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US reversed European attempts to achieve strategic autonomy.
Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst
Russia’s reorientation towards eastern markets will be a disaster for the European Union as it would become completely dependent on the United States. After Russia was forced to change its economic model and policies as trade relations with the EU are fractured, Brussels will essentially find itself in a situation where it is entirely dependent on the US, a situation that French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to avoid but he himself set into motion by quickly adopting Washington’s position on Ukraine when Russian troops entered the country on February 24.
Although in the West we like to allude and believe that Russia is isolated and there is a global consensus against President Vladimir Putin, China and rising powers like India, Indonesia and Brazil are not engaged in such economic hostilities. In such a scenario, the EU is no longer taken seriously on the international stage as all its rhetoric of achieving strategic autonomy from Washington was nothing but that – rhetoric.
The West has stepped up sanctions pressure on Moscow, with the banking sector and the supply chain of high-tech products being the main targets. Calls to reduce European dependence on Russian energy sources have also grown louder. These are difficult issues for the US and EU to contend with as they have caused fuel and food prices to rise sharply, thus further impoverishing the average citizen.
At a time when European citizens are economically suffering, the US Military Industrial Complex (MIC) has been greatly enriched by the conflict in Ukraine. Undoubtedly, the crisis in Ukraine is a positive for Washington as its MIC is not only enriched, but has forced a capitulation of Europe’s attempts to achieve greater independence.
After Russia began its special campaign in Ukraine, the share prices of the largest US military companies immediately rose sharply. In early 2022, the stock growth indexes of some companies had fluctuated to around zero. But while the US MIC benefits, Europe is facing an energy crisis.
Underground storage facilities in Europe had switched to priority mode of refilling early this year when minimum reserves were seasonally achieved (25.51% of nominal operating volume). This was interrupted from March 31 to April 5 due to a cold snap.
As of April 10, reserves in EU underground storage facilities have increased to 26.84% and as of April 13 it was 27.13%. According to retrospective data, in the first three weeks since the start of the pumping phase, reserves increased from 1.6% to 5.3%. By 2022, this value was 1.53%, demonstrating that there are major problems with the pumping of gas.
At the same time, the main problem has almost nothing to do with the fact that there is not enough Russian gas, and rather the main obstacle is the high cost of green fuel. Storage operators are clearly in no hurry to hoard gas at the current high price ($1,100-1,300/thousand cubic meters) as they continue to expect prices to fall seasonally.
Europe pulled 51 billion cubic meters of gas from underground storage during the winter, or 107.8 percent of the volume pumped in the summer, ending the drawdown season on March 19 at one of the lowest levels in terms of reserves in years — only 25.2 billion cubic meters of gas was in operation. To replenish the underground storage facilities next winter, it is necessary to pump at least 63 billion cubic meters. Gazprom considers this an ambitious task since in recent years such volumes have not been pumped and are not enough to ensure energy security in cold weather.
Figures from mid-April found that the EU has paid 29 billion euros to Russia for energy since the war began, thus emphasising the difficult for Europe to divorce itself from Russian energy. None-the-less, this has not stopped the EU from making other provocative measures, like targeting the country’s financial system and closing its airspace.
In effect, over the course of the war in Ukraine, Europe has reversed its advancements made to achieve strategic autonomy from Washington. Under the illusion that Ukraine is a liberal bastion struggling against an authoritarian Russia, the EU has followed the US in backing the country whilst ignoring its illiberal treatment of minorities and elevation of neo-Nazi organisations like the Azov Battalion into state structures. In this way, as Russia’s economy turns to the east when Europe’s economy and civilians suffer, the US is the biggest winner as it not only managed to subjugate the Europeans again, but achieved a separation between Europe and Moscow.
Big winner – USA
Mild winner – China
Moderate loser – EU
Big loser – Russia
Colossal loser – Ukraine
Big loser – Jacob Wohl
Why dont You comment his list. I makes sense to split up manage and understand better.
Computers are made like that.
big winner – norwegian sardine industry
mild winner – poop that accumulates on skyscraper ledges
moderate loser – Duke and Dutchess of Sussex
big loser – cameroon
colossal loser – CNN
Don Scrotus – Big looser
His mother was a Stand up comedian, when she lost him.
Your mother gorilla lost you when she was shitting. Still can’t find you in her toilet.
fk you btch
I only fu ck your dumb family and you bitch can watch from your toilet.
Thats not me Jens Holm Denmark.
And your mother licks the shit crumbs from my ass hairs, as she is doing right now. She is very proud that you learned from her how to do this. I will forgo wiping tomorrow so as to give you an extra treat when next we meet.
