The European ruling class has entered into a kind of slave relationship to the US master; but a meek and lazy slave to a sometimes hesitant, but always callous and deceitful master.
I agree with Andreen’s thesis that Europe has long surrendered its independence to Washington, and what we see today is not strength but an accelerating collapse of political and strategic coherence. The “eclipse of intelligence” is evident in the way European elites parrot US rhetoric even when American policies openly damage European sovereignty and industry.
The recent Copenhagen meetings on defense where EU leaders discussed projects like a European Air Defense Shield, “Drone Wall,” and even steps toward an EU Army only highlight this crisis. Far from showing strength, the push for military integration exposes deep contradictions. Europe lacks the demographics, economic vitality and political unity to sustain such ambitions. Worse, any “EU Army” would still depend on US technology, intelligence and logistics, reinforcing rather than reducing American dominance.
In reality, these efforts reflect desperation. By layering new defense structures on top of fragile foundations, Brussels risks widening internal divisions and hastening the EU’s disintegration. The Copenhagen agenda is not evidence of a rising Europe, but of a collapsing one scrambling to reinvent itself while shackled to Washington’s will.
Thanks for your comment, great point on the EU army, which is an attempt at getting relevance again at EU level, not state level, integrating ever more the EU with NATO, but with the consequences you mention. The future of the EU is indeed bleak, because they (the EU elite) are just doubling down now, dangerously, instead of taking measures to get out of the hole in which they now find themselves.
EU cannot help USA restrain China (that struggle is over), nor does EU have excess natural resources to sell USA, nor will EU cooperate in USA exploitation of Africa and South America without asking for a fair percentage of the profits. So what good is EU to USA? It's not a true ally, it doesn't pay enough to qualify as exploited vassal, it lacks enough resources to be colonized? That's means EU is a potentially dangerous competitor. As such, rational thing for USA is to cooperate with Russia to weaken EU, without allowing Russia to control EU, while incentivizing EU industry to move to USA. If EU resists, USA can arrange with Russia to not merely weaken EU, not destroy it entirely. EU has no choice but to do whatever USA wants. EU has always had a gun pointed at its head: Trump just makes this more visible. (I'm using EU to mean all of Europe west of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,because those three are European).
Yes, fully agree. Adding that there is still some use for Europe from US point of view, as a buyer of all things American, and also an as investment target: there are still lots of EU companies that have not been accessible to US corporate and financial giants, but which may now slowly become up for grabs as the domination of the USA over Europe accelerates. Let's see if the timid EU reaction against the US (or is it just against Trump) from some quarters is confirmed or not, but for the moment I wouldn't bet on it.
I believe the EU elites don't consider themselves in a mess. Deindustrialization, decarbonization and feudalism are the goals. The first two are being met. Given time, feudalism, using CBDC, mass surveillance and perhaps a mandatory digital EU passport will gain them feudalism.
The EU serves two masters, the WEF and the US. The US is also suborning it's sovereignty to WEF goals. We may be going slower than the 2030 goal, but we will eventually join the EU as vassals to a super-rich oligarchy.
Yes, there is a lot to this point of yours. To a large extent I agree that many of the elite class are seeing their power increase because the crises allows centralisation of power. That's not bad for them.
At the same time, there must be regrets that things are not really like before, like in the good old days, now with social media and alternative news that have woken up a chunk of the sleeping majority.
They do though have to use drastic measures in order to stay in power; election meddling is rife in all the West and adjacent countries, even in Germany! So nostalgia of times gone by must exist; times when they could do pretty much as they wanted ; as long as the communists didn't come to power.
Regarding the WEF, the spirit is still clearly alive but body less so it seems. Davos and Schwab has been so tarnished, that WEF has become much more discreet. The crazy stuff said publicly at Davos was not professional and we won't see that happening again I suspect.
You are right to be, never underestimate their willingness to spread chaos and increase their level of control. We are really at a crossroads now. The next months and years are going to be fascinating.
