I was in two minds about whether to bother posting about this, as I assume most of the forum members who said I was a Russian propagandist for saying Ukraine is an unwinnable proxy war that should never have been started are no longer here now that they're not getting paid. But anyway...
I can't believe there are still people in Ukraine and the EU who are sincerely surprised at an obvious fact that was clear from day one of the war””this affair will be concluded by negotiations between Russia and the USA. No one else's “opinion” has ever mattered, and it never will.
Now that Trump has spoken with Putin, it should be clear to anyone paying attention: the game is up. All the cope, all the delusions about some grand Ukrainian victory, all the fantasy about “isolating” Russia””it was never real. The end result was always going to be dictated by Washington and Moscow, and now the grown-ups are talking.
The reason European leaders are losing it over Trump isn't because of some dramatic shift in US foreign policy either. The war will end the way it was always going to end. What really hurts them is that Washington has stopped pretending that Europe is a meaningful participant in current geopolitical affairs. They used to at least get some ceremonial respect, some scripted role in the imperial play. Now? Trump isn't even giving them that lol.
For decades, US vassals in Europe at lest got to cosplay as being important””being spoken to with fake diplomatic pleasantries, being allowed to maintain the illusion that their opinions carried weight. That was part of the unspoken contract between Washington and Brussels. Biden at least kept up the act. Trump? He doesn't even entertain the role-playing anymore. He's consolidating the core imperial possessions, and if that means letting the European satraps know they're just administrators of regional tax farms, so be it.
And that's what's actually humiliating for them. Not some fundamental shift in US foreign policy, which isn't nearly as dramatic as they make it sound, but the fact that they're being openly treated as the irrelevant, powerless dependents they always were. The US doesn't need their input. Russia certainly doesn't care about their input. And the war ends when the actual players decide it ends.
You will still hear the clowns like Kallas, Von Der Leyen etc pipe up with stupid posturing but yeah, game over for Europe. SOY!
PS: Look at electricity prices in the Baltics!
I can't believe there are still people in Ukraine and the EU who are sincerely surprised at an obvious fact that was clear from day one of the war””this affair will be concluded by negotiations between Russia and the USA. No one else's “opinion” has ever mattered, and it never will.
Now that Trump has spoken with Putin, it should be clear to anyone paying attention: the game is up. All the cope, all the delusions about some grand Ukrainian victory, all the fantasy about “isolating” Russia””it was never real. The end result was always going to be dictated by Washington and Moscow, and now the grown-ups are talking.
The reason European leaders are losing it over Trump isn't because of some dramatic shift in US foreign policy either. The war will end the way it was always going to end. What really hurts them is that Washington has stopped pretending that Europe is a meaningful participant in current geopolitical affairs. They used to at least get some ceremonial respect, some scripted role in the imperial play. Now? Trump isn't even giving them that lol.
For decades, US vassals in Europe at lest got to cosplay as being important””being spoken to with fake diplomatic pleasantries, being allowed to maintain the illusion that their opinions carried weight. That was part of the unspoken contract between Washington and Brussels. Biden at least kept up the act. Trump? He doesn't even entertain the role-playing anymore. He's consolidating the core imperial possessions, and if that means letting the European satraps know they're just administrators of regional tax farms, so be it.
And that's what's actually humiliating for them. Not some fundamental shift in US foreign policy, which isn't nearly as dramatic as they make it sound, but the fact that they're being openly treated as the irrelevant, powerless dependents they always were. The US doesn't need their input. Russia certainly doesn't care about their input. And the war ends when the actual players decide it ends.
You will still hear the clowns like Kallas, Von Der Leyen etc pipe up with stupid posturing but yeah, game over for Europe. SOY!
PS: Look at electricity prices in the Baltics!
