{"id":61902,"date":"2022-02-16T06:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61902"},"modified":"2022-02-16T06:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:56:12","slug":"nord-stream-the-geo-politics-of-keeping-germany-down-russia-out-and-instability-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61902","title":{"rendered":"Nord Stream: The Geo-politics of Keeping Germany \u2018Down\u2019, Russia \u2018Out\u2019, and Instability in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nord Stream: The Geo-politics of Keeping Germany \u2018Down\u2019, Russia \u2018Out\u2019, and Instability in Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It seems reasonable to expect we will have this crisis with us \u2013 in its various forms \u2013 for at least the next two years, Alastair Crooke writes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Macron in a remarkably frank interview with a\u00a0French Journal<\/a>\u00a0put his finger on the main structural problems facing the EU: He lambasted the fact that the EU Council (and other EU states) had vetoed the earlier French-German proposal for a Russia-EU summit. The consequences to this omission, he said starkly, was that:\u00a0\u2018Others\u2019 were talking to the Russians on the behalf of the EU<\/em>. It\u2019s not hard to surmise that he is implying that U.S. \u2018interests\u2019 (whether directly or\u00a0via\u00a0<\/em>NATO ventriloquism) were the ones doing the talking. And that \u2018Europe\u2019 had lost its voice.<\/p>\n

This is not simply a case of wounded\u00a0amour propre\u00a0<\/em>by the French Jupiterian leader. It is rather, that some West European leaders (ie. the Carolingian Axis), belatedly have awoken to the realisation that the whole fake artifice of the \u2018imminent Russian invasion\u2019 of Ukraine is about corralling European states back into bloc (NATO) discipline. Macron \u2013 to give him his due \u2013 showed by his remarks at the Moscow press conference that he understood that\u00a0silence<\/em>\u00a0at this crucial moment could define Europe for the next decades \u2013 leaving it bereft of the autonomy (let alone any modicum of sovereignty) that Macron so much wants for Europe.<\/p>\n

The account of Macron\u2019s press conference after his long t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with Putin represents the contortionism of a French President unable to explicitly diss the dominant Anglo-American narrative on Ukraine, whilst saying \u2013 in barely coded language \u2013 that he was at one with Russia on all its complaints about the failed European security architecture, and the real risks of its toxicity for Russia that could lead to war in Europe.<\/p>\n

Macron explicitly said that new security arrangements in Europe are absolutely needed. (In spite of his care not to poke the U.S. in the eye, he was clearly signalling a\u00a0non-NATO<\/em>\u00a0\u2018new\u2019 arrangement). He also flatly contradicted the Washington narrative, saying that he did not believe Russia had an intent to invade Ukraine. Adding that in respect to NATO expansion, mistakes had been made.<\/p>\n

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Nord Stream: The Geo-politics of Keeping Germany \u2018Down\u2019, Russia \u2018Out\u2019, and Instability in Ukraine It seems reasonable to expect we will have this crisis with us \u2013 in its various forms \u2013 for at least the next two years, Alastair Crooke writes. Macron in a remarkably frank interview with a\u00a0French Journal\u00a0put his finger on the […]<\/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":[14457,281,333,359,553,694,8203,821,827],"class_list":["post-61902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alastair-crooke","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61902","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=61902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61903,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61902\/revisions\/61903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}