FOLLOWING the goings-on today in Europe, majority of its leaders are now in utter shock and despair over the “reality check” they are now getting from the hands of the top subalterns of US President Donald Trump.
If many of them continue to harbor the illusion that they can still take America for a fool, the way they treated the Democrats, especially Pres. Joe Biden, whom they were able to manipulate to their bidding in relation to the war in Ukraine and the lunacy that is the DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusivity), they certainly were brutally disabuse of their illusions during the 2-days ‘Munich Security Conference’ that started on February 14.
First to disabuse the globalists and the agents of the ‘MICs’ (military industrial complex) is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth who made it clear that the US would not be sending combat troops in Ukraine in support of the West’s proxy war against Russia.
And yes, NATO countries must contribute more to European defense by upping their defense budgets from 2 percent to 5 percent of their respective gross domestic product (GDP), a 3 percent increase from President Trump’s original demand during his first term in office (2016 – 2020).
If the reality of not having any US troop to back their own in the battlefields of Ukraine as they persist on their failed mission of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia is already depressing news to the EU and NATO compradors, the stinging and harsh criticisms of EU policies on illegal immigration and more importantly, on the repressions of free speech and free expression by Vice President JD Vance during his turn at the podium produced red-faces in the ranks of EU leaders whose pretense at upholding democracy and human rights have just been revealed for what it was: a farce.
But to my mind, shocking as this vassal treatment the EU leaders received from the US side, their being mere puppets of the United States was confirmed by Trump’s special envoy, retired US Army general, Keith Kellogg, who said they (US/Russia) don’t need the EU, nay, even Ukraine, to be part of the talks on how to finally end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Add to this is the fact that Pres. Trump did not even bother to inform the EUB leaders ahead of time on his talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 12. Heck, he did not even tell them what they actually talked about.
This reminds us of the infamous quote from Anthony Blinken, the disgraced US foreign secretary of the ill-famed Joe Biden regime that if “you are not seated on the table, you are on the menu.”
This must really be a shocking descent to reality for the arrogant EU: they are not “partners” or “allies” of Uncle Sam as they dream to be.
They are not, after all, on the same level as Russia or China, but mere vassals, like everyone else, the Philippines included.
And because they are not seated at the table when Russia and America discuss the fate of Ukraine and– NATO for that matter– they are definitely on the menu.
Their fate today, of being excluded in the most important discussion, is the fate they have inflicted on the peoples of their former colonial possessions.
Back in the days when they are subdividing the lands of Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and China among themselves, they also never give a hoot as to whether the subjugated peoples of these lands have any “rights” at all. They just don’t give a damn, did they? So why feel bad when America and Russia treat them the same way?
What goes around, comes around.