Trump has gone for the Green New Deal.
Now, so too is Europe:
If everyone under the age of 50 now wanted to party like the end of time is nigh I could not entirely blame them. It would be a rational reaction to our political order having now entirely given up on their chance of having a future.
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If reasonably accurate, might this indicate:
1) The E U has been and is some sort of satellite of the U. S. A.?
2) Continuing enthusiasm for/ acceptance of American influence/control is longer-term World-dangerous?
3) The UK might consider joining/creating another alliance/mutually beneficial group?
No, no and no.
It means the current EU model is not fit for the purpose and the power structure is still based on elite powers who will soon be voted out of their parliaments.
The Commission still has far too much power and the EP is the only parliament in the world that doesn’t have the power to propose its own legislation.
As Trump gets more batshit crazy, European citizens are openly questioning what the EU is and how we can start standing on our own feet. We do not want to see closer ties to the USA – that’s why we don’t have a trade deal in place abd the TTIP was rejected.
Lest we forget, we spent decades sucking the American teat because we thought we were culturally aligned with the USA, only to realise the Marshall plan was simply a smash and grab raid for corporate America.
Thank you, John.
Having worked closely with the EU from 2007 – 16, I agree with much of what you say, but don’t think the elites will be voted out soon.
Let’s look at Germany. A CDU and AfD coalition is possible after next month’s election. Both parties are led by neo-liberals with ties to Wall Street. I can see the pair selling out to Wall Street like Meloni has.
Shaking off the US will be a harder task than imagined. Since Germany and France refused to join the invasion of Iraq and Britain began contemplating Brexit, the US has invested heavily in continental organisations (e.g. the European Council on Foreign Relations, German Marshall Fund, France America Foundation etc.) and people* (some now ministers and some retired ambassadors, who I won’t name to spare Richard the libel risk) to avoid a weakening of the alliance. These proxies are well paid and happy to do the US’s dirty work. What Corbyn was subjected to awaits any politician who crosses the US.
*AC Bruce and John S Warren may be aware of how many SNP politicians have attended “leadership” courses in the US and the ex US official / spook who worked for Sturgeon.
Colonel Smithers says:
Shaking off the US will be a harder task than imagined.
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*AC Bruce and John S Warren may be aware of how many SNP politicians have attended “leadership” courses in the US and the ex US official / spook who worked for Sturgeon.
Anyone in Scotland who has been paying attention should be aware of
the State Department’s, International Visitors Leadership Program and the British American Project
For those wishing to pay attention there has been a long running and highly accurate commentary by pseudonymous Professor Vivian O’blivian (shout out to the young ones fans there 😉
For those interested in nuts-and-bolts of this covert, American angle there was an interesting essay in Lobster #85.
https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/85/the-scottish-national-party-and-the-american-state/
If you take a Marxist structural view, the underlying structure of most societies in the West has been neoliberal for nearly half a century, what has impacted to change the superstructure is the rise of the oligarchs and the political class that is in their pockets. The purge of the left and centre has been facilitated by the successful weaponisation of antisemitism backed by US and Israeli money, working brilliantly in the UK and now steaming ahead in Netherlands and Germany, with a concomitant insistence on focusing on Islam as an evil. A steam express to hell.
I find it easier to understand the western European government’s (including UK) suicidal posturing in terms of those governments being the native implementation of the imperial colonisers – it’s a well trodden path laid.by many empires, not least that of the UK imho.
Isn’t that why the colonisers have their bases all over the place?
As Steve alludes to above, if anything the EU response reifies the existence of U.S. hegemony over the West, the original rogue state of rogue states.
The future?
Well, in can be said that there is still one but what sort of future will it be? And many of under 50’s think nothing about using air travel, let alone how to recycle their rubbish. Their carbon foot prints are no better than many over 50’s. Just spend a day at Manchester airport or Stansted and tell me that either generation knows what they are doing?
Sadly, I have observed that
But youth was always wasted on the young.
Hi Richard,
I recently came across your post on BlueSky and really appreciated your insights on Charter Cities.
Given your interest in this area, I’d love to share a copy of my book, BREXIT: The Great British Tax Avoidance Swindle, which uncovers the hidden financial motives behind Brexit and the role of the political and media establishment in misleading the British public.
If you’re interested, I’d be more than happy to email you a copy.
I’d truly value your thoughts and any feedback you might have on my book as Leavers are trying to dismiss its claims.
Let me know if you’d like me to send it over!
Best regards,
Nolan Jazimreg
Author of BREXIT: The Great British Tax Avoidance Swindle
Feel free, but I do not believe this hypothesis – there is no evidence I could ever find to support it, and I looked.
OK then!
Here is a question; What was the true purpose of the BREXIT referendum?
After all I have researched and read, I have reached the opinion that neither Cameron, May, Johnson or Sunak are/were BREXITers.
I have no idea about Liz Truss and am willing to bet no else does either.
Its purpose was to outflank the Tory rightwing.
That was it.
It failed.
The purpose of the Referendum was indeed to out-flank the Tory right (a serious miscalculation if ever there was one). However, it’s not so clear why there was such a drive to carry through the result, except that it became a stupid macho thing pursued for its own sake, with no regard for what it actually would result in.
By the way Richard:
“Trump has gone for the new green deal” reads to me as accepting something.
I read the Politico article: corporate reporting – probably not worth the paper it is written on – who controls? auditors? (Parr burst out laughing). Of course it was also packed to the rafters (the article) with nonesense – French company claiming 800k costs to comply. I’ve read more sense in the Beano or Dandy.
As the BASF CEO noted: Europe is a loss centre due to energy costs. Reaction of the EU – zero. Action to reform how elec is priced: zero. Action to ensure renewables are correctly remunerated – zero. Action on transport decarb & what to do about the looming avalanche of EVs from China – zero. People in ANY of the EU institutions that know what they are doing or have even modest expertise in the area for which they are responsible – ZERO.
& the UK & its crop of politicos – rinse and repeat. Utter incompetants. That said, we will soon see what happens when professional/lifetime imbeciles are given power (looks over @ USA).
Thank you to Bay Tampa Bay.
Belgian and EU politician Guy Verhofstadt called it “a cat fight” (between Tory rivals).
Sunak hinted that as the child of immigrants and wanting to go up the Tory ranks, he had to be a Brexiteer.
Sunak supporter and former minister George Osborne was born Gideon Osborne. His maternal grandmother is Jewish. In secondary / high school and having decided on a career in (Tory) politics, Osborne changed his name from Gideon to George, fearing the anti-semites in the Tory party.