Why Europe Doesn't Want Peace

It forgets that it drew its civilisation from the East

• Why this headlong rush to war, refusing to discuss coexistence?

• Europe confronts the withdrawal of the U.S. military umbrella

• The unipolar vs multipolar debate ignores our shared civilisation

• Shuttering energy, industry and farms, Europe seems locked in negation

• It forgets that war is the misdirection of business and commerce

• Our trading relationships are 2,000 years old - the myth of new is a delusion

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Mar 1, 2025

Europe's would-be aristocratic leaders are still fighting the last war.

America's politicians are aware that the decline of legacy industries has created demand for new resources and trade relationships; what we mean by multipolar.

Washington is like a tanker that turns slowly. Its military institutions still sabotage rivals and their trade, peel off territories to block corridors and pipelines, and clear the way for new ones as in Syria; and even develop bioweapons and drone warfare while accusing others of doing the same.

This dynamic is not new, but centuries old: business determines war, not the other way around.

Europeans have been played, blowing up their energy sources, demolishing industry. Either they are stupid or bought.

Increasingly it seems the U.S. and China envisage a world in which they will compete in commerce and technology, while sourcing minerals from Russia and Africa.

Big agriculture will clear the small farmers from Europe as they have done in Latin America. They no longer see a need for an industrial Europe.

The entire discussion of unipolar/multipolar is based on a misconception about where technological advance has come from — and thus where it leads.

What does this tell us about the Ukraine war and the reluctance of Europeans to seek peace?

Self-deception

The mainstream is waking up to something we wonks and niche reporters have been saying for ages.

Europe's politicians are still barely aware. This is why the leadership of the European Commission in Brussels, and the capitals of Paris, Berlin and London are fighting the last war. You can see from their statements.

European war hawks flutter in their cages. EU foreign policy commissioner Kaja Kallas seemed almost to celebrate the Trump-Zelenskiy confrontation: “The free world needs a new leader.”

European politicians will gather in London on March 2 for another pow-wow, after Paris last week. The European Union will meet on March 6.

The European message is that Russia must return Ukrainian land. It says nothing about returning the language and religious identity of ethnic Russian inhabitants (whom Kyiv shelled for eight years before Moscow invaded in 2022).

It is above all the insistence, bordering on a death wish, that Russia is focused on — and if not, it must be engineered into — the invasion of the whole of Europe.

Because like those strange individuals who wish to be cannibalised, it is only the desire of another for their flesh that gives meaning to their existence.

That is the only way European leaders satisfy their desire for annihilation.

Cynical, moi?

The world order established in 1945 has collapsed. In its place are spheres of influence, not only geographical but also commercial and cultural.

This is not a competition between the dollar and BRICS, or unipolar versus multipolar free-for-all.

It is better described as a tripartite concept that draws from corporativism in which key interest groups are represented.

See War & Peace - Ukraine Talks; Dresden's Anniversary - Eurasia note #106 - On the normalisation of brutality (Feb 13, 2025)

The war in Ukraine did not cause the collapse of the post-WW2 order. It is a symptom not the cause.

The long dreamed of European federation has failed. All the Commission can do is prolong its life by reaching for another country to become its latest member state.

Vampiric syndicate

Its ally is NATO — but NATO is also out of time. It has no reason to exist in the present day, so it must provoke Russia to justify its own existence.

European politicians did not realise the extent to which they were manipulated by Britain and the U.S. which had cultivated ethno-nationalists in Ukraine since 1945, nor the use to which they'd be put.

Only now are European politicians noticing that America's post-war security guarantee has weakened. Suddenly they are talking about shouldering Europe's defence without Uncle Sam for the fist time in eight decades.