Good managers, politicians – just anybody savvy about life and business – seeks to achieve the best results at the lowest costs. That might appear to be sound common sense. Alas, not in the case of the EU individuals who act as ministers, prime ministers and presidents under the guise of the term EU commissioners. Alas, not in the case of the Ukrainian political elites. Do they have insufficient access to historical publications, to historical knowledge? Yet, even if they have limited access to the annals of events, these are usually individuals who are old enough to have gathered personal experience, to have been witnesses to momentous events during their lifetime, events from which they could draw lessons. Why then do they display such gross political impotence?
Of course we mean the current hostilities in Ukraine. The collective West was very much excited about the localized conflict because – that’s at least what they had hoped for – its outcome would provide European economy with much-needed resources from both subjugated Ukraine and defeated and hence subservient Russia, a Russia taken over by the Gorbachev and Yeltsin type of leaders. In all these political calculations the EU ministers aka commissioners making up the EU supranational government aka commission relied heavily on American support. The Ukrainian elites relied on American support even more! They all had hoped to score an easy and quick victory over Russia. To this end they did not even shy away from employing deception. As the reader will have remembered they did not intend to honour the Minsk I and Minsk II Accords as Chancellor Merkel and President Hollande confessed openly. Thus, with American commitment the collective West made a crusade against the East.
But something went wrong.
The expected easy victory could not somehow be scorned, the political, economic and military support bolstered for Ukraine did not seem to make things better, while hated Russia was slowly but surely gaining clear military superiority. It was not the Russian bear that showed military unpreparedness but rather the EU along with its Big Brother from across the Atlantic. All the steps taken by the Union’s government – providing Ukraine with military hard and software and bludgeoning Russia economic sanctions – rather than spearheading a successful offensive wrecked the political balance in Europe, strained European and American finances and put the EU – especially Germany – on the brink of economic collapse. Soon it transpired that the Union was not unified as regards its eastern policy: Hungary and Slovakia were overwrought about the war in Ukraine and began to act accordingly.
With the third year of the war being completed, all the circumstances and results have only exposed the utter incompetence and diplomatic inability of the European superstate to confront Russia. And just as the European enthusiasts of war, of fighting to the last Ukrainian and the last US dollar, were about to force another showdown somewhere east of the Dnieper, power in Washington changed hands and as a result the United States and the European Union began to work at cross purposes. While EU warmongers still obstinately seek to keep the Ukrainian pot boiling, Americans clearly want to place Ukraine on the back-burner. They want to put an end to this madness.
Could the managers of the European supranational juggernaut not have seen the writing on the wall just by looking back into the past? Americans did care two hoots about losing face when they decided to withdraw from Vietnam or Afghanistan, when they decided to make a deal over Korea and give away half of the peninsula to the communists. Americans – unlike their European vassals – are not followers of ideologies: Americans are accountants. Yes, they spark a war in the name of democracy or human rights – it makes the war noble and right – but the moment they see that the costs are rising while the victory is nowhere close to be seen, they take a swift decision to withdraw from a failed project. Americans prefer to ease themselves out of the financial straight jacket caused by wartime expenditure rather than continuing senseless, costly, hopeless hostilities. Americans count dollars, Europeans cling to ideologies.
