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Blame the US GOP.
Blame the European Nations for not taking Russia or their own security seriously enough for the past three decades.
Yes the GOP is preventing necessary aid from the United States, and that seriously pisses me off, but this idea that Europe isn't MORE responsible for this is absolutely enraging.
They were warned over and over and over by literally every US Administration since Bill Clinton and they ignored it. They had a clanging wake up call in 2014 but yawned, rolled over, and went back to sleep. Angela Merkel and a whole pile of other European leaders did nothing but finger wag, chastise, and call the US ignorant war mongers all the while the problem grew and grew. Hell they were still calling the US stupid war mongers 48 hours before the invasion of Ukraine kicked off!
They, being Western Europe, have spent literally decades playing "3 Monkeys". THEY bear the primary responsible for its existence and the primary responsibility for its resolution. The US has some responsibility to help but the BLAME doesn't belong to us. At all.
Yep, this neoliberal naivité where they assume that as long as Russia gets billions of euros from you from gas sales it will motivate them to stay in line just doesn't work. The whole globalisation project is catching the West with their pants down. Now suddenly they realise they have no energy independence and everything they buy is made in China.
The Era of the I.R.B.O. is coming to a close and as it does Globalization as we know it today will dwindle and de-centralize. It only ever worked because everyone played along and chipped in to maintain it but those two conditions are increasingly untrue.
There's a lot of blame to go around.
Europe is not short of power. Just two weeks ago there was negative electricy prices in all major markets except one.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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