Atlanticist Limited Sovereignty
One might call it ironic that those who shouted ‘sovereignty’ at the outset of the invasion of Ukraine now take coy pride in militarily destroying the energy infrastruture of the continent’s chief ally. It is not irony that is at work here however, it is hypocrisy.
The United States, after years of blackmail and interference in the domestic affairs of Germany, just targeted its pipeline infrastructure, causing potentially tens if not hundreds of billions in damages, setting off an environmental catastrophe and in the process contributing to future hyperinflation.
This in a sea in which the USA has no territorial claims, where no americans live and where US economic interests are scarce. Washington DC might claim that the attack benefited America’s gas industry but by that standard would Russia be permited to cause trouble in the Middle East or actually bomb pipelines in the Gulf in order to promote its own oil? Most certainly, not. The US also made sure to not claim the act which in turn makes it sheer piracy.
The attack is reminiscent of the USSR’s 1945 policy of looting all the industrial infrastructure in its path all the way to Berlin. It is not that Moscow was necessarily against its satellites having industry, it was just that the HQ of the world revolution took precedence… Ukraine’s government being a puppet regime was tacitly understood to be a characteristic of an uncivilised battleground but Germany is not only a member of both the sacred EU and NATO but it is also the americans’ most important ally in mainland Europe. By bombing it the US has made NATO into a full Delian League – to ‘keep Germany down’, indeed…
Both the US and the EU have helped exacerbate financial mismanagement and are responsible for the economic crisis. Quantitative easing, indebtedness, ‘green’ policies which disencourage investment in traditional energy sources, the voluntary importing of masses of millions of illegal 3rd world immigrants, cultural marxist policies and narratives which lead to marriage and family breakdown and, in turn, depress birthrates, etc
Nordstream 1 and 2 Bornholm section was over navigated by an LHD group of the US Navy in late September with an underwater operations unit on board, no less. In a sane, logical world, the german chancellor – whichever party he was from – would have expelled the US ambassador, publicly indicted the american government and demanded an apology along with reparations. Evidently, Berlin is no longer independent but additionally, the damage to the international reputation of the US – especially in the public opinions of Europe – would have been so great that it would have endangered the very legitimacy of NATO. At the very least, the russian government would have demanded the permanent removal of the US Navy from the Baltic as a precondition for the repair of the pipeline.
Alas, the West, much like the Socialist Bloc before it, does not live in sanity. As the Valery Legasov character so eloquently put it in the Chernobyl accident series, “when the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is, still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid“.
The escape forward reflex and the manichean fanaticism of the current western elites have, at this point, all but guaranteed that when the collapse comes it will not be a selective one. It will not be one or another institution which will be affected, it will be all of them. When NATO finally crumbles, it will bring the EU down alongside it and vice-versa. The ECB, IMF, World Bank will follow suit. Russia and China will surely position themselves to quickly replace them.
Given that the atlanticists are willing to use hard methods with their client states as well as with their own populations, America’s allies should prepare for DC to begin demanding harsh punishment of dissent of their own populations. The January 6th persecution of conservatives and all those who dispute the 2020 election results, Canada’s crushing of the truckers protest, France’s mistreatment of the yellow vests or the Netherlands methods towards the farmers, all indicate that free speech has its days numbered in the West.
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