{"id":59985,"date":"2021-10-19T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59985"},"modified":"2021-10-19T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:29:08","slug":"there-is-no-getting-off-europes-elevator-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59985","title":{"rendered":"There is No Getting off Europe\u2019s Elevator to Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is No Getting off Europe\u2019s Elevator to Hell<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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The European Union has been, in the immortal words of Private Hudson from\u00a0Aliens,\u00a0<\/em>\u201c\u2026 on an express elevator to hell, going down,\u201d for a long time now.<\/p>\n

From the day of then ECB President Mario Draghi\u2019s \u201cWe will do whatever it takes\u201d speech in July 2012 to today, the EU has chosen a path of fiscal, foreign and monetary policy insanity that has lead it directly to where it is today, the sick man at the geopolitical table.<\/p>\n

The most recent missive from\u00a0the great Alistair Crooke over at Strategic Culture Foundation<\/a>\u00a0has some very choice words for Europe as well as his always trenchant analysis.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo events have combined to make a major inflection point for Europe: The first was America\u2019s abandonment of the Great Game ploy of attempting to keep the two Central Asian great land powers \u2013 Russia and China \u2013 divided and at odds with each other. This was the inexorable consequence to the US\u2019 defeat in Afghanistan \u2013 and the loss of its last strategic foothold in Asia\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Crooke lays out the fundamentals which led to the formation of AUKUS and the recent application of a more rapid depreciation curve for NATO.<\/p>\n

Underscoring the divisions within the U.S. policy establishment which left Europe, especially France, twisting in the wind with the shift in priorities, Crooke quotes George Friedman of Stratfor, who argued recently on Polish television that NATO serves no real current purpose for a U.S. that finally acknowledges China, not Russia, as its biggest threat.<\/p>\n

Since Friedman and Stratfor are as deep state as they come, you should always read Friedman\u2019s publicly available \u2018analysis\u2019 as an operations manual for U.S. foreign policy. \u00a0It\u2019s the real official policy said out loud.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is No Getting off Europe\u2019s Elevator to Hell The European Union has been, in the immortal words of Private Hudson from\u00a0Aliens,\u00a0\u201c\u2026 on an express elevator to hell, going down,\u201d for a long time now. From the day of then ECB President Mario Draghi\u2019s \u201cWe will do whatever it takes\u201d speech in July 2012 to […]<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[130,199,233,281,282,21273,534,553,694,4215,31290],"class_list":["post-59985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-deep-state","tag-ecb","tag-europe","tag-european-central-bank","tag-gold-goats-and-guns","tag-monetary-policy","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-stratfor","tag-united-statestom-luongo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59985","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=59985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59986,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59985\/revisions\/59986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}