Europe deserves to be thrown under the bus by the Americans

That is how the world works. That is why some countries can progress and some actually regressed. That is how some countries overtake others that betted on the wrong horse. When the tide recedes, we can see who is naked.

Take Europe for example. They pushed away cheap energy to be replaced by expensive oil and gas. Was Russia threatening them or expanding its already vast territory? Whatever for after letting go of its former satellites? It was the other way round, with NATO expanding into Ukraine to threaten Russia using its wide border, on the behest of the USA. Russia was doing nothing about expanding or threatening Europe, until NATO tried to cross Russia's red line using Ukraine as proxy, in other words expanding.

Someone also had bad thoughts and wanted to step in and monopolize the supply of Europe's energy needs. Someone thought they have a plan by blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines to prevent any return of cheap Russian energy flowing west. That has succeeded very well but the Europeans have been thrown under the bus. The Europeans thought they acted in 'Principle' over Ukraine by following the USA. What is the result? De-industrialization is the result. But since they are content to continue with betting against logic, let them be. It is not our loss.

So, as some countries rise and some fell backwards, some could not handle the truth and wants everyone to be regressive like them, stop producing cheaper goods for export, should not have overcapacity, cannot have surpluses rising year after year, and in a sense cannot even fart. What was the narrative when the USA was then in the position of China today? Did anyone complain about USA over-exporting, over-producing and over printing of toilet papers? Not a squeak. When China does that, they start shouting that the sky is falling.


Anonymous