I agree with Andreen’s thesis that Europe has long surrendered its independence to Washington, and what we see today is not strength but an accelerating collapse of political and strategic coherence. The “eclipse of intelligence” is evident in the way European elites parrot US rhetoric even when American policies openly damage European sovereignty and industry.
The recent Copenhagen meetings on defense where EU leaders discussed projects like a European Air Defense Shield, “Drone Wall,” and even steps toward an EU Army only highlight this crisis. Far from showing strength, the push for military integration exposes deep contradictions. Europe lacks the demographics, economic vitality and political unity to sustain such ambitions. Worse, any “EU Army” would still depend on US technology, intelligence and logistics, reinforcing rather than reducing American dominance.
In reality, these efforts reflect desperation. By layering new defense structures on top of fragile foundations, Brussels risks widening internal divisions and hastening the EU’s disintegration. The Copenhagen agenda is not evidence of a rising Europe, but of a collapsing one scrambling to reinvent itself while shackled to Washington’s will.
Thanks for your comment, great point on the EU army, which is an attempt at getting relevance again at EU level, not state level, integrating ever more the EU with NATO, but with the consequences you mention. The future of the EU is indeed bleak, because they (the EU elite) are just doubling down now, dangerously, instead of taking measures to get out of the hole in which they now find themselves.
EU cannot help USA restrain China (that struggle is over), nor does EU have excess natural resources to sell USA, nor will EU cooperate in USA exploitation of Africa and South America without asking for a fair percentage of the profits. So what good is EU to USA? It's not a true ally, it doesn't pay enough to qualify as exploited vassal, it lacks enough resources to be colonized? That's means EU is a potentially dangerous competitor. As such, rational thing for USA is to cooperate with Russia to weaken EU, without allowing Russia to control EU, while incentivizing EU industry to move to USA. If EU resists, USA can arrange with Russia to not merely weaken EU, not destroy it entirely. EU has no choice but to do whatever USA wants. EU has always had a gun pointed at its head: Trump just makes this more visible. (I'm using EU to mean all of Europe west of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,because those three are European).
Yes, fully agree. Adding that there is still some use for Europe from US point of view, as a buyer of all things American, and also an as investment target: there are still lots of EU companies that have not been accessible to US corporate and financial giants, but which may now slowly become up for grabs as the domination of the USA over Europe accelerates. Let's see if the timid EU reaction against the US (or is it just against Trump) from some quarters is confirmed or not, but for the moment I wouldn't bet on it.
I believe the EU elites don't consider themselves in a mess. Deindustrialization, decarbonization and feudalism are the goals. The first two are being met. Given time, feudalism, using CBDC, mass surveillance and perhaps a mandatory digital EU passport will gain them feudalism.
The EU serves two masters, the WEF and the US. The US is also suborning it's sovereignty to WEF goals. We may be going slower than the 2030 goal, but we will eventually join the EU as vassals to a super-rich oligarchy.
Yes, there is a lot to this point of yours. To a large extent I agree that many of the elite class are seeing their power increase because the crises allows centralisation of power. That's not bad for them.
At the same time, there must be regrets that things are not really like before, like in the good old days, now with social media and alternative news that have woken up a chunk of the sleeping majority.
They do though have to use drastic measures in order to stay in power; election meddling is rife in all the West and adjacent countries, even in Germany! So nostalgia of times gone by must exist; times when they could do pretty much as they wanted ; as long as the communists didn't come to power.
Regarding the WEF, the spirit is still clearly alive but body less so it seems. Davos and Schwab has been so tarnished, that WEF has become much more discreet. The crazy stuff said publicly at Davos was not professional and we won't see that happening again I suspect.
Agenda 21 was missed, Agenda 2030 is getting near and so is the engineered chaos.
Since Covid, I am a conspiracy theorist. I see globalist evil everywhere.
You are right to be, never underestimate their willingness to spread chaos and increase their level of control. We are really at a crossroads now. The next months and years are going to be fascinating.