Posted on 03/04/2025 7:44:12 PM PST by little jeremiah
"A secularized, atheist leaning Europe that has forgotten its roots, has demonstrated that it will NOT protect the personal freedoms of its citizenry.” — Jim Shea
See if you can get this straight: So, Keir Starmer says: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland wants to “put boots on the ground and planes in the air” in Ukraine so as to lead a “coalition of the willing” (NATO) against Russia. Sounds a little like the British PM is holding seances at No. Ten Downing Street to channel the spirits of bygone European leaders who launched doomed bear hunts into the vast and mysterious Eurasian east. (Who comes to mind?)
Why is Europe so avid for war? After eighty-odd years of serving as the world’s tourism theme park, languishing in their cafes, maybe they forgot what war is like. The New York Times reports: Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union would fortify Ukraine with economic and military aid, aiming to turn it into “a steel porcupine that is indigestible for potential invaders.” This requires you to fall for the fake idea that Russia seeks to invade western Europe. Notice how much the EU acts like America’s Democratic Party — projecting its own hostile fantasies on its adversaries.
Also, like our Democratic Party, Europe is sinking into oblivion. The animating ethos of the ruling parties in Germany and France is to punish their own citizens with censorship, tyranny, and sponsoring an alien invasion that aims to demolish European culture. Their economic wizards are taking the continent medieval, to a global backwater of defeated peasants eating bugs. I will boldly predict that the likes of Starmer, von der Leyen, and Friedrich Merz will be swept out of power by angry mobs before next Christmas.
In the meantime, Europe has made itself preposterous. Europe does not have the mojo to do a darned thing about Ukraine or Russia. The British army has 74,296 active-duty troops, comparable to Algeria. The UK’s North Sea oil production has declined by approximately 73-percent since 2000. Germany produces around 23,000 barrels-a-day, enough to meet two percent of its domestic oil demand. Anyway, exactly a year ago, Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared, “There will be no ground troops, no soldiers on Ukrainian soil sent there by European countries or NATO states.” So, who’s kidding whom?
Circumstances are driving the USA and Russia into an alliance of necessity. The immediate goal is to stop the insane war provoked by previous non-Trump administrations (and the EU) going back to George W. Bush, that repeatedly promoted “color revolutions” (regime change) in Ukraine so as to drag it into NATO — putting a hostile forward base on Russia’s “front porch.” The idea all along among the most fervidly delusional neocons has been to bust-up Russia in order to seize its oil and mineral assets.
That project never panned out because after a decade of post-Soviet chaos, Mr. Putin put his country back in order, turned it into what used to be the definition of a normal European nation and — too ironically even for Russian literature — made it a bastion for defending Western Civ while the other nations of Europe launched their campaign of collective suicide. History is ever a trickster and the zeitgeist is its consigliere.
Mr. Trump and his wingmen apparently recognize the obvious: that Ukraine is exactly what its name signifies in its Slavic root, Украина" (Ukraina): frontier, borderland, periphery, outskirts. Ukraine is on the edge of Russia. Most of all, it is geopolitically within Russia’s sphere-of-influence in the same way that Mexico is in ours, with similar implications for national defense as laid out explicitly in our Monroe Doctrine. Because Ukraine is mostly a flat plain, it has served historically as the doormat for invasions into Russia, so you may see why Russia was not comfortable with the prospect of NATO perched there, especially in a new age of drones and missiles.
As Europe now flounders impotently and wrecks itself, America and Russia are motivated to avoid being snookered into an unnecessary world war over Ukraine. Mr. Zelenskyy is but an anachronistic artifact of the color revolutions that finally sputtered out with “Joe Biden,” who was himself in the vanguard of a colossal money-grubbing operation in that sad-sack country. While much is already known about how that worked, a whole lot more is waiting to be revealed, including the degree of actual treason it entailed. People around “Joe Biden” will be going to jail over this, or worse.
I’d also venture to predict that W. Zelenskyy will before much longer get removed from his position by his own generals. Ukraine will return to its long-standing status as a borderland that poses no danger to the rest of the world. America and Russia will be poised to defend what remains of Western Civ from ambitious China. And Gawd help Europe if its insane national leaders revert to fighting among each other as they did for two thousand years before 1945, making a slaughterhouse of the region again.
Mr. Trump is correct to avoid getting dragged into that. We have enough on our own agenda for repairing the damage done to ourselves the past thirty years. The good news is that we’re beginning to get that done.
Like all the EU they have no bill of rights ... they have the rights allotted by their masters and those only to the extent that their masters think they deserve.
It was an attitude adjustment
I guess it was his first time
An attitude adjustment
Now he understands just fine
He got bent out of shape
And he opened his mouth
And just one appointment straightened
Him right out it was an attitude adjustment
It’ll work every time
Loved the way JD Vance called the Euros on their lack of free speech at the Munich security conference.
We are extremely fortunate to have our Constitution, and the founders who were wise and godly men.
And they Europedos hated that!
I’m culturally illiterate, sounds like a song...
Kunstler calls out all the Euro-weenie bluffs.
They are holding no cards.
Their reactions made my day. Pure schadenfreude.
I just woke up, is it August 1914?
Thank you! Will give a listen.
They want destruction so they can rule over the ashes. Globalists.
Ha ha the card they have is the Old Maid.
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Only beef I have with the article is Mr Kunstler saying “mister Trump” instead of “President Trump”.
BTTT
The animating ethos of the ruling parties in Germany and France is to punish their own citizens with censorship, tyranny, and sponsoring an alien invasion that aims to demolish European culture. >>>>>>>>>>
Its the same in Canada after 8 years of draconian progressive rule in Canada. We have hate speech censorship of politcal speech, denial of foreign press articles on social media platforms,and a supposed buy back program for semi automatic rifles and pistols, with fascist like restrictions on the purchase of firearms, the illegal use of the War Measures Act to destroy a legitimate populist political movement, The Freedom Convoy, seizure of public donations on line funding platforms ( in the millions), the freezing of donors bank accounts........
Canada wants these progressives gone, they are hated beyond measure in Canada.
Almost every town in France is named after a saint or holy event or some Christian reference.
St. Mere Eglise means Holy Mother Church, for one well-known example.
The cathedrals in Europe are everywhere and still astounding and in great condition.
Too bad the people are so blind to anything but Communist atheism. Most everyone, the new Right excepted, has cast off Christianity or observant Judaism.
Given the conundrum of a war between Russia and Ukraine, what moral compass might they consult to pick a side to ally with? What principles might they fall back on?
They are ambivalent and foundering. Does not point to an enthusiastic European fighting class for such a prolonged conflict.
“put boots on the ground and planes in the air”
But only with “strong US backing” per Keir. Screw that, Big Boy...you feelin froggy, just jump...we’ll see how high you go.
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