Threatening messages apparently intended for Russia are primarily a warning to Germany. Written by László Bogár.
It's crazy talk, but there's a system to it, as Hamlet says. Well, even if we consider Emmanuel Macron's expressions as crazy talk, maybe there is a system in it, it's a bit surreal, but it's definitely worth thinking about.
It doesn't hurt to know that Macron is a "target tool" manufactured with great care in a Rothschild workshop, so that behind his statements there can always be "something" that should be thought through, and this is probably the case now.
On the face of it, inciting war and urging NATO's open confrontation with Russia may seem really crazy, but if we move these statements into another interpretive framework, the meaning of these statements changes radically.
There are more and more signs that the "empire-selecting power" has made its decision regarding the further fate of the American empire. It is also becoming more and more obvious that the executor of this project can only be Donald Trump, who is under murderous pressure from the current ruling structure of the empire, but in a grotesque way, he himself contributes to Trump's presumably large-scale victory.
The task of the old/new president will be to radically transform the world power structure of America as a global empire.
Today, the outlines of this strategy are still very uncertain, but some basic connections still emerge. For example, the fact that the "new" American empire will direct most of its remaining energy to China and the Pacific region, and at the same time Russia, Europe, and Ukraine will essentially become uninteresting to it.
This is because Russia is apparently unable to loot like in the "good old Yeltsin days", or at least, as its proxy war provoked in Ukraine proves, the specific costs of this looting would be so high that it would no longer be worth it for the empire. Just as it immediately withdrew from Afghanistan when it became a "deficit" project.
And Europe was weakened and devalued to such an extent that it became uninteresting for the American empire.
And this is where the "system" begins to show itself in Emmanuel Macron's crazy speech. If Russia, Europe, and Ukraine become uninteresting for the American empire, then the power struggle for European dominance and, of course, the redistribution of Ukraine will automatically begin.
Formally, of course, a country called Ukraine will still "exist", but divided into spheres of influence that make this sovereignty formal.
The post-war scrapyard that Ukraine is turning into would not be fit to exist as a unified entity anyway.
And since the dominant power of Europe, Germany, is in decline and disintegration, as its dominant positions have essentially weakened in all dimensions, this automatically strengthens French power ambitions.
Macron's crazy speech, his threatening messages apparently intended for Russia, are therefore primarily a warning for Germany, they make it public knowledge that France is a nuclear power and is ready to fill the military and economic power vacuum left behind by a weakening and disintegrating Germany.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that a new rival has appeared for Germany not only from the west, but also from the east, in the "person" of Poland, which is militarizing with unprecedented speed. (Within NATO, Poland spends by far the most on military expenditures, GDP proportionally more than the United States, four percent to be exact.)
The "vision of a new empire" is increasingly becoming a reality, which would organize this Middle Europe into an empire as a concentration of Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian-Romanian power stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, naturally with Polish dominance.
This would be another "cordon sanitaire" against Russia, but at the same time it would also have a warning and disciplinary effect on Germany. And it probably doesn't even need to be emphasized that France would provide the nuclear protection umbrella for this construction that keeps Germany in check "free" from the east.
And from here, the "crazy speech" and the "system" emerging from it are perhaps a little more understandable.
Today, all of this is perhaps a little (not a little, very!) surreal, but we should think about the fact that during the past two years, a lot of things have happened that, not long before, we would have thought were the dark, surreal visions of a sick brain.
The fact that a terrible war with many hundreds of thousands of deaths is raging, and it is becoming clear that European borders will continue to change as brutally as in the past centuries, is now evident. It also turned out (and we could have guessed it up until now) that there is no more childish illusion than the myth of "sovereignty", because it becomes clear again that your "sovereignty" only exists if and as long as there is a force that ensures it for you, because otherwise it is moments everything that you were inclined to believe would last forever falls apart underneath. Never say never, says the English, never say never, and of course never say forever.
The last nearly eighty years have indeed successfully built the illusion that sooner or later the combo of liberal democracy plus free market economy will win everywhere, and then everyone will live happily ever after.
Now it seems to be clear that until now this combo was only a virtual reality hiding the cruel dictatorship of the global power economy, but the "non-existent" lords of the world are no longer having fun with this visual technical stunt, but are pushing the brutal reality directly in our faces. As Tamás Cseh sings: the dream is over.
Cover image: Economist László Bogár
Source: MTI/Zoltán Máthé
