The Europeans have to consign themselves to bystander status in the Ukrainian peace negotiations. That’s a tough blow for Europe’s leader’s big but fragile egos. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.su:
We have never reached an all time low as European countries – including the UK – as of now, Martin Jay writes.
What did we just witness? Europe’s leaders in a close meeting with Donald Trump trying to hammer out a peace deal with Ukraine and Russia? Was it for real or staged? When UK’s Keir Starmer kicked off with a two-minute monologue and people from his own country were looking for subtitles, you knew this was bullshit central on steroids. Trump’s idea of bringing them all to the White House only really had three distinct objectives, even if he hadn’t worked them out himself. Firstly, to appease Russian leader Putin who he wants a closer, warmer relationship with for business; secondly to give the impression that he is committed to finding a peace deal in Ukraine; and thirdly to make the point again that America is back and even though the U.S. is not the world leader it once was, within a European dynamic it is more of a superpower than ever before. We have never reached an all time low as European countries – including the UK – as of now where our leaders sit outside Trump’s office and wait for him to finish important business with real players – in the world of grown-ups and their deals – before he invites us into his office. The photo taken really summed up Europe’s problems which have lead to the crisis in the first place: no leadership.
When Trump started heaping praise on the cohort of failed EU politicians and then added to the circus medley “it’s Biden’s war” you know from the off that there was going to be no real future and that the meeting was a sham.
What’s really going on is Trump recalibrating himself with Putin while moving into the safety zone of world affairs as a gargantuan distraction for the U.S. press, while in reality the U.S. economy moves steadily towards a recession following Trump’s blundering with his tariffs plan and the Epstein scandal just puts more and more pressure on him. The recent publication of a book in the UK which shed more light on Trump’s links to Epstein and his underage girl honey trap has just injected more adrenalin into the on going saga – claiming that Trump had sex for the first time with Melania on the Lolita Express jet owned by Epstein and that he in fact was close to Prince Andrew.
Keep calm and enjoy backwater status?
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