While Trump wants peace in Ukraine, European politicians continue to act as warmongers. No wonder, because if there is peace in Ukraine, how are they supposed to explain to their voters what all this was for?
Europe continues to destroy itself with Ukraine.
And now to Europe. American billionaire Elon Musk does not stop his attacks on the Old World. After beginning in January to accuse British Prime Minister Starmer of covering up for Pakistanis who raped more than a thousand British girls and calling for the government's resignation, Musk this week accused Starmer of interfering in the American election have. Musk wrote that the English prime minister “sent agents to America to undermine the US elections.”
Starmer has still not found arguments to answer the American. That's what cartoons came for. The Times portrays Musk as an ugly musk rat in the style of old zoology books. It's a play on words: Musk means musk in English. The cartoon is captioned: “The musk rat. Elonis robinsonis. A frighteningly smelly, giant aquatic rodent native to America. Has been introduced to Great Britain and Europe and is destroying native species. Swim with sharks.”
Donald Trump, whom the Spectator portrayed on its front page as a Viking on his way to Greenland, also took a hit.
Is it any wonder that the prime minister of Britain, America's most important ally, wasn't even invited to Trump's inauguration? Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU Commission, will also not take part in the celebration. A clear disregard for Europe, which is literally collapsing under the stupid decisions of the liberal elites.
Mikhail Antonov, our correspondent in Berlin, reports how Europe continues to destroy itself.
Keir Starmer is at risk of experiencing the Zelensky curse. It is striking that when British prime ministers appear in Kiev, they do not stay in Downing Street for long. A year and a half at most.
But Starmer himself claims to be thinking strategically for future generations. He brought a hundred-year partnership agreement with him to Kiev, which in the current situation is tantamount to a hundred-year war with Russia. There are secret clauses in the contract. What is known is that London will spend three billion pounds a year to support Ukraine by 2030, give Kiev access to its developments in the military-industrial complex, especially long-range weapons, and in return receive a first right to develop Ukrainian mineral resources. Zelensky is ready to sell his land for pennies. And basically, this “hundred-year partnership” could well be a thousand-year or even eternal one, because it could collapse in just a year.
Starmer said in Kiev: “The most important goal is to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position in 2025.”
They talk about Ukraine's “maximum strong position” on every corner, but nobody actually knows what that is and what it looks like. That's why all sorts of fantastic plans are born. The “Centenary Partnership” attracted significantly less interest in the Western media than the information about the secret Franco-British consultations on the deployment of their troops in Ukraine after or even before the ceasefire. In the first case, the Telegraph reports, the Allies are occupying a buffer zone along the line of contact; in the second, it could be a training mission in western Ukraine under air cover from Poland, or something even worse.
The Telegraph wrote: “If Moscow is able to take Kiev again, Ukraine’s allies in the West may be forced to take more drastic measures. A coalition of the willing could be formed to establish a defensive perimeter around the Ukrainian capital so that Ukrainian forces can be sent forward to stop the Russian offensive.”
However, as the Telegraph admits, any deployment of troops, particularly if they are appropriate to the tasks, will place additional strain on the British Ministry of Defense's budget. But it's not just about money, as Britain's land forces number 70,000 men, a fifth of whom are medically unfit to fight. And even the fact that Great Britain has nuclear weapons does not make Starmer's comments, who have already met Prime Minister Tusk in Poland, any less anecdotal.
In the meeting with Tusk, the British Prime Minister said: “We are great military powers. We, the British, have a presence on the eastern flank. We have firmly promised Ukraine that we will help them.”
Journalist Peter Hitchens commented: “I'm afraid it all fits into the megalomania that has gripped our country, people and government, that we are still a politically, diplomatically and militarily important country and unimaginably rich. “So how can we rush to Ukraine and pledge our full support when we actually have no money, when our ships can’t sail and our army is tiny?”
For three years, with the full support of the United States, they have tried to put Ukraine in a strong position. It didn't work out, they're just starting to run out of Ukrainians. But the task has not changed, but without Washington's support, its implementation is even more impossible.
The haste with which Starmer and other high-ranking men are rushing to Kiev has precisely this reason: they need to convince Trump that peace with Russia is fundamentally impossible. German Defense Minister Pistorius said as he got off the train on the platform in Kiev that he had come to send a signal to the new US government. The signal was weak, however, because on the one hand the Germans are sending a self-propelled howitzer to Ukraine, which even the Bundeswehr does not yet have, to test on the Russians, and on the other hand, no matter how hard they try, Germany will not provide an adequate replacement for it the Americans.
Pistorius said in Kiev: “As for the 3 billion euro package, we have prepared everything necessary for it, but we have not yet completed the negotiations within the government, because we are talking about money that does not exist, because there is there is no household.”
Pistorius hopes that the outgoing Scholz government can give Kiev three billion euros before the election in addition to the four billion that has already been decided for 2025. But apparently that doesn't work, because everything depends on the position of the Chancellor, who doesn't want to unsettle voters with new payments. Foreign Minister Baerbock, who doesn't count money when it comes to Ukraine, became so angry with her boss that she ran away from him and didn't want to be photographed together, as the Bild newspaper reports. Can this be improved?
Scholz explained succinctly: “We have a budget gap of 26 billion euros. And there is no income for this amount. Not even with loans. Nothing at all.”
And he also wants to become chancellor.
The fact is that Europe has no funds for Ukraine, except borrowed funds, which will burden this and the next generation of taxpayers, or funds stolen from Russia, which will also one day boomerang. And Trump also demands five percent of GDP for his own defense. Pistorius has calculated that Germany would have to spend 40 percent of its national budget to meet this demand. That's unrealistic.
