Macron and Rutte talking about how they’re going to take on Russia amounts to bar talk. Nobody pays attention unless the pipsqueak throws a punch. From Finian Cunningham at strategic-culture.su:
President-elect Donald Trump seems willing to find a peaceful resolution to the three-year war in Ukraine. The horrible irony, however, is that the conflict may be entering its most dangerous phase with only weeks before Trump moves into the White House.
The danger is heightened because of European lackeys. Tragically, it is weak and unscrupulous European politicians bending over backward to please Trump, who could ignite the proxy war against Russia into a full-blown conflagration.
Step up French President Emmanuel Macron and former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as Europe’s two most abject – and treacherous – politicians.
Both are posturing as “Trump whisperers” – that is, as the European figures that will work best with the new American president. Or, in other words, the two European politicians who will be most toadying and obsequious in trying to win Trump’s favor.
We saw this when Macron invited Trump to join other world leaders to attend the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last week. The French leader posed with Trump and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky in a separate parley – as if Macron was speaking for the whole of Europe. It seems Macron is pandering to Trump by offering European troops to bolster his peace initiative.
Days later, Macron was in Warsaw to push his idea of sending European troops as “peacekeepers” to Ukraine – if Trump manages to negotiate a much-touted peace deal between Moscow and Kiev. Macron says that Europe must be part of any settlement and not just leave it to Washington. This is aimed at ingratiating with Trump, who is always trying to transact cost savings for America.
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