Down The Primrose Path

Gradually Then Suddenly Great Reset Ukraine 21 Comments

Talk is cheap.

European leaders have gotten the message from Washington about doing more for their own defense and for Ukraine, too. They are talking tough when it comes to supporting Ukraine and about protecting their own borders, and they are standing up to a demanding and even hostile Trump administration.

But there is an inevitable gap between talk and action, and unity is fracturing already, especially when it comes to spending and borrowing money in a period of low growth and high debt. […]

Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia who is now the chief foreign and security official for the European Union, has been a forceful advocate for supporting Ukraine as a first line of European defense against an aggressive, militarized Russia.

But it has been a rocky start for Ms. Kallas. Her effort to get the E.U. to provide up to 40 billion euros (more than $43 billion) to Ukraine through a small, fixed percentage levy on each country’s national income has gone nowhere.

Her backup proposal, for an added €5 billion as a first step toward providing Ukraine two million artillery shells this year, was also rejected by Italy, Slovakia and even France, an E.U. official said, speaking anonymously in accordance with diplomatic practice. The countries insisted that contributions to Ukraine remain voluntary, bilateral and not required by Brussels.

Via Wretchard T. Cat

Given this information, it’s pointless asking Europe to contribute naval assets to keeping their Red Sea lanes open. Maybe we should face the facts: the Global World is a luxury we can’t afford because the global citizens won’t pay to manage entropy on a planetary scale.

Perhaps the New World will look like an updated version the Old World we used to live in. A world of relatively culturally homogenous countries surrounded by tariffs with defended frontiers. It’s what we can afford.

21 Replies to “Down The Primrose Path”

  1. The grown ups know this to be the fact too.

    “Whether it’s now or several weeks from now, it will have to be the United States that reopens these shipping lanes. Per the president’s request we are working with DOD and State to determine how to compile the cost associated and levy them on the Europeans.”
    “If you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again.”
    “VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”

  2. “Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia who is now the chief foreign and security official for the European Union, has been a forceful advocate for supporting Ukraine as a first line of European defense against an aggressive, militarized Russia”

    Relentless propaganda 101

    It wasn’t Russia that couped Ukraine, installed a banderite government, armed that government, and supported that government to bomb and oppress Russian speakers.

    That was the US, Canada and EU

    Now that FAFO happened, they have nothing. Nothing.

    And with the world’s most expensive energy the nothing is not going away

  3. I’m old enough to remember when hippies in the street and politicians in Brussels used to sneer at America behaving like “The Worlds Policeman”

    Well … Trump is defunding the world’s policeman. Right? So … How do you like us now?

    2. I like you a lot! And I applaud the 25% tariffs on cars – the EU has done that for at least 30 years. You see lots of Audis, Volvos, Saabs, Mercedes, BMWs on the streets of Canada and the United States, but you do NOT see any American cars on the streets of Europe of the UK. If I am wrong, please correct me.

      1. N.American designed/built no, but Ford was a major player in U.K. at least, and GM owned Vauxhall and Opel in U.K and Germany respectively, likewise with models designed and built over there. (I lived in England for the last 16 years of the 20th century.)
        In daily driving the size typical for European vehicles is less of a diadvantage here than the size typical for N.American vehicles is over there.

    3. Wait, didn’t you just few days demand that US polices trade routes from China to EU?
      Oh wait, I forgot the golden rule: “when I doubt, don’t doubt Trump”

    4. I am old enough to remember when the pinkos were on the left, yet here we are.

  5. Being contrary I find it amusing that the EU plus Britain and Canada are all in a flutter over Russia and are demanding someone, Uncle Sugar, to DO something. Yet, they refuse to turn away or turnout the swarms of illegals from Muslim countries who are occupying these same countries.
    Too bad EU weenies. You had it good for a long time. The party is over, Dad’s home and is unimpressed.