I have to agree with you troll here. This war is all WashingtonDC dreams come true, for years every russophobe and hater only wished for this scenario. Even if the war ends tomorrow damage done to Russia diplomatic reputation, economy, and even military is massive. And the war won’t end tomorrow…
Military can be rebuilt but Europe will never again import much from Russia in our lifetime. India, Brazil, can’t really replace Russian trade with EU, even if they manage not to succumb to the US pressure. Russia is now entirely dependent on China economically. Diplomatically it’s isolated like in 1920s or during the Crimean war. Western media already turn Russia into a pariah, and they wont stop inventing new ‘massacres’ and imaginary crimes. I won’t even start about military campaign aspects, it is not as disastrous as western media try to portray it, but again is far from perfect military operation…
the worst of all: what is the exist strategy? There will be no diplomatic solution, Kiev’s regime will sacrifice every last Ukrainian, and Washington has no intention to end it any time soon.
Sadly, you are correct
Russia did recover from the Crimean war tho. This situation reminds me of that war. Brits managed to lure mighty tsar Nicholas into a stupid war using Turks; they used them and French to fight and die, while Brits took all credit. Entire Europe was turned against Russia. Eventually Nicholas died and the new tsar accepted humiliating peace. But Russia recovered.
Russia always manage to recover from the abys, even much worse than this one.
Thats a very good Russian perspective.
Imaginary crimes?
Bucha and Kramatorsk. Real crimes but committed by Ukro-terrorists
Sure those people killed themself to support ukraine. The real regulars even digged themself in. They also tortured themself.
None in the whole believe in the Russian versions. Why should the Ukras bombarde a very vital railroad hub for supply. Why kill own citicens.
Why not? They’re only Ukies.
Russia will be the big winner and the USA will be the big loser because the USA is destroying the petro dollar with its arrogance, sanctions, wars, and hypocrisy.
Biggest loser ist Europe. Especially Germany.
If Germany is a looser than the rest of the EU are winners. Alway works like that – strong Germany always collaborates with Russia
Can’t you loser idiots learn to spell ?
A loser is a person who’s a failure. If something is loosened, it becomes looser.
Aloha NONfofo.
This is about what going on in the world. So this site is not 4U.
And if You dont like Your country, You can start Your own too.
Its not like that. A big corner of Germany as well as Holland, Belgium and a corner of France is highly dependend.
We are united tryig to win and with USA as well.
If needed we all will help the rest. That an important part of EU.
Colloborate is not the same as friend. Russia need import, produce and export. Since before the Viking age Denmark has exported food to them. That has been very important for us. They have produced and sold us a lot of more advanced stuff.
Even so we have been in war with them even before the viking age.
Its a chosen and calculated risk.
The US has been steering world events since the 1940’s in such a way that the US itself will always benefit from it. The scandalous way it portrayed the Soviet Union after the immense sacrifices Russia and it’s combat allies suffered during world war II, is just the tip of the iceberg.
I would say to Russia, hold on! the US is, and always has been, on the verge of financial collapse. A staggering debt of more than 30 trillion dollars at the moment. That can’t be sustainable.
Russia should strengthen ties with China, Vietnam, Iran and India. and others in South and Central America and Africa.
Start mining Siberia. It will generate immense wealth. Use the money to attract the best and brightest in the world. That’s the only way to defeat the US.
Thats worse then biased.
You also still dont understand the vitals in debt is investments for cost benefits. So debt very much is production capasity, which very much include well educated people to handle and distribute.
Its typical for You kind You only compare with Your own poor and rich. Here You never mention the middle class, whcih for USA is about 165 mio.
Very much You reas is science fiction. Russia hardly has any tools for changes. They create none as well.
“America is our barracks”Winston Churchill.Around tthat ttime . Has been ever since.
The Arctic, too.
Yes, the USA is the biggest winner Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Didn’t the great thinker and strategist Putin anticipate this? No? More luck next time.
No the US is not a winner. Some of the 1% will become even wealthier while the rest just pay more for shit ! That would also require the US to take advantage by supplying Europe oil and LNG. It would be a positive for the US so I would not bet on it with the current cuk administration in DC.To me thats not even close to a win. Now if your retarded and vindictive than you could always say its better than what Russia got? However I will not go there as I am neither a retard nor vindictive russiaphobe.
