Europeans are attempting to stay relevant. Europe may offer Putin two possible ways to end the war ▪️Option 1: Freeze the war along the current front line, with guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO. Option 2: Kiev cedes the entire Donbas region to Russia and joins the Alliance, according to the Financial Times. ➖"Both of these options would be considered a betrayal by some in Ukraine. However, given the strong desire for peace in his country, Zelensky may be able to convince the public to accept either of them. Europeans are much less certain that Putin is willing to agree to any of this. But they still believe it is important to begin direct negotiations with the Russians," writes FT. ▪️Direct European involvement in peace efforts and in the negotiation process with Russia is increasingly seen by Europeans as a necessity. And a telephone conversation between European leaders and Putin may take place in the near future. Communication channels for this have already been established. They know that neither of these options are non-starters, and yet at least they have gotten to the stage where they consider it necessary to directly talk to the Kremlin.

In practica l’Europa sta portando il mondo verso una guerra nucleare contro la Russia solo perché una manciata di persone che vivono nei baltici non hanno ancora superato il trauma della dominazione sovietica Per far contenti 5 milioni di persone mandiamo in guerra gli altri 8 miliardi

If French protests are so effective why are they still stuck with neoliberalism? Why is their country still loyal to Israel and NATO? Why is the French ruling class completely unresponsive to French protester demands? You guys realize that this is like the 100th time in the last 10 years that France has erupted in protests over neoliberalism right? Americans tend to romanticize these protests but what have they accomplished? French protesters engage in revolutionary adventurism but don’t have a follow up on how to change the system in a meaningful way. So we repeat the same cycle over and over This is not a diss on the French protesters at all because they are just reacting to their material conditions, which is normal. But at what point do we begin having the conversation that western liberal democracy as a whole completely failed and no amount of “protests” will fix it. Protests without further revolutionary action of building real dual power seems to amount to nothing in the west

Fuel shortages are hitting Europe. In certain regions of France, 25-50% of gas stations are out of stock of at least one type of fuel. With ~600 stations completely out of fuel. The national average surged from 13.5% on October 16 to 16.3% just 2 days later... France's fuel crisis has gotten materially worse in just 48 hours. Brace for inflation.

You want to know what "underdeveloped" really means? It means: your economy was organized around someone else’s needs for so long that it now functions badly for your own. It means: your agricultural sector produces cash crops for export rather than food for your people because that is what the colonial economy required and the post-colonial debt structure reinforced. It means: your best-educated people leave for the countries whose universities were built with the wealth extracted from yours. It means: the infrastructure that exists connects your resources to the port, not your villages to each other, because it was built to extract, not to develop. "Underdeveloped" as a natural condition, as a starting point, as evidence of cultural or civilizational inadequacy: That is a lie. "Underdeveloped" as a produced condition, as the result of a process, as the predictable outcome of what happens when your economy is organized for two centuries around someone else’s enrichment: That is history. The word stayed. The history got edited out.

Not just NATO, not just Ukraine and Georgia. A lot more. We walked all over the Russians when they were down in the 1990s; basically taking over the country and looting it. We refused to welcome them into the geopolitical West; instead choosing to keep them out even when there was no dispute with them. We attacked Serbia multiple times in the 1990s. We carried out many color revolutions (Serbia 2000, Georgia 2003, Ukraine 2004, 2014, Kyrgyztan 2005, Belarus 2006, Azerbaijan 2005). We armed and trained the Ukrainian armed forces. Then we rejected Putin’s ultimatum demanding Ukranian neutrality. The road to the Russo-Western confrontation has been long and winding. The only reason it took so long for Moscow to throw down the gauntlet was because it was busy building up its strength. Russia is now stronger than it has been since the Soviet capitulation. They have outgunned the West. Now they finish the job in Ukraine, then take the Baltics, and then retake their position at the head of the European table. There is a reason why Russia was the dominant European power for decades after Napoleon, why the British were so intent on the Entente, why it was the Russians who defeated Hitler’s armies, and why Russia was the dominant power in Eurasia for a good half century thereafter. The reason has to do with the deep intrinsic sources of Russian power, it’s central geopolitical position, and the imperial political culture that is responsible for Russia’s willingness to take on the entire geopolitical West. Russia is the leader of the global insurgency against the West. When the West is defeated, the author of that defeat will be above all Moscow. The West’s geopolitical error was to read temporary Russian weakness in the 1990s as a permanent state of affairs. It was incorrect even in 1994, as was pointed out already back then by no less an authority than Kennan himself. Instead, we listened to a Polish immigrant with an axe to grind.

Soviet Union collapsed because no one was prepared to challenge the establishment from the inside and everyone inside had to keep cheerleading that the Soviet Union was powerful and successful. Anyone on the outside could see it was collapsing very rapidly. The US is doing precisely what that Soviet Union did. Those inside the system will not challenge the establishment either becasue they are thoroughly brainwashed or out of fear of being cancelled and thrown to the wolves. Everyone inside the establishment continues to cheerlead the notion that the US empire is here to stay, exceptionalism reigns supreme, the dollar can't be challenged, we are the greatest military and economic / financial power in the world. Anyone looking in from the outside knows this is utter nonsense. Rather like even the day before the Soviet Union collapsed the delusional cheerleading continued, the same will also happen in the US. In both cases they didn't and won't see the writing on the wall, 24 hours before it is officially over.

Reminder: Putin’s the bad guy.

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