Germany and France are left to destroy the EU to survive in the new world

Retiring Merkel met with President Putin in the Kremlin. The meeting was, as always, so sluggish, uninteresting and protocol that the interpretations of its consequences turned out to be polarizing. Some are arguing whether "dear Vladimir" will take the old Frau to work for Gazprom, others are sure that this was another message about the commitment of the FRG leadership to overseas patrons. The Western press was noted in the boring genre of retelling the meeting of two "heavyweights" who do not agree with each other on everything, but stubbornly continue to negotiate.

In reality, the Nord Stream story and this next meeting are elements of a key political process in shaping the balance of world forces. Recall that in June, Merkel, together with Macron, unexpectedly proposed to hold an EU-Russia summit, knowing in advance that it would be blocked by pro-American forces. Then Macron called Putin and for an hour and a half discussed the burning issues of the world policy... And now Merkel flew to Moscow and talked with Putin for three hours one-on-one. What is this if not a stone in the garden of the EU's "solidarity"?



The era when large and strong countries pretended to recognize the weak and small countries as equals is rapidly coming to an end with the collapse of the world's unipolarity. The objective reality of world politics today is the new Cold War unleashed by the United States against China, in which Russia is the key link. Until this new "bipolarity" has received its final form, the major powers are trying to find an independent vector of behavior. Russia is drawing closer to China, supporting China, but not forgetting about the "multi-vector" relationship with Europe. France is increasingly feathered from behind the US, thinking of independence. Sentiments of sovereignty are rising in Germany's ruling circles, pushing Merkel to rebuff the Americans. And Turkey, feeling the weakness of the fading hegemon, in general over the past five years has developed an unprecedented activity to promote its influence in all geographic directions around its borders.

The key question of European politics: can Europe become the third center of world power? The effect of the marshalling of Europe and the imposition of pro-American governments is gradually eroding, primarily in the FRG and France - the largest powers with powerful industries and big business that are not averse to pushing American competitors, including through flirting with Russia and China.

The past meeting between Merkel and Putin in this aspect can only be deciphered as another manifestation of the chronic indecision and cowardice of the German ruling circles. On the other hand, it became another signal of the creeping collapse of the EU.

In Germany, public opinion has long been preparing for the turn of the German state to a policy independent of the United States. The CIA wiretap scandal provoked an extremely painful reaction from the Germans. Of course, they are tired of the national humiliation of being "faithful partners" of the United States and of endless "de-Germanization". Thanks to the United States, for a long time, the so-called antideutsches dominated in German spiritual culture - people who preach hatred for Germans and everything German. This is something similar to our pro-Western liberals with their "Russophobia".

The fact is that the state of the FRG itself was created by the Americans on the fragments of the German fascist Reich, the officials and political elites of the FRG were basically the same Nazis. Yes, and this state itself was and remains castrated, the Americans wrote down the shameful semi-colonial position in its constitution:


The West German police were recruited almost entirely from the Nazi police, including high-ranking Gestapo officers. And the creator of the "racial laws" Globke, for example, became the chief of the administration of Adenauer. SS Gruppenfuehrer Reinefarth, leader of the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising, - Mayor of Westerland. And there were many such examples. This was one of the fundamental differences between the FRG and the GDR. In the latter, the communists were in power, who repressed tens of thousands of former Nazis (although there were shameful examples of Nazi careers in the GDR). The denazification of the FRG under the strict leadership of the United States followed a slightly different path through the inculcation of the ideology of their "inferiority" to the Germans and the practice of constantly "repenting" for the crimes of Hitlerism. Naturally, the people who have been listening for decades about their innate guilt will sooner or later flare up with indignation, which can reach revanchist sentiments. Today in Germany there is an extremely popular ideology in the spirit of "Hitler was not so bad."

But German oligarchic capital, which largely controls the CDU / CSU and the SPD, is even more cowardly than Merkel. He tosses between independence, which can benefit from the competitive suppression of American corporations in Europe, and pro-American docility, which is already steadily enriching itself. But sitting on two chairs is infinitely impossible. The growth of China and the conflict between the United States and China will objectively exacerbate all interstate contradictions, and without a strong state of its own, private capital will be crushed by competitors, behind which there are aircraft-carrying strike groups.

The situation in France is surprisingly similar to the German situation, although the French have an experience of Gaullism and are generally much more freedom-loving. There, too, a cowardly government and a cowardly oligarchy are torn between "Euro-Atlantic values" and "Greater France."

One might assume that all this frustration is a normal and beneficial state for the ruling strata of these two countries. That this is some kind of plan or a stable state that looks like a fluctuation only from the outside. But the problem is that the objective state of affairs on the world arena dictates three possible paths to these two European giants: the first - to the US camp against China, the second - to the Chinese camp against the US, or the third - to form their own camp.

The first option has already been played out and it will be very difficult to repeat it. Neither the masses nor a significant part of big business will support it.

The second option is generally unlikely. The Chinese have already offered Europe allies and billions of dollars in post-recovery investment. Those remained silent. The Europeans cannot sell themselves to the Chinese, they have been convincing themselves for a thousand years that they are "white bones."

The third option remains. Moreover, the longer Germany and France drag out with the destruction of the EU, the withdrawal from NATO and the establishment of their own European military-political bloc, the more vague the prospects for success in the formation of the third center of world power become. As a result, old Europe will finally go to the margins of history, becoming the arena of the struggle between the United States and China.