We, Europeans, are cocksuckers. We sucked Putin’s dick (and we still do, as the EU still imports some gas from Russia). We suck Netanyahu’s dick, because criticizing Israel is seen as antisemitic and pro-terrorist. And we keep sucking Trump’s defective small head, which is undoubtedly even less functional than his larger one. But Europe is a mass of cocksuckers; we just can’t help it.

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Trump latest gonorrhea pus:

This retard doesn’t even understand how VAT works, despite every country in the world using it—but the US.

“The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE…” —No, it wasn’t.

“…has been very difficult to deal with.”—You don’t fucking know what “dealing” or “negotiating” means, you retard! You literally sold Ukraine to Putin, you sleazeball!

“I am recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025.”—Go fuck your dead mother, you moron! She should have had an abortion.

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Very few European countries have strained relations with Israel because of their leaders’ criticism of the massacre in Gaza, and sometimes also of abuses in the West Bank: France, Spain, Ireland and to a lesser extent Norway, Belgium, Sweden. From outside the EU, the United Kingdom. And, more recently, Canada!

Bibi is that mass-murderer who blames everyone else: Netanyahu accuses Starmer of being on ‘wrong side of humanity’ and siding with Hamas. Netanyahu:

I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer, when mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice.

Yeah, sure.

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But we like to either suck it or to receive it in the ass. The new President of Romania thanked the ICC-wanted Netanyahu:

Previously, he thanked the one person who’s destroying whatever was left of freedoms, liberties, and democracy in America:

Also, God is important when talking to an American:

It had to end with “May God bless the enduring friendship between America and Romania.” May God put Aloe Vera Vaseline in the anus of those who think like that!

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The Institute for the Study of War, citing Parlamentskaya Gazeta on the topic of the Russian presidential advisor Anton Kobyakov saying that the Soviet Union “legally still exists” because the procedure for its dissolution was violated, summarized:

Russian authorities are renewing their years-long narrative rejecting the legality of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, possibly to deny Ukrainian and Belarusian sovereignty and independence in the future.

Russian State Duma Committee on the Protection of the Family, Fatherhood, Motherhood, and Childhood Head and member of the Communist Party Central Committee Nina Ostanina stated on May 22 that Duma deputies are ready to raise the issue of the alleged illegality of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Ostanina agreed with Russian Presidential Advisor Anton Kobyakov’s May 21 claim that the Soviet Union’s founding body was not involved in the dissolution of the Soviet Union and that, therefore, the Soviet Union still legally exists. Ostanina further claimed that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was illegal because “no one gave authority” to then Belarusian Parliament Chairperson Stanislav Shushkevich, then Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic President Boris Yeltsin, and then Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk to sign the December 1991 Belovezha Accords, the internationally recognized document in which the Soviet republics of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus agreed to dissolve the Soviet Union.

Russian authorities have intermittently revived false narratives about the illegality of the Soviet Union’s dissolution and calls to reestablish the Soviet Union since at least 2014, and promoted this informational effort in 2021 and 2023. The Kremlin has been pursuing its strategic effort to de facto annex Belarus through the framework of the Union State of Russia and Belarus and consistently denies Ukrainian sovereignty. Russian officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Investigative Committee Head Alexander Bastrykin, have frequently invoked the “trinity doctrine” — the ideological concept suggesting that Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians are a “triune” and forcibly separated people.

The Kremlin may be instructing lower-level officials to reinject the narrative about the allegedly illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union into the Russian information space in order to set conditions for the Kremlin to withdraw its recognition of Ukraine and Belarus as independent states in the future and call for a united Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian state. Russian officials have notably not acted upon past calls for the reestablishment of the Soviet Union, and the most recent iteration of this information campaign is similarly unlikely to have any near-term effects.

It depends on what we mean by “near-term.” For now, Lieutenant General Viktor Sobolev, a member of the Defense Committee and Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, in an interview for the RTVI channel, said:

Undoubtedly, the complete solution to the goals of the special military operation is the creation of a single union state — Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Restoration of the “Russian world” within its immediate borders. We must, of course, protect our “Russian world”. Otherwise, we may not be able to save the country.

