Europe’s Leaders May Walk Into A Trap

Could the U.S. abandon Europe to fight Russia alone?

• This weekend’s war summit on Ukraine lacked talk of peace

• But are Europe’s leaders fighting the last war, assuming the U.S. will help?

• WWI echoes amid the rise of new trade routes and financial systems

• Europe once again has rapid economic evolution, this time deindustrialisation

• Industrial shifts generate resentment at the rise of “new” powers like China

• Just as Britain’s empire was not lost by accident — it was reset

• Politicians’ one-dimensional thinking fails to account for an evolving world

• War is not separate from open borders, food and energy crises: a Great Shutdown

• Don’t take our word. As the draft returns it’s time to ask questions

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Jun 16, 2024

Politicians and their perma-crat handlers gathered in Switzerland for peace talks on Ukraine that were quickly rebranded an international summit — for there was no talk of peace.

Russia was not invited and German chancellor Olaf Scholz said that G7 leaders had not discussed president Vladimir Putin’s latest proposals “since everyone knew they were not meant seriously.”

Putin, the day before, had offered a ceasefire if Kyiv were to withdraw troops from the four regions that voted to join Russia, and drop any plan to join NATO. Putin said Moscow was offering to resolve the conflict once and for all.

Peace was not on the table at Burgenstock, near Lucerne. We know the agenda. NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has said he expects every member country to arm Ukraine.

The danger is that the Swiss summit was more of a conference on war.

It had ominous parallels with the 1938 Munich conference which has been misrepresented as the appeasement of Germany when numerous countries carved up Czechoslovakia, while the British urged them on.

Poland and Hungary took a slice of Czechoslovakia, while its ties with the Soviet Union were annulled. Coincidentally Poland and Hungary have claims to parts of Ukraine.

See Eurasia note #95: Ukraine's Swiss Deceit - Is Kyiv about to be duped by the Davos crowd? (May 26, 2024)

Politicians are famous for fighting the last war. They take for granted that the United States will come to their rescue, as they did in 1917 and 1941.

But this is a different world, and the reasons for war are different, too.

A war foreseen

As we’ve written before, Ukraine is the war everybody saw coming:

Current CIA Director William Burns, a former ambassador to Moscow, wrote that NATO membership for Ukraine was Russia’s red line. He titled his memo, Nyet Means Nyet.

Western chemical companies see Ukraine as a huge market for GMO seeds and fertilizers — if only they can persuade farmers to stop using traditional methods, such as crop rotation, that make Ukraine’s rich black soil some of the world’s most fertile.

Ukraine has “$10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets [that] could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin or China.” That's what senator Lindsey Graham, told CBS Face the Nation on June 9.

The war began with the coup of 2014, and Kyiv bombed ethnic Russian regions for eight years. Peace talks during that time were not real, former German chancellor Angela Merkel has admitted. They were just a way to buy time for Kyiv to rearm.

That's exactly what happened this weekend in Switzerland: not real peace talks; just buying time.

See Eurasia note #77 - Ukraine: The War Everyone Saw Coming - The dispossession of human and mineral in the service of Monsanto-Bayer (May 05, 2023).

Consummate actor

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy issued a Hollywood-produced introduction to the summit, with gravelly voice and a musical backing - the selection of video editors working for the CIA or MI6, perhaps.

The script turned history upside down: claiming that Russia had deceived by talking peace while preparing for war. It was British prime minister Boris Johnson who was sent to Kyiv to sabotage peace talks which had begun just days after Russia’s military operation in spring of 2022.

Zelenskiy said history would be made, even if it took time.

Sunday’s talks in Switzerland were an attempt to blame Russia for everything:

• nuclear safety, when it is Ukraine shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear

• collapse of food and fertilizer exports - though neither side can agree to terms

• dangerous sea lanes, though Ukraine's mines wash up in Georgia's Black Sea resort of Batumi

• the “deportation” of children - to safety it must be said, unlike those in Gaza

• there was no mention of Ukraine as a hub for sex, child and organ trafficking

Draft back

Please do not take my word for it; do your own research — for it is you or your children who may be called to fight this war.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved reinstating selective service, including the draft, automatically registering youth from the age of 18-26. The National Defense Authorization Act 2025 also provides for women to serve.

