A little while ago I wrote about a possible right-wing revolution in Europe as a result of the neo-liberal disaster of the European Union being imposed by traditional "centrist" parties and (more recently) by co-opted, intellectually bankrupt "leftist" parties like the Social Democrats and the Greens.
The people of Europe have been protesting this shit. It isn't reported here because our news media is now 100% propaganda and censorship and hypocrisy and obfuscation and it is so blatant and brazen. But the Europeans are angry. And if it turns out that the only groups willing and able to tear power away from the neo-liberal US lapdogs and the soulless, insane neo-liberal bureaucrats in Brussells are the far-right, then this whole selfish US policy of maintaining hegemony, de-industrializing Europe, and subsidizing both the military-industrial complex and the fracking industry could well back-fire and lead to a pro-Putin, pro-Russian, far-right Europe.
Today I read a post from "Moon of Alabama" about the way the USA has been shamelessly provoking France. First there was getting Australia to rip-up a contract to buy diesel submarines from France in order to buy nuclear submarines from the USA (to better integrate the Australian armed forces into the USA's). The French government found out about this major shift the same way everyone else did; when it appeared in the newspapers. Secondly, there's the coup in Niger. I shed no tears for France. France was exploiting Niger's uranium. Getting it on the cheap in return for cutting some corrupt Niger politicians in on the action. But it appears that this coup was instigated by Nigerien generals trained by the USA. Rather than this being an anti-imperialist movement, or a Russian-backed (or inspired) assault on the West, this could very well be further psychotic USian abuse of Europe. Macron is making aggressive noises but France doesn't have the resources and, more importantly, Macron doesn't have the stature within France to inspire his country to make the sacrifices required to continue to dominate Niger.
All this feeds into Marine Le Pen's National Rally. The far-left is divided and confused. It's like here in North America: Democrats believed Trump stole 2016 but all they did was put their faith in the Mueller Investigation and when that turned out to be a dud, they whined like tired toddlers. Trumpistas thought 2020 was stolen and, with some provocation, some of them stormed the capital. Left-wingers in Canada get shat upon again and again, but right-wingers shut-down Ottawa (with police complicity) for a month.
I don't know why Biden and his team of shit-heads are being so stupidly abusive of Europe. Who knows with these psychotic, delusional types?
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