Res je boleče opazovati to stupidnost vladajoče evropske politične elite, ki se je tako  zelo ujela v prejšnjo verzijo ameriške ideološke narative, da iz tistega filma ne zmore izstopiti. Kot v Kusturičinem legendarnem Undergroundu.

Hej Macron et consortes, vojne je konec, pridite ven iz podzemlja!

Macron reaching again new depths of strategic stupidity, telling Trump that “you can’t be weak in front of Putin, it’s not in your interests. Otherwise how can you then be credible against China if you’re weak against Putin.”

Basically the same theme as a few days ago when he told Trump on CNN that “your first problem is China, you should focus on the first problem.”

Why is this so stupid? Because it shows that Macron hasn’t understood that the world has changed, he’s still in that old paradigm of a Cold War style ideological confrontation between the West and a China-Russia bloc.

Which is stunning after what happened these past few days: what more proof does he need to understand that there is NO Western ideological bloc, that we’re in a multipolar world now? And that in the current context the last thing he should do is antagonize China, since it’s pretty much the only major player with whom Europe could collaborate to have leverage against the United States.

As Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani recently wrote in a brilliant Foreign Policy article (https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/18/europe-eu-nato-us-russia-ukraine/), fundamentally the only reason for the downturn in EU-China relations is because “the Europeans foolishly believed that a slavish loyalty to American geopolitical priorities would lead to rich geopolitical dividends for them.” Why remain faithful to these American geopolitical priorities when doing so has led Europeans to be “kicked in the face.”? It makes just about zero sense.

Vir: Arnaud Bertrand via X