It's impossible at this point to discern what might bring the US rulers to their senses about any of the three globally-threatening fire zones whose flames they keep fanning: the Ukraine-Russia war, where the flames are already licking at the thermonuclear fuse, the Gaza genocide/bombing of Yemen-risking the outbreak of a devastating "regional" conflagration, and the still-only smoldering tinder they're stoking to bring on war with China over Taiwan, an incalculable disaster with its own nuclear escalation booby prize. Biden's strident SOTU speech gave not the slightest nod to a diplomatic path to tamping down any of these existing or potential disasters-and Trump? A self-absorbed pyromaniac to replace Genocide Joe is what the American zombie democracy likely has in store for humanity.
When psychopathic warmongers are in control, total destruction is almost inevitable. When those same people are criminally incompetent and vindictive, nukes are on the table!
NATO troops on the ground will not happen, NATO in Europe don't have the weapons nor the manpower to do so, and the USA are too busy in Israel and around Taiwan to risk opening a real front in Ukraine. Ukraine/NATO lost, Russia won, end of story. All we need now is for our politicians to realize this very hard fact. Cheers from Denmark!
It's happening. And the purpose is precisely to provoke a non-Article-V war between Russia and core EU-NATO countries. Then US would, as usual, sit back and watch as its rivals destroy each other. The large EU countries already have leadership selected to make this more likely.
The answer to the question of why Macron made such silly statements lies in the assessment of the security of the repayment of the loans that the Bank de France has granted to the opaque agricultural oligarchs. And they would be pretty stupid if they repaid the loans after NATO used Ukraine for a proxy war to weaken Russia.
The European politicians are simply naive idiots to leave the Neocons from Washington and Wall Street to shape their sovereignty and future. The overwhelming majority of people are against a war. So there is a good chance the good ol beheading machines will be installed, this time in Brussels not in Paris. If the Europeans let such a thing be done with them and then being also too cowardly to chase such figures as von-der-Lügen, Borrell, Baerbock, Johnson, Macron et al away and sue them, imprison them like they did with the war criminals from Africa and Yugoslavia, they do not need to be surprised if they suddenly find themselves in a war again
true, that’s actually the essence of the mafia conglomerates in DC & Brussels. Little ones like Macron, Baerbock, Scholz, Sunak are getting the crumbs but they’re plenty.
I suspect the West will handle this with a mix of hysterical, delusional triumphalism, and hysterical, delusional victimology. There'll be some domestic scapegoating, as well as a military attack on some much weaker country. That would give them the distraction they need to handle internal uproar. The rest of the world will continue to isolate them.
Very well written! The Western transnational political economy and all its constituent special interest groups along with the strong cores of the national centers of the individual Western nations' political economies, who are deeply embedded within Western transnational political economy, have dynamics created by a large multitude of self interests expressed through formal and informal power structures that are far removed from public scrutiny and political contestation and exist in an equilibrium that lacks central control amongst themselves, and those dynamics may generate a sort of invisible hand that may guide the world towards conflict, a conflict whose tail risks involve Doomsday...
Excellent insights yes the anarchy of the marketplace neoliberalism reflected in the contestations and hubris of the ruling elites who sense that history is foreclosing on them rendering them impotent to reason and intractable in defence of their own privilege and wealth.
In my personal opinion, Neoliberalism doesn't actually do markets, it lies and says that it does but in reality it deliberately builds heavily cartelized, semi-centrally planned economies.
The system is one of mass corruption, so its cannibalized the capabilities it inherited when it came about. Look what they've done to the Royal Navy! Its on the way out the door and if it tries to fight it will fail to win. But it may very well try to fight, so we may be headed towards some rough times...
„There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.“ (Lenin)
The culmination of 30 years of post cold war politics. Perfectly exemplified bye Victoria Nulands depature from the state department.
John Helmer (dances with bears) wrote some month ago, that the war in Ukraine is the last battle of the scond World War.
Azov, Aidar, Putler, Battle of Kursk 2.0, Stalingrad 2.0, standing ovations for Holmka, the return of king artilllerie and the devestating, apocalyptic images of citys.
Helmer is of course rather describing a political process but his thesis has plenty of meat on the bone. I like it for its aesthetics.
Europe is standing at the end of a „500 year long road“ . WW2 was the Overture and now the symphonic orchestra is exhausted and there are no more notes to play, the instruments are out of tune and starting to break. The music will be played somewhere else, infused with new ideas and spirit. Question is, will the conductor realise and how will the audience react.
It is so telling that Dimitry Shostakovich , a Russian, wrote the last classical symphonies of/in Europe (5th, 8th, 10th). And a Latvian, Arvo Part, has to clean up the empty hall after the orchestra and almost all audience left.
Thank you for the text!
Finally a german writer who gets it!
