JD Vance wasn't the only one giving out the facts in Munich. To the bunch of posers playing at being politicians. Wang Yi the brilliant Chinese foreign minister, gave them plenty of cold facts. A mention must also go to another outstanding foreign minister. The Indian foreign minister was also shooting from the hip. In Russia, China & India we see the very best the World has today in diplomacy in those 3. I've got to say I'm very impressed with the young Hungarian foreign diplomat. I wouldn't be surprised to see him blossom in the World of politics. Then there's the EU/UK, what can I say about this bunch of amateurs? That hasn't been said by every rational political observer. Great work again Glenn, thank you.
Since the US did all it could to prevent the Europeans from being independent why not allocate blame where it belongs? The Americans destroyed Nordstream which prevented European independence.
Good riddance to bad rubbish will be the European response to the Americans finally uplifting their military bases and going back to where they belong.
The Americans have used and demanded the use of Europe as part of their hegemonic military domination plan so to blame the Europeans now is to ignore history and reality. Then again, ignoring history and reality is something the US has turned into an art form.
100%. If you look at the European/UK elite now though, they’ve completely thrown any critical thinking faculties out of the window, drunk on their own kool-aid, believing in their special, superior intellect and what not. This too, has to be addressed, as the media has gone completely berserk, and their nonsense propaganda still drives the popular conversation. For now we have all sorts of extremist pockets rising up on the back of the population’s dissatisfaction (rightly so, as the people too, have been fleeced without any benefits); my hope is that if we name the problem clearly - as you did above -, and confine those kool-aid drinkers (Bullingdon Club, Ursula, and the likes of them) to the rubbish heap of history right after the US bases, we might just avoid another run-in with extremism and Europe can finally grow and take its place in a peaceful world.
Well said. We can but hope that sanity prevails. While the Europeans might be traumatised being kicked out of the US ambit the fact is they have power. The US will still want to keep its military bases, some of them anyway, so the deal is far from done.
And if the Trump position is remove every single US base in Europe then that is a good thing for Europeans.
What is actually going on here, is that what passes for "leaders" in the US are basically deep state assets. The likes of Stoltenberg, Rutte, Baerbock etc are just stuffed dummies inserted by their masters in Langley to do what they are told. But now it should be clear who their "handlers" are.
With Trump in place, the deep state faction does not control the white house.So we see that the stuffed dummies are singing an agenda diverging from what the white house is saying
And so the stuffed dummies are still doing what they are told: repeating the matra of the spooks and regime change crowd.
JD Vance and Elon Musk have already told you what is coming next: Europe's old set of stuffed "centrist" dummies controlled from Langley are about to be replaced with a new wave of stuffed dummies, now in "radical right wing" disguise, and doing what they currently ruling oligarchy of the US tell them what to do.
Expect to see wide open facism across Europe. And the welfare state completely dismantled, with all the money now going into the pockets of Boeing, Raytheon, and the european war profiteers like BAE, Rheinmetall, Dassault, Kongsberggrupen, Nammo, CSG Holding, etc.
Who is going to object to this? The European masses that have been cheering "Slavia" for a blatant fascist regime in Ukraine and happily sending them. No. The centrists three letter agency puppets are about to get wiped out by a tidal wave of new ones.
What you wont see is European leaders acting in the interests of Europeans. Mainly because the European masses are too clueless to understand their own interests, let alone to pick out political candidates that are actually loyal to those interests.
"The likes of Stoltenberg, Rutte, Baerbock etc are just stuffed dummies inserted by their masters in Langley"
Unfortunately, the same can be said about Vance & Trump who have their masters in the City/FedReserve and fascist corporations BlackRock/Vanguard. The US congress still an aipac-occupied territory.
In the earlier video today, Michael Hudson uses the word 'extractive' to describe an economy that is based on leveraging what wealth they already possess rather than trying to create new wealth through intellectual endeavours. One example of this would be money lending. Interest.
