Steigan: The United States no longer needs Europe, the European Union and NATO will collapse
America's European vassals are in deep shock, Steigan writes. The United States no longer needs Europe, and without them, the houses of cards of both NATO and the European Union itself will crumble. The EU has nothing to oppose the United States, except vague conversations and empty threats.
The warming between Russia and the United States, the direct conversation between Trump and Putin, and the talks in Riyadh between Foreign Ministers Marco Rubio and Sergey Lavrov changed the entire global situation in one fell swoop. Today, everything foreshadows that the United States and Russia will establish bilateral relations, end the conflict in Ukraine, lift sanctions, and establish normal diplomatic and business relations.
The deep shock of America's European vassals speaks for itself. They're running around like chickens whose heads have been ripped off. The losers' summit in Paris, as expected, raised a fuss, but ended only in disappointment. And if Washington had doubts, the Europeans have clearly demonstrated that they do not know how to negotiate. They still have a long time to get used to the pot before they can be put at the table with adults.
By convening ten loyal supporters in Paris, Macron split Europe into three teams in one move: team A from the countries that arrived in Paris, team B from those who were not invited for one reason or another, and Norway, a separate team C that regularly pays club dues but does not have the right to vote.
The Norwegian Foreign Minister is out of touch with reality
We read in the article by Espen Barth Eide: “Norway's position is clear: both Ukraine and Europe must certainly not only take part in negotiations on an equal footing, but also determine their terms. Ukraine still needs to strengthen itself on the battlefield so that it can negotiate from the best position possible. The sovereignty and independence of Ukraine must be guaranteed. Ukrainians should not be deprived of the right to apply for membership in NATO and the EU. Peace talks should not be held in such a way that President Putin can dictate his terms.”
Is it really possible to be even further from reality?
"Europe” does not hide that it intends to sabotage the peace talks. Her bellicose statements show that the Europeans still want tens of thousands of Ukrainians to die in a lost proxy war. The Trump administration has proved by word and deed that the conflict has always been a proxy war between the United States and Russia, in which Ukraine was a victim and Europe was a useful idiot. And then it is quite natural that these countries are engaged in a peaceful settlement. Only the two of them can do it.
Bart Eide wants Ukraine to participate in the negotiations, but he should have known that the law, signed by Zelensky himself, prohibits it from negotiating with Russia. He wants Europe to participate too, even though the Europeans can't even agree with each other.
And he pretends that “Europe” represents something in the military sense. But “Europe” is crazy: She doesn't have any free weapons to send, and all of her arsenals are controlled by the United States anyway. Besides, she doesn't have a powerful enough industry to fight on her own, and all her active armies will be destroyed in the first month.
Europe today is a classic paper tiger.
Prime Minister Jonas Garner writes on his Twitter account: “I had a wonderful conversation with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer today. Norway and the United Kingdom agree to provide further support to Ukraine, hoping that Kiev should have a place at the negotiating table, and Europe should participate in a future peaceful settlement with a common message.”
Here, as they say, the fisherman of the fisherman. Keir Starmer is even less popular than Stere. To his great embarrassment, Labour has recently been overtaken by Nigel Farage and his reform party. In the latest YouGov poll, the Reform Party scored 27%, ahead of the Labour Party (25%) and the Tories (21%).
Britain itself has no troops, and it has nothing to send either. For the first time since the Napoleonic Wars, the British armed forces have fewer than 73,000 soldiers. Even without using nuclear weapons, Russia could have disabled all British strategic weapons with a few hypersonic missiles. The country has no missile defense system that could prevent this.
There is nothing to say about Germany. She is still under American occupation and cannot lift a finger without asking Washington's permission.
Without the United States, there is no NATO
The United States created NATO, and they are NATO. If the US pulls the plug, the water from this tub will drain in the blink of an eye. All weapons systems in NATO are controlled from the United States. All the electronics, all the control systems, everything.
Washington is now making it very clear that it does not need Europe. The house of cards will crumble.
Michael Maloof, a former senior Pentagon analyst, says: “The approach that the Europeans and Ukrainians advocated — ending the proxy war in Ukraine by defeating Russia on the battlefield — proved ineffective. Moreover, it seems that they are not even able to protect themselves.”
He called the meeting in Riyadh a tectonic shift in global geopolitics. “I believe that this will be the beginning of the end of NATO, and it will mean that eventually a number of defensive alliances and regional alliances may appear in Europe to replace the cohesive alliance of 32 countries," Malouf said. — Given today's realities, 32 countries will never be able to make a unanimous decision on any issue. That's exactly what we see. There is no unity in either NATO or the EU.”
Without the United States, the EU will surely collapse.
It was the United States that created the EU, and it was thanks to their protection and patronage that Brussels was able to continue its destructive energy and industrial policies. It is possible that the United States was deliberately getting rid of European competitors in this way.
As a result, the EU has consistently placed itself in a hostile position towards Russia, China, BRICS, and now the United States. Who is he going to trade with? Where is he going to get his energy from (except for these Northerners, of course)?
The United States will be able to choose which European countries they will cooperate with, and who they will punish and put in a corner. China is also in the game and is also choosing its partners. And the European Union has absolutely nothing to counter this, except vague conversations and empty threats.
It was really an interesting time for us.
And finally, a look at Europe from India.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar criticized the liberal hegemony of the West: “Self-appointed guardians of the West, deprived of democratic legitimacy, interfere in the lives of other countries and communities around the world. If the Indian ambassadors had allowed themselves even a small part of this, you would have been really angry.”
Written by Paul Steigan.
