The Big Transatlantic Divorce
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 1:36 pm
Some things are hard to predict, especially the future... but in my estimation the relationship will change dramatically. Big changes are announcing themselves everywhere, yet at the same time a mist has descended where it is hard to know who is what and where it is. Maybe most just exists in the virtual reality of news and social media?
Take this marvel man, Robert Kagan. The husband of the bewitched Victoria Nuland, known for her alleged evil role in the Ukraine uprisings and promotion of extremely provocative anti-Russian foreign policies by NATO. Hardliners, neo-cons in the business of economic arm twisting and blunt unashamed military adventures; all in the name of the liberal new world order to be exported by a confident USA; The American Century. That dream is now flat on its face and in his mind, Trump is the nightmare that replaced it.
Brussels Forum 2018: Opening and Scene Setter - A conversation
He is not stupid and has some good points. Basically, his medicine against the violence of the past between tribes he believes, is something like a strong USA that meddles round in the world to create the space for countries to move in the right direction. Using economic and military power that is. "Creative destruction" as Spengler used to call it. He can blame Trump all he wants but also knows that it is not just the Orange Ape; a symptom of the fact that 1) a majority of Americans are sick'n tired of foreign wars the US engaged in that produce more misery than happy lives, and 2) the democrat party completely abandoning their role of representing blue collar Americans and having sex with big-corp instead.
Loosing your moral high ground means it is game over. The USA has failed its own soldiers, young Americans sacrificed for nothing: in Iraq, Afghanistan, also failing all those who pinned their only hope on the USA bringing their counties to a better human-friendly life with more democracy and security. Everywhere I see Tucker Carlsons preaching retreat now; understandably given the shameful failures of the last decades. Ukraine is perceived as just another proxy war, framed as "caused and produced by warmonger the USA".
Psychologically an inversion occurred: "We can do anything in the world, and change it for the good!", this can-do mentality everybody loves and envies about the US... is now becoming increasingly its opposite: "Everything that goes wrong in the world is our fault!!". Both of course are overestimations of ones own importance, abilities and role.
When most Americans believe 1) Ronald Reagan single handedly brought to its knees evil USSR, and 2) that if only witch Victoria Nuland and her obsessed neo-con-lib husband Robert Kagan didn't push for this blunt confrontation between Ukraine and Russia, there would still be peace with the Ukraine happily exporting its wheat, doing fair business with Russian oligarchs.... the USA stops being a reliable partner in peace and war. To be clueless about yourself and the world around you is bad news. The blind leading the blind is never a good business proposition.
In a morbid way I sorta hope the Tucker Carlsons win and another perfect US Cyclops like Robert F Kennedy Jr takes the helm in 2024 and withdraws all money and arms from the Western European continent. Also this new kid on the Republican block, Vivek Ramaswamy is smart as hell on internal US issues but dumb as f*ck on foreign policy, and loves to withdraw completely from Ukraine and even envisions ending NATO altogether because it "no longer serves much of a purpose".
I do agree, Western Europe needs develop its own muscle against the barbarians at the Eastern gate. Yurp equally needs to develop a way to in the future seduce post-Putin Russia becoming part of a more civilized pan-European block of nations, that will not be an Empire but more like a neighborhood. Where each member respects borders and loves the idea of peace, free co-operation and prosperity for all.
The war with Russia might escalate and if it does, the landscape will change dramatically so anyone’s guess is as good as any what may follow.
Take this marvel man, Robert Kagan. The husband of the bewitched Victoria Nuland, known for her alleged evil role in the Ukraine uprisings and promotion of extremely provocative anti-Russian foreign policies by NATO. Hardliners, neo-cons in the business of economic arm twisting and blunt unashamed military adventures; all in the name of the liberal new world order to be exported by a confident USA; The American Century. That dream is now flat on its face and in his mind, Trump is the nightmare that replaced it.
Brussels Forum 2018: Opening and Scene Setter - A conversation
He is not stupid and has some good points. Basically, his medicine against the violence of the past between tribes he believes, is something like a strong USA that meddles round in the world to create the space for countries to move in the right direction. Using economic and military power that is. "Creative destruction" as Spengler used to call it. He can blame Trump all he wants but also knows that it is not just the Orange Ape; a symptom of the fact that 1) a majority of Americans are sick'n tired of foreign wars the US engaged in that produce more misery than happy lives, and 2) the democrat party completely abandoning their role of representing blue collar Americans and having sex with big-corp instead.
Loosing your moral high ground means it is game over. The USA has failed its own soldiers, young Americans sacrificed for nothing: in Iraq, Afghanistan, also failing all those who pinned their only hope on the USA bringing their counties to a better human-friendly life with more democracy and security. Everywhere I see Tucker Carlsons preaching retreat now; understandably given the shameful failures of the last decades. Ukraine is perceived as just another proxy war, framed as "caused and produced by warmonger the USA".
Psychologically an inversion occurred: "We can do anything in the world, and change it for the good!", this can-do mentality everybody loves and envies about the US... is now becoming increasingly its opposite: "Everything that goes wrong in the world is our fault!!". Both of course are overestimations of ones own importance, abilities and role.
When most Americans believe 1) Ronald Reagan single handedly brought to its knees evil USSR, and 2) that if only witch Victoria Nuland and her obsessed neo-con-lib husband Robert Kagan didn't push for this blunt confrontation between Ukraine and Russia, there would still be peace with the Ukraine happily exporting its wheat, doing fair business with Russian oligarchs.... the USA stops being a reliable partner in peace and war. To be clueless about yourself and the world around you is bad news. The blind leading the blind is never a good business proposition.
In a morbid way I sorta hope the Tucker Carlsons win and another perfect US Cyclops like Robert F Kennedy Jr takes the helm in 2024 and withdraws all money and arms from the Western European continent. Also this new kid on the Republican block, Vivek Ramaswamy is smart as hell on internal US issues but dumb as f*ck on foreign policy, and loves to withdraw completely from Ukraine and even envisions ending NATO altogether because it "no longer serves much of a purpose".
I do agree, Western Europe needs develop its own muscle against the barbarians at the Eastern gate. Yurp equally needs to develop a way to in the future seduce post-Putin Russia becoming part of a more civilized pan-European block of nations, that will not be an Empire but more like a neighborhood. Where each member respects borders and loves the idea of peace, free co-operation and prosperity for all.
The war with Russia might escalate and if it does, the landscape will change dramatically so anyone’s guess is as good as any what may follow.