NATO is also a tool for financial extraction. The USA is the extractor to Britain/Europe's extractee (I've possibly just made that word up). The (big) parasite and the (not so big) host.
NATO is a scam and has been shown to be a scam in Ukraine. Only good for killing shepherds.
Trump is taking Britain/Europe for fools. Create doubts over the future of NATO. Tell Britain/Europe they need to pay more. But don't fold NATO completely, because the USA can extract so much money out of Britain/Europe. NATO provides the USA with de facto taxraising powers in European countries. All Trump has to do is order our countries to pay more for NATO, Britain/Europe governments will say "Yes Sir, President Trump Sir!" and we will pay more taxes.
Thank you. The true owners of the collective west - the banking cartel and fascist supranational mega corporations - need more Loot. Always.
While Russia resists, the Looters continue extracting the last drops of blood from the weakened body of EU. The US occupation of Europe and the actions of the comprador class have consequences for the western civilizations. These consequences are catastrophic.
Dear Sir: The Americans want to leave Ukraine but not Europe. The American empire still needs its vassals there. The weights put there by the USA will be reduced, but the Americans will not really LEAVE Europe.
Well, well. So the vassalisation of Europe wasn’t such a grand idea then. Perhaps time to learn some humility and respect towards your Eastern brethren, dear Western Europeans.
"For years, the Europeans failed to establish the continent as an independent pole of power by neglecting to define their security and economic interests separate from the US."
First of all, "Europeans" and "European Union citizens" are commonly misconflated terms. Not every European country is in Euro-Utopia. Some sanity still exists in some pockets.
I doubt that there ever was a free will per-se post WW2 and works to create that pseudo-freedom was in full swing even during war. US powers needed European countries to make money again so that they can pay the cost of war and Marshal's plan was an excellent tool to make sure they remain dependent on US. Allies or not, US tech allows US businesses everything that makes media go bizerk when it comes to chinese tech (i.e. spying). Western europeans embraced that slavery and dived in - head first
US will not leave EU, it will only remove decorations around the pen. Kinda like taking 1/4 of blue pill. Just enough to reconsider hiring that bully to protect them again at a higher cost. They even played Ruskies well to make that threat tangible (by steering UA into an abyss), no matter how much that threat is just imaginary.
The only way for Europeans who want to be free is to ditch the Euro Utopia project and go their own way away from US tech wherever possible. This would be just a nice dream though... will not happen.
Excellent discussion Glenn. Thanks for sharing. I, faithfully, watch the Duran and always learn from you guys. You're one of the sane Europeans. Thank God.
America has been dragged reluctantly by the sheer force of her dire circumstances into the belated recognition of political and economic reality, and the necessary link between them. To wit, that you can weaken a nation to subjugate its people but if that nation is the seat of empire then you lose the empire and all the imperial prerogatives.
At the same time, America has been shielding Europe from that same necessary realisation. Therefore, Europe lags behind America in this recognition, and clings to its progressive green world citizen bible and its NATO guns (the irony, eh?) while its industry collapses, its cultures are overrun with hostile aliens, and the rage of the people rises.
It will all end in tears, but they won't be American tears.
The majority of Ukrainian agricultural holdings are owned by American NCH Capital, French AgroGeneration, German ADM Germany, KWS, Bayer and BASF, Saudi PIF and SALIC.
Do the CEOs and owners of the American NCH Capital, French AgroGeneration, German ADM Germany, KWS, Bayer and BASF, Saudi PIF and SALIC continue influencing the ongoing war against Russia? Are they still insist on sending more weapons and money to the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev?
It would be only logical if the Ukrainian and Russian victims of this war demand reparations from the American NCH Capital, French AgroGeneration, German ADM Germany, KWS, Bayer and BASF, Saudi PIF and SALIC. The war on Russia had started in 2014 when US ziocons united with the Ukrainian Nazi Party Svoboda to overturn a democratically-elected president of Ukraine. This crime must be addressed by the world community politically and economically.
