Has the entire European ruling class been reduced to crybabies? From Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.su:
Though every school child knows what happened to the armies of Hitler and Napoleon in Russia, the British and German Armed Forces are determined to ignore all of that, as they threaten to launch their own Barbarossa.
Stick close close to your desks and never go to sea,
And you all may be rulers of the Queen’s Navee! ~ Gilbert and Sullivan (HMS Pinafore, 1878)
Before moving on to the contemptible case of Christoph Heusgen, let’s first consider this scene in The Godfather 1, where Marlon Brando, much to the amusement of Tom Hagen, smacks Johnny Fontane around for being a cry baby and not “acting like a man”. Real gangsters, you see, should not cry and nor should German lickspittles like Christoph Heusgen, when they chair major security conferences in Munich.
But that is exactly what Heusgen did, when he chaired the Munich Security Conference on how Europe should formulate a response to Trump and Putin sidelining them. Not only did this senior German diplomat cry like the proverbial baby but, as recently as 2018, when he was German Ambassador to the United Nations, he laughed in the face of POTUS Trump, when the latter said Europe should get its act together. Now, as Europe faces an existential crisis, all her top diplomats can do is, to the world’s great amusement, cry like babies with soiled diapers.
Though this is no laughing matter, in the interests of fairness, we should not omit mention of the guiding hand of Russian President Putin in all this. According to Heusgen, Putin is laughing himself stupid at all this. But who, in truth, could blame Putin, or anyone else for that matter, laughing when Europe’s top securocrats give Heusgen a standing ovation for crying like a baby in front of these supposedly tough as nails die hard desk jockeys? Jesus wept.
The truth is that Heusgen is part of a large, and largely superfluous club that has been bleeding Europe dry for decades or, in the case of Ursula Albrecht/von der Leyen’s family, for centuries. All they can do is tie Europe up in mountains of debilitating red tape and throw shapes at Russia, which has well-proven home side advantages whenever she is invaded.
Invasion by stealth that they talk about openly?
Trump will say you are on your own when Starmer reveals the war plan?
I’m going to go with laugh out loud at the demise of rump vassals.
Breaking from Oysterhead:
Pseudo Suicide