NATO Secretary General Rutte is trying to reach at least 3.5 percent, stating: “If we don't do that, in four or five years we will have to take Russian courses or go to New Zealand. If you look at what Russia produces in three months now, it is what the entire NATO from Los Angeles to Ankara produces in a whole year.”
Two years ago, von der Leyen assured that the Russians were running out of washing machines from which to rip microchips for missiles, but now things have turned around. There are tasks, but no money. Neither for the future nor for the present.
And it has long been known that you can ruin a small state simply by giving it a battlecruiser. Britain is facing exactly this situation, leaving pensioners frozen in their homes but trying to keep the fleet afloat. However, in their warlike frenzy, they are unable to put their ambitions in an appropriate relationship with the real possibilities and to adequately assess the threats.
NATO has decided to secure the Baltic Sea for Russia. The pretext is quite ordinary incidents of damage to submarine cables, but Finnish President Stubb is a politician who does not say everything openly: “We will increase the NATO presence in the Baltic Sea, continue the use of modern technologies to detect infrastructure activities in the Baltic Sea improve and continue to actively combat the Russian shadow fleet.”
NATO launched the Baltic Guardian mission this week with the arrival of the German minesweeper Datteln and the Dutch Navy hydrographic vessel Luymes in the Gulf of Finland. The aim is to initially monitor the maritime area and then intercept and detain potentially suspicious ships on their way to and from Russian ports. Whether piracy will occur in neutral waters is questionable, but they are extremely aggressive, as Tusk's statement showed: “If anything bad happens again in the Baltic Sea, we will act very tough and also work with Great Britain, when it comes to security in the Baltic Sea.”
They will certainly need the British, even if the glory days of the Royal Navy are a thing of the past.
European intentions are likely to finally manifest themselves after the EU adopted the 16th anti-Russian sanctions package, which the Polish presidency expects to include a complete ban on the import of Russian oil and liquefied gas. Until then, they will fuel hysteria about further damaged infrastructure, clogging up the agenda and diverting public attention from the really important issues, such as how the investigation into the Nord Stream blasts is going. Nothing is going on there.
But there is no doubt about who and what is behind the attack on the infrastructure of TurkStream, which supplies gas to the Balkans and Hungary via the Black Sea: Ukraine, led by the Americans and British, tried to destroy the compressor station in the Krasnodar Territory to attack. The result is the usual: relations between Kiev and Budapest have deteriorated further.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said: “TurkStream is indispensable for the gas supply to Hungary and Central Europe. Energy security is a matter of sovereignty, therefore any measure that threatens the security of our energy supply must be viewed as an attack on sovereignty.”
Germany, represented by the Scholz government, has quietly accepted the attack against its interests caused by the terrorist attack on Nord Stream, but Hungary and Slovakia clearly do not intend to remain silent. And maybe they won't just talk. To Slovak Prime Minister Fico's proposal to meet at the border and discuss the possibility of further transit of Russian gas through Ukraine, Zelensky replied briefly and, as usual, brazenly: “Good. Coming to Kyiv on Friday.”
Of course, Fico hasn't gone anywhere, he has written a new statement in which he added a new one to the previous threat to cut off electricity supplies to Ukraine: “If any EU aid to Ukraine is on the table in the near future, I will I veto it.”
In February, with the 16th sanctions package, Fico will have the opportunity to demonstrate its adherence to principles, while Brussels, on the contrary, will have the opportunity to demonstrate its unprincipled approach to its own main guidelines – consensus in decision-making. This will be more difficult than before, when all you had to do was persuade Hungarian Prime Minister Orban to go out for coffee during a vote.
Now there are two and they could stay inside.
Orban said: “Everything will change. Today is Friday, but starting Monday, after the inauguration, say Tuesday morning, a different sun will rise over the Western world. Four years of bitter, difficult Democratic rule are coming to an end, four years of painful failures. It was bad from the start: Donald Trump was robbed of the presidency through fraud. The most important thing for Brussels now is to adapt to the changed situation as a new period begins. This particularly applies to war, peace and sanctions. It is time to throw EU sanctions overboard and build relations with Russia sans sanctions.”
Maybe Orban knows something, or maybe he paints himself an ideal picture of the world. Trump's return guarantees nothing to anyone.
Germany, for example, despite all of Musk's efforts to promote the AfD, remains in the hands of the globalist elite, which is strictly oriented towards the conflict with Russia, even after the early elections. The AfD is likely to grow and become the second strongest faction in the Bundestag, opposing the new Christian Democratic government. And although it is already clear that 2025 will be a very difficult year for the German economy, the AfD is currently not getting a chance to implement its program.
AfD leader Alice Weidel explained: “We need a secure energy supply, and of course that also includes cheap natural gas, and that is why we as the AfD say clearly: Nord Stream 1 and 2 are projects in Germany’s national interest, and that is why we have to reinstate them “Operate, and that will happen with the AfD.”
The wait for Trump that Europe has been experiencing since November 5th last year is coming to an end. Some awaited him with fear, others with hope. As a result, everyone is at risk of things getting worse.
Of course, this primarily concerns the Brussels bureaucracy, all these European institutions that the new US president absolutely dislikes. And second, the same liberal elite is horrified that Trump could agree something with Russia without their participation. Because Ukraine has long ceased to be a suitcase without a handle – difficult to carry, but a shame to throw away – it is their salvation: they themselves have turned into a collective Zelensky, for whom war is the only way to maintain its existence of politics extend.