China will be the big winner. They will get access to all of Russias vast resources at rock bottom prices. Only having to compete with the likes of economic power houses like Cambodia and Bangladesh for Russias resources. This alone will prove the US the biggest loser in a strategic sense. However this depends on the belief that there is a competition with China. There are many in the US who fully support China and are probably happy to make decisions that benefit them over the US. The fact that Russian gas and oil is sent daily through Ukraine without interruption should tell you all you need to know. Ukraine could easily turn this off and stop Russia from its largest revenue source and yet it does not? Russia sends it to Germany and Germany sends weapons to Kill Russians. Russia pays Ukraine transit fees paid millions on the 15th. People think this is some great ideological struggle …. good versus evil…my ass. Its the haves taking from the have not’s as it always has been.
USA is that 1%. The rest is completely irrelevant: cattle that can be replaced with different cattle imported from whatever shithole in the world. That’s what “America” is. Megacorporation. It does not exist to serve 99% of its citizens. It exists to serve that 1%.
Jews in the US and other places. Like it has always been. Not surprisingly, many of the russian billionaires are jews as well.
Educated people do much better. Thats the hole point. This is not about Jews at all.
Its about great parts EasternEuropens has been kept down by religion and rulers. By that You have the iliterate duies, whcih envy the educated ones.
There was an upperclass, a dummy class and the educated Jews. The jews could international trade, make sober contracts and was used even in marrige trade.
So its no surprice the Jews might be overrepresented. Its because normal clever people systematicly are kept down and even insist.
Its not like that where I live. We have had a devellopment line in more and more being able to take advanced jobs, where they are needed or made.
By that we have changed things to the better. Here You represent the highest degree of selfmade illiterate dark dummyhats.
You here ignore the livingstandars in the western economies. Our countries are not as You are told in systems, which not even can handle Our vitals.
I see the vitals in Our House. I see them by the windows too. My health is very well for my age. I have free hospital and soon a very good pension. I can go on cheep vacations like fx camping or renting a house or an appartment.
296,7 mio seemes to be less clever then You.
Thasts very impressing. Even more are.They immigrate to there.
We see those emmigrants naked beggars harly having an umbralla againt sun and snow. Only the hairy ones becomes more then 50. The skinny ones are burried almost as in zipfiles.
Sniff sniff. The Bering Strait still has no escape bridge to the promised land and the Inuits there sont sell swimming wests.
Yes, we as to go in detail inside fx USA. The extra incomming money has to be distributed and not to the rich ones.
It shiuld be used for investments in education and healtcare, so more could reach the middleclass, which is declining and backbone.
Here they needed Sanders but got Biden.
But You also forget that USA for now hardly has any unimployment. So the poor ones at least has low paid jobs.
Thats the vital for Kapitalisme. You are full speed ahead and produce a lot. Next the market says whats usefull or not.
I kind of like China as well. Most of their growth actually makes the cake to share bigger. After so many years of suffering the chinese ceratinly need more then that.
It makes no sense to produse a lot and there are no buyers. So there are needed balances. Some its very much about how we grow and why.
That of course has to be adjusted now and then. Its very difficult to make all to be winners.
I also kind of like big dicks. Most of their growth actually makes the cake to share bigger. And bigger.
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China and a Russia will win together with Brazil India South Africa aka BRICS nations and their MINT, aka Mexico Indonesia Nigeria and Turkey. The fact that Putin is now pressuring Bennett to return the Alexander nevsky square or plaza in Israel, the one Tsar Alexander bought and paid for in 1859, shows he is in control really of the whole situation. Or believes he is anyway. England will be the biggest winner by acting as the least involved, the smallest player, the least powerful And setting traps.
The whole thing is a farce. Russia is still sending gas to the EU? WTF? A few days ago when it was made known the payments were “delayed” what happened? The countries who were late were pretty clear they have no intention of paying and yet gas flows.
At no point has the supply of LNG or oil been attacked in this conflict? How is that possible? Ukraine is home to the pipe lines that feed Europe more than half of Russias exports transit Ukraine. To this very day Russia sends them payments for Transit fees….. How is it that it has not been attacked? How is it that it keeps being sent to Europe knowing they have not paid and do not intend to? What is the horse shit behind this. All these stories of the petro dollar demise and the bs behind polarity my ass. As per norms the rich elite rather they be in Russia or Europe or New York or Tel Aviv they are still cashing in daily. While the everyday people are getting fucked over.
Big winners are the ass holes of the world ! Those that work for a living are once again the big losers.
Well said.
The answer, I have come to believe, of these problems can be found in the Islam. Christians are morons, led by Jews. I’ve studied history for many years. Christians have always been the biggest morons of them all.
Christians never liked Jews. They persecuted Jews more than Muslims from the early days. Christians and Jews were killing each other in Alexandria even during Roman times. Only some protestant sects in UK/US obey and worship Jews.
Many has erased the importance of Alexandria from their history books. Thye should regaun its history and its importance.