But this “Russian world” (Ррусский мир) cannot limit itself to recapturing of Ukraine and Belarus, if what they aim for is the restoring of the USSR, especially westwards! So, Moldova could be taken in two days, tops. Since 1992, the government of Moldova doesn’t control its entire territory, with Transnistria acting like a de facto independent state. Its army is a joke, and its neutrality cannot deter Putin. Then, let’s be realistic about the Baltic States.

Latvia and Estonia, who have some ~24-25% ethnic Russians and ~30-34% Russian speakers, have been repeatedly accused in the past of discriminating against their Russian-speaking minorities. In Estonia, 5–6% of the population are “non-citizens” (mostly ethnic Russians), with limited rights. In Latvia, about 7–8% are non-citizens. Lithuania’s Russian minority is much smaller (~5%), and the country has generally been seen as more inclusive toward minorities.

Do you really think that the Baltics’ membership in the NATO could really prevent Russia from invading and occupying them? With Trump as the President of the United States? FFS!

There is no way Europe could count on the United States. As long as Russia doesn’t attack any American military installation, then it’s a free meal to them! After his most recent call with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump made one thing clear: once the war in Ukraine is over, he wants to focus on “large-scale trade” with Russia. It doesn’t matter how the war ends, as long as it ends. If one of the Baltic States is taken quickly and swiftly, Trump couldn’t be bothered. The new German brigade in Lithuania that will be ready by the end of 2027? Peanuts. And don’t expect any nuclear reaction from the West as long as France, Britain, and Germany are not attacked. OK, maybe Poland too, but how much can we trust France to honor a pledge? Or anyone, for that matter.

All those stupid “calculations” that we have all the time to build a defense against Russia until 2030 or 2032 are bullshit. Russia will not attack any major Western country; for them, there are cyberattacks, disinformation, and other “hybrid war” means. Russia would start with Moldova, then with the Baltics. Parts of Poland might be of interest, and parts of Finland, but nothing more.

Putting our trust and hopes in the United States was and still is one of the most suicidal actions Europe could ever have done.

Look, in an address at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, JD Vance said that use of military force under Trump will be careful. As quoted by the DOD:

We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances for nation building and meddling in foreign countries’ affairs, even when those foreign countries had very little to do with core American interests.

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We’re returning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests. Now, this doesn’t mean that we ignore threats, but it means that we approach them with discipline and that when we send you to war, we do it with a very specific set of goals in mind.

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Our adversaries now know when the United States sets a red line, it will be enforced. And when we engage, we do so with purpose, with superior force, with superior weapons and with the best people anywhere in the world.

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The Trump administration recognizes that our most valuable resources [are] you — young people who are brave enough to put on the uniform and risk your life for this country. And we promise — I promise — to cultivate that resource, to protect it and to use it only when the national interest demands.

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Also, it’s obvious to me that tolerating everything that Israel does is because Israel “owns” the United States, so we cannot afford to be at odds with them. Germany has the excuse of “Nie wieder” (“Never again”), and therefore, as a repentance for the Holocaust, Israel is given carte blanche to kill whoever they want to and in no matter how large numbers.

It is a disgrace to see how the politicians and the “free press” don’t dare criticize Israel. Any civilized country should have ceased all economic and diplomatic relations with Russia (because of Ukraine) and with Israel.

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I restate my relatively recent idea that Europe could only try to find an ally in China. Decadent, bureaucratic, and not excelling in anything anymore, we’ll become a huge museum anyway, but with the United States becoming a truly “rogue state,” there’s very little choice left!

Realizing that the Ukraine ceasefire talks could drag on for months, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had a phone call with Xi Jinping to ask for some support in the peace effort. I’m not sure that Xi got that part right. Xinhua:

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that China is ready to work with Germany to open a new chapter in their all-round strategic partnership, to steer China-EU relations toward new progress and to make new contributions to the stable growth of the world economy.

Speaking to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over phone, Xi once again congratulated him on assuming office. He pointed out that as the world undergoes accelerated changes unseen in a century and the international landscape is marked by transformation and turbulence, the strategic and global significance of China-Germany and China-EU relations has become even more prominent.

A sound and stable China-Germany relationship serves both countries’ interests, and meets the expectations of various sectors in China and Europe, the Chinese president added.

