{"id":34407,"date":"2018-05-21T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34407"},"modified":"2018-05-21T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:39:18","slug":"who-needs-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34407","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs Enemies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header title-container fix\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Who Needs Enemies?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2018\/05\/who-needs-enemies\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Who Needs Enemies?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-container fix\">\n<div class=\"entry fix\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vittorio_Matteo_Corcos\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3r8md7174doo44lgpk3kou79-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Vittorio_Matteo_CorcosConversation_in_the_Jardin_du_Luxembourg1892.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/center><center><center>Vittorio Matteo Corcos <b>Conversation in the Jardin du Luxembourg <\/b>1892<\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Obviously, there are tensions between Europe and the US. Just as obviously, these tensions are blamed on, who else, Donald Trump. European Council President Donald Tusk recently said: \u201cWith friends like Trump, who needs enemies?\u201d EU Commission chair Jean-Claude Juncker even proclaimed that \u201cEurope must take America\u2019s place as global leader\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These European \u2018leaders\u2019 love the big words. They think they make them look good, strong. In reality, they are merely messenger boys for Berlin and Paris. Who have infinitely more say than Brussels. Problem is, Berlin and Paris are not united at all. Macron wants more Europe, especially in finance, but Merkel knows she can\u2019t sell that at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So what are those big words worth when the whip comes down? It\u2019s amusing to see how different people reach wholly different conclusions about that. Instructive and entertaining. First, Alex Gorka at The Strategic Culture Foundation, who likes the big words too: <i>\u201c..a landmark event that will go down in history as the day Europe united to openly defy the US.\u201d<\/i>and <i>\u201cMay 17 is the day the revolt started and there is no going back. Europe has said goodbye to trans-Atlantic unity. It looks like it has had enough.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-05-20\/brussels-rises-revolt-against-washington-turning-point-us-european-relations\" target=\"new\">Brussels Rises In Revolt Against Washington: A Turning Point In US-European Relations <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>The May 16-17 EU-Western Balkans summit did address the problems of integration, but it was eclipsed by another issue. The meeting turned out to be a landmark event that will go down in history as the day Europe united to openly defy the US. The EU will neither review the Iran nuclear deal (JPCOA) nor join the sanctions against Tehran that have been reintroduced and even intensified by America. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Needs Enemies? Vittorio Matteo Corcos Conversation in the Jardin du Luxembourg 1892 Obviously, there are tensions between Europe and the US. Just as obviously, these tensions are blamed on, who else, Donald Trump. European Council President Donald Tusk recently said: \u201cWith friends like Trump, who needs enemies?\u201d EU Commission chair Jean-Claude Juncker even proclaimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,279,7007,3318,553,18975,13924,684,694,5177,10522,6745,834],"class_list":["post-34407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-brussels","tag-eu","tag-juncker","tag-merkel","tag-nato","tag-nord-stream-2","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-revolt","tag-russia","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-trump","tag-tusk","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34408,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34407\/revisions\/34408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}