President Trump is stating the obvious. The US will not confront Russia directly via Article 5 as it would result in WW III. Therefore the EU is on it's own, especially since the national intrests have changed and diverged.
If The Leaders of Europe and Britain had any Dignity they would stop acting like children who have been chastised by Father for something only Father says they did wrong, answer to Father of chastised children FUCK OFF you’re on your own. Question 1 who’s responsible for the Ukraine causing the unnecessary War and Pushing Russia to Invade Answer The Whitehouse, Pentagon, CIA, MI6, Mossad, Westminster, and NATO. Now if you Neoliberal Numpties are to dense to realise the Facts then Shut The Fuck Up Every insurrection in the Middle East has been started by CIA MI6 Mossad with the blessing of the War Mad Yanks and New Labour. it appears our New New Change Labour Party led by King Canute and his incompetent Government has learned nothing from the last New Labour Deployment of Troops when Invading Iraq to hunt for the Mythical WMDs at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of Billions of Pounds. This ludicrous non existent Special Relationship between the English Establishment and the Billionaire Americans, Has now been proven to be what the Normal People who Work for a Living or have Worked for a Living the Disabled the Poor the ill the Unemployed have said since the Liar Bush and his Rent Boy Blair Era To be BULLSHIT. I have said this often and I will reiterate Tell the Americans to Fuck Right Off We do NOT NEED YOU and all your Baggage Just Do One.
Europeans need to find their mojo and remove their compradors from power ASAP.
Ursula is a certified criminals (her dealings with weapon manufacturers and Pfizer make her ineligible for any official position), Macron and Olaf are puppets of banking cabal, the UK's criminals degenerates like Johnson, Blairs, and Arbuthnots deserve to continue their miserable existence in high security prison. The baltic chihuahuas are petty thugs with grand plans for grand crimes and should be dealing accordingly.
US policy really reflects Trump's domestic concerns. Yes, Europe is being sidelined, mostly due to their own delusions and innate powerlessness. Glenn understands that Russia is an ascendant power and those in the EU who refuse to talk or deal with Russia can't be expected to be around on the international scene for long.
Regarding Vance's remarks to the MSC, Vance knows that his words are unlikely to affect the German election. Why cause such a ruckus?
It is clear to me that Vance and Trump don't care very much about issues like migration or speech in Europe. In my opinion, the subtext for Vance's speech is that the European establishment catechism is dangerous precisely because it includes Russophobia as a core principle.
Trump is going to force Europe to drink the castor oil of defeat in Ukraine and Trump has, as an enemy, the entire European establishment that lives inside the international institutions that Trump must destroy in order to make peace with Russia.
Do Trump and Vance fret over Russophobia for moral or philosophical reasons? No, Trump understands correctly that distrust and hatred of Russia is an essential tool for those who want to continue the war.
Besides the moral tragedy of the Ukraine war, Trump understands that the international 'blob' on both sides of the Atlantic draw sustenance from the war and Trump more than anything else knows that he has to eviscerate or at least neuter the blob in all its manifestations such as USAID, NED, NATO, EU etc. These blob institutions harbor the real power sources that want to stop the Trump revolution and at the core of these institutions lies Russophobia.
Trump wants to end the Ukraine war because it is necessary and concomitant with his consolidation of power over his domestic liberal-internationalist enemies, but there is another related reason. Trump views Russia's close relationship with China as something that should change before any future confrontation. To this end, Trump would like to re-integrate Russia into the West.
Germany will benefit from the economic reintegration of Russia into Europe, but the UK and France would be big losers which is why I believe that France will likely try to lead the EU resistance to Trump's diplomacy in the days ahead.
