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The dismantling of German industry since 2022 is collateral damage in America’s geopolitical war to isolate China, Russia and allied countries whose rising prosperity and self-sufficiency is viewed as an unacceptable challenge to U.S. hegemony. To prepare for what promises to be a long and costly fight, U.S. strategists made a pre-emptive move in 2022 to turn Europe away from its trade and investment relations with Russia. In effect, they asked Germany to commit industrial suicide and become a U.S. dependency. That made Germany the first and most immediate target in America’s New Cold War.
Upon taking office in January 2021, Joe Biden and his national-security staff declared China to be America’s number one enemy, viewing its economic success as an existential threat to U.S. hegemony. To prevent its market opportunities from attracting European participation as it built up its own military defense, the Biden team sought to lock Europe into the U.S. economic orbit as part of its drive to isolate China and its supporters, hoping that this would disrupt their economies, creating popular pressure to surrender their hopes for a new multipolar economic order.
This strategy required European trade sanctions against Russia, and similar moves to block trade with China in order to prevent Europe from being swept into the emerging China-centered mutual prosperity sphere. To prepare for its U.S.-China war, U.S. strategists sought to block China’s ability to receive Russian military support. The plan was to drain Russia’s military power by arming Ukraine to draw Russia into a bloody fight that might bring about a regime change. The unrealistic hope was that voters would resent war, just as they had resented the war in Afghanistan that had helped end the Soviet Union. In this case they might replace Putin with oligarchic leaders willing to pursue neoliberal pro-U.S. policies akin to those of the Yeltsin regime. The effect has been just the opposite. Russian voters have done what any population under attack would do: They have rallied around Putin. And the Western sanctions have obliged Russia and China to become more self-sufficient.
This U.S. plan for an extended global New Cold War had a problem. The German economy was enjoying prosperity by exporting industrial products to Russia and investing in post-Soviet markets, while importing Russian gas and other raw materials at relatively low international prices. It is axiomatic that under normal conditions international diplomacy follows national self-interest. The problem for U.S. Cold Warriors was how to persuade Germany’s leaders to make an uneconomic choice to abandon its profitable commerce with Russia. The solution was to foment the war with Russia in Ukraine and Russia and incite Russophobia to justify imposing a vast array of sanctions blocking European commerce with Russia.
The result has been to lock Germany, France and other countries into a dependency relationship on the United States. As the Americans euphemistically describe these NATO-sponsored trade and financial sanctions in Orwellian doublespeak, Europe has “freed itself” from dependency on Russian gas by importing U.S. liquified natural gas (LNG) at prices three to four times higher, and divesting itself of its business linkages with Russia, and moving some of its major industrial companies to the United States (or even China) to obtain the gas needed to produce their manufactures and chemicals.
Joining the war in Ukraine has also led Europe to deplete its military stocks. It is now being pressured to turn to U.S. suppliers to rearm – with equipment that has not performed well in Ukraine. U.S. officials are promoting the fantasy that Russia may invade Western Europe. The hope is not only to rearm Europe with U.S. weapons but that Russia will exhaust itself as it increases its own military spending in response to that of NATO. There is general refusal to see Russia’s policy as defensive against NATO’s threat to perpetuate and even escalate attacks to grab Russia’s Crimea naval base in pursuit of the dream of breaking up Russia.
The reality is that Russia has decided to turn eastward as a long-term policy. The world economy is fracturing into two opposing systems that leaves Germans caught in the middle, with their government having decided to lock the nation into the unipolar U.S. system. The price of its choice to live in the American dream of maintaining a U.S.-centered hegemony is to suffer industrial depression. What Americans call “dependency” on Russia has been replaced by a dependency on more expensive U.S. suppliers while Germany has lost its Russian and Asian markets. The cost of this choice is enormous. It has ended German industrial employment and production. That has long been a major buttress of the eurozone’s exchange rate. The future for the EU looks like a long-term downward drift.
So far, the loser in the U.S. New Cold War has been Germany and the rest of Europe. Is economic vassalage to the United States worth forfeiting the opportunity for mutual prosperity with the fastest growing world markets?
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According to the UN Charter, the USA can intervene militarily in Germany, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria whenever it wants.
