by Phil Butler New Eastern Outlook
Finally, at long last, it appears the European Union may come to its senses. All it took was for German elites to understand they’re about to lose billions and risk upheaval. News from the IMF that halted gas supplies to the country will cost Europe’s largest economy 1.5 percent of its GDP in 2022 scares the Olaf Scholz puppet worse than communist smart girl Sahra Wagenknecht. Which has me wondering, was communism that bad, after all?
And if Germany sees the light and laments the utter idiocy of the Washington-led war on the Russians? Well, it’s a bit predictable if you think about it. The alternative, a global thermonuclear war that would take London, Paris, and Berlin down first, also seems less likely. That would kill off generations of bred mediocrity. But, what to expect next?
If anybody knows how the Russians love a good joke, it’s certainly the socialist son of traditional Lutheran parents. Scholz is great at posturing for the Luxembourg elites and the Americans, but he knows all too well that Russian maintenance on machinery on the Nord Stream pipeline could mimic the Moscow mail soon. The people who laugh at -40C mornings are certainly chuckling over German Europe’s leaders running around the world begging for gas. Only, there’s no more gas to get.
Wagenknecht has even sided with Saxon CDU Prime Minister Kretschmer against Scholz on the reality that Germany is done without Russian energy. East Germany, in particular, is in big trouble if a Russian mechanical breakdown cliche turns real. Only a Russian with a big wrench can fix what gets broken in a Rusky system, everybody knows that. But, what about Germany’s current leader? Does Scholz plan to foil Putin by betraying fellow EU partners?
Here’s where the west’s lack of a strategy turns really stupid…
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