Federalizing the EU, not the political fantasy of defeating Russia, is the real goal, which requires another four years of proxy warfare and at least another $400 billion to complete.
Andrew, please excuse me for this out of topic but do you know what happened to Pepe Escobar. Few months ago, he was everywhere on AMC and was quoted permanently by every "analyst" in AMC.
For few months now, suddenly, we heard of him nowhere. In AMC, it's like he never existed. Nowhere.
What happened? Is he dead? Did he became Shaolin monk? Did AMC "analysts" finally realized that he was a bullshiter?
He was touring China for a month doing a documentary or something like that and still does podcasts I think. I also noticed that he seems a lot less active than usual but doubt he's retiring or that his friends will stop platforming him. He'll probably make a comeback soon.
Realism will come soon: Ukraine (and the combined West including NATO) have lost the (proxy) war with Russia. Dreamland by the west is about to collapse into realism: the stolen Russian assets held in Belgium Euroclear, will not be given to the EU to prolong the war effort in Ukraine. The blackmail proposal for EU member state to make in December will fail, the US will not fund, the EU has not got the funds.
The most tragic thing is seeing the European working class not rebelling against the continent's ruling class, which is lining its pockets with money by maintaining this stupid war! How much a true left is needed in Europe, grounded in the ROOT of the problem: the class struggle.
Europeans are too old. Revolutions and insurrections, in spite of the kayfabe, are never spontaneous; the cadre are funded from abroad. But even if Russia found the balls to sponsor insurgents in Europe, nothing will happen because public insurgency relies on the 18 to 25 cohort, disenfranchised youth just entering hopeless adulthood.
This requires a certain demographic profile, but elderly Europe has essentially the inverse of this profile. These pensioners, house owners, and family fathers will not take to the streets. They will continue to grumble, obey, and pay taxes, even as their livelihood burns and collapses around them.
Europe is a museum with good weather and cushy jobs. That’s why it makes sense to import LNG from America because the EU can recoup the costs via Americans on vacation paying VATs. Also the extra costs are included in value added exports and you just export more to Qatar to America to make up the difference in costs of piped gas from Russia vs LNG from America. Trump siding with MBS over Qatar in 2017 was the best thing ever for America because Qatar quickly figured out how to deal with Trump—throw dollars at him and he will do whatever you want and one thing Qatar has are $$$$$$$$!!!
This kind of thing can only succeed with at least a big minority of popular will and with leaders with a big popularity.
It's not the case.
More and more Europeans hate UE considering it's the reason and the symbol of all the problems of everyday life.
Security? Europe. Because now, it's no more the law makers who make law in the UE countries. It's the two courts of UE, CEJ and CEDH which decide case laws and those are applied silently by nationals Cassation Courts without any control of elected law makers.
Economy? It's Europe which forbid protectionism and is the cause of destruction of our economies to feed oligarchs of everywhere.
Immigration? It's UE wich forbid to prevent illegal alien to enter in countries, which forbid to arrest them, which forbid to send them back home, which force to feed them, heel them, educate them, house them for free.
UE is hated by the most of population and is just tolerated by most others.
Concerning charismatic leaders.... Merz, and Macron are hated and despised like no other leader before and they have less than 15% approbation. And Von Der Leyen is universally hated.
Now, they can force the game. But it will not work. It will not work long. It has never worked.
The end game will be - the EU will plunge itself into massive debt resulting in social outrage, USA will profit from arms sales to NATO members, Russia will remain self sustaining and Ukraine will be defeated.
I suggest reading Rudolf Steiner: Challenge of the Times. Steiner was an amazing clairvoyant. In this book, he says a lot about the British and American secret societies. One of the things is this: they want everyone east of the Rhine to be de-industrialized, they want everyone to be a peasant. And this is what they are bringing about.
Not really understanding how Federalism will in any way solve the self inflicted problems in the UK/EU. Good luck rearming without RE. What are they going to do, make bow and arrows and catapaults?
I suspect that EU elites would far prefer to tap into the €12trillion pool of collective European household savings, than to issue bonds. After all, why wouldn’t they prefer for Europe’s middle and working classes to fund their illegal war, interest free? Their disdain for popular opinion is well established, so why worry now?
Apropos what would ensue in the event of Ukraine’s defeat, haven’t the Brits already revealed an intention for Europeans, writ large, to orchestrate an insurgency that would keep Russia fighting a hybrid-type war for many years to come?
Yes, the plan is to shift the EU from an economic alliance to a War Party of Dancing Indians high on fiery water. The process is not unlike the feverish National Convention of the newly shaped Republican Party in Chicago, 1860 where the excited delegates were screaming when Lincoln was elected to go to war against the South: ‘We will be right behind you!’ (And some of them meant what they said quiet literally.) Lincoln was hiding his radical views on the slavery issue just like The Comedian of Ukraine, The Servant of the People was hiding his thirst for Slavic blood before taking leadership. And both created pain, suffering, death and social destruction.