    Enjoy your coming Muslim hell when you’ll be wishing for the Russians to liberate you.
    Suckers

    1. None ever wished for russians to “liberate” them. Everyone who had those subhumans occupying their land always wished for them to leave.

  6. Why should America care about the red sea? Our Chinese crap comes to Long Beach across the Pacific. Let Europe handle the pirates and houthis.

    1. Well … I agree. Yet … any day Radical Muslim terrorists are dying … is a good day for me.

    2. Wait, so you actually oppose Trump’s decision to get involved few days ago???????
      To arms Trumpets! To arms!
      Burn the witch!

  7. NATO countries were warned (and not just by Trump) that they needed to meet their defense budget goals. My President warned them quite a lot during his first term in office. They sneered in his (and thus America’s) face and did nothing.
    There are always consequences for one’s actions eventually.

    Those ‘refugees’ that Europe (and Canada) are pumping into their own countries…why do you think they are there? It certainly isn’t for humanitarian reasons. Perhaps to keep the native populations cowed; to help create crisis that will usher in more and more restrictions upon their people’s freedoms, all the while the people become poorer?
    I wonder if there will be any consequences for that?
    And always remember any Americans reading this: they wanted this for us as well; worse maybe — we were to be their chained dogs to fight for them. I definitely think that deserves some consequences.

  8. Back in the day, way way back before there was edumbification, in fact back before I was born there was this evil thing called ….. shock horror ! … (drum roll) The Empire, specifically the British Empire.
    Certain American leaders early in the last century coveted said empire, which after being the worlds policeman and exhausting the blood of many an English family and failing to take the victors treasure in the last two wars allowed the American hegemony to take over the role of the British Empire.
    It came with a price that any real historian could have told them by just visiting centuries of graveyards around the known world. As Steve Bannon likes to say “The sacred blood and treasure of” (In this case the English) Which is why the English are now a pretty much almost extinct species, replaced and inbred with the rest of the worlds now ungrateful citizens. Far from benefiting, any real analytical of even the financial books shows all it did was destroy the country.
    I wish the US of A all the best with their endeavour’s, with great roles comes great responsibilities, for which there is no reward except lies, deceit, slander and destitution.

    1. DSV a very insightful comment! My family fought in Both the English and Canadian armies! My wife and I visited England some years ago! Our family members were concerned for England then, they point out the fact that anyone in the Common Wealth had access to enter England ! The laws of the Common Wealth excluded no-one! This they felt would be the demise of England and the weakening of all countries belonging to the British Commonwealth! Unfortunately this has happened!
      I feel that the role England carried was highly respected and a course correction for England, the USA, and Canada would do wonders for the World!
      It may start with Trump, Poilievre, and a strong Conservative Leader in England!

      1. The hollowing out of the English was a long game, when the enemy was easier to identify, defence was also easier.
        Huge changes toward the end of the victorian era started a process of installing an enemy within.
        When the the Empire was the Empire it didn’t result in the flooding of England with immigrants (although to be fair that it did happen with the “Act of Union” in 1707 again to the detriment of the English).
        Migration did however become a real issue well after the end of Empire and as a result of the creation of the ill conceived Commonwealth almost as if it was by design. Yet another thing the English were never asked about nor given a choice in. By the time the traitorous cultural elites signed away England to the European Communist project the damage had already been done, that was just a final nail in the coffin.
        As to a strong Conservative leader, possibly the last Conservative leader with any understanding of the word Conservative was Lord Home. The very word “Conservative” having gone the same way as the word “gay”.
        The nearest the few remaining English have to a street leader is TR who whilst I hasten to add is of Irish/English descent does encapsulate the dogged English terrier but outside of the one man band that is TR there are only a couple of Englishman showing potential of understanding and integrity worthy of political office. Lots of hope hanging on the likes of Rupert Lowe and Andrew Bridgen who look to have potential but unfortunately the general inhabitant of the British Isles are not an indigenous homogenous mass and the actual English all but gone.

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