The Taurus / Syriana Analysis Interview was great. German Journalism at its finest. Hope to see more of both of you.
Europe, Europe, Europe. I’m tired of hearing so much about their posturing. Yes, I’ll track it but IMO there is something tantamount to a divorce occurring between the U.S., Britain and Europe. Our historical legacy is sovereigntist. SOFR laid the foundation for the divorce. Talk about ‘the west’ obscures this development. Kudos to Tom Luango for tracking this development for the last 3-4 years.
Looks like EU will end up under the bus. Nothing better could be happened to this “political arm of NATO”. Confederations only work wenn there is money to bribe the people into accepting rules. Yugoslavia was a confederation and look how it ended. Question is does Europe first needs the catharsis of a war to close down this lobbyist mafioso crews in Brussels or are they smart enough. In June this year are EU “elections” and after the voting these crooks appoint themselves in the good old fashion of a communist politburo in Moscow 50 years ago.
if it continues to act like a polite bureau, not voted by the people directly, appointing each other and waffle about democracy which in fact is not a real representative, not to mention direct, democracy, the EU will fail.
that's correct: they're elected in their home-country. They're not elected European wide. So there is no participation to vote and influence in other countries. You get as a result these corrupt clowns and lobby groomed clowns. This is even one level lower then a representative democracy. The EU is a Con-Federation not a Federation. That's all together makes the entire set-up more like one of this polite - bureaus we know from 50 years ago in Moscow. Above all, however, there is not even the slightest trace of DIRECT DEMOCRACY. The concept of "Nation Europe" was already a pamphlet published in the 60/70s by the Nazi and NPD supporter Norbert Frey. Anyone reading his posts today would think he had written the instruction manual for the EU constitution.
"there is something tantamount to a divorce occurring between the U.S., Britain and Europe" No, it is more like abused wife syndrome, but with the sociopathic US patriarch in a polygamous marriage alternately beating, or enjoying its wives, taking advantage of their weakness, their lack of self-respect, and their stupidity.
What may explain Macron's turn, as he was the one who used to continue talking to Putin, is that France was given the sack recently by several African countries, being replaced by Russia.
It's impossible at this point to discern what might bring the US rulers to their senses about any of the three globally-threatening fire zones whose flames they keep fanning: the Ukraine-Russia war, where the flames are already licking at the thermonuclear fuse, the Gaza genocide/bombing of Yemen-risking the outbreak of a devastating "regional" conflagration, and the still-only smoldering tinder they're stoking to bring on war with China over Taiwan, an incalculable disaster with its own nuclear escalation booby prize. Biden's strident SOTU speech gave not the slightest nod to a diplomatic path to tamping down any of these existing or potential disasters-and Trump? A self-absorbed pyromaniac to replace Genocide Joe is what the American zombie democracy likely has in store for humanity.
When psychopathic warmongers are in control, total destruction is almost inevitable. When those same people are criminally incompetent and vindictive, nukes are on the table!
NATO troops on the ground will not happen, NATO in Europe don't have the weapons nor the manpower to do so, and the USA are too busy in Israel and around Taiwan to risk opening a real front in Ukraine. Ukraine/NATO lost, Russia won, end of story. All we need now is for our politicians to realize this very hard fact. Cheers from Denmark!
It's happening. And the purpose is precisely to provoke a non-Article-V war between Russia and core EU-NATO countries. Then US would, as usual, sit back and watch as its rivals destroy each other. The large EU countries already have leadership selected to make this more likely.
The answer to the question of why Macron made such silly statements lies in the assessment of the security of the repayment of the loans that the Bank de France has granted to the opaque agricultural oligarchs. And they would be pretty stupid if they repaid the loans after NATO used Ukraine for a proxy war to weaken Russia.
The European politicians are simply naive idiots to leave the Neocons from Washington and Wall Street to shape their sovereignty and future. The overwhelming majority of people are against a war. So there is a good chance the good ol beheading machines will be installed, this time in Brussels not in Paris. If the Europeans let such a thing be done with them and then being also too cowardly to chase such figures as von-der-Lügen, Borrell, Baerbock, Johnson, Macron et al away and sue them, imprison them like they did with the war criminals from Africa and Yugoslavia, they do not need to be surprised if they suddenly find themselves in a war again
"The European politicians are simply naive idiots to leave the Neocons from Washington and Wall Street to shape their sovereignty and future."
They will receive a cut of the profits. Nothing new here.
true, that’s actually the essence of the mafia conglomerates in DC & Brussels. Little ones like Macron, Baerbock, Scholz, Sunak are getting the crumbs but they’re plenty.
I suspect the West will handle this with a mix of hysterical, delusional triumphalism, and hysterical, delusional victimology. There'll be some domestic scapegoating, as well as a military attack on some much weaker country. That would give them the distraction they need to handle internal uproar. The rest of the world will continue to isolate them.