JD Vance wasn't the only one giving out the facts in Munich. To the bunch of posers playing at being politicians. Wang Yi the brilliant Chinese foreign minister, gave them plenty of cold facts. A mention must also go to another outstanding foreign minister. The Indian foreign minister was also shooting from the hip. In Russia, China & India we see the very best the World has today in diplomacy in those 3. I've got to say I'm very impressed with the young Hungarian foreign diplomat. I wouldn't be surprised to see him blossom in the World of politics. Then there's the EU/UK, what can I say about this bunch of amateurs? That hasn't been said by every rational political observer. Great work again Glenn, thank you.
Good News then! Time to shut down a US/UK created EU that have nothing to do with our values and culture!! SHUT DOWN EU INSTITUTIONS NOW!!
Since the US did all it could to prevent the Europeans from being independent why not allocate blame where it belongs? The Americans destroyed Nordstream which prevented European independence.
Good riddance to bad rubbish will be the European response to the Americans finally uplifting their military bases and going back to where they belong.
The Americans have used and demanded the use of Europe as part of their hegemonic military domination plan so to blame the Europeans now is to ignore history and reality. Then again, ignoring history and reality is something the US has turned into an art form.
100%. If you look at the European/UK elite now though, they’ve completely thrown any critical thinking faculties out of the window, drunk on their own kool-aid, believing in their special, superior intellect and what not. This too, has to be addressed, as the media has gone completely berserk, and their nonsense propaganda still drives the popular conversation. For now we have all sorts of extremist pockets rising up on the back of the population’s dissatisfaction (rightly so, as the people too, have been fleeced without any benefits); my hope is that if we name the problem clearly - as you did above -, and confine those kool-aid drinkers (Bullingdon Club, Ursula, and the likes of them) to the rubbish heap of history right after the US bases, we might just avoid another run-in with extremism and Europe can finally grow and take its place in a peaceful world.
Well said. We can but hope that sanity prevails. While the Europeans might be traumatised being kicked out of the US ambit the fact is they have power. The US will still want to keep its military bases, some of them anyway, so the deal is far from done.
And if the Trump position is remove every single US base in Europe then that is a good thing for Europeans.
The US is also not a monolithic entity.
What is actually going on here, is that what passes for "leaders" in the US are basically deep state assets. The likes of Stoltenberg, Rutte, Baerbock etc are just stuffed dummies inserted by their masters in Langley to do what they are told. But now it should be clear who their "handlers" are.
With Trump in place, the deep state faction does not control the white house.So we see that the stuffed dummies are singing an agenda diverging from what the white house is saying
And so the stuffed dummies are still doing what they are told: repeating the matra of the spooks and regime change crowd.
JD Vance and Elon Musk have already told you what is coming next: Europe's old set of stuffed "centrist" dummies controlled from Langley are about to be replaced with a new wave of stuffed dummies, now in "radical right wing" disguise, and doing what they currently ruling oligarchy of the US tell them what to do.
Expect to see wide open facism across Europe. And the welfare state completely dismantled, with all the money now going into the pockets of Boeing, Raytheon, and the european war profiteers like BAE, Rheinmetall, Dassault, Kongsberggrupen, Nammo, CSG Holding, etc.
Who is going to object to this? The European masses that have been cheering "Slavia" for a blatant fascist regime in Ukraine and happily sending them. No. The centrists three letter agency puppets are about to get wiped out by a tidal wave of new ones.
What you wont see is European leaders acting in the interests of Europeans. Mainly because the European masses are too clueless to understand their own interests, let alone to pick out political candidates that are actually loyal to those interests.
"The likes of Stoltenberg, Rutte, Baerbock etc are just stuffed dummies inserted by their masters in Langley"
Unfortunately, the same can be said about Vance & Trump who have their masters in the City/FedReserve and fascist corporations BlackRock/Vanguard. The US congress still an aipac-occupied territory.
The USA won't leave Europe/NATO.
In the earlier video today, Michael Hudson uses the word 'extractive' to describe an economy that is based on leveraging what wealth they already possess rather than trying to create new wealth through intellectual endeavours. One example of this would be money lending. Interest.
NATO is also a tool for financial extraction. The USA is the extractor to Britain/Europe's extractee (I've possibly just made that word up). The (big) parasite and the (not so big) host.
