” All that remains of the West is the ever more artificial, even insane attempt to arrest the wheel of history … In this senile Europe, the nations, states, and ruling classes … keep their faith in empty formulae of freedom and progress”.
Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West
European head Olaf Scholtz tried to negotiate a surprise deal with the Trump presidency in order to avoid US sanctions on the Nord Stream-2 oil pipeline, according to the German daily Handelsblatt in June of this year.
Two years later, in early February 2022, a few weeks before the pandemic of the Ukraine conflict, Scholtz, as German Chancellor, visited the White House for discussions with US President Joe Biden on the growing crisis.
Biden was asked about his opinion of Nord Stream, the network system that transports Russian oil to Europe, during a live press conference following their discussion. There will no longer get Nord Stream 2 if Russia invades Ukraine, the US senator said in a response. We’ll put an end to it.
Scholtz, standing next to the US leader, was asked for a reply. The German head reaffirmed that the US and Germany shared a similar opinion of Ukraine. Without mentioning Nord Stream, he tacitly endorsed its loss.
But as he spoke, the German president seemed nervous. Did he take into account how history may interpret his decision to allow the judicial destruction of a significant component of German civil society? And how it would establish new global behaviour standards?
Surrounding Russia
The West appears to have a bipolar outlook on Russia from a distance. Russia and Europe forged stronger economic ties after the USSR’s decline, culminating in the first Nord Stream deal signed in 2005 between then-German president Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Nord Stream was opposed by the US authorities allegedly because it would make Germany overly dependent on Russian energy. Merkel certainly did not share America’s issues.
Donald Trump, the leader of the US, did not deny the restrictions against businesses involved in Nord Stream. For vague reasons, Nord Stream had become a part of Trump’s” Make America Great” plan.
The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act ( CAATSA ), a highly pro-active piece of legislation signed by the then-president, made it possible for the US to impose sanctions on any business that collaborated with German and Russian companies on Nord Stream in order to “protect the energy security of US allies.”
With friends like this, who needs opponents or, as Henry Kissinger apparently said in a rare moment of honesty:” It may be dangerous to become America’s army, but to be America’s companion is fatal”.
Russia’s loss to remake itself in its own liberal image led to the Ukraine conflict. After the collapse of the USSR, the US had an alliance in Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev’s leader.
Yeltsin consulted American economists to convert Russia to a capitalist economy. They advised that simply shock therapy could help Russia transition to a political market economy.
The resulting “market changes” led to the plundering of Russian assets by wealthy businesspeople who created a group of oligarchs who made trillions.
While Russian elderly were selling their healthcare to buy food in Moscow, they quickly moved their wealth and purchased sports clubs in England and prize real estate on the French Riviera.
The West stepped up its support for NATO enlargement when patriotic Putin took over from the globalist Lenin.
Strategic gamble flopped
Whether under Gorbachev, Yeltsin or Putin, the US always stopped its Cold War scheme of undermining Russia. President Jimmy Carter provided aid to the Afghan Mujahedeen, the prelude to the Taliban, and every succeeding US senator, Democrat and Republican, continued subtle and overt meddling in places on Russia’s southern boundary.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s national security advisor, was the philosophical architect of the Russia-containing technique. Ukraine plays a key role in the so-called Brzezinski Doctrine, which identifies it as the key to preventing Russian-European financial connectivity. However today, the US international establishment is riddled with Brzezinski proteges.
With Ukraine, the West made a big strategic imagine that failed. The terrible sanctions against Russia may have caused a collapse in the Russian economy, leading to a popular revolt and replacing Putin with a pro-Western leader. It ought to have been the catalyst for all government adjustments.
Given that Russia is the richest nation in the world in terms of healthy money, having a crony at the Kremlin would have been a benefit for Wall Street. Russia offers a significant investment option for the next 100 times as natural solutions become more important.
Close activity
After the spying assault on Nord Stream in 2022, European governments floated several “leads” for identifying the offenders. Although they provided no evidence, the recommendations did a favor by muddying the waterways and offered an alternative to Biden’s bold statement regarding Nord Stream.
Germany, Denmark, and Sweden conducted false intelligence into the Nord Stream damage and remained silent about their findings while the West blocked a Russian demand for an independent UN analysis.  ,
The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ) reported on fresh Nord Stream leads in early August, suggesting that Ukrainian workers carried out the attack with the help of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to the WSJ’s tale, the West is preparing the government to throw Zelensky under the vehicle, paving the way for his successor to negotiate serenity with Russia. In order to strengthen Ukraine’s army, Zelensky admitted that earlier Minsk agreements with Russia were meant to get time, which invalidated him as a good-faith dealing companion.
Aside from Ukraine itself, the West is the battle’s large fool. They have encouraged and facilitated Ukraine’s fight against a nuclear and industrial-military power it had no chance of defeating because they are a generation of ideologues and Atlanticists who believe philosophy overshadows financial, defense, and historical common feeling.
For Atlanticists, philosophy yet trumps morality and ethics.