Cold Reality Check
While Europe stays delulu, Russia is dictating the terms (published in IPS-Journal)
[…] “Russia’s military dominance and its insistence on a new security arrangement in Europe are realities that cannot be wished away — but that won’t stop Europe’s foreign policy establishment from trying. The Europeans’ reaction to the summit – apart from quiet relief that it didn’t turn into the new Yalta they had worried about – was horrified hand-wringing and hair-tearing. Horror at the prospect of peace actually breaking out. And horror at how they had failed to win over Trump for their side of the argument, despite doing everything they could: promising eyewatering sums for American weapons, kowtowing to his demands for new tariffs, sending the right people to play golf with him. In short, everything that was supposed to flatter a vain, ageing, confused narcissist. And still they didn’t manage to leverage the Americans and their military power for European concerns. Sad!” […]
The full text was published by IPS-Journal, a publication of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. I swear I had nothing to do with that “delulu” subheading, that was their editor’s doing. But he must have read my mind.
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