Yesterday, CNN ran an unintentionally hilarious story headlined, “Barred from US-Russia talks on Ukraine, Europe scrambles for response with Paris summit.” Moving at lightspeed, Trump’s negotiating team will summit with Russia’s counterpart today in Saudi Arabia —far from the EU— to discuss the agenda for a face-to-face Trump-Putin confab there next week. So European elites are experiencing crippling levels of FOMO.
Trump didn’t pick them for his team. “European leaders, CNN advised, “have been sidelined at the start of a pivotal week for the continent’s security.” So they’re going to make their own team. They said fine, we’ll have our own emergency peace summit, one day before yours. Yesterday, the pampered politicians gathered in wintery Paris and took bold, decision action by talking, in seven languages, until reporters’ ears bled.
We might yet see a strongly worded letter. Not just yet. It’s too soon. But it could happen. However, you can count on stern glances, concerned nods, and possibly even a new hashtag or two.
Secretary of State Rubio will be joined in Riyadh today by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. The Kremlin said that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will be joined by presidential aide Yury Ushakov.
Sacrebleu! It’s the Europeans’ worst nightmare. “It’s no exaggeration to say this is the most serious crisis that the transatlantic alliance has ever faced,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, a “senior fellow” at the Deep State’s Institute for Strategic Studies, without exaggeration. Think about that statement. The America-Russia peace summit is a more serious crisis than the entire Cold War, or even that dark hour when America literally erased France by re-labeling ‘freedom fries.’
What is becoming crystal clear is that Trump has done it again. He has forced the Europeans to occupy the least popular political position: demanding more war. They’re like that drunk guy at the dorm party insisting the music still isn’t loud enough while everyone else is begging for sleep. Meanwhile, the four superpowers —America, Russia, India, and China— are united in supporting peace, a commonsense proposition supported by nearly everyone in the world not currently taking antipsychotic medication.
President Trump is running rings around them, forcing the EU elites to make unforced errors. Trump is wielding their own elitism as a weapon against them. President Macron’s resentful insta-summit included the seven ’best’ EU countries —France, the UK, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Netherlands, and Denmark— but this “elites of the elite” invitational snobbery promptly created some entirely predictable friction.
Yesterday, Bloomberg’s headline betrayed the sense of subsidiary FOMO experienced by the rest of the European continent:
It’s a conundrum. If you leave out any of the Continent’s very self-important leaders, you risk offending some of the most easily offended personalities in the world. But if you invite everybody, all 27 of them, then the really important pro-war poltroons have much less time to bloviate and condemn the United States. Quelle horreur!
The truth is, Europe lacks any good options. None of the EU countries can hold a candle to the four peace-preferring superpowers, neither militarily nor economically. In its war mania, Europe has destroyed its own energy infrastructure, sunk most of its current military readiness into a losing war in Ukraine, crippled its economies with Russian sanctions, and tragically de-industrialized — making it infinitely harder to manufacture any new tanks, bombs, or guns.
Europe’s political establishment is as weak as it has been since World War II. It is desperately —and increasingly uselessly— trying to ward off a populist, pro-America (pro-Trump) revolution. We now see the rationale, pre-planning, and genius behind Elon’s support of Germany’s AfD party, for example. Divide and conquer.
But it is much worse than that for the EU’s war maniacs. For murky, incomprehensible grievances stretching back hundreds or thousands of years, the main EU countries have lodged in their DNA a pathological hatred for Russia. The worst-case scenario for them is the hideous, unimaginable prospect that America would normalize relations with Russia— and that scrawled threat is exactly what appears to be written on the summit’s white-board wall.
See, e.g., Old Testament. Belshazzar’s feast, et al.
CNN reported that Foreign Minister Lavrov said the upcoming Trump-Putin discussion “will aim to end the ‘abnormal period’ in relations between the two great powers.” In other words: normalization. This means the end of sanctions, the end of the Proxy War, the end of World War III brinksmanship, and the end of large US forces in Europe, but adding in new trade agreements, security talks, and de-dollarization de-escalation.
Trump has even openly speculated about reducing mutual military investments—a more ambitious peace plan than Reagan’s historic deal to reduce nuclear stockpiles.
No bureaucracy, but especially not the European multi-state bureaucracy, can compete with the velocity that Trump is demonstrating. They literally cannot keep up. While Europe was still reacting to the first phone call between Trump and Putin, Trump’s team had already scheduled the Saudi Arabia summit, and will meet today.
I’m not sure any major peace summit has ever come together this fast.
Trump is sealing deals while Europe is still sealing envelopes. Trump is playing a high-speed, high-stakes geopolitical chess game, while Europe has just started organizing working groups to debate where to put the pieces on the board. Le roi est en échec. They just don’t know it yet.
Get ready. Everything we’ve seen so far has been battlespace preparation. We are about to watch the plans unfold.
Zelensky must go, Starmer needs to put on a uniform and get in the trenches himself, Macron needs an examination to determine if he is psychotic war monger. Any EU country not having an election needs to be removed from NATO. No election can be nullified without proof positive it was rigged. If so then a do over, run it like Taiwan each vote held up called out then counted.
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Oh this is nice.
Time Magazines Person of the Year just like they did with Hitler back in 1938
Macron tried to to force the French to Mask up and failed once the people objected