If Russia empowers ruble and sells its own products gas and oil in its own Ruble currency then Russia is obviously a winner.
No.
So you admit that putin is working on behalf of the USA and against the best interest of the Russian people
Good.
You write as You are in cyperspace or maybe controls the pedalss in the marslanders.
Thats just another Russian highly biased version.
Tempting to try to line up as fx Jocob Wohl in this.
Ill try too.
USA so far is a winner but not a very big one.
Mild winner is CHINA, but they have big internal problems by Covid, production and distribution
EU only loose a lot in economy. It makes plus to me, we are forced to be more united in Our growth. Paul Antonopoulos and other dont see we are flexible democraties and by that fx will implement new ways faster and better. We can. Russia cant. USA is very delayed and hostile to needed changes.
Collosal looser Ukraine
Russia is Big looser. They have no tools for needed reforms and not even try. Russia by that decline faster and Putin has no replacers. Putin has lost face and even show it by forbidden Facebook.
Countries cant devellop with no internal real debate spread out in all levels. It now just simply is forbidden.
I allow me to add the new countries from Caucasus and east. They are having xtra hard times. Parts of that is selfmade dictatorship. Thats bad. I do hope they will expel those. After that there might be at least some hopes by kapitalisme in own versions.
Pentagon claim that ukraine recived first fighter jets from anonymous country ^^
russobots will cry
in Western and Eastern Europe there’s no nation with a common culture big enough to resist, this was by design. Germany loses however this plays out. American gas was offered them for a higher price, Russia and Germany are on each side of the same coin. the shunning of Russian people mirrors what was done to Germans in the Americas and Africa during and after WW2. it was a distinct culture that had to be broken up, look for the same. thugs will come after you much as BLM street trash acting as a democrat militia did in the last round of riots, their battle cry. their martyr of the week, some glorified criminal, defund the police, lock down people, violate trust, create a vacuum, make society unmanageable, then make it your own, sow chaos….
But You can replace the problems into something much better then the ib´nfected parts of nationalisme.
You can decide to join EU. You can decide to join Nato. You can make USA as well as Nato and be sensible.
I will remind You, that You as a cook need much more then one ingridiens.
If You take the many German setllers in eastern europe and in russia as well, they created new jobs. No locals knew about mining. No locals knew about making unfertile land into fertile. None knew about systematicly forrest implementation and making the trees not be eaten. None knew about transportation.
So the germans invented but also added the value of the local productions by using and exporting it.
It makes no sense to name the many nationalities into some kind of chaos. Many was in empires such as Russia, Germany, Austriaø-Hungary, the Ottomans and Poles.
Here I will remind You Germany actually was many countries until 1933. I also think You forget Ottoamsn and Russians was very old But they changed. Keep is to include people in progress and devellopments.
Its the same for Brittain. The upperclass ignored most problems. By that many poor died and many others made USA.
“US reversed European attempts to achieve strategic autonomy” and who is to blame for this? That idiot in the Kremlin. All the problems you mentioned even the intention to reduce the influence of the US and the installation of an independent European army are no more because of the war of aggression started against a peaceful sovereign country and the genocide of its people. The stupidity and irrational stuborn anger of an emotional labile ego made this disaster happen.
” a peaceful sovereign country and the genocide of its people” hahaha that shithole country of fUkraine is not sovereign and certainly not peaceful you pathetic piece of shit: for 8 years they’ve been committing the real genocide against its people in Donbass something that you braindead moron full of shit failed to mention.
As so many of the Sovjet lovers You dont understand that 17,8% Russians there should not run the more then 80% by Moskva and its tools.
By that there is no discussion or a debate.
You deny to understand why those 80% are so angry and now says 150% NO WAY.
Reason is erased away all the way to west of berlin. It goes for Caucasus and the Stans too.
No keep is made. They all are taken by force and lied for. If they did not obey it was fear and bajonets. It still is.
You are not even able to understand how the rest of the worlds is doing. If the Russian propganda was true, we have collpased Ourself many decades ago. The dollar also was a dollar, which only people with good eyes and glasses could see.
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I am afraid they are to brainwashed to even understand it.
You write as You are in cyperspace or maybe controls the pedalss in the marslanders.
I agree.
After the USSR crashlanding they opend up but was not able to keep themself open. It was no learner. People in the Neocolonialisme needed to increase their production for wellfre but was drowned in fear for lood´sing power and paranoia.
That proces shoul have been started as a long term proces many years before the collpase. USSR got a chock. It even got many plunderes from the west added to their own making chaos.
By that there would have been a deescalation some years after Stalin. No Marshall help was taken before that as well.
The stupidity and irrational stuborn anger of an emotional labile ego made this disaster happen.
