinmetall Krupp etc for the long term.
That equation does not add up.
I cannot see a recovery. Only a descent into a grim dictatorship in Europe’s largest economy . Which also means the rest of European economies collapse too or worse yet, start getting subjected to the tactics Germany used to use to use to enforce its regional dominance.
Germany recovered from WWII total collapse and they will recover from the loss of cheap Russian energy, because they have a resilience no other nation has. Russia has the same except it takes more time, you can poke a bear as long as it only touches his skin, when you poke deeper there are no more limits to go berserk. The US wanted to destroy Germany a second time, because they were afraid of their mutual agreement on a cheap economy, and that would be a threat to the American Economic Empire. Germany has more in common with Russia than with the US, it’s no coincidence there was a Paperclip operation, bridging and taking advantage of former Nazi economic and technological know how. Germany now is down and it has no further future as former spearhead and progressive power in Europe. Impo it could turn Bricks or China, but with Germany you never know it could choose a solitary destination. Germany has no other future than stand up from its knees and fully blossom as always.l
Germany was propped up and reinflatrd post-WW II….by the US Marshall Plan actually. And then by the US encouraging the creation of the EU and the Euro which gave Germany an economic zone of influence without having to conquer it militarily.
Now what is the US doing ? Raping Germans by destroying their cheap Russian gas and instead shipping them LNG at a far higher price than they charge in the US.
Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act” was designed to force European capitalists to close factories in Europe and instead invest in ones located inside the US. You might for example have recently observed VW laying off German workers and closing factories in Germany.
Trump will only make that worse.
Recognise the fundamental difference in approach by the US then vs now.
Germany actually had some national political leaders. Now it’s cuckolds like Schøltz and even worse are three letter Agency assets like Baerbock and Von der Leyen, who dont even hide who they are actually serving and repoting to.
Von der leugen & Baerbock function as the captains of a sinking EU ship, many also take the Robert Koch data that came to surface, and the agreement with Macron to synchronise a false Lockdown, false PCR tests, false masks, false school closings and vaccines that don’t stop infection nor the transmission, moreover there’s the not to stop tendencies of the right wing to step out of the EU that has only a value of an old dinosaur in a museum. That Germany is dead and will never recover, behind all this I’m convinced in the Phoenix of a new Germany, with or without Russia, China, Bricks and stepping into a multipolar world where the US can only have an equal value, no more teaching and playing the world police. The US has a lot more to lose than Germany….their world empire.
The USA is a controlled country to the detriment of its citizens. These controllers use the might of the USA to impose their will on the EU/NATO.
Europe is preparing for war against Russia. A war against the most powerful military nation and superpower in the world. How stupid is that? Only delusional narcissists can up with such dangerous madness and take everybody with them to a potentially nuclear Armageddon.
I wrote a thesis on the EU as a peace project. I should have known better as I’m an historian and know that the path of humanity is not smooth or predictable
Jeffrey Sachs' comments highlighted the USA's subordination of Europe, and the lingering effect of the American 'Partition of Eurasia' after 1945, as the historian John Darwin put it. But he did not talk much about the institutions and people in Europe that might at last end the USA's de facto occupation of Europe. Emmanuel Todd recently said peace will return to Eurasia when ultimately American power is destroyed and the USA leaves or is thrown out of Eurasia. Here again Europe is a natural partner of Russia and China, and Japan and India. Could you interview Emmanuel Todd?
The wider shared context here is the historical failure of social democracy as a policy brainchild of the 1930s, in the US and Europe. The impulsive instinct today e.g. in Germany or Pennsylvania is nationalist industrial policy. But the political base of social democracy no longer exists, the old industrial proletariat is now one among many interest groups defending their place in national society. Most of the world today is petit-bourgeois in orientation, nobody aspires to be a proletarian as they did in the 1930s. The cult of the small business entrepreneur is what fires people up in places like America or Brazil, because that's the main engine of economic betterment at the scale of the family. Europe needs an economic miracle, but so does America and so does China. Economic growth miracles are not so easy to come by. What worked for America and Europe in the 1990s no longer works. But these national political economies are still based on the social democratic settlement of the 1930s. Remember the Meiji restoration in Japan, that's the kind of bold transformation that's needed if America or Europe want to reinvent themselves. Otherwise things will go on as they are now and as they have been since the 1930s. At least until until the Boomers and their children die off.
For the beginning the separation of Europe from Big daddy I would call it a “Haitianisation” it’s more than an isolation, it’s back to the 19 century. All depends how Germany will recover from this blow and with this recovery, France, GB and the rest of Europe might benefit also. France is not the economic driver, it has always a follower of Germany.
Germany will never recover from the loss of cheap Russian energy.
Their “friends” in USA, Qatar and Norway are now selling them gas at 3-4-5x the price of Nordstream and at 2-5x the co2 emissions.
There is nowhere more to squeeze their masses. The German immigrants have done if the highest child poverty rates in any rich European country and among the native population the economic squeeze over 10-20 years now has seen them turn to right wing extremism. There is nowhere to squeeze at home without backfire.
Oh and then they have pledged huge percentage of GDP to enriching the shareholders of Raytheon, Boeing, Rheinmetall Krupp etc for the long term.
That equation does not add up.
I cannot see a recovery. Only a descent into a grim dictatorship in Europe’s largest economy . Which also means the rest of European economies collapse too or worse yet, start getting subjected to the tactics Germany used to use to use to enforce its regional dominance.
Germany recovered from WWII total collapse and they will recover from the loss of cheap Russian energy, because they have a resilience no other nation has. Russia has the same except it takes more time, you can poke a bear as long as it only touches his skin, when you poke deeper there are no more limits to go berserk. The US wanted to destroy Germany a second time, because they were afraid of their mutual agreement on a cheap economy, and that would be a threat to the American Economic Empire. Germany has more in common with Russia than with the US, it’s no coincidence there was a Paperclip operation, bridging and taking advantage of former Nazi economic and technological know how. Germany now is down and it has no further future as former spearhead and progressive power in Europe. Impo it could turn Bricks or China, but with Germany you never know it could choose a solitary destination. Germany has no other future than stand up from its knees and fully blossom as always.l
Germany was propped up and reinflatrd post-WW II….by the US Marshall Plan actually. And then by the US encouraging the creation of the EU and the Euro which gave Germany an economic zone of influence without having to conquer it militarily.
Now what is the US doing ? Raping Germans by destroying their cheap Russian gas and instead shipping them LNG at a far higher price than they charge in the US.
Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act” was designed to force European capitalists to close factories in Europe and instead invest in ones located inside the US. You might for example have recently observed VW laying off German workers and closing factories in Germany.
Trump will only make that worse.
Recognise the fundamental difference in approach by the US then vs now.
Germany actually had some national political leaders. Now it’s cuckolds like Schøltz and even worse are three letter Agency assets like Baerbock and Von der Leyen, who dont even hide who they are actually serving and repoting to.
Von der leugen & Baerbock function as the captains of a sinking EU ship, many also take the Robert Koch data that came to surface, and the agreement with Macron to synchronise a false Lockdown, false PCR tests, false masks, false school closings and vaccines that don’t stop infection nor the transmission, moreover there’s the not to stop tendencies of the right wing to step out of the EU that has only a value of an old dinosaur in a museum. That Germany is dead and will never recover, behind all this I’m convinced in the Phoenix of a new Germany, with or without Russia, China, Bricks and stepping into a multipolar world where the US can only have an equal value, no more teaching and playing the world police. The US has a lot more to lose than Germany….their world empire.