The NATO Summit, with its night in the Prado Museumseems already lost in the mists of time, but from those images from just fifteen days ago and from the family photo of the Alliance we have today an increasingly weakened Europe against Russiawhich relentlessly continues to ravage Ukraine and threaten the continent with a gas-free winter, and in the face of China, the true winner of the geopolitical game.
Fifteen days later, from the Alliance’s family photo in Madrid, we must cross out Boris Johnsonwho has gone from admiring the Prado paintings to resigning as prime minister due to scandals and parties at 10 downning street in the midst of a pandemic.
He has also thrown in the towel mario draghi‘Super Mario’the technocrat who came from Europe and was longed for by transalpine businessmen, abandoned by the populists of baby cricket and his populist Five Star Movement, the greatest force in the Italian Chamber, which does not seem willing to miss the opportunity to definitively touch power in these times of crisis and social discontent.
And worst of all, Pedro Sanchez follows: reinforced in his role as international host – how tall and how well he speaks English, even Biden knows him – and with a left turn in the state of the nation debate –more taxes and more public spending, no reforms and superfluous spending cuts in the Government with more ministries and more advisers in the history of Spanish democracy – to try to hold out as long as possible in Moncloa.
AlsoMacron in France grows dwarfswith a House of devilish majorities, and Mélenchon and Le Pen, at either end, waiting for their opportunity.
Germany, at the mercy of Putin
In Germany, the new traffic light alliance shipwrecked in the shadow of a sholz mortgaged, in addition to its slight political weight, by gas from Moscow and Putin’s supply cuts that threaten Europe and in particular the Germans with a winter below zero, cut off supplies that will fuel extremism and protests.
Berlin has its hands tied by a green policy –“Nuclear, no, thanks!”– which makes Germany totally dependent on the will of a satrap like Vladimir Putin. And meanwhile, the former socialist chancellor Gerhard Schroederthe architect of this zero nuclear policy, has spent years lining up at the helm of the largest Russian state oil company, Rosneft, since he was forced to leave at the end of May.
Faced with this scenario, the EU limits itself to announcing with great fanfare a plan… so that Europeans save gas, put the air conditioning at 25 degrees and do not raise the heating of the 19. Of course: go through any ministry, public agency or the Congress of Deputies itself. There, the frigorías are multiplied inversely to the cheap prices that their lordships enjoy in the cafeteria, known for being much cheaper than in any neighborhood bar.
While the United Kingdom, outside the EU, remains headless in search of a new leader; Italy returns to its recent history, with a resigned prime minister and an open crisis in channel; France and Germany, the locomotives of Europe, threatened by populism and Putin’s long hand, Spain turns to the left because Sánchez is willing to unite his Frankenstein government as the only way to stay in power for a few months.
Poor Europe: the paradigm shift of civilization in favor of Russia and China, he has caught us with the worst generation of political leaders and there is not a Roosevelt on the other side of the pond willing to land in Normandy
If for this we have to raise taxes, spend more and rewrite the recent history of Spain with a law of forgetfulness endorsed by the heirs of ETA and criticized by ‘dangerous facades’ such as Juan José Laborda, Javier Rojo, Pedro Bofill, Saéz de Coscolluela or Rodríguez de la Borbolla, it is done and in peace. Kick to follow and ‘Resistance Manual’. Although this means mortgaging the future of the country and the PSOE itself.
Poor Europe: the paradigm shift of civilization in favor of Russia and China, He has caught us with the worst generation of political leaders and there is not a Roosevelt on the other side of the pond willing to land in Normandy. The US and Biden have enough to sew back a society split in half.
Who can stop China…
I counted it Francis Fukuyama almost a year ago, when the US and the West ran out of Kabul and we warned about it here in August in the column “The West dies in Kabul: China already dominates the world”. “The ‘made in USA’ has been in retreat for years before the power of ‘made in China’built on a savage capitalism without unions, without ecological laws, without minimum wages or labor rights… Who can stop ‘comu-capitalism’ like this?”
“While China continues to extend its economic dominance, it does not hesitate to move its political chips: through Russia – in this new era, Putin is a pawn of Beijing – arms the enemies of the West, recognizes the Taliban in Afghanistan and feeds its traditional allies, from Cuba to North Korea passing through Africa and Central Asia . This has recently been denounced by the Spanish Defense Magazine itself. But are we willing to do something to prevent it?
Eleven months later, the answer is unfortunately clear: the West –USA and Europe- continue to withdrawwinter is going to be hard, very hard, and we have no leaders to face the coming cold…
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