Big loser is the Eu that has become an extension of the USA without any policy input and a currecy that is likely to implode. Second biggest loser is the U.S. which has decided to cordon sanitaire it’s European colony away from Eurasia and future economic, social and cultural development. Ukraine might not turn out to be the biggest loser, but only a total military defeat of the Banderite forces prevalent in the political culture of Ukraine will save it.
The mighty Bears paws and powerful jaws are inflicting some mighty deep wounds on the pack of dogs around it.
In the long run however the biggest loser of all is the USD and the biggest winner is a Rest of the World financial system that isn’t propping up just one country and it’s self-proclaimed exceptionalism.
Hardly no one in the west believe in that assumtion. We look at maps and statistics. Nice people will say vodka made Your conclusions.
Bandaras is use as tool to legalize the theft of land to russia and revenge for Russia as the only one losing WW1 three times.
Those are Poles, Ruthenoans, little Russians, white Russians, germans, jews and some few from roumania, hungary and slovakia. I forget the defeated and several tmes tatars as well.
We actually has decided to support Ukraine in Our own ways be Our own parlaments. We support UN for 30 years ha deide Ukraine is an independent country, which today has public well allectedparlament as well as president.
They are free to find their own destiny. We here try to help them but in something for something. The Russia dont have those tools. The Ukraine also is a quamire with few improvements. But that dont say Russia should decide things there.
We all has condemmed parts of the Ukra actings. That nver visible in the Russia medias. Her we even support a nazi governess. The Leader of those nazis is a skizzofrenne too being a jew, which family was killed in nazi KZ camps.
That are wishes not facts, like the Maharadja the gas and oil still flow , because Russia can not without the money. But production of the own resources are picking up and in short time we will able to do without Russian energy. Of course we lost but we won also and the Europeans community never was intended to be a power house like the US and Russia. A win for us is just a continuation of the plans a lose means tyranny, oppression and enslaving.
Time to punish Soviets
Yes the most important thing for Europe is buy more GMO products and “vaccines” to exterminate themselves from the globalist freemasons.
We have chosen that version by the populations, goverments and debates.
So we adapt. Sometimes we also has to eat shit to have a life. You of course forget, what we get. Its something for something.
Denmark fx asell more to USA then we import from them. We like that part.
In mid and long term Russia is winner. People all over the world are looking for leaders who don’t micromanage them like the western colonizers. Western colonizers want to enter even into the bedroom by promoting sex with rectum full of human excrement or Sodomite sex. Russia and China don’t make this kind of retarded mistake. When Russia shows toughness, then other countries want to align themselves with it. That is good for Russia and the other countries, since this will allow alternate economic, cultural and military relationships. The China-Russia camp is winning in the mid to long term. The American camp is winning in the short to mid term. The European herd is loosing all the time. The world doesn’t have any respects for human herds.
Hans Raus! Please make sweet love to my asshole!
England runs the mitary industrial complex The golden shares at Rio Tinto and its parent All that Golden shares. That’s the top dog.
Washington will be the big loser if they lose the petrodollar. There are lots of ways America can lose. Reconstituting an emergent militarism of Germany and Japan might create future problems. Re-arming the globe with weapons of Mass destruction can be a long term problem in so many ways.
There is much bigger problem for NatGas and oil exporting countries than illegal sanctions.
Last 28 years around 30 entities (including big names) developed revolutionary new technology which have no common name. And they succeed.
During 2nd half of this year will launch of this tech on markets. It is clean, zero-emission, non-radioactive, 24/7/365 energy tech. Very compact, portable.
As you will see it, you will understand irrelevance of these NordStream 2 clashes and illegal sanctions.
Planet Earth will be saved and energy exporting countries will be losing. Satanists and Mutual Funds will lose a few Trillions in market capitalization of their investments and portfolios.
USA is LOOSING its empire in Ukraine:
1. NATO commando are being harvested = massacred.
2. NATO is left empty-handed vs. China per troops and arsenal.
3. All Russian imports will be from China.
4. RIP Petrodollar and relations with India and Saudi-Arabia (OPEC+).
No this is wrong.
China is the biggest winner. The USSA will only benefit in the short term less then 3 years as the EU economy will collapse and there will be regime change in many EU counties as they are already broke and can’t afford to do without Russian energy and can’t afford to buy USSA weapons..
Long term 3 plus years out the USSA will be the biggest loser see Michael Hudson super Imperialism by losing the dollar as the world reserve currency ending the empire and its hold on Europe and the world.
Big winner – Russia
Mild winner – China
Moderate loser – USA
Big loser – EU
Colossal loser – Jacob Wohl