NATO is a scam and has been shown to be a scam in Ukraine. Only good for killing shepherds.
Trump is taking Britain/Europe for fools. Create doubts over the future of NATO. Tell Britain/Europe they need to pay more. But don't fold NATO completely, because the USA can extract so much money out of Britain/Europe. NATO provides the USA with de facto taxraising powers in European countries. All Trump has to do is order our countries to pay more for NATO, Britain/Europe governments will say "Yes Sir, President Trump Sir!" and we will pay more taxes.
Thank you. The true owners of the collective west - the banking cartel and fascist supranational mega corporations - need more Loot. Always.
While Russia resists, the Looters continue extracting the last drops of blood from the weakened body of EU. The US occupation of Europe and the actions of the comprador class have consequences for the western civilizations. These consequences are catastrophic.
Dear Sir: The Americans want to leave Ukraine but not Europe. The American empire still needs its vassals there. The weights put there by the USA will be reduced, but the Americans will not really LEAVE Europe.
An excellent discussion centered on the reality that multi-polarity is the new reality that the hegemon is yet to grasp.
Dangerous times as the old empire teeters and shakes.
Pity about all those nukes!
Well, well. So the vassalisation of Europe wasn’t such a grand idea then. Perhaps time to learn some humility and respect towards your Eastern brethren, dear Western Europeans.
"For years, the Europeans failed to establish the continent as an independent pole of power by neglecting to define their security and economic interests separate from the US."
First of all, "Europeans" and "European Union citizens" are commonly misconflated terms. Not every European country is in Euro-Utopia. Some sanity still exists in some pockets.
I doubt that there ever was a free will per-se post WW2 and works to create that pseudo-freedom was in full swing even during war. US powers needed European countries to make money again so that they can pay the cost of war and Marshal's plan was an excellent tool to make sure they remain dependent on US. Allies or not, US tech allows US businesses everything that makes media go bizerk when it comes to chinese tech (i.e. spying). Western europeans embraced that slavery and dived in - head first
US will not leave EU, it will only remove decorations around the pen. Kinda like taking 1/4 of blue pill. Just enough to reconsider hiring that bully to protect them again at a higher cost. They even played Ruskies well to make that threat tangible (by steering UA into an abyss), no matter how much that threat is just imaginary.
The only way for Europeans who want to be free is to ditch the Euro Utopia project and go their own way away from US tech wherever possible. This would be just a nice dream though... will not happen.
Excellent discussion Glenn. Thanks for sharing. I, faithfully, watch the Duran and always learn from you guys. You're one of the sane Europeans. Thank God.
America has been dragged reluctantly by the sheer force of her dire circumstances into the belated recognition of political and economic reality, and the necessary link between them. To wit, that you can weaken a nation to subjugate its people but if that nation is the seat of empire then you lose the empire and all the imperial prerogatives.
At the same time, America has been shielding Europe from that same necessary realisation. Therefore, Europe lags behind America in this recognition, and clings to its progressive green world citizen bible and its NATO guns (the irony, eh?) while its industry collapses, its cultures are overrun with hostile aliens, and the rage of the people rises.
It will all end in tears, but they won't be American tears.
The majority of Ukrainian agricultural holdings are owned by American NCH Capital, French AgroGeneration, German ADM Germany, KWS, Bayer and BASF, Saudi PIF and SALIC.
Do the CEOs and owners of the American NCH Capital, French AgroGeneration, German ADM Germany, KWS, Bayer and BASF, Saudi PIF and SALIC continue influencing the ongoing war against Russia? Are they still insist on sending more weapons and money to the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev?
It would be only logical if the Ukrainian and Russian victims of this war demand reparations from the American NCH Capital, French AgroGeneration, German ADM Germany, KWS, Bayer and BASF, Saudi PIF and SALIC. The war on Russia had started in 2014 when US ziocons united with the Ukrainian Nazi Party Svoboda to overturn a democratically-elected president of Ukraine. This crime must be addressed by the world community politically and economically.
