Europe, NATO Expansion and Russia: A Critique of Western Policy

If you're honest enough to ask yourself, why would the countries of Europe today destroy their own economies in order to fight to the last Ukrainian against Russia?

What, what are you doing? What's the point here?

And the answer is Europe knows that its wealth is ebbing away. It has been for a century.

The European countries are in a mad rush to become tourist attractions. They're done.

Why? They have no... The Belgians don't have the Congo.

The French don't have half of Africa. The British don't have India.

The Japanese don't have Southeast Asia. They don't have it, and they're not gonna get it back.

But if they could defeat Russia, they would have at their disposal the largest country by geogra- the geography on this planet.

Russia's immense, and they could carve it up into little places.

You know, like they carved up the Middle East into Bahrain and Kuwait and all these tiny little countries that they can then set against each other.

It's the last gasp of a new colonialism that might save them, and the nasty Mr. Putin won't allow it. Oh, it's such a grief.

Here's the problem. For the mass of the Europeans, this makes no sense at all, and they're right, it doesn't.

I wanna remind Americans, 'cause this issue is so important, when Russia imploded, promises were made to the Russians.

It's admitted by Angela Merkel and others, uh, I'm, I'm not making anything up, that the NATO alliance would not push eastward. They did it.

Poland joined, then the Czech Republic, then Romania and Bulgaria, and all of them.

The last one was Ukraine. That was part of Russia before anyway. At that, Putin had said, "You can't do it in Poland." They did it.

He didn't do anything. "You can't do it in Czechoslovakia." They did it. He didn't do anything.

"You can't do it in Romania and Bulgaria." They did it.

He didn't do anything. "You can't do it in Ukraine." They did it.

He invaded. New York Times: "Without provocation, Mr. Putin..." Huh? What? What?

That's America. Denial is its way of handling complexity.

The Russians did nothing about the NATO, NATO moving close to their border in all those countries, and yet you portray them as putting all of Europe at risk.

They're gonna invade all... What? They're the ones who have been suffering your invasion since 1990, and they didn't do anything about it, except when you'd, in the case of Ukraine, 'cause that was part of Russia, and large numbers of Russians lived there. You got a problem.

It's not that way in the other parts. So none of that, none of that, none of that.

So the Europeans are in their last gasp of colonialism, and so are the Americans, and the rest of the world sees that.

And you know what it does? It makes China, Russia, and the BRICS much more cohesive than they would otherwise be, much more powerful and solidified in their view. They, they see what the agenda is, and they won't have anything to do with it. So when Mr. Viktor Han- Handzen or anyone like... "This is a sign of strength."

Yeah. Sure it is. You keep believing that