The $400 Billion will surely incorporate the assets the EU/NATO nations have stolen from Russia while believing that the bill will never be presented to them. They are hoping to colonize both Ukraine and Russia, a dream they keep dreaming repeatedly in the last hundred some years. The prize they fixed their drug fueled eyes on is the endless Siberian snowfields and Arctic Ocean stretching to the North Pole and Vladivostok hiding all the natural resources they do not have. EU/NATO just might be sleepwalking into a trap of their own design here.
Changing in vicious warriors the current bunch of soft wimp which constitute our youth and realising that between 1/3 to half of this youth is made of son of former colonies who hate our countries and won't die for them, it will be interesting to see how they will do.
Sure, Americans know how to fight, they have won so much huge battle in their military history. They are not like those European jesters with their tiny battles like la Marne, Verdun, la Somme, Tannenberg, Brousilov, or Sedan, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk.
They are so good that at Overlord there was much British and Canadians than Americans. They stay six month in front of Monte Casino and it's French soldiers who won the day. In mountain Vosges, in front of german cookers, nurses and old timers, Paton were stopped weeks and it's Leclerc and its 2d armoured division who opened the way.
Sure, for bombing civilians at 12000 m , USA have always been the best and is still the best. To fight against an pair army...that never happened in their histori.
USA have much bigger battles: like.....the Bulges?
All the rest was against third level or less enemy.
That you bring up examples from long ago is telling. And no, you don't get extra points for fighting fair. You got points for winning. You only get points for winning.
Anyway, the european plan is obvious. So what do you know that the NATO generals do not?
Again, the european plan is obvious. So what do you know that the NATO generals do not? For that matter, need I remind you of how the europeans spent the better pater of a decade screaming for the Americans to Do Something about mighty Yugoslavia, as they were too impotent to do anything on their own.
Notice that I have never mentioned Hollywood or the like. Please stop arguing with strawmen.
Andrew, please excuse me for this out of topic but do you know what happened to Pepe Escobar. Few months ago, he was everywhere on AMC and was quoted permanently by every "analyst" in AMC.
For few months now, suddenly, we heard of him nowhere. In AMC, it's like he never existed. Nowhere.
What happened? Is he dead? Did he became Shaolin monk? Did AMC "analysts" finally realized that he was a bullshiter?
If somebody have news about that...
He was touring China for a month doing a documentary or something like that and still does podcasts I think. I also noticed that he seems a lot less active than usual but doubt he's retiring or that his friends will stop platforming him. He'll probably make a comeback soon.
Caramba!
Realism will come soon: Ukraine (and the combined West including NATO) have lost the (proxy) war with Russia. Dreamland by the west is about to collapse into realism: the stolen Russian assets held in Belgium Euroclear, will not be given to the EU to prolong the war effort in Ukraine. The blackmail proposal for EU member state to make in December will fail, the US will not fund, the EU has not got the funds.
see also my analysis at: https://leonvermeulen.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
"The Economist" exists not to influence elite opinion but to reflect it and provide cover for it. "See, 'The Economist' endorses our plan!"
The most tragic thing is seeing the European working class not rebelling against the continent's ruling class, which is lining its pockets with money by maintaining this stupid war! How much a true left is needed in Europe, grounded in the ROOT of the problem: the class struggle.
Europeans like being slaves.
Europeans are too old. Revolutions and insurrections, in spite of the kayfabe, are never spontaneous; the cadre are funded from abroad. But even if Russia found the balls to sponsor insurgents in Europe, nothing will happen because public insurgency relies on the 18 to 25 cohort, disenfranchised youth just entering hopeless adulthood.
This requires a certain demographic profile, but elderly Europe has essentially the inverse of this profile. These pensioners, house owners, and family fathers will not take to the streets. They will continue to grumble, obey, and pay taxes, even as their livelihood burns and collapses around them.
True dat.
Europeans are also passive, meek, predictable, complacent, rules-following, authority-trusting sheep led to the slaughter.
"They will continue to grumble, obey, and pay taxes, even as their livelihood burns and collapses around them." Very well put.
Europe is a museum with good weather and cushy jobs. That’s why it makes sense to import LNG from America because the EU can recoup the costs via Americans on vacation paying VATs. Also the extra costs are included in value added exports and you just export more to Qatar to America to make up the difference in costs of piped gas from Russia vs LNG from America. Trump siding with MBS over Qatar in 2017 was the best thing ever for America because Qatar quickly figured out how to deal with Trump—throw dollars at him and he will do whatever you want and one thing Qatar has are $$$$$$$$!!!
It will not work.
This kind of thing can only succeed with at least a big minority of popular will and with leaders with a big popularity.
It's not the case.
More and more Europeans hate UE considering it's the reason and the symbol of all the problems of everyday life.
Security? Europe. Because now, it's no more the law makers who make law in the UE countries. It's the two courts of UE, CEJ and CEDH which decide case laws and those are applied silently by nationals Cassation Courts without any control of elected law makers.
