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In a daring diplomatic move, Britain has set up a military alliance to counter Russian expansionism and adventurism.
The new alliance—dubbed "the Trilateral"—involves increased military, financial, and diplomatic support for Poland and the Ukraine, to enable them to better stand up to bullying from the regime of Vladimir Putin.
In a speech delivered on Friday, 21st January, to the Lowy Institute in Australia, UK Foreign Minister Liz Truss outlined the main points of the new set up, which will supplement and enhance existing arrangements with NATO:
This week, the United Kingdom announced a new package of training, support and defensive weapons for Ukraine to boost their defensive capabilities. And we’re working with our partners on high impact measures targeting the Russian financial sector, and individuals.
We’re also strengthening our bilateral partnership following high-level talks in London in December – and we’re fostering new trilateral ties with Poland and Ukraine.
We’re also pushing for alternatives in energy supply, so that nations are less reliant on Russia for their gas.
In fact, as someone who has completely distorted the political process in his own favour, Putin requires much higher poll ratings than Western leaders just to survive. Also, if he were to lose his power, it is almost certain that he would be on criminal charges for corruption and probably for murder.
Typically, when he slumps in the polls or his support starts to noticeably hollow out, he tries to pull himself back up by posing as the great nationalist leader—despite normally jailing Russian nationalists. This sometimes involves picking fights with his much smaller and weaker neighbours. In recent months he has been spoiling for a fight with someone to help restore his falling ratings.
Due to the weakness of other major European powers, like France and Germany, Putin has felt strong enough to start throwing his weight around again.
But what we are really dealing with here is a long-running structural geopolitical problem.
Since WWII the geopolitical balance of Europe has been skewed by Germany's moral and therefore geopolitical weakness. As the Continent's economic giant, it should be doing a lot more to maintain a stable balance of power, but it won't or it can't. Britain's recent move is clearly an attempt to compensate for this German deficiency by creating a direct vector of support from Britain straight into the heart of Eastern Europe, effectively and literally by-passing Germany:
Germany's geopolitical weakness comes from its inability to take on a strongman role without evoking the ghosts of Naziism, as well as from its attempt to "greenwash" itself through espousing extreme ecological politics. These two phenomena are connected, as greenwashing is Germany's preferred path of moral redemption.
The result of this has been domestic denuclearization and decarbonization, which, of course, has deepened its dependency on Russian gas. For these reasons, Germany is practically useless for shoring up Poland or the Ukraine, which is why Britain has bravely stepped into this role.
This policy is all part of a larger picture, in which the US, China, Japan, and Australia also feature, as Truss indicated in her speech:
Russia and China are working together more and more, as they strive to set the standards in technologies like artificial intelligence, assert their dominance over the Western Pacific through joint military exercises and in space through closer ties. The International Institute for Strategic Studies argues we are now seeing the “strongest, closest and best relationship” the 2 countries have had for 70 years.
And we are seeing an alignment of authoritarian regimes across the world. It is no surprise that regimes like Belarus, North Korea or Myanmar find their closest allies in Moscow and Beijing.
They don’t look to these nations as partners but as puppets. Moscow wants them to promote their propaganda and destabilise free democracies on their doorstep. At the same time, Beijing has forged a so-called “iron brotherhood” with Belarus. China is the biggest buyer of Iranian oil and Pyongyang’s largest trading partner.
China and Russia have spotted an ideological vacuum and they’re rushing to fill it. They are emboldened in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War.
What Truss failed to mention here or anywhere else is that continued German weakness—caused by the West's over-reliance on the Holocaust guilt narrative in order to 'service' its multiculturalism—has created a power vacuum that Britain has been forced to step into.
Britain is literally filling Germany's boots in Eastern Europe because Germany is too cucked by the West's increasingly toxic "anti-racism" agenda and its dependency on mass immigration. This could lead to war.
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No, it's the behaviour of cowardly nations like Britain that could lead to war in Eastern Europe. Britain is so desperate to be seen as a Great Power and invited to all the summits that it is the most enthusiastic cheerleader for US foreign policy, and is doing its utmost to poison the situation on the Ukraine/Russia frontier. We don't need to be a great power. We just need to control our own destiny. Liz Truss should be telling the US to stop mouthing off on Northern Ireland, or we won't stay in NATO, not doing the US' dirty work for it, for no payoff whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteBritain is at least as big a power as Russia. Not saying much as Russia could very well fall apart in the next 10 to 20 years when the Putin mafia kleptocracy comes to its natural end. Britain's relationship with America, while far from perfect, is not nearly as toxic as Russia's relationship with China.
DeleteInteresting that you don't see Putin as the aggressor even though he is occupying 5 different territories beyond Russia's borders and is running puppet governments in several more.
You are forgetting Germany's demographic crisis. Even if they wanted to they simply don't have a young enough population to actually carry out a military offensive. Britain's army has a large reliance on 'new citizens' that Germany can't replicate for various reasons. I remember watching a 'homecoming' march during the Iraq war and about half the soldiers looked like recently arrived middle easterners - and this was a Scottish regiment.
ReplyDeleteGay Pride uber alles!
ReplyDeleteYes, looking to Britain for help worked out so well for Poland last time...
ReplyDeleteWell, it certainly didn't work out well for Hitler and Germany.
DeleteI don't feel threatened by Putin's regime. I feel threatened by our governments that aim at turning homogenous nations into multi-ethnic hell-holes.
ReplyDelete"I feel threatened by our governments that aim at turning homogenous nations into multi-ethnic hell-holes."
DeleteI think you'll find that British women have overwhelmingly voted with their ovaries for what you describe.
ah yes, colin liddell, once again showing his neo-con colors, LMAO
ReplyDeleteLike most weak-minded and easily manipulated people, you're too micro focused on stale dividing lines in US politics and petty rah-rah tribalism. In this article I simply describe why Britain is sticking its arse into Eastern Europe. Knowledge does not imply approval.
DeleteGermany is "passive" because we actually k n o w what it is like fighting the Russians.
DeleteWe already sacrifized almost 4 million of our best in what was basically a conflict over the control of Ukraine (and neighbouring Caucasus oil regions) and we happily pass the lantern to someone else this time.
So let the great aspiring world power Little Britain meddle a bit with the Russians for a change. Though I have the feeling they will not send a single Tommy soldier to get his ass spanked in Ukraine.