Very well written! The Western transnational political economy and all its constituent special interest groups along with the strong cores of the national centers of the individual Western nations' political economies, who are deeply embedded within Western transnational political economy, have dynamics created by a large multitude of self interests expressed through formal and informal power structures that are far removed from public scrutiny and political contestation and exist in an equilibrium that lacks central control amongst themselves, and those dynamics may generate a sort of invisible hand that may guide the world towards conflict, a conflict whose tail risks involve Doomsday...
Excellent insights yes the anarchy of the marketplace neoliberalism reflected in the contestations and hubris of the ruling elites who sense that history is foreclosing on them rendering them impotent to reason and intractable in defence of their own privilege and wealth.
In my personal opinion, Neoliberalism doesn't actually do markets, it lies and says that it does but in reality it deliberately builds heavily cartelized, semi-centrally planned economies.
The system is one of mass corruption, so its cannibalized the capabilities it inherited when it came about. Look what they've done to the Royal Navy! Its on the way out the door and if it tries to fight it will fail to win. But it may very well try to fight, so we may be headed towards some rough times...
„There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.“ (Lenin)
The culmination of 30 years of post cold war politics. Perfectly exemplified bye Victoria Nulands depature from the state department.
John Helmer (dances with bears) wrote some month ago, that the war in Ukraine is the last battle of the scond World War.
Azov, Aidar, Putler, Battle of Kursk 2.0, Stalingrad 2.0, standing ovations for Holmka, the return of king artilllerie and the devestating, apocalyptic images of citys.
Helmer is of course rather describing a political process but his thesis has plenty of meat on the bone. I like it for its aesthetics.
Europe is standing at the end of a „500 year long road“ . WW2 was the Overture and now the symphonic orchestra is exhausted and there are no more notes to play, the instruments are out of tune and starting to break. The music will be played somewhere else, infused with new ideas and spirit. Question is, will the conductor realise and how will the audience react.
It is so telling that Dimitry Shostakovich , a Russian, wrote the last classical symphonies of/in Europe (5th, 8th, 10th). And a Latvian, Arvo Part, has to clean up the empty hall after the orchestra and almost all audience left.
Thank you for the text!
Finally a german writer who gets it!
The Taurus / Syriana Analysis Interview was great. German Journalism at its finest. Hope to see more of both of you.
Europe, Europe, Europe. I’m tired of hearing so much about their posturing. Yes, I’ll track it but IMO there is something tantamount to a divorce occurring between the U.S., Britain and Europe. Our historical legacy is sovereigntist. SOFR laid the foundation for the divorce. Talk about ‘the west’ obscures this development. Kudos to Tom Luango for tracking this development for the last 3-4 years.
Looks like EU will end up under the bus. Nothing better could be happened to this “political arm of NATO”. Confederations only work wenn there is money to bribe the people into accepting rules. Yugoslavia was a confederation and look how it ended. Question is does Europe first needs the catharsis of a war to close down this lobbyist mafioso crews in Brussels or are they smart enough. In June this year are EU “elections” and after the voting these crooks appoint themselves in the good old fashion of a communist politburo in Moscow 50 years ago.
50-50 the EU will collapse?
if it continues to act like a polite bureau, not voted by the people directly, appointing each other and waffle about democracy which in fact is not a real representative, not to mention direct, democracy, the EU will fail.
700 members of EU Parliament are elected. EU Commission members are appointed.
that's correct: they're elected in their home-country. They're not elected European wide. So there is no participation to vote and influence in other countries. You get as a result these corrupt clowns and lobby groomed clowns. This is even one level lower then a representative democracy. The EU is a Con-Federation not a Federation. That's all together makes the entire set-up more like one of this polite - bureaus we know from 50 years ago in Moscow. Above all, however, there is not even the slightest trace of DIRECT DEMOCRACY. The concept of "Nation Europe" was already a pamphlet published in the 60/70s by the Nazi and NPD supporter Norbert Frey. Anyone reading his posts today would think he had written the instruction manual for the EU constitution.
"there is something tantamount to a divorce occurring between the U.S., Britain and Europe" No, it is more like abused wife syndrome, but with the sociopathic US patriarch in a polygamous marriage alternately beating, or enjoying its wives, taking advantage of their weakness, their lack of self-respect, and their stupidity.
Yes, it continues to appear that the U.S. is captured but there are indicators of the shift ie; Powell’s squeeze.
Stopped reading at “Putin would likely win a fair election in 2024.”
Superb analysis. Thank you.
What may explain Macron's turn, as he was the one who used to continue talking to Putin, is that France was given the sack recently by several African countries, being replaced by Russia.
It's also time to face the fact that incompetent leadership is a high and perhaps deadly price to pay for whatever benefits come with democracy.