“Every time Trump or members of his administration have lashed out at Europe, including Ukraine, Europeans have absorbed the blow with a forced smile and bent over backwards to flatter the White House.” (…)
“While a systemic answer to Europe’s security conundrum is not in sight, Europeans do have the levers to prevent Ukraine’s capitulation and create the conditions for a just peace.”
I’ve said this before, but please read American Kompromat by Craig Unger. It details the string of circumstantial evidence that Trump has been a Russian asset since 1986 at least.
CNN Portugal tonight was already distorting the current situation, claiming that Costa’s recent statements about Europeans not being subject to US interference were due to Trump saying that Europe would collapse civilizationally in 20 years because of its immigration policies, which is false or at least not the whole truth. Costa said what he said because the USA now considers the dismantling of the EU and support for Eurosceptic parties a priority in its defense strategy.
Europe, betrayed, is under attack.
I would also like to point out that Europe’s migrant crisis is largely a result of ISIS and Iraq. Guess who helped cause that clusterfuck? The same country which endless meddled in South America, which has resulted in a lot of migration to said country.
But hey, the US has always been good at sniffing its own farts and avoiding history books. What else is new?
TIL about Craig Unger goodreads has some nice reviews:
“One of the things I found valuable about House of Trump, House of Putin is that Unger makes clear—if such a thing can be made clear—what a strange, amorphous organism Russian/Ukrainian organized crime can be: equal parts legitimate business and human trafficking, government influence and illegal money laundering, threats of blackmail whispered in darkness and bold murder on the daytime streets.”
I think many (should) know most of the story though. But like you say it’s circumstancial. You know what I’ve been thinking lately; what if it was FSB who ordered to off Epstein, afraid he might blow the whistle on this scandals? Wouldn’t be entirely wild anymore.
My bet is it was Trump himself who ordered Epstein to be killed. In the mid-November email leak, Epstein talked about having a “silver bullet” that could take down Trump. Nine months later, dude was dead.
Could be FSB though. We might never know.
We might never know
It’s the interests of US democracy and western democracies to find out though. I hope someone like a journalist finds out. Trump must go.
Trump has been a Russian asset since 1986 at least.
Why have the US intelligence agencies done nothing? At least Trump is a double agent, or tripple.
There must be a story of complicated alliances of which we know almost nothing. I am just sure that American billionaires have not handed over the keys to the US to Russia.
Trump, the most USian man doing most USian things, is russian. Because only Russians can be evil!
Leave it to the .ml to rush to Russia’s defense because the Kremlin can do no wrong. Sad.
Leave it to a lib to rush to US defense because Washington can do no wrong
They’re both doing lots of wrong though…
I’m not even a liberal you dunce, find a better word to describe people who think differently than you do lmao
I’m well aware and pissed off at of how fucked up America is and the awful things they’ve done and continue to do, that does not make it any more okay for Russia to do the same awful things. Two wrongs don’t make a right, and I can and will criticize both. Whether it be genocide, imperialism, attacks on its own people, or any other harm they cause.
Go away, russian troll. You are not welcome here.
We are not alone, we have 26 others. That’s what the EU is. Not being alone, but being stronger, together.
In the article, it is highlighted the situation with Ukraine.
It is not clear if there are other countries other than the EU that can influence the situation(aside the US and Russia).
However, it is also time the EU becomes a bit egoistic not because it is necessary, but it will help in the future to determine what countries are willing to cooperate in the same manner.
It is not clear if there are other countries other than the EU that can influence the situation(aside the US and Russia).
I’ll be the first to admit I am very ignorant about the geopolitics of this war, but how can this possibly be true? India could stop trade relations with Russia; China could invade Russia; the global south could conscript and send armies to support Ukraine. I’m not saying these countries would or even should do these things, but isn’t an analysis self-defeating if we just assume only EU & US have any influence?
I don’t think I have been so involved in the Russian agression on Ukraine and thus my opinion may be quite laconic.
However, your point hit the nail, why only the EU and the US are the ones following up actions against Russia or helping Ukraine?
Unfortunately, I found myself the answer it’s not in their best interest, China feels comfortable being the new country who all the others depend on(I think there are already a couple of articles shared in this thread pointing that out). India the same, they get cheap gas from Russia since the EU doesn’t want it anymore.
The global south unfortunately some of them are already in China’s wallet especially South American countries, they have several loans from China, and as usual due to the huge distance and being unaffected by the conflict they are not interested in doing so(Zelenskyy pointed this out when he said you think you are safe because there is a huge ocean between you and Russia when he met Trump in the White House a few months ago).
So let’s be clear then—it’s not that other countries cannot influence this conflict, it’s that they choose not to. And even that is not quite right: Modi’s meeting Putin right now and their active trade with them does have an influence on the conflict, just not in Ukraine’s favour.
Maybe the EU should offer reparations, that’d really stick it to all those nasty other imperialists which it is definitely not aligned with ideologically.
That is really complex. The imperialism of France is very different to that of Slovakia for example and the EU has members with everything in between.
It really isn’t, are there any states within the EU that do not benefit from the concentration of wealth that colonialism has generated?
Since the question is clearly meant to be rethorical, but it seems none obvious to me:
- How does Slovakia, which was part of Austria.Hungary, which did not hold land outside Europe, benefit as much from colonialism as France, which had massive pieces of land?