Economy? It's Europe which forbid protectionism and is the cause of destruction of our economies to feed oligarchs of everywhere.
Immigration? It's UE wich forbid to prevent illegal alien to enter in countries, which forbid to arrest them, which forbid to send them back home, which force to feed them, heel them, educate them, house them for free.
UE is hated by the most of population and is just tolerated by most others.
Concerning charismatic leaders.... Merz, and Macron are hated and despised like no other leader before and they have less than 15% approbation. And Von Der Leyen is universally hated.
Now, they can force the game. But it will not work. It will not work long. It has never worked.
Of course they hate it, just as peasants hated the lords. But the lords had swords, armor, soldiers, castles and priests. The serfs did not.
Yes, but lords didn't expect that their peasants follow them in their wars abroad.
In this case, the plan is to get Americans to do their fighting for them rather than leave Sir Rupert Buggeringham out to dry.
The end game will be - the EU will plunge itself into massive debt resulting in social outrage, USA will profit from arms sales to NATO members, Russia will remain self sustaining and Ukraine will be defeated.
No, the rulers will use The Sunk Cost Fallacy to get WWIII.
For a ludite such as myself this article was helpful thanks 👍🏻
I suggest reading Rudolf Steiner: Challenge of the Times. Steiner was an amazing clairvoyant. In this book, he says a lot about the British and American secret societies. One of the things is this: they want everyone east of the Rhine to be de-industrialized, they want everyone to be a peasant. And this is what they are bringing about.
Does anyone think this proxy war will last four more years?
I don't.
Not really understanding how Federalism will in any way solve the self inflicted problems in the UK/EU. Good luck rearming without RE. What are they going to do, make bow and arrows and catapaults?
I suspect that EU elites would far prefer to tap into the €12trillion pool of collective European household savings, than to issue bonds. After all, why wouldn’t they prefer for Europe’s middle and working classes to fund their illegal war, interest free? Their disdain for popular opinion is well established, so why worry now?
Apropos what would ensue in the event of Ukraine’s defeat, haven’t the Brits already revealed an intention for Europeans, writ large, to orchestrate an insurgency that would keep Russia fighting a hybrid-type war for many years to come?
Yes, the plan is to shift the EU from an economic alliance to a War Party of Dancing Indians high on fiery water. The process is not unlike the feverish National Convention of the newly shaped Republican Party in Chicago, 1860 where the excited delegates were screaming when Lincoln was elected to go to war against the South: ‘We will be right behind you!’ (And some of them meant what they said quiet literally.) Lincoln was hiding his radical views on the slavery issue just like The Comedian of Ukraine, The Servant of the People was hiding his thirst for Slavic blood before taking leadership. And both created pain, suffering, death and social destruction.
The $400 Billion will surely incorporate the assets the EU/NATO nations have stolen from Russia while believing that the bill will never be presented to them. They are hoping to colonize both Ukraine and Russia, a dream they keep dreaming repeatedly in the last hundred some years. The prize they fixed their drug fueled eyes on is the endless Siberian snowfields and Arctic Ocean stretching to the North Pole and Vladivostok hiding all the natural resources they do not have. EU/NATO just might be sleepwalking into a trap of their own design here.
Changing in vicious warriors the current bunch of soft wimp which constitute our youth and realising that between 1/3 to half of this youth is made of son of former colonies who hate our countries and won't die for them, it will be interesting to see how they will do.
Everyone knows europeans can't fight. The plan is to get the Americans to ride to the rescue, rather than leave their catamites to twist in the wind.
Sure, Americans know how to fight, they have won so much huge battle in their military history. They are not like those European jesters with their tiny battles like la Marne, Verdun, la Somme, Tannenberg, Brousilov, or Sedan, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk.
They are so good that at Overlord there was much British and Canadians than Americans. They stay six month in front of Monte Casino and it's French soldiers who won the day. In mountain Vosges, in front of german cookers, nurses and old timers, Paton were stopped weeks and it's Leclerc and its 2d armoured division who opened the way.
Sure, for bombing civilians at 12000 m , USA have always been the best and is still the best. To fight against an pair army...that never happened in their histori.
USA have much bigger battles: like.....the Bulges?
All the rest was against third level or less enemy.
Please Ferial, don't make me laugh.
That you bring up examples from long ago is telling. And no, you don't get extra points for fighting fair. You got points for winning. You only get points for winning.
Anyway, the european plan is obvious. So what do you know that the NATO generals do not?
Yes, it's old.
But for Americans, it's never.
Do you think that against North Korea, Vietnam, Irak or Afghanistan is a proof of military value in a modern war against a pair?
please. Hollywood is something. Reality another.
Again, the european plan is obvious. So what do you know that the NATO generals do not? For that matter, need I remind you of how the europeans spent the better pater of a decade screaming for the Americans to Do Something about mighty Yugoslavia, as they were too impotent to do anything on their own.
Notice that I have never mentioned Hollywood or the like. Please stop arguing with strawmen.
I swear...
But I wanna leave this nightmarish theater !!
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