I hope that after this nobody will annoy me by claiming that Western Europe is not totally and utterly on Russia’s side and dedicated to helping Putin win global dominance:
After months of ratcheting up pressure on Vladimir Putin, concern is mounting in Berlin and other European capitals that an emboldened Ukraine’s military successes in the east are reducing the chances of a face-saving way out of the crisis for the Russian leader.
As a result, the focus of German-led diplomatic efforts has shifted, according to senior officials, towards urging restraint from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and averting a humiliating defeat for pro-Russian rebels, a development that Berlin fears could elicit a strong response from Putin.
My explanation is the same as why North American Liberals are so besotted with Putin. Europeans are tired of the tutelage of the US. The forgot that they owe everything they have to the US aid of the post-war years and want to stick it to the Americans at any cost. And the fantasy of sticking it to the Americans is something they can only enact through Putin whose rhetoric is concentrated 100% on the hatred of the US.
Today Ukraine celebrates its independence but whether it will continue to exist as an independent country is very much in question. Now that Merkel and her band of Eurotrash have openly allied themselves with Putin, the world has gotten itself a new global leader. And it is a leader of such a kind that soon those very Europeans will sigh nostalgically for the good old times when all they had to do was defer to Americans.
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“Merkel and her band of Eurotrash” 🙂
// soon those very Europeans will sigh nostalgically for the good old times when all they had to do was defer to Americans.
Wouldn’t they simply switch back to America? I think you want them to pay for those announcements, but they probably won’t.
If Europe is so weak, only two forces that count so far are USA and Russia, right? Why would EU words change anything significant? Was Putin ever afraid of EU?
trim_c posted about this visit too, with several links to other analythis:
http://trim-c.livejournal.com/196986.html
May be, you’ll enjoy the picture:
http://www.tanyabatrak.com/2014/08/i-fell-in-love-with-quilling.html
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“Wouldn’t they simply switch back to America?”
– The US is retracting from foreign engagement, and these developments will make it retract faster.
“Why would EU words change anything significant? Was Putin ever afraid of EU?”
– Ukrainians are fighting a very harsh war with a much powerful opponent. And they are winning. What they are fighting for is the image of an enlightened, democratic, intelligent Europe. I can’t stop feeling just horrible for them because what they are fighting for doesn’t really exist. That Europe is long, long gone.
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// What they are fighting for is the image of an enlightened, democratic, intelligent Europe.
They aren’t fighting for France or Germany, they are fighting for creating this vision in their own country. Or, do you think achieving this in Ukraine is impossible w/o Europe’s help? Israel isn’t surrounded by countries in this image, yet we are quite successful ourselves.
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“They aren’t fighting for France or Germany, they are fighting for creating this vision in their own country.”
– Yes, and in a very silly and hopeful move they have convinced themselves that their model is Europe.
“Israel isn’t surrounded by countries in this image, yet we are quite successful ourselves.”
– With enormous financial help from the US and Canada. Ukraine isn’t looking for financial help, just for a model to aspire to.
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Perhaps humanity will mature one day and gain some sense of historical context and nuance. Unfortunately we are living in a time when the historical sense seems fundamentally absent everywhere you go, and in its place are a cast of figures with black and white hats, that are sometimes interchangeable!
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