- The Irish claim that British rule over Ireland was a form of colonialism. So how did they benefit from that as much as the Dutch did from controlling Indonsia?
- Why is there no difference between the size and time countries had colonial Empires at all? Germany had one for 30years or so, but Spain for centuries.
It wasn’t rhetorical, it was meant to encourage you to question the current conditions the EU exists under because imperialism never ended despite the European assertion that everything is fine now because they feel bad about it. Yes, colonised people are part of the EU as they are part of ever fucking nation on this planet because of the scope of effect that trajectory of colonialism achieved. You’ll notice that Irish people are far more vocally decolonial than French or German people, how curious.
I do not care who was the naughtiest imperialist in the past – though that history teaches us a lot about how this system developed – because the EU is still fundamentally a colonial system. The dissonance many Europeans on these threads express is that their understanding of colonialism is conveniently drawn at the borders and exists on the scale of severity you described above. Notice how this understanding also positions the violence in the past, as though it functions to obscure the continuance of that violence. EU states invest in colonialism directly and foster corporations – which are also conveniently imagined as separate from formal organising despite neoliberal policies – that engage in colonialism. Pick any commodity around your house, and look up who owns the resources that built it. Where does your phone battery come from, the fish you eat, the oil that fuels your cities.
The world extends beyond your doorstep.
In other words Europeans are evil by default, so it is best to ignore any sort of complexities in it and treat all of them as the evil race of people they are, but you put it into some leftists speak to make yourself look not racist.
“Racism is when you say colonialism is bad.” It is wild to hear people unironically admit to identifying so strongly with an oppressive system that they cannot seperate themselves from it. There is no complexity in how you think.
Sir, that is the definition of a rhetorical question.
Anything is the definition of anything.
did anyone think we could rely on a treacherous country such as the US?
They arent alone, eu, uk, the nordics. canada, australia, japan, taiwan, and a bunch of other nations all have common cause
And even the EU alone does not need to hide from the US. Including the other countries shifts it even more.
It is the US that is becoming more and more alone, especially if we finally do our homework and realise our potential.
They arent alone
Yes agreed , it’s been imo dramatically portrayed as we have been overly dependant on the US to take the lead after WWII. They were able to cut through most internal divisions, and now its enterily up to us.
Time to feel more confident and step out in the World, not as post-WWII Europe or an infant sucking at anyone’s tits, but as self conscious and aware Union with it’s own character, values and way of life.
How about falling to fascism and alignment with Russia or the USA, one country at a time? The process of undermining European democracy internally is already well underway.
How about falling
Yeah how about that? The rise of Facism is most certainly not uniquely a European problem for starters, they are growing roots everywhere There is a whole worldwide culture war going on.
The undermining of Europe has existed for a long while now actually; let’s say since after the construction of the Berlin wall. The difference now is that’s concentrated in the resurgence of the extreme right, also it seems more widespread , and the last years the efforts by US and or RF and CCP have intensified.
In a very weird way Europe should really thank the UK for the Brexit. If that event hadn’t shook Europe to it’s core, the anti-EU lobby would now have had a much stronger grip.
What about Africa? There’s a lot to gain in Africa. It’s not all war and corruption, there’s plenty of oppertunity to grow business relations. With Europe’s declining worker population and Africa’s growing population, it might be a good idea to look at emigration or outsourcing opportunities there.
Due to the colonial history most of Africa isn’t particularly fond of Europe. And modern France being insensitive on the issue certainly didn’t help this lately.
Yet what they all have in common primarily is that their population is majorily made up by morons. And so they all happily vote for right-wing populists preaching “nationalist interests” and “souvereignity” over common cause and blaming someone else for the problems they actively cause to enrich themselves.
And with a “friend” like today’s usa we don’t need enemies
European fascists aren’t alone, though, and that’s the issue.
It’s really becoming a “ideological worldwar” or something. Supposedly there a three geospheres and the main topic is democracy versus autocracy.
Which democracy is not a masked autocracy where the rich control politics?
I’ll take a EU-style “masked autocracy” over an overt autocracy like Russia any day.
What is the EU-style “masked autocracy”? Can we be sure that it exists? If the EU does what the US wants there is not much EU in that autocracy.
No, “they” are not alone because those “Europeans” discussed here are not on Europe’s side but exclusively their own.
Just like the <1% everywhere else they will simply throw the population under the bus to be on the authoritarians good side as one of them.
Are we -the European populations- alone? Yes, very much so. But that’s okay because propaganda-induced brain-damage is for a long time preventing us from even recognizing reality. So we will happily keep voting people into power that are only there to enrich themselves and their buddies while blaming imaginary scape goats… immigrants in most cases still, then LGBTQ+ -as we can see in those countries without relevant immigration already-, probably followed by everyone with another political opinion (if history is any indication), then intellectuals in general because people still thinking on their own -even if they keep quiet- are a risk. And once we reached the “random people have to be the scape goat today”-stage they will all cry out and ask how it could have come that far.
Yup. This idea of geographical, ideological alignments or lack thereof between blocs or countries entirely misses what’s actually going on. It’s why it’s rarely revealing and it fails to create useful predictions. Instead I find that looking at the owner class as acting against the working classes domestically and internationaly provides a much better picture of the world.
