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United States proposed a solution for Ukraine. Europe is horrified
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Petr Akopov

[RIA] If Europe does not want to be a "follower of America", then the United States needs to focus on China, and let the Old World deal with Ukraine itself. This is not yet an ultimatum, but an assumption made by Senator Marco Rubio (from the opposition - Republican - party, but with a good chance of becoming the ruling next year)
(interesting assumption by the Russians)
in response to statements by French President Emmanuel Macron, made by him in an interview with Les Echos. Rubio reproached the allies for ingratitude:

"We are heavily involved in Ukraine. We are spending a lot of money on a European war. And I supported this because I think it is the national interest of the United States to be allies of our allies. But if in fact Macron speaks on behalf of all of Europe and their position is now is that they are not going to choose sides between the US and China over Taiwan maybe we shouldn't choose sides either maybe we should say we will focus on Taiwan and the threats posed by China and you guys get on with it Ukraine and Europe."

What caused the ire of a popular Republican senator? The interview of the President of France, which he gave to Les Echos during his return home from China. Macron said that he had already "won the ideological battle for the strategic autonomy of Europe:" five years ago, when he first spoke about this, no one took it seriously, but now everyone is discussing it.

According to him, it is necessary to build up the power of the European military-industrial complex, reduce dependence on the "extraterritoriality of the American dollar" and, in general, resist the pressure due to which Europe "turns out to be embroiled in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy":

"The paradox is that, panic-stricken, we consider ourselves simply followers of America . Europeans should answer the question - is it in our interests to force the topic of Taiwan? No. It would be worse to think that we Europeans should take an example from the American agenda of the day, adjust to the American rhythm and China's overreaction. Why should we go at the pace chosen by others? We need to wake up?"

It is clear that Beijing is happy to hear such reasoning - after all, China is pushing the Europeans exactly to this, it is precisely independence and concern for their own, European, interests that it expects from them. If Macron spoke to Xi in this spirit, then the President of the People's Republic of China liked it. But this does not mean that the Chinese leadership will increase the stakes on the separation (or rather, relative autonomy) of Europe from the United States, because even if we take Macron’s words at face value, Beijing has plenty of reason to doubt Europe’s ability to defend European interests and distance itself from the United States.

At least in the Taiwan issue, which in reality is the most convenient way for the Americans to influence European-Chinese relations. Yes, France and Germany are behaving extremely carefully with regard to the Taiwan problem, but in the same EU , the Anglo-Saxons are already rocking the Taiwan theme through Lithuania and the Czech Republic.

Yes, and all-European structures - from the European Parliament to the European Commission , headed by Ursula von der Leyen - are much more susceptible to the "Taiwanese provocation." That is, Beijing has little hope for European willpower, no matter how hard Macron tries to convince everyone of a serious attitude.

But at the same time, the resentment of American politicians at European ingratitude is very indicative - they perceive even attempts to evade the transfer of "Atlantic solidarity" to the Pacific front very nervously. Meanwhile, you need to understand that Marco Rubio is much closer to Trump than to Biden, that is, he more reflects the mood of that part of the American elite that views the United States as a God-chosen superpower, and not as a supporting structure for building a global world super empire.

For conditional American nationalists (such as Rubio), European allies are interesting as assistants in the upcoming "battle of the century" with China, as a result of which the United States must maintain world leadership. And for the interventionist globalists, all powers are just building blocks in the construction of a single world order, and Europe is no different from America here. Therefore, for them, the war in Ukraine (which can play off Europe and Russia ) is no less important than the containment of China in the Indo-Pacific region.

Now Rubio's threat is absolutely unrealizable - the only chance for its implementation is not just Trump's return to the White House, but also getting him real levers of power, that is, his victory over the "deep state". There are few prerequisites for this - although here we will talk about a real revolution, and therefore it is difficult to predict it.

And while globalists rule in the United States, there can be no transfer of responsibility for Ukraine to Europe - simply because the Anglo-Saxons are well aware that the Europeans, left to their own devices, will not be interested in continuing the Ukrainian conflict and will immediately try to somehow negotiate with Moscow. Which, to put it mildly, is not at all profitable for Washington.

Posted by: badanov 2023-04-12
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