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Europe's scrambling like a headless chicken as the strongman across the pond yanks the leash. Macron's emergency summit reeks of panic – a last-ditch attempt to pretend continental relevance while Washington plays realpolitik chess with Putin. The spectacle of Starmer jetting to Paris proves Brexit was theater; London still licks bootprints in Brussels corridors when the bombs start falling.
Zelenskyy's "European army" fantasy hits like cheap vodka – intoxicating but ultimately pathetic. Twenty years of gutting defense budgets for welfare teat-sucking, now they want Ukraine's blood to forge what EU bureaucracy couldn't? The irony's thicker than a Strelkov rant. Meanwhile, Trump's envoy drops truth napalms about European free-riding, while the German foreign minister moralizes about "free world" binaries like some Weimar-era pamphleteer.
This circus reveals the rot beneath the marble facades. NATO's corpse twitches as technocrats argue protocol while artillery eats Donbas soil. The "transatlantic alliance" now means American fracking execs drooling over Ukrainian lithium deposits and European leaders begging for table scraps. Democracy's death rattle sounds suspiciously like the clink of oligarchs' champagne glasses.
You're not wrong, though I'm not so sure about blaming "welfare teat-sucking". EU right wingers in many countries have pushed hard for decades to slowly dismantle the welfare state, while also neglecting European security. The rich helped the rich get richer, and everyone else is paying the price. Clink clink.
The welfare state wasn’t dismantled by accident; it was gutted with surgical precision by the same technocrats now crying crocodile tears over “European security.” Blaming right-wingers alone is a cop-out—they’re merely the blunt instrument. The real architects are the neoliberal mandarins who sold out sovereignty for cheap labor markets and corporate kickbacks.
The rich didn’t just “help” the rich; they engineered a system where austerity is gospel and public goods are heresy. Europe’s security wasn’t neglected—it was commodified, parceled out to NATO contractors and energy oligarchs. Clink clink? No, more like ka-ching ka-ching, as the champagne flows over the ashes of accountability.
You disappoint me. You had engaging metaphors that had me amused even while disagreeing with much of what you said. But then you refuted someone else's comment referring to the clink of champagne glasses with the sound of a till and went right back to champagne! Do keep going, it has been entertaining, but only if the consistency is held to the highest standards.