European lackeys in panic mode as Trump signals detente with Russia by Finian Cunningham!
(2024-11-13 at 04:02:39 )

European lackeys in panic mode as Trump signals detente with Russia by Finian Cunningham!

It is early days yet. However, there are signs that President-elect Trump is moving toward a detente with Russia over Ukraine.

One good sign is that Donald Trump will not invite Mike Pompeo or Nikki Haley to join his cabinet when he is inaugurated as the 47th United States president on January 20. Both of these figures were rabid anti-Russia hawks during Trumps previous administration. There were suggestions that Pompeo and Haley might return with senior posts in his second administration. But Trump has announced the pair will not be offered new positions.

Another positive sign is from people close to Donald Trumps inner circle who are letting the Kiev regime know - rudely - that the United States military aid spigot is being turned off.

Donald Trump has yet to hold a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin. But both leaders have already expressed a willingness to negotiate a peaceful settlement over the Ukraine conflict.

Another promising sign of potential detente between the United States and Russia is the sheer panic among European leaders. The news of Trumps election last week has caused most European elites to scramble like scared children on hearing "boo!".

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron are consoling themselves by urging Europe to "come together" in the wake of Donald Trumps stunning election victory. The collapse of Germanys coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz is an early casualty of the Trump impact.

European leaders fear that if Donald Trump pulls the plug on military aid to the Kiev regime they will be left holding the can to fund the proxy war against Russia, which the weak European economies have no chance of sustaining.

It is no secret that the main European states were betting on Democrat candidate Kamala Harris winning the race to the White House. Harris would have ensured the continuation of NATOs backing for the Kiev regime. With Donald Trump becoming president, all bets are off.

The political price will be ruinous for European leaders who have invested huge political capital in waging war to "defend Ukraine from Russian aggression." Trump has shown skepticism toward that false narrative. He has told Europe to go it alone if it wants to. And the European Russophobes know they can not do that.

If Donald Trump follows through on his election promise to negotiate with President Putin on a settlement in Ukraine, then the Europeans are going to be left with serious amounts of egg on their faces.

One thing about Donald Trump that is of concern to the Europeans is his frustration with them as being, in his view, freeloaders on American protection. Another is Donald Trumps vindictive streak. He is not going to forget that most of the European leaders wanted him to lose the election.

Take Britains Prime Minister Keir Starmer. His Labour Party sent volunteers over to the United States to advise Ms Harris on winning the election. The British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has also been reminded that he previously disparaged Donald Trump as a racist "sociopath."

Donald Trumps election is bad news for Britain and there is no doubt that Starmer is now trying to repair post-Brexit relations with Europe as a hedge against the expected chill from Washington,D.C. during the next four years.

When Britain pulled out of the European Union after its 2016 Brexit referendum, there were high hopes that it could negotiate a special trade deal with the United States.

That deal did not work out and looks even less likely now. Hence, Starmer has been busy since taking office in Downing Street trying to restore relations with the EU.

This week, the British leader attended the Armistice ceremony in Paris to commemorate the end of the First World War. The last time a British leader honored that event in Paris was in 1944 when Winston Churchill visited the French capital following its liberation from Nazi occupation.

Macon invited Starmer to lay wreaths in the Champs-Elysee and the Arc de Triomphe.

The choreographed caper of European unity is a reflection of the panic gripping European leaders in the aftermath of Donald Trumps return to the White House.

But everything is up in the air for the European politicians. Starmer was bending over backward to renew relations with Germany as a way to forge a warmer connection between London and the European Union after years of post-Brexit bitterness, only for that to be thrown into doubt.

Last month saw a landmark security deal between Britain and Germany in which German arms maker Rheinmetall would open a new factory in Britain, and the German Luftwaffe would be able to fly warplanes from an RAF base in Scotland. The deal was touted as "a sign of joint European security in the face of Russian threat."

With the collapse of the government in Berlin over the unbearable financial costs of the Ukraine war to the German economy, the British security treaty may not materialize. That means a big setback to Starmers reset plans with Europe.

Hungarys Viktor Orban and Slovakias Robert Fico are in the minority of European politicians who genuinely welcomed Donald Trumps election as an opportunity to wind down the NATO proxy war in Ukraine against Russia.

On the other hand, the ardent NATO warmongers in Europe, including Britain, Germany, France, Poland and the Baltic states now face a desperate dilemma.

Along with EU leaders like Von der Leyen and the Dutch NATO chief Mark Rutte, they have all nailed their colors to the mast for continuing the reckless proxy war against Russia.

Donald Trump seems to be showing good sense in calling off that proxy war and finding a way to negotiate sensibly with Russia on detente.

Moscow wants its long-term security demands to be met. That means no NATO membership for Ukraine, an end to the NeoNazi regime in Kiev, and recognition of its historical lands in Crimea and the Donbass.

This is all eminently negotiable, and Donald Trump might just be ready to cut a deal to avoid World War Three, as he has repeatedly indicated he would do.

That would mean Donald Trump dumping the false narrative that Biden, Harris and the Democrats - and their European vassals - contrived about "defending Ukraine".

That would leave the European lackeys in a disastrous lurch.

How will they explain to their electorates the three-year slaughter in Ukraine?

How will they justify the tens of billions of Euros and Sterling wasted on pushing a war that not only destroyed millions of lives but their economies as well?

The stupid European leaders are in panic mode, and that is a good thing.

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