USA and UK are the two countries wanting the Ukraine war to drag on forever. Agreements to end the War had already been reached earlier in the year, but were scuttled by these two warmongers. Angela Merkel just revealed that the Minsk Agreement was just to give Ukraine time to strengthen itself and not to be followed to the letter. Of course this revelation will be denied.
The UK made the wrong move detaching itself from the EU, and now seeing its economy suffering, as businesses moved to Europe or elsewhere. UK's dependence on the EU market took a serious hit with Brexit, and Angla Merkel said in no uncertain terms, while she was still in power, that she will make the UK crawl on broken glass. She is not in power now, but her prophecy is taking shape. By attempting to prolong the war to decimate Europe, Boris Johnson had been thinking that European businesses will shift to the UK. It did not happened and UK businesses are doing the opposite, even when the war rages. And European businesses and industries are making a beeline for China and India in particular.
The USA, of course, had been eyeing the energy market in Europe, and had been fabricating all the gloom and doom scenarios to threaten Europe with security issues, if the Europeans depend totally on Russian energy. Why would Russia want to use energy to blackmail Europe if it still went ahead to build Nordstream 2, against all the sanction and threats from the USA? The USA has now succeeded in taking Europe away from Russian energy, and is now supplying energy to Europe itself and ripping the stupid Europeans off blindly. Now, who is suffering more - Russia or Europe? And who is benefitting more - USA or Europe. Both ways, the Europeans have the wrong end of the stick.
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PS. The Americans/AngloSaxons are colonising Europe now that they are no longer able to colonise the countries of the world. What an irony. RB