Servile Puppets

EU and NATO members have been moving military equipment and soldiers East as a means of ‘countering Russian aggression.’

Since there is no ‘Russian aggression,’ and not likely to be, what is the aim of this EU/NATO paranoia?

I suspect that there are elites within the EU that want a war, even if just a small localized one, as a way to save their crumbling EU experiment.

A war has the power to reset debt clocks and give incompetent and failed EU politicians a second chance. A war would also make the shell-shocked public unify behind Brussels, and forget about their daily economic misery.

The only problem for these war-hungry EU elites is how to pull this off by a.) having someone else start it b.) have someone else (US) fight it c.) Not suffer any serious damage. 

As we can see, all three are not possible. If the EU elites are dreaming of a war to get themselves off-the-hook for 71+ years of bad policies and failures, then they won’t survive it.

The main reason why Western Europe has brought itself to such a troubled position is because it hasn’t had real independence since 1945. It gave that up to the US in return for things it could’ve done by, and for itself.

When a country becomes too reliant on another, the benefactor nation will sooner or later notice that the beneficiary country that is constantly asking them for help has inept leadership and a lazy populace.

The benefactor nation will then exploit its position to demand all kinds of concessions from the country asking for help. The benefactor country will also look down with disrespect on the country that they’re helping.

Sooner or later, the beneficiary nation will notice that the country helping them is making them do things that are against its interests, are destructive, dangerous, legally/morally/ethically questionable, or downright criminal.

But the amount of dependence on the benefactor country will by this time run so deep, that the beneficiary country will fear questioning the benefactor country, even when it’s clear that the benefactor country is exploiting it for nefarious purposes.

Some brave voices within the society of the beneficiary country will be raised against this lop-sided relationship. But by this time, the level of dependence and subservience to the benefactor nation will be so entrenched within the beneficiary country’s society and institutions, that the vast majority will see the critics are trouble-makers, unpatriotic, or as enemies of some foreign power.

This situation is exactly the case with the EU/NATO-member countries and US right now. They’ve gotten so used to US ‘assistance’ that they got lazy, and are all willingly unable to think and act for themselves. Everything they decide and do is done with deference to the US.

Even Putin complained about this slavish attitude when he said that talking to the EU is a waste of time, because they can’t make any decisions on their own. Putin stated that to get anything from the EU, Russia has to go to the US which then makes the decisions for the EU.

71+ years of dependence and subservience on the US and its military for protection has turned the Europeans into servile wimps.

The EU’s current attempts at trying to sound, and act ‘independent’ is just a farce meant to get the US to keep them under its skirt, and as a temper tantrum directed at Trump.

Even the newer Eastern European EU members suffer from the same virus of servility, but for a different reason. With them, it was 45 years of Soviet domination which taught them to rely on someone else for their guidance.

After those E. European countries threw off communist rule and Soviet control, they unfortunately didn’t shake-off the virus of servility, which now serves their new EU/US/NATO masters well.

So who is the more reasonable party here? Russia, which gave up its Soviet Empire and Warsaw Pact and made an effort to change its ways, or the unrepentant, deluded NATO and EU which still think it’s 1964, and refuse to let go of their anti-Russian cold war fetishes, and move on to normal, productive endeavors?