The draft is already in force in nine European countries (Cyprus, Greece, Austria, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark) and is under discussion in Germany, Italy and the UK.

Summit outcome

Was the Swiss summit a success?

China did not turn up, nor did Brazil. They say there cannot be peace talks without Russia at the table. Slovak prime minister Robert Fico did not attend as he is recovering from an assassination attempt. His ally, Peter Pellegrini, was recently sworn in as Slovakia’s new president.

U.S. vice president Kamala Harris announced another $500 million in energy assistance to Ukraine whose power grid needs repair after Russian bombardment.

Europe remains split over using Russia’s $230 billion in seized assets to fund a $50 billion loan to Ukraine. The European Central Bank has been concerned at the reputational risk of using Russia's money. Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni said Europe would not take part.

Several countries refused to sign the final declaration, including Saudi Arabia, India, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico and the UAE.

Did the Swiss summit reduce the risk of a wider war? Not really.

A growing number of countries are letting Ukraine use their weapons to strike deep into Russia. These missiles use Western guidance systems operated by U.S., British, French and German military.

Rumours of war

War is not only a risk in Ukraine. Last week the G7 leaders discussed Africa — without any Africans present. The G7 said it is the continent it “cannot afford to ignore.”

See Plague, War, Famine... Africa Next - As war in Ukraine runs its course, the chaos makers may be shifting their focus (May 31, 2022)

The former Chief of Staff of the French armies, General François Lecointre, has said he expects a military recolonization of Africa by France and Europe in the next 10 years.

NATO is expanding from a north Atlantic treaty organisation into a global military force. Colombia is the first country in Latin America to join NATO as a partner. The U.S. is planing to train Mexican and Costa Rican troops, with a special focus on protecting Panama Canal

Looked at this way, wars and future wars cannot be separated from competition for resources. Or from the globalist transformation plan, Agenda 21, with the next milestone at 2030.

SMART Cities require minerals and land. That's why they are clearing farmers off their land, rewilding the countryside, even reintroducing wolves. Reducing nitrogen and water use, limits meat production. Humans are seeing lower fertility and population.

Artificial Intelligence, on the other hand, requires a huge amount of energy, which means there is less for the people — or fewer people.

Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)

NATO last week revealed multiple “land corridors” to rush U.S. troops to Europe. This centred on the Dutch port of Rotterdam.

This is where the globalists want to build the TriState City, a German-Flemish-Dutch mega city into which they crowd the whatever population remains. It is no accident that they are clearing Dutch farmers off the land.

See Dutch Farmers Need Us: If They Fall, We're Next - The Hague is infiltrated; shadowy networks drive 'nitrogen' farrago (Nov 12, 2022)

Without saying they’d like Russia to flatten it so they can Build Back Better, you must acknowledge that resource wars cannot be separated from the globalist re-shaping of trade routes and corridors.

Energy starved

Consider energy. You may think Europe should reduce its reliance on Russian Gas. But how did it happen.

Not by a gradual transition to renewables; nor by a flotilla of tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) — rather by a kinetic exit from the Russian gas market.

The destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline casts left the German economy reeling. In a flash, Europe put a match to Russian gas.

See Eurasia note #63: Europe Reels From Germany’s Impending Decline (Oct 29, 2022)

What replaces it? Well there are the Levant gas fields, some of which belong to Gaza. What timing!

See my article from two years ago, Europe, Gas And The Endgame, about the attempt to Russia's East-West gas pipelines — with new onces running from South-North, from the Mediterranean.

See Moneycircus, Insight – Europe, Gas And The Endgame (Sep 30, 2022).

See Europe's Parallel Reality: C02 And Degrowth - Turning nature into currency is a plan to resurrect the imperial heyday (May 09, 2024)

Self sacrifice

While Europe is contracting, China is expanding. It’s almost as if there is coordination between China and those interests that have the power to make Europe submit.

Back to Rotterdam. This port is also part of China's Belt and Road Initiative linking by rail to Shanghai. The German cabinet has also agreed the partial sale of Hamburg port to China's state-owned Cosco.

This is what makes China a perennial topic in military circles.

Elbridge Colby, the grandson of CIA director William Colby, and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under president Donald Trump, has argued that the “U.S. must leave Ukraine to Europe and prepare for conflict with China.” [1]

What path will escalation take?