China and Germany have developed their bilateral relations based on mutual respect, seeking common ground while shelving differences, and win-win cooperation, Xi stressed, calling on both sides to maintain and carry forward this fine tradition.

First, Xi called for consolidating political mutual trust. He said China views Germany as a partner, welcomes Germany’s development and prosperity, and is willing to maintain close high-level exchanges with Germany, respect each other’s core interests and consolidate the political foundation of bilateral relations.

Second, Xi urged the two sides to enhance the resilience of their ties. He said both sides should not only continue to expand the existing cooperation in traditional fields such as automobiles, mechanical manufacturing and chemical industry, but seek more collaboration in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence and quantum technology, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation in areas including climate change and green development, contributing the wisdom and solutions of China and Germany to global sustainable development.

Third, Xi noted that bilateral cooperation should continue to gather momentum. He said that China is willing to share with Germany development opportunities brought by its high-level opening-up, adding that China hopes Germany will offer more policy support and facilitation for two-way investment, and provide a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese enterprises.

Xi pointed out that facts have fully proven that partnership is the proper positioning of China-Germany and China-EU relations, and a stable and predictable policy environment is essential to ensuring bilateral cooperation.

I don’t see any of theb words “peace” and “Ukraine” in Xi’s statements.

Emmanuel Macron too had a talk with Xi Jinping. Xinhua:

President Xi Jinping has called on China and France to strengthen solidarity and cooperation, saying that the two independent major countries should be reliable forces for upholding the international order, open forces for promoting global growth, and progressive forces for guiding multilateral cooperation.

In a phone conversation on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron, Xi said that the more complex the international situation is, the more necessary it is for China and France to make the right strategic choice.

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Xi … called for the two sides to enhance strategic communication and build consensus, deepen cooperation in traditional areas such as investment, aerospace and nuclear energy, and expand collaboration in emerging fields like digital technology, green development, biomedicine and the silver economy.

China and France should further promote people-to-people exchanges to foster friendship between their peoples, Xi said.

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Xi said that China and France, both permanent members of the UN Security Council and independent major countries, are founders and builders of the post-war international order, and he called for them to strengthen solidarity and cooperation.

The two countries should jointly uphold the authority and standing of the UN, safeguard international trade rules and world economic order, and practice true multilateralism, Xi said.

Xi also said that China always views Europe as an independent pole in a multipolar world and supports the EU in enhancing strategic autonomy and playing a more important role in international affairs.

China is ready to work hand in hand with Europe to address global challenges and achieve more outcomes that will not only benefit the two sides, but also the world at large, he said.

France being a nuclear power and a permanent member of the UN Security Council seems to have played a role. Mentioning “the post-war international order,” “true multilateralism,” and then switching to talking about Europe as if France represented Europe was a nice touch.

It’s clear to me that China has strong economic interests in Europe. And where China has such interests, Russia won’t dare to interfere.

Even smaller countries should benefit from the tightening of their relations with China, even if this goes against the interests of the United Fucking States.

Here’s a funny fact. Chinese President Xi Jinping sent congratulations to Nicușor Dan on his election as Romanian president. But Xi didn’t do that on Monday, May 19, when everyone else congratulated the president-elect Dan. It did so on Thursday, May 22, right after the Constitutional Court of Romania validated the results of the elections (and rejected the appeal to annul the elections). This is not insulting, but rather cautionary, given that on December 6, 2024, the same Court annulled the outcome of the first round of presidential elections. Oh, my, treating each other as equals!

Xi pointed out that Romania is the third country in the world to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. For a long time, China and Romania have respected each other and treated each other as equals, he said, adding that mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries has continued to advance, and the traditional friendship has grown stronger over time.

At present, global changes unseen in a century are accelerating, Xi said, noting that as good friends and partners, China and Romania should enhance communication, build consensus, and deepen cooperation to jointly seize the opportunities of the times and work together to address risks and challenges.

Xi said that he attaches great importance to the development of China-Romania relations and is willing to work together with Dan to write a new chapter of friendly cooperation between the two countries and bring more benefits to the people of both countries.

Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure that President Nicușor Dan won’t do anything relevant regarding China; he’s to busy repeating the old mantra about Romania having a “strategic partnership” with the US. “Partnershit,” rather, or how do you call the act of sticking one’s nose in Trump’s anus?

