Selensky, Trump and Europe
Published on March 3, 2025 by Walter Grobe. English translation done by Google, some corrections by the author
The current statements by European politicians and journalists on the scandal between Trump and Selensky seem to me to demonstrate a high degree of lack of connection with reality. They have little to do with Trump’s plans and the problems of our own European situation.
It seems to me as if Trump is deliberately trying to provoke those mentioned to sing „solidarity with Selensky“ or Ukraine and to demand or even initiate further armaments for their support – armaments that would be powerless without the ultimate umbrella of the USA – and to make further declarations of hostility towards „Putin“.
I had previously seen Trump’s design as follows: to decouple Russia from China, to squeeze the juice out of Ukraina, to maneuver the European states into a position of half war and half peace towards Russia, a position that is ultimately dependent on the USA, i.e. controllable by the USA. This constellation would not significantly hinder the USA in its major business deals with Russia and Ukraine, but in Europe it would permanently ruin the economy, morality and European political cohesion. The reactions so far from Merz, Macron and Stamer (UK) seem to confirm this.
But there are other voices singing in this discordant chorus, whose lead the men mentioned claim.
The parliamentary manager of the party “Die Linke”, Christian Görke, spoke out in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung on March 3, 25 (the newspaper’s headline was „Billions for armaments: Will the Left Party make a deal with Merz?“) and hinted that his party would not completely block a debt package for armaments that Merz would introduce, provided that it also contained promises for „sustainable investments in the future of our country“. This raises the question of how one can talk about sustainability and the future if one bases it on the policy of permanent willingness to go to war.
A full-page advert appears in the daily newspaper „TAZ“ from a company that wants to sell drones for the military (Berliner Zeitung, 03.03.25).
Regarding the AfD, the same edition of the same newspaper notes that this party is „strangely quiet“.
In theory, other geostrategic variants that are more favourable for the people of Europe are conceivable. Not only Ukraine as a whole, but also large parts of Russia are also known to be European. But I am not in the mood to try to prolong the survival of this corrupt and deceitful system, which is corroded from within and heading towards collapse, by giving good advice to European politicians. I am writing the above to mark the extent of the incompetence of these politicians who are now talking about European rearmament, solidarity with Selensky and similar schemes, trying to mislead the public and thereby supporting precisely Trump’s variant of „multipolarity“, which weakens Europe as much as possible, makes it even more dependent on the USA and rejoices in its internal destruction.
The phrases like ‚we need to become more independent from the USA‘, ‚we stand by Selensky‘, ‚we want strategic autonomy for Europe‘, ‚a Europe that emancipates itself from the tutelage of the terrible Trump will become the leading power of the free world‘ etc. are contradicted by reality: these ranting politicians are currently acting exactly as Trump’s plan and the propaganda coup with Selensky in the White House want them to.
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