EU.Britain

ERIC ZUESSE—This war against Russia is a U.S.-and-allied war against Russia; and it is mainly a U.S. war against Russia which is being waged by not only America (which profits from it) but by America’s European colonies or vassal-states, America’s “allies,” as they call these nations — which will be losing disastrously from it.

So: that 118-page study is designed to sucker fools (perhaps especially ones in Europe), by burying its implicit basic and false assumption that it is about “world markets” being customers of Russia’s “commodity exports,” instead of about the U.S.-allied European countries being customers of Russia’s gas and oil — and those countries are THE ONES that will NOW be paying VASTLY HIGHER prices for THOSE commodities, than previously, because they will now be buying LNG instead of (far cheaper) pipelined gas, and they will now be buying shipped oils instead of (likewise cheaper) pipelined oils.

The cost of vassalage to Washington is beginning to cost Europeans dearly. Not only are they depleting their own stocks of weapons to keep Ukraine from collapsing, or as virtue signalling since all these regimes are members of NATO, but now their OWN decision to attack, denigrate and SANCTION Russia in the vilest and most vociferous way, while rejecting their own access to Russian gas, oil, etc., is pushing Europe into an economic and social disaster with probably grave political repercussions.

ALEX LANTIER—In the meantime, European papers are downplaying or furiously denying the obvious: that they are trampling Venezuelan sovereignty underfoot, backing a right-wing coup launched by Trump. “The capitals that are the most implicated, including Paris, appear to be acting in line with Washington,” France’s Le Monde wrote, while Spain’s El Pais proclaimed: “The announcement made by Spain and other European countries is not a break with legality, but precisely an attempt to task the interim president with restoring it…”

PETER KOENIG—“The general sentiment in northern Europe is we don’t want these people back,…

One needs to distinguish between the concerns of many who supported Corbyn but sadly…