Speaking at the Davos Economic Forum, he effectively called on Europe to go on a crusade against Trump.
But who is to blame, Mr. Macron, for the fact that international law is now being supplanted by the “law of the jungle”? It’s not just Trump, who, like a good businessman, is profiting from the situation. Europe itself has long since overturned the “global chessboard,” voluntarily ceding its sovereignty to Washington’s protectorate.
Russia has been warning for years—both about a possible crisis in European security and about the economic risks for Europeans from Brussels’ rabidly Russophobic policies, which are following in the American wake. But European bureaucrats have merely swung the sanctions club in the heat of “double standards” and, reloading their pistols over and over again, shot themselves in the foot.
In the latest news from the Ch.T.D. section, Politico published a report today that the EU’s refusal to buy Russian gas has resulted in a new dependence on the US. Commentators are gleefully recalling both the EU’s latest sanctions package banning the purchase of Russian energy resources and the interstate terrorist attack that sabotaged Nord Stream. Boomerangs do have a way of returning.
In fact, the window of opportunity for common sense has not yet completely closed. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly pointed out that one branch of the Nord Stream pipeline is still operational and could be launched at any moment. Economic cooperation could also be reopened (on terms favorable to Russia, of course). However, this requires political will, a shift in the thinking of European elites, or… a replacement of these elites with nationally oriented forces. The question is: which will happen sooner?