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When the two economic and technological powerhouses are the US and China, and the US is shitting on the EU, can the EU afford to ignore China?

The WSJ, on May 21: The Fortress That China Built for Its Battle With America – Beijing is racing ahead in advanced technology, including in robots, satellites and AI—and in some cases is catching up with the U.S.:

The storm clouds for China were gathering when leader Xi Jinping convened the country’s top scientists at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in May 2018. The U.S. was beginning to clamp down on selling technology to China, with more restrictions on the way.

China must not be forced to beg others for technology, Xi said. Only through self-reliance “can we fundamentally safeguard national economic security,” he said.

Since then, China has raced ahead in many strategic sectors—and in some cases is catching up with the U.S. Its electric-car companies are among the world’s best. Chinese AI startups rival OpenAI and Google. The country’s biologists are pushing the boundaries of pharmaceutical research, and its factories are being filled with advanced robotics.

At sea, Chinese-made cargo vessels dominate global shipping. In space, the country has been launching hundreds of satellites to monitor every corner of the Earth. Beyond frontier technology, Beijing is pursuing greater self-reliance in food and energy, and has bulked up its military.

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The advances are making China less dependent on the rest of the world for goods and services. Imports overall fell to less than 18% of gross domestic product in 2023 compared with about 22% a decade earlier.

Yet China is unlikely to ever be fully self-reliant, having imported more than $2.5 trillion worth of goods last year, including $164 billion from the U.S. The sheer size of its population means that in some areas, total self-sufficiency is virtually impossible.

Xi says China’s system of socialism and state planning is well-suited to winning the race for technologies of the future, allowing the state to concentrate resources where needed. His effort could also backfire, with massive waste from the self-reliance campaign exacerbating China’s mountain of debt, and threatening to hold back its economy over the long run.

Oh, the debt… ask Uncles Sam about debt! China holds $769 billion in US Treasury securities (Japan is number one, holding ~$1.1 trillion in US Treasury securities). So China owns ~8.8% of foreign-held US debt, or ~2.26% of the total US National Debt.

China’s efforts to become more self-sufficient were well under way before Trump first took the White House. In 2015, a policy dubbed “Made in China 2025” identified 10 sectors as national priorities, including robotics, aerospace and new-energy vehicles.

Xi took on a more nationalistic tone after Trump launched a trade war against China in 2018. Calls for “self-reliance” became more prominent, especially after the pandemic struck, leading China to largely close its borders. Chinese officials gained confidence that their economy could survive reduced contact with the outside world when it grew 2.2% in 2020, the only major economy to expand that year.

China’s resolve strengthened in the Biden years, as Washington sought to work with European allies to choke off China’s access to advanced technologies such as semiconductors. “Western countries, led by the U.S., have implemented all-around containment, encirclement and suppression against us,” Xi said in 2023. He warned China to prepare for “extreme scenarios,” a thinly-veiled reference to the risk of conflict with the U.S.

Much of China’s success stems from its ability to direct enormous sums of money to prized sectors.

Last year, China invested $500 billion on research and development, triple from when Xi took office in 2012. China spends nearly as much on R&D as the U.S., adjusting for purchasing power parity, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Investment in AI is a major focus. One study last year found that Chinese government venture-capital funds invested nearly $200 billion across 9,600 AI firms between 2000 and 2023.

Local government investment arms have helped the push, backing companies such as Zhipu AI—one of the Chinese AI firms rivaling U.S. companies. The AI startups are also taking in capital from private venture funds and Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Tencent.

China’s technology push is boosting its manufacturing prowess. Chinese companies have been buying as many industrial robots as the rest of the world combined, enabling some factory owners to experiment with highly automated plants that can operate in the dark. For much of the past decade, three-quarters of the robots installed in China came from foreign manufacturers, such as in Japan or Germany. By 2023, Chinese robot makers captured nearly half of the local market, according to the International Federation of Robotics.

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The self-sufficiency drive extends to highly sensitive areas such as nuclear power. At the Sanmen nuclear power plant, 150 miles south of Shanghai, the first two reactors put under construction in 2009 came from Pennsylvania-based Westinghouse, with key components shipped from the U.S. and American engineers on-site to help get the project online.

