- U.S. yanks support for Ukraine…
- The entire European project depends on U.S. protection…
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Dear Reader,
The United States has suspended material — and non-material — assistance to Ukraine.
Thus the Ukrainian David is in a bad way.
He confronts greater roughhousing from the Russian Goliath.
Reports The Financial Times:
- About a third of the total military supplies to Ukraine is from the US but America provides key elements of Ukraine’s armoury that cannot easily be replaced…
- The US also provides critical military intelligence and weapons-targeting information that other Nato allies cannot match, and the bulk of heavy airlift craft to transport weapons into Ukraine, including those from other partners.
Meantime, rumors swirl that Mr. Musk may soon deny Ukraine access to his critical Starlink communications network.
The Muscle of the Deal
The foregoing is likely intended to twist Mr. Zelensky’s undermuscular arm… and force his signature upon President Trump’s dotted line.
The president wants his rare earth minerals.
The Europeans are consequently quaking in a highly anxious state.
They fear the United States Army will take ship at Calais… and sail away from Europe.
They fear they will be forced to underwrite their own security.
And this is the great bugaboo that alarms them so.
That is because the entire European project shelters beneath the mighty wings of the American eagle.
Europe First
Let the United States tend to our defense, Europe has said since the conclusion of the Second World War.
We can repurpose our swords into plowshares.
We can then erect lavish welfare states to maintain our citizens in opulence.
We Europeans have expressed a distinct taste for butter — for costly butter.
If the United States withdraws its guns, we will be forced to purchase our own.
And we cannot afford these guns if we maintain our extravagant butter purchases.
Most importantly, the mighty United States has quieted our quarreling.
We have plenty of quarrels, make no mistake. Many are ancient. They extend roots deep into our soil… and coarse deeply into our blood.
Europeans May First Be Countrymen
Should the United States release us from its protective fold? We may rediscover the quarrels above-described.
We may discover that we Europeans are not primarily Europeans — but primarily Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, Belgians, Spaniards and Dutchmen.
Our airy-fairy dreams of a unified and borderless Europe may therefore die the death.
And we may learn that history has not in fact ended.
We may discover instead that history has us by the ear.
The Americans in, The Russians out and the Germans Down
The central imperative of the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been — famously — to keep the Americans in… the Russians out… and the Germans down.
Hence we presently witness European horror at a potential American exodus.
Yet I do not believe it is because Europeans fear the Russians coming in.
European overlords do a lot of yelling about it. They shriek that the Ukrainian hors d’oeuvre will not satiate Mr. Putin’s vast territorial hungers.
They argue he will next gobble Poland and the Baltic states. All of Europe will appear ultimately upon his dinner plate.
Thus Mr. Putin must choke upon the Ukrainian snack… if Europe will endure.
Do I stretch the facts? Only slightly perhaps — if at all.
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
This Tuesday the French president, Macron, had this to say:
- It must be said that we are entering a new era…
- Who can believe that… in this context, Russia will stop at Ukraine? Russia has become, and will remain, a threat to France and Europe…
- Faced with this world of danger, remaining a spectator would be madness.
Yet I believe this updated Bonaparte is erecting a bogeyman. I believe he is simply frightening the horses.
And I am not convinced he himself believes it. Consider:
After three years of harsh fighting Russia has chewed off perhaps 20% of Ukrainian land.
Russia can take in mere bitefuls — it appears incapable of devouring mouthfuls.
Is this a nation that can take a rich European meal down its gullet?
I do not see how it is possible.
It Comes Down to Railroads
If Mr. Putin somehow takes aboard the entirety of Ukraine, he will have a very rough time digesting the meal.
Ukraine’s bulk approximates Texas. Much of his forces would be assigned occupation duty to hold the place together.
They would be unavailable for conquest.
To make a conquest of Europe the Russian would need to conscript millions and millions — and convert the entire Russian economy to martial production.
Mr. Putin may not be a very pleasant man. Yet available evidence indicates he is not a madman.
And there is no evidence he is after Europe itself.
What Europe Truly Fears
Europe as a whole has always feared a unified, dominant Germany.
The more Germanies the better, said the French.
And if the Americans are no longer in… Europe fears the Germans will rise up.
They do not fear the return of a mustachioed Austrian corporal. They do not fear Auschwitz will resume its ghoulish operations.
They understand that this year’s Germany is not yesteryear’s Germany.
Yet Europe is an ancient civilization.
And its distinct nations have historical… memories.
Do Europeans truly want German auto factories converted from auto production to tank production?
I do not believe they do.
They would prefer that the Americans manufacture tanks — and that the Germans manufacture autos.
They would further prefer that American Abrams tanks prowl Germany’s Grafenwoehr training grounds… not German Leopard tanks.
France: We’ll Take Charge of European Security
Perhaps German fear is why Monsieur Macron proposes to take Europe — with its 290 nuclear armaments — under France’s nuclear umbrella.
France is the European Union’s sole nuclear power.
And I hazard the Frenchmen would prefer his nation direct European security — should the Americans head out — not Germany.
Thus the Europeans want the Americans in.
It is not because they want to keep the Russians out — but because they want to keep the Germans down.
They fear they must become normal nations again… should the Americans walk away.
That is, Europeans do not fear Russians.
They fear themselves.
Brian Maher
for Freedom Financial News
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