Actually, this is too strong and loud a statement to be simply ignored in Europe.
Although the current European elites will certainly have such a temptation, and not at all because they traditionally do not like Donald Trump.
Nevertheless, even in a series of other equally high-profile statements made in the heat of the decisive stage of the current almost fatal pre-election struggle in the United States, the intensity of which, of course, is such that it is no longer a banal midterm congressional election, but at least one of the decisive battles of the Cold Civil War, this categorical statement made by Trump, stands somewhat apart.
For not one of the leaders of American politics, no matter what kind of relationship he has with his internal opponents, has no right, without a very serious reason, to address the citizens of another, albeit as if “allied” country in this way.
Which, moreover, the bipartisan American consensus long ago assigned the role of not even an “ally”.
And, how to put it mildly, "mandatory", or something, territory.
And in fact, this can mean only one thing: affairs in this very territory in the very near future may get out of control.
And it will go so badly that the recent (and possibly future) US President can only shrug his shoulders in confusion, in no case taking the blame on himself.
Here you just need to understand at least a little the American political culture.
And now a possible future president of America,
Like: What am I?
I warned you all about something like this a long time ago.
And in general, with me, like, such garbage would never have happened ...
However, let's go in order.
Speaking last Saturday at a rally in Ohio, former US President Donald Trump was quite eloquent: if everything continues as it is now, then the Germans may “be left without a country” (literally) for the very pressing reason of reducing the supply of Russian energy. taking place against the background of sanctions due to the current conflict in Ukraine.
Here, verbatim (we quote from RIA Novosti): “They don’t laugh anymore ... Germany is now returning to old-fashioned things, including coal.
But they don't have a choice.
They won't have a country, they won't have a country."
And despite the fact that the 45th (and, as he himself likes to say, “perhaps the 47th”) US President is a little cunning here: the collapse of the German, and with it the entire European economy, was prepared in touching unanimity by both the Republicans and democrats.
And the current sanctions are just icing on the cake.
And in order to understand this, you do not need to invent anything special.
And you don’t even need to build any complex mental constructions - simple arithmetic is enough.
For a businessman (and therefore for the president) Trump is quite affordable.
It’s just that if, as Russian “energy” Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak officially confirms, Russian gas supplies to the EU will be reduced by 50 billion cubic meters this year (that is, the annual capacity of Nord Stream will actually drop, and a special replacement for these volumes will somehow it’s especially hard to find in global markets - here for Trump the most offensive thing is that the US oil and gas production nailed down by the “democrats” also - now officially - will not be able to offer them to Europeans), then someone in the European community will inevitably have a pretty bad time.
And there is no need to look for this someone here for a long time: Germany, with its powerful and very - even by American standards - energy-intensive industry, is quite an obvious candidate.
Which, moreover, continues to stubbornly shoot himself in the foot, despite external circumstances.
And again, let's not make anything up, just listen to Trump: “If you get 72% of your energy from Russia, then here's a white flag for you, because you will have to give up very quickly.
Who the hell thought this would happen so quickly?"
And here it is no longer so important what exactly the ex-president of the United States had in mind and who brought Germany to such energy dependence earlier.
Another thing is more important - who brought the country's administrative system to such a political dependence on the US Democratic Party that the current authorities of the FRG are ready to commit suicide along with the whole of Germany, destroying the work of generations of their predecessors, than to violate the instructions.
And here, probably, it doesn’t even make sense to repeat the well-known truth again and again: without political sovereignty, one can only dream of economic sovereignty.
This has long been just a statement.
Something else is more important here.
The fact that Trump openly and frankly, criticizing his competitors, says this at a campaign rally in Ohio, means only one thing.
In the future of the current rich, industrial and comfortable for life Europe in America, they have not believed for a long time.
It will be at least deindustrialized.
And most likely, just to hell and politically collapsed, following the example of North Africa or Afghanistan and Iraq.
It’s just that Trump, for obvious domestic political reasons, was the first to talk about it out loud from the other side.
But, what is especially curious, they do not believe in the future of the economies of the European subcontinent, not only in the overseas West.
But also in the East.
Which is indirectly confirmed by the news "from the other side of the world", from Samarkand.
Where on the sidelines of the SCO, the same Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak actually confirmed that the projected “Power of Siberia-2”, all agreements on which now, after the summit of Vladimir Putin and President Xi, are finally being implemented, can also be considered as a replacement for the “Nord Stream - 2".
And indeed it is.
Unlike the first "Power of Siberia", the resource base of which was formed by the fields of Eastern Siberia, the projected gas pipeline, whose capacity will be almost the same 50 billion cubic meters per year, directly climbs into traditional European markets.
Because Yamal plans to become its resource base for the Europeans.
That is, Russia, as a producing country, also does not really believe in the future, we repeat, of its traditional European energy markets.
Otherwise, I would not have worked out a new “Chinese route” on the traditional European resource base.
Despite the fact that, obviously, there is nothing to replace Russian energy resources there.
You can only kill demand.
And this, together with a diagnosis from Donald Trump, who understands something about the global economy, looks almost like a sentence for the current state of affairs in Europe in general and in Germany in particular.
Which, what is the meanest thing in what is happening, is carried out by the hands of the current European elites themselves.
Among other things, they completely forgot such a phrase as "historical responsibility."
Despite the fact that, it would seem, even the former (and, as he hopes, future) American President Trump, who is currently far from European processes, made a corresponding statement at a rally in Ohio, the responsibility for the upcoming European ritual suicide is decisively removed from himself. stripped off.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.