Take a look at the picture. Not a statesperson among them and not even a moderately competent politician. Mostly they’re just hacks. From Simplicius at simplicius76.substack.com:
The Great European Traveling Circus has gathered for another emergency clown convention in London:
Don’t look so glum, you have a world to save.
It was meant to ‘signal solidarity’—or something to that effect—as envisioned by the behind-the-scenes scriptwriters tediously working to adapt decades-obsolete PR briefs to contemporary audiences. In fact, the bizarrely-staged spectacle looks all-the-more anachronistic each time you look at it.
Ask yourself: who are these optics for, exactly?
Certainly not for Americans who could no longer care less about Ukraine, or Europe for that matter. And not even for the Europeans, who no longer control the democratic levers able to make any appreciable shifts in the dialogue. In the end, it seems, the spectacle is staged for itself, because the European elite have fashioned a kind of simulacrum echo-chamber onto which they project their own tinsel performances ad nauseam, like a weird reality glitch. It’s a broken TV tuned to a dead station, sputtering noise in a long-abandoned flat.
