can wean itself off Russian energy completely within a year<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIt does not matter that this is not good for German industry or the German people in the long run. Russian energy is by far the cheapest solution for them, making their labor the most competitive it can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, after helping manufacture the crisis in Ukraine, they now uphold the notion that it is a moral imperative for Germans to suffer without food, heat and other basic necessities of a supposed advanced first-world society to defeat the evil Russians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the years leading up to this conflict they would have worked to implement the Minsk Accords. They would have lifted the economic sanctions on Russia and come to an agreement about Crimea and the Donbas politically, and let the U.S. and the UK twist in the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron did the opposite. They blew smoke up Putin\u2019s ass while running the clock out until Macron was re-elected and Merkel could exit the scene, leaving a weak Davos-<\/em>approved coalition to blame the collapse on.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDeepened trade between Russia and the EU would have eventually ground out the animosity and the U.S.\u2019s insistence on arming Ukraine would have become an albatross politically while Europe would be staring at a potential renaissance, instead of an economic black hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
France and Germany would not have betrayed their own attempts at diplomacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis, I believe, is much closer to the real story of the conflict, which serves a far larger purpose clearly stated by the architects of our misery than the simplistic framework of just blaming the U.S. for everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The idea that Europe fears a Russian invasion of Poland or even Germany, which necessitates NATO\u2019s expansion to its border in the Donbas, is ludicrous. Russia\u2019s military is not built along these lines nor is its performance in Ukraine evidence it is capable of such an operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is unfolding now is a script that was written a long time ago. The war by the West against Russia has long been in the planning stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Russians understand this better than many are willing to accept. Their leadership, Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, have articulated this very clearly at every stage of the war to date.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThey are under no illusions about where the West and Davos<\/em> are willing to take this conflict, which is why they have made serious threats about striking out at the real \u201cdecision centers\u201d who give the Ukrainian Armed Forces their marching orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThese are warnings not to our politicians, but to us. This is where things lead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThey have asked for a parting of the ways, peaceably, between East and West, but that is not part of the agenda. Like classic narcissists with the burning need to control everything, Russia and the rest of Asia will not be allowed to walk away from Davos <\/em>and their Eurocrat quislings, because they are the righteous saviors of humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnd we are just, at best, \u201cthe help\u201d and at worst an inconvenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bigger Davos<\/em> plan of destroying the old global order to Build it Back Better, where they own everything and you will own nothing and like it or else, is the script.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThey are now committed to this plan. It does not matter now whether it will work or not. This is what we have to realize in all of our analyses. Do the Russians and their friends in Asia and across the Global South have the means and the tools to come out on top? Possibly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the bigger question is whether or not this conflict escalates to the point where winning is an irrelevant concept. When you see a bloc as powerful as the European Union willing to commit acts of domestic vandalism this big\u2014and blaming the victim of their unbridled aggression\u2014it tells you we are far past the point of rational settlement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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