Europe Blinks!

 by J.B. Shurk

It’s the craziest thing.  For four years, European “leaders” have puffed out their chests and proclaimed that Russia would be defeated in Ukraine.  The preservation of the “rules-based international order,” they’ve told us repeatedly, requires that Russian-speaking peoples be deprived of self-determination and remain part of a post-Cold War-constructed state that they have no interest in supporting.  The world has watched as hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian men have lost their lives for what exactly?  For comedian holdover-president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s sacred honor (you know, the guy who became famous by pretending to play the piano with his penis)?  For the glory of a European Union that desperately wants to gobble up Ukraine in its “United States of Europe”?   

For four years, European censors have insisted that all Russian points of view are “disinformation.”  European sports commissions have banned Russian athletes from competition as punishment for the actions of their government (while welcoming athletes from nations whose governments regularly commit human rights abuses and even genocide).  European politicians have confiscated Russian assets and sovereign wealth funds in violation of the same “rules-based international order” that they claim to preserve.

Now some of those same “leaders” are changing their tunes.  Le Petit Fromage Emmanuel Macron says that Europe must “re-engage” with Moscow.  King Kraut Friedrich Merz admits that a peace agreement regarding Ukraine “just doesn’t work without Russia’s consent.”  What a strange about-face from a Franco-Prussian tag team that has been pretending for years that Russia will have no say in how the war ends.  You mean that a potential peace treaty between two belligerent parties must eventually involve both parties before mutually agreed-upon terms are accepted and signed?  How novel. What will contract lawyers come up with next?

What in the world just happened?  Before Christmas, the German War Machine was reactivated as Chancellor Merz secured the greatest increase in military spending since WWII.  Word has spread for months that French hospitals were instructed to prepare for mass casualties from an impending pan-European war.  The United Kingdom and France both pledged to station troops in Ukraine’s interior.  Across Europe, politicians have been telling citizens that if the Russians aren’t stopped in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin will soon conquer the whole continent.  Just as it seemed that World War III was ready to begin, the whole bloody disaster looks like it might be postponed…or even cancelled! 

Could it be that Europe’s politicians decided that sacrificing millions of people in the continent’s third catastrophic bloodbath (and fifth if you include the Balkan and Yugoslav Wars!) in little more than a century is a bad idea, after all?  Not likely.  European “elites” aren’t particularly concerned about the lives of common Europeans.  Why else would they invite tens of millions of foreign barbarians into their countries to rape their women and children (while housing and feeding the rapists for free)?  

Besides, “war with Russia” has become politicians’ favorite band-aid for every European problem.  Why is everything so expensive?  Don’t blame “green energy”-induced inflation; blame Russian aggression!  Why are Eurocrats censoring social media posts?  Don’t call it a war on free speech; call it a war on Russian disinformation!  How can European manufacturers survive now that their wind-powered production lines are too expensive to compete against cheap Chinese imports?  European governments will just have to subsidize bankrupt companies’ efforts by converting them into defense production facilities!  What will Europe’s globalist governments do about all the upstart “populist” movements gaining political support?  Import more foreigners and send the local, vocal rabble off to fight the Russians!  From Britain to Estonia, every politician with a problem has found a use for the War in Ukraine.

The war has been raging for four years, and Europe’s “leaders” have sounded downright giddy about it raging for another decade — or at least long enough for them to use the crisis of war to justify the imposition of government-monitored central bank digital currencies.  Germany’s spending money it doesn’t have to put the muscular threat of violence behind its authoritarian threats against speech the government doesn’t like.  (But don’t call it the return of a fascist Fourth Reich!  Germany sends people to prison for saying less.)  Brussels Eurocrats were so close to declaring that their dead-broke lords and ladies could simply rob anyone the prim and proper crowd find distasteful.  Britain’s war-instigating intelligence agents were popping champagne bottles in anticipation of seizing control over Crimea.  And then out of the blue, European Commission spokeswoman Paula Pinho confirmed: “Obviously, at some point, there will have to be talks also with President Putin.” 

Excuse me?  European officials have spent the last few years calling Putin a “dictator,” a “war criminal,” and a “tyrant,” but president?  Such titles are generally reserved for globalist European politicians who assume power after pretend “elections” that the European Commission has rigged.  What’s up with this nominal display of respect?  Why would Europe give up its favorite scapegoat now?

Three answers solve the riddle, and they all involve President Trump: (1) The American money spigot that flowed heavily during Puppet Joe Biden’s installation has been reduced to a trickle.  (2) The European blowhards have not yet received absolute guarantees that the American military will save their bacon should they poke the Russian Bear a few too many times.  (3) After hyperventilating about how Ukraine must be secured for the European Union, the European Union just noticed that America was securing Greenland a little more than it likes.  

One moment, American tax dollars were being money-laundered through Ukraine with such ease that government employees drove Lamborghinis to their mistresses’ vacation homes; the next moment, the Ukrainian holdover-president, whom the U.K.’s MI6 laughably lauds as the second coming of Churchill, is telling the world, I have no idea where all those hundreds of billions of dollars went!

One moment, mini-mouse Macron and scowling führer Merz (there goes my German visa!) were huffing and puffing and promising to blow Vladimir Putin’s Russia house down; the next moment, the lords of Euro-stan realize that President Trump is having a laugh with his Russian counterpart.

One moment, the American military was providing the pompous nobles of Europe free security; the next moment, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller remarks to reporters, “They want us to spend hundreds of billions of dollars defending a territory for them that is twenty-five percent bigger than Alaska at one hundred percent American expense, but they say while we do this, it belongs one hundred percent to Denmark.”  

Meanwhile, German politicians and corporate “stakeholders” are recalling what happened to their grandparents the last time the Russians and Americans managed to work together.  Uh-oh, if the Russians and the Americans figure out how to ignore Brussels’s foot-stomping hysterics and find a mute button for the narcissistic ramblings of Starmer, Macron, and Merz, then the Old World gets older and even more irrelevant.  There won’t be much left for the European gentry to do other than to hand over the continent’s keys to the Islamic invaders and perhaps ask their conquerors — in the name of the “climate change” hobgoblin — to turn out the lights. 

Never fear, Europe!  There’s breaking news seeping out from America’s maple-scented hat: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pledges to militarily defend the Kingdom of Denmark against any U.S. attempts to annex Greenland.  “Don’t worry, the Canadians are coming!” said no-one ever.  Carney may have cozied up to communist dictator Xi Jinping, but given that Canada depends entirely upon American military might (as does Greenland), Carney might just find that all his bluster is the Canadian mayonnaise that loses him Alberta.  President Trump sure does love to buy undervalued properties before flipping them into luxurious American states!

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