EU officials know pretty well what is coming, but the machine | Strategic Culture Foundation

EU officials know pretty well what is coming, but the machine is paralysed by political elites still squashed by a post-war mentality.

So far, the “war in Crimea” has been a paper war, fought in the media editorial offices, and let’s hope it stays that way forever. Anyway, also in this kind of Metaverse conflict, there is a clear loser: Europe. No one noticed the EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell weakly protesting that “Europeans have to be part of the table” in the Ukrainian talks. The general perception is that he doesn’t exist. Crushed by its bully American ally, faint-hearted and blind to its genuine interest, the Union is in a decline’s spiral. Less and less, it is an economic giant and more and more a political and military worm. In a tightly interconnected world, it has to restrain its crucial commercial relationship with China and Russia (and Iran) to please Washington.

Read more by Claudio Gallo: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/15/how-europe-squandered-its-chance-to-become-global-power/

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