“If, as I believe, the United States is defeated, NATO will disintegrate and Europe will be left free.” - Emmanuel Todd in an interview with Corriere di Bologna
I don’t think NATO will disintegrate if Russia wins, although it will be weakened and has already shown itself to be weak/ineffective, a paper tiger. EU has already made plans for an EU army with little interest at its inception, although now I think more countries will be for it.
Emmanuel Todd thinks Russia has maximalist goals in Ukraine, I disagree with him there too, although eventual liberation of Odessa might be in the cards. If they cut off Ukraine from the Black Sea completely, that will just be grounds for another war once Ukraine recovers.
An “EU army” would just be a less funded NATO. European nations are too entrenched in imperialist racism to do anything else than what they are doing right now. Without all the modern-day colonies they refuse to return, they would collapse into conditions like they inflicted on post-Soviet society. Therefore euros need a vast and oppressive military funded on stolen wealth to occupy the lands they suck the blood from. Euros know this, which is why they all look away from their vulgar exploitation of Africa.
i dunno if europe can come out from under american vassalage, no matter how the war in ukraine ends.
europe is in the unprecedented (for them) situation where in order to look to its economic prosperity, it must dial back its racims. i dont think it’s capable of that.
European power and wealth is built on racism. It can’t unhook from that without abandoning capitalism. God knows how bad things have to get before Europeans do something about that.
Fair warning: this source has shown some reactionary tendencies, particularly of transphobic variety
As far as I remember, it was one article from years ago where he quotes someone else. You’re making it sound like MoA is a rabid anti-LGBT blog when in fact in the last few years I’ve been following it (since the start of the Ukraine war) it has only been anti-NATO, anti-US, pro-Russia, and now since the flare up in Lebanon/Gaza/Palestine it has only been anti-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-Hezbollah. I have yet to see something transphobic or about LGBT issues at all, it only covers the conflict in Ukraine and Palestine, sometimes commenting on US internal politics (always with distaste for both Trump and Kamala) and German/EU politics.
The blog is a great source to send people who might otherwise be turned off by red stars and hammers and sickles, who you want to inform about Ukraine or Palestine. There is just so few good sources on them that dismissing one like this based on hear-say is counter-productive.
I’m not dismissing it, overall it’s an okay source imo. But I remember them posting something akin to “Transgender nonsense” - and it was an incoherent mess of words. Yes, it was a long time ago, still, I thought some people might feel uneasy.
Also - in this exact post they linked “Transgender - The Inability To Distinguish Facts From Wishes”. A bit sus, I suppose
they linked “Transgender - The Inability To Distinguish Facts From Wishes”. A bit sus, I suppose
Yeah, in the article he’s talking about, quoting, and agreeing with Matt Taibbi. It’s not good. I post the blog posts that inform on Ukraine, Palestine and the crises in US/EU/NATO because I think they often contain lots of well-sourced information.
LeniX wrote a pretty restrained and gently warning, and OP replies with paragraphs.
You’re making it sound like MoA is a rabid anti-LGBT blog
No they didn’t. Transphobia is worth being called out.
It is and I didn’t disagree with the assessment.
