A compelling (and damning) interpretation of the EU response to Orban, and a quite excellent piece of writing too.
What is it that convinces EU politicians to support a war when it is clear that the US strategy is to impoverish Europe by making them dependent on US energy, pick up the tab for the war, and eliminate them as economic competitors? It can only be money. This is our democratic deficit
Bizarre, but also clarifying, to see these reactions to what really is the only sane thing to do, talking and engaging the other side. It shows, once again, who is really in the way of peace.
I watched a long interview with Orban about his peace talks. I've heard all kinds of exclamations and read endless oped about Orban being a demon and a dictator, etc. Yet here was a man who seemed intelligent, reasonable, and sane. I'd be grateful if our own "leaders" possessed a shred of Orban's evident humanity. Layers of American indoctrination are peeling off these last few years. It's painful and frightening, but...things are starting to make a lot more sense, now, and that is a solid comfort.
Ukraine could have maintained a beneficial neutrality between the EU and Russia, perhaps leaning more to the East ( tricky task for sure but the path was there early in the war), because it borders a great power and has millions of Russian speakers. It wouldn't have been an easy road as the US would have continued to attempt to subvert that in every dirty way possible, but compared to the disastrous present, it could surely have been better - definitely less bloody-for both the Ukrainian and Russian people.
A compelling (and damning) interpretation of the EU response to Orban, and a quite excellent piece of writing too.
What is it that convinces EU politicians to support a war when it is clear that the US strategy is to impoverish Europe by making them dependent on US energy, pick up the tab for the war, and eliminate them as economic competitors? It can only be money. This is our democratic deficit
Bizarre, but also clarifying, to see these reactions to what really is the only sane thing to do, talking and engaging the other side. It shows, once again, who is really in the way of peace.
I watched a long interview with Orban about his peace talks. I've heard all kinds of exclamations and read endless oped about Orban being a demon and a dictator, etc. Yet here was a man who seemed intelligent, reasonable, and sane. I'd be grateful if our own "leaders" possessed a shred of Orban's evident humanity. Layers of American indoctrination are peeling off these last few years. It's painful and frightening, but...things are starting to make a lot more sense, now, and that is a solid comfort.
Ukraine could have maintained a beneficial neutrality between the EU and Russia, perhaps leaning more to the East ( tricky task for sure but the path was there early in the war), because it borders a great power and has millions of Russian speakers. It wouldn't have been an easy road as the US would have continued to attempt to subvert that in every dirty way possible, but compared to the disastrous present, it could surely have been better - definitely less bloody-for both the Ukrainian and Russian people.