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Very plausible. The whole intent, of course, is to victimize BOTH Russia AND Germany! After all, if there are a couple of countries which Amerikans hate with all their hearts and souls, they are Russia and Germany. Indeed, by threatening Russia, Americans endanger Germany. That could, indeed, be the whole game plan.
I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for Europe in general (not the people, but their “leaders”).
I just can’t explain their behavior, I can’t rationalize it either. Do they only get their “info” from the US Deep State? Have they no “intelligence” of their own? Is their media also just a parrot of US media?
Was there no part of the potential ramifications for all these various “decisions” (I say that kind of tongue in cheek, since they don’t appear to make decisions, but just do what they are told) that they couldn’t foresee themselves?
I hate to say it, but they seem like a bunch of retarded children, just buying whatever the US is selling on that particular day, having totally forgotten the past, and also, blind to the future?
Have they no agency of their own? No pride? Not even an inkling of self-determination? Seriously, when do that entire continent simultaneously lose their balls and their brains?
They used to (as recently as 10-15 years ago) periodically tell the US to “pack sand”. They weren’t starting any fights over anything, but they were more than just our lapdog. Now? They’re just a bunch of punk bitches, getting slapped around like Fredo in Vegas by Moe Greene. “Germany got a little outta line, so I had to blow up Nordstream to get their mind right!”
It’s really quite pathetic!
Combined, the EU is one of the largest economies and markets in the world. They presently have no real enemies, except for the people that they import. For lack of a better way to say it “They could have been somebody!”. They could have used that cheap Russian energy, coupled with their very strategic global location, to really have an effect on the global stage… but instead, it’s like ever since they became “The EU”, they have been just neutered little bitches.
At the beck and call of the US, they just periodically enjoy being slapped in the mouth, and being told to “bend over and take it!”
Don’t get me wrong, the US is circling the drain, declining at a break neck pace, but Europe? They’re already dead, dead of spirit. They have no soul, no pride, no aspirations, just nothing!
Is there a single European leader that ever looks at the grand chessboard and asks “Gee, where will we be in 5, or 10 years!? Anything other than America’s bitch?”
Europe should BEG Putin to invade and take them over! At least then, they could use “Putin the Impaler” as an excuse to grow some balls, and start digging themselves out of this grave that they have dug for themselves. “Sorry America, old chum, but you know Putin, always calling the shots for everything, so for now, we just gotta do like he says, and help ourselves for a while”
So pathetic…
It’s hard to see the third great economic destruction of Germany as anything but deliberate, as the foreign policy of the United States seems to be in the hands of an ethnic group that hates Germans even more than it hates Russians.
But Brutus is an honorable man / So they are all, honorable men…
I don’t think its fair to blame the US for everything. Although the empire is guilty of many things, European economy is dying not only because it is being murdered by the US. Europe is committing suicide. The majority of the world population is saying “good riddance”.
The purpose of US sanctions was to do maximum damage to Europe and Russia. The plan was 50% successful: Europe is going down the drain.
If you are a cabinet level officer in Europe your dream job is a tenured lecturer gig at Harvard or MIT.
Victoria Nuland is a nice Jewish frump.
There fixed it.
No it’s being murdered by Jews like Blinken. They even have the theater of Head Nigger In Chief Lloyd Austin as a spokesman for it.
It’s amazing what you can catch when you string an offer of a tenured gig at Harvard through a European Parliament.
Most of the ordinary people in Europe have no idea.
“Amerikans” = Khazar Talmudic Zionist nation wreckers…
that have historic hatred for Russia and Germany, Chistian nations that were well aware of jew perfidy and kept the rats under strict control…
except for the demonic aberrations of the extra perverted Weimar Republic in Germany…
and the Hell on Earth that was/is the Bolshevik Communist takeover of Russia.
The ZOGUSA unpunished, unaccountable sabotage of the undersea Nordstream gas pipeline, officially intended and declared to harm the Russian economy, because the Russians put the Ukrainian money laundering racket in jeopardy…
was a big win for (((The Ruling Swine))) because it really hurt Germany, the only Modern Period nation that overtly described the (((rats))) for what they were/are and removed them from ALL positions of power and influence.
So, no matter which nation was harmed, Russia/Germany or even ZOGUSA for its hired gun scumbaggery…the rotten jew scum still get to destroy something in the Tikkun Olam Long March to world conquest…
until the (((rats))) are stopped and destroyed, forever.