Josep Borrell is the European Commission’s High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. It’s appropriate that he’s a pompous idiot. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.org:
All Borrell actually does, in fact, is whine. He whines about his own failure. And he tends to do it quite a bit, particularly with the implosion of EU economies following EU sanctions against Russia.
What is wrong with the hapless Josep Borrell, a man so interminably boring that no one apparently takes him seriously or listens to his pathetic tirades. Is this entirely ineffective cretinous EU diplomat really helping the EU develop an identity as a global player, or is he making matters worse and only ensuring that the bloc can never have a solid foreign policy and only talk of having one? In short, is he part of the problem rather than the solution?
Ever since the Lisbon Treaty was adopted in 2007, the EU has believed that it can be a player around the world, imposing its views and hegemony, usually linked to huge sacks of cash it distributes to the Global South. And it, strangely, has also chosen a socialist from a Mediterranean country to be its top diplomat to preside over the new EU diplomatic corps, made up of over 120 ‘ambassadors’ based in the EU’s missions around the world.
And yet it is though the EU knows that it will never get the support it needs from member states to move ahead with big policy ideas, so it usually choses a third class, underwhelming politician who has long since been washed up in his own country, to take the top job in Brussels.
And there really is no one more underwhelming than Borrell who has been loyal to the EU elite for most of the latter part of his so-called career and really has nowhere else to go for a job. And yet, this buffoon is getting noticed for being the lame duck that he is around the world and how impotent he and the EU is on the world’s stage. All Borrell actually does, in fact, is whine. He whines about his own failure. And he tends to do it quite a bit, particularly with the implosion of EU economies following EU sanctions against Russia.