Justice must be served.
President Trump is stating the obvious. The US will not confront Russia directly via Article 5 as it would result in WW III. Therefore the EU is on it's own, especially since the national intrests have changed and diverged.
If The Leaders of Europe and Britain had any Dignity they would stop acting like children who have been chastised by Father for something only Father says they did wrong, answer to Father of chastised children FUCK OFF you’re on your own. Question 1 who’s responsible for the Ukraine causing the unnecessary War and Pushing Russia to Invade Answer The Whitehouse, Pentagon, CIA, MI6, Mossad, Westminster, and NATO. Now if you Neoliberal Numpties are to dense to realise the Facts then Shut The Fuck Up Every insurrection in the Middle East has been started by CIA MI6 Mossad with the blessing of the War Mad Yanks and New Labour. it appears our New New Change Labour Party led by King Canute and his incompetent Government has learned nothing from the last New Labour Deployment of Troops when Invading Iraq to hunt for the Mythical WMDs at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of Billions of Pounds. This ludicrous non existent Special Relationship between the English Establishment and the Billionaire Americans, Has now been proven to be what the Normal People who Work for a Living or have Worked for a Living the Disabled the Poor the ill the Unemployed have said since the Liar Bush and his Rent Boy Blair Era To be BULLSHIT. I have said this often and I will reiterate Tell the Americans to Fuck Right Off We do NOT NEED YOU and all your Baggage Just Do One.
Europeans need to find their mojo and remove their compradors from power ASAP.
Ursula is a certified criminals (her dealings with weapon manufacturers and Pfizer make her ineligible for any official position), Macron and Olaf are puppets of banking cabal, the UK's criminals degenerates like Johnson, Blairs, and Arbuthnots deserve to continue their miserable existence in high security prison. The baltic chihuahuas are petty thugs with grand plans for grand crimes and should be dealing accordingly.
Ursula ist das Volk, EU burocrats know better what democracy is than the voices of European citizens
US policy really reflects Trump's domestic concerns. Yes, Europe is being sidelined, mostly due to their own delusions and innate powerlessness. Glenn understands that Russia is an ascendant power and those in the EU who refuse to talk or deal with Russia can't be expected to be around on the international scene for long.
Regarding Vance's remarks to the MSC, Vance knows that his words are unlikely to affect the German election. Why cause such a ruckus?
It is clear to me that Vance and Trump don't care very much about issues like migration or speech in Europe. In my opinion, the subtext for Vance's speech is that the European establishment catechism is dangerous precisely because it includes Russophobia as a core principle.
Trump is going to force Europe to drink the castor oil of defeat in Ukraine and Trump has, as an enemy, the entire European establishment that lives inside the international institutions that Trump must destroy in order to make peace with Russia.
Do Trump and Vance fret over Russophobia for moral or philosophical reasons? No, Trump understands correctly that distrust and hatred of Russia is an essential tool for those who want to continue the war.
Besides the moral tragedy of the Ukraine war, Trump understands that the international 'blob' on both sides of the Atlantic draw sustenance from the war and Trump more than anything else knows that he has to eviscerate or at least neuter the blob in all its manifestations such as USAID, NED, NATO, EU etc. These blob institutions harbor the real power sources that want to stop the Trump revolution and at the core of these institutions lies Russophobia.
Trump wants to end the Ukraine war because it is necessary and concomitant with his consolidation of power over his domestic liberal-internationalist enemies, but there is another related reason. Trump views Russia's close relationship with China as something that should change before any future confrontation. To this end, Trump would like to re-integrate Russia into the West.
Germany will benefit from the economic reintegration of Russia into Europe, but the UK and France would be big losers which is why I believe that France will likely try to lead the EU resistance to Trump's diplomacy in the days ahead.
Trump does not want to end the Ukraine war. His owners will not let him to end the Ukraine war.