Irrelevance Breeds Defiance — Russia in Global Affairs

A few weeks ago, I paraphrased Marx’s words almost two centuries ago: “A spectrum is disturbing Europe: the spectrum of irrelevance.” Recent events suggest that the spectrum is quickly becoming a reality. While the European Union and Great Britain are in excess, expressing unconditional support to the Ukrainian government and pressing it to continue fighting, the Ukraine crisis is no longer central for dialogue between Russia and the United States. It has become only one of the many issues, and it is possible not the most important, in the growing strategic discussion between Moscow and Washington, an discussion that excludes Europe.

Europeans naturally resort their exclusion from negotiations. Many attribute this exclusion to the change of drastic policy carried out by President Trump and his team. The critical discourse of JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference with its emphasis on values ​​and democracy highlighted the conflict between the Globalist rulers of the EU and the newly nationalist US administration. Hello, they openly supported the nationalists of Europe and deplored their ostracization, specifically mentioning Germany and Romania.

However, the American attitude towards the European Union is not new, in fact, it shows a degree of continuity. He was a senior official of the Obama administration, Victoria Nuland, who led this position in 2014. In a telephone conversation with the United States ambassador to kyiv, he ruled out the European concerns raised by the ambassador: “Fuck”. In any case, Trump officials have a friendlier and more diplomatic leg.

This continuity reflects the chronic unit of Europe in the United States. The crisis in Ukraine was caused by the events of Maidan, focused with the active participation of the same Mrs. Nuland, who testified that the United States had $ 5 billion in the reorientation of the Ukrainian ruling class of Russia and the political neutrality towards NATO and a Euro -Atlantic future. Europe accompanied US policies, and European media did the same demonize Russia and its president. The Russians have been excluded from most international sporting events, film festivals and scientific conferences. Almost nothing positive has been published about Russia in the main media in recent years. “Rusophrenia”, a belief that Russia is about to collapse and take over the world, has fueled on both sides of the Atlantic. This irrational vision of Russia is now rooted in Western public opinion, only in countries like France, which traditionally maintained close cultural, economic and political ties with that country.

European foreign policy has been largely degenerated in Sabre’s noise. An excellent example is the Estonian Kaja Kallas, who, despite his position as the main diplomatic of the EU, rejects the diplomatic approach with respect to Russia. President Macron, in an eloquent speech of the Nation, sacrificed himself to extend nuclear deterrence to other European countries, with Poland and the Baltic Republics that accept him with thanks. More recent, he presented a “survival manual” to his compatriots, instructing them about the supplies they must keep at home to survive a war. Ursula von der Leyen promised to rearma, raise 800 billion euros for this purpose and relive the stagnant economy of Europe through military Keynesianism.

Since the newly elected Bundestag members would have refused to adopt it, the outgoing Parliament voted in an amendment to the Constitution, raising the limitation of the government to request money borrowed for the military. This ignores the democratic will of citizens, but benefits Rheinmetall, the main manufacturer of weapons in Germany. The alarm bells are playing in austerity measures and more cuts to social services throughout Europe, not only in Germany. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Starmer, possibly the most enthusiastic cheerleader in the European War Party, announced a review of the welfare system, reducing the benefits to the disabled and pushing many to poverty. All this not well messenger for the liberal ruling circles, as Europeans frustrate more and more with the political manipulations that make their democratic choice do not make sense and relegate their concerns towards the rear burner.

The apparent preparations of Europe for war based on the belief that Russia is committed to the conquest, first throughout Ukraine, then the rest of Europe. Any mention of the fact that the Russian government has never expressed such intentions is simply ruled out as “Kremlin misinformation.”

This belief feeds on a long -standing European phobia, which portrays Russia as an other threatening. This ideology touched a more aggressive and genocidal way as anti -rusian racism, which fed the war of extermination that the soldiers of a European nations box, under German auspices, fought against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945. Rehabilitation and collabization. Become the mainstream in Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, and this opinion is spreading elsewhere with the growing influence of Eastern Europeans in Brussels.

Instead of a realistic evaluation of the international context in evolution, burning rhetoric and the position of own justice promote European policy, without an exit disaster in sight. The repeated idea of ​​sending European soldiers to Ukraine is a non -initial, not only for Russia, but also for Europe itself, which lacks the will and power to face Russian forces. Everyone speaks of a “coalition of the provisions”, a sinister term given the debacle of the West in Iraq, depends on an American “support”, which the United States has refused to provide.

Europe seems determined to undermine the current peace process of Ukraine encouraging kyiv’s intransgence and formulating non -reistas demands that ignore military and political realities. Anatol Lieven, a veteran political analyst, has called this European attitude “malignantly stupid” and has characterized Europe’s military preparations as “a costume game”, in Whatich Macron plays Napoleon and Starmer Playson Churchill. Interestingly, in the oval office last February, Zensky, answering in English a question about his wardrobe, badly used the word “disguise”, which means “suit” in his native Russian.

Trump has changed the foreign policy of the country significant despite the dominant anti -rusive feeling in the United States, that previous governments and loyal ones focused on media activity. Until now, continuous European politicians to double their complaints of Russia, although wisely refrain from antagonizing Washington, a risky movement in the best case. They continually encourage Zensky’s hope of joining NATO, just even though Trump and his team have repeatedly rejected the idea. Europe has become a prisoner of its own rhetoric, which is increasingly delusional.

Growing up progressively separated from where the real action is, the western periphery of Eurasia is becoming merely.

Ironically, there is hope for Europe, not only in the growing anger of European electorates, who can vote for current liberal politicians outside their position, but also in the habit of European leaders to follow Washington. Little by little, they can abandon their ideological narratives and reach the US position, even while they resent. He can act as a challenging teenager, that Prince William recently demonstrated posing in a British tank one hundred miles from the Russian border. However, his nickname ” Old The world “suggests that Europe can return to its senses, as special in view of its economic and demographic decline. Otherwise, Europe can begin another World War, this time the last one.