Posted on 11/28/2025 11:30:07 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In the contention over the United States’ peace plan for Ukraine, the Europeans are in their accustomed role — carping from the sidelines.
Not only can the once-great European powers no longer dictate the fate of far-flung parts of the world, they can’t even dictate the end of a war involving a European country whose fate they deem crucial to their own future.
We’re a long way from the British controlling about a quarter of the globe’s territory in the early 20th century; a long way from British and French diplomats, Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot respectively, drawing the lines in 1916 to divide up the Ottoman Empire; a long way from Napoleon sitting with Tsar Alexander in Tilsit in 1807 and re-arranging the map of Europe.
France was once so diplomatically central that there are dozens of Treaties of Paris, whether in 1259 (between King Louis IX of France and King Henry III of England) or in 1951 (setting up the European Coal and Steel Community).
Now, France scurries around with its European counterparts to react to whatever the American president is doing.
It’s gotten so bad that some European analysts speak of a potential “scramble for Europe,” or attempts by richer, more powerful outside countries to influence the continent’s course.
The late conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer maintained of the United States, “decline is a choice.”
This isn’t quite right with regard to Europe, whose great powers were kneecapped by the cataclysms of the early 20th century.
France bore the brunt of World War I, suffering 1.4 million dead and 4.3 million wounded at a ruinous economic cost.
As for Britain, stretched to the max, it got steadily eclipsed in power and influence by the United States as World War II progressed.
The less said about Germany’s role in...
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The EU and Davos are irrelevant to Russia and the United States, but they are still the main power behind Ukraine’s Azov ideologue government, and they can (and will) keep it alive, even if its eventually reduced to some bunkers in Lviv.
Davos, Brussels, and London will literally fight to the last Ukrainian.
The title is all you need.
Europe....always there for us when they need us.
Europe has been feckless for eons.
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