As the Trump administration takes steps to wind down the war in Ukraine and engage with Russia in rebuilding a sense of normalcy in Europe and elsewhere, the crazies in Britain, France, and some other places are still determined to sucker the US into World War III.
Now the crazies are talking about a return to the Oval Office next week for a full-court press involving the UK’s Starmer, France’s Macron, and clown-puppet Zelensky crying more alligator tears. They will be begging Trump to pressure Putin for a cease-fire so they can fill Ukraine with their “boots on the ground and planes in the air,” to use Starmer’s faux-Churchill parlance.
Again, we turn to Russian media for information on the actual state of affairs. Too bad the US/EU MSM never speak the truth. If they did, we’d quote them too.
First, top Trump adviser Elon Musk points out that what Europe is looking for is “endless war.”
Next, Secretary of State Marco Rubio admits the Ukraine conflict has been a “proxy war” against Russia and that President Trump wants to be a peacemaker.
Let us also point to the Democrats’ “resistance” movement against Trump that they have gleefully mounted. Guess they want World War III too.
A concise picture of the basic situation.
Those of us who studied (post-Renaissance) European history at university are hardly surprised. The subject (as taught in history departments) was essentially an unbroken chain of shifting monarchies and succession — and war. European countries (east and west) have never been able to live in peace with each other. Traditional accounts relate that the only somewhat quiescent period between nations was post-1815 to the Franco-Prussian war (1870).
But that quiet period disguises the reality that most major powers were too distracted by their colonial efforts. When that period seemed stabilized, they returned to fight each other (1914). Twice they dragged in the US.
Richard states accurately that a third attempt is now being made, by the precisely the same protagonists, to bring the US in as a “backstop” (read: backdoor).
Whatever other failings he might have, I think Trump understands this and is trying to avoid being dragged in. If he fails this test on Ukraine (for whatever reason), his term is likely doomed to failure as the Middle East will prove his Achilles heel.
Russia is Europe. That is where European Values, if they ever existed, can be preserved. As for the rest of Europe - cut it loose.