The next two reactors were also based on Westinghouse’s technology. Now, a new pair will be totally Chinese. Known as Hualong One, China’s homegrown reactor model allows Beijing to better control costs and construction timelines, while eliminating the danger that the U.S. could one day refuse to sell China more reactors.

Efficient government coordination, readily available financing from state banks and a highly-developed nuclear supply chain means China has already managed to build some Hualong One reactors in about five or six years. The latest Westinghouse reactors in the U.S. took more than a decade to complete, at far higher costs.

In many emerging sectors, China seeks to go beyond government subsidies and other financial support, pushing companies to compete with each other to boost efficiency and innovation.

Two of China’s leading battery makers, Contemporary Amperex Technology and BYD, have disclosed several billion dollars in subsidies between them over the past three years. At the same time, they say they have spent more than $20 billion combined on R&D.

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In space development, a key focus for Beijing has been improving Chinese satellites that capture images and other data for civilian industries such as construction, as well as for defense purposes. Last year, when a group of U.S. think tanks ranked the world’s best such commercial satellite systems, Chinese firms won five out of 11 gold medals. The U.S. had four.

One winner, Chang Guang Satellite Technology, was launched in 2014 with $30 million in intellectual property from a research institute under the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Today, the firm is well on its way to building the world’s largest constellation of commercial remote-sensing satellites. With 117 satellites already in orbit, the company says it can observe any point on Earth up to 40 times a day. Some Chinese users claim to have used the network to scope out the U.S.’s latest stealth bomber at an air base in the Mojave Desert.

In its push for self-sufficiency, China now has roughly two-thirds of global corn reserves, despite only having about 17% of the world’s population, and has built massive stockpiles of oil and metals. It is slowly expanding the use of its yuan currency in foreign trade and developing alternatives to Western financial payment systems. The Defense Department estimates that China has tripled its nuclear warhead stockpile to more than 600 in recent years.

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Last year, Chinese shipyards delivered 53% of global tonnage, according to shipping-information provider Clarksons Research, compared with 8% in 2002. Those gains reflected decades of state support, including cut-rate prices for land to build shipyards, favorable loans and subsidized steel. The U.S. made up just 0.1% of global commercial tonnage last year.

China’s shipbuilding prowess has helped it to build the world’s largest navy, with more than 370 ships and submarines today.

Meanwhile, Huawei and other Chinese firms have made progress in reducing one of China’s biggest vulnerabilities: its lack of advanced semiconductors.

Washington in recent years has used export controls to try to choke off China’s access to the most sophisticated chips, such as Nvidia’s best-performing products—galvanizing China to build up its domestic production.

In 2023, Huawei grabbed U.S. attention when it released a high-end smartphone powered by an advanced processor that industry analysts say was locally produced in China. More recently, it has been gearing up to test a new chip it hopes will be more powerful than Nvidia’s H100 chip, released in 2022.

As China’s chips improve, Morgan Stanley projects the country’s self-sufficiency rate in graphics processing units—essential in creating AI systems—will jump to 82% by 2027 from 11% in 2021.

Now, the final bashing:

For all of China’s technological progress, it still faces enormous economic challenges, with sluggish growth and mounting fears domestically that standards of living might not catch up to those in the U.S.

One explanation, economists say, is that structural issues such as high debt levels and tanking real-estate prices are overriding gains from technology improvements.

Another possibility is that China’s state-led model is a big part of the problem. Financial waste and fraud have plagued the government’s spending on self-reliance. This month, the former chairman of a government-supported chip conglomerate was handed a de facto life sentence for alleged crimes including illegally acquiring $65 million of state assets.

In electric cars, 500 companies initially raced into the market to tap easy money from local governments. Most have since flopped, and many that remain are unprofitable.

The inefficient allocation of money has contributed to slowing productivity growth. Absent reforms, China may be able to sustain GDP growth of just 2.8% on average from 2031-2040, according to economists at the International Monetary Fund, compared with an average of around 6% over the past decade.

“In every country, even a country as vast as China, resources are limited,” said Carnegie Mellon economist Lee Branstetter. “If they’re used inefficiently, this will hold back living standards in the long run.”

It’s not like Western companies weren’t flopping. As for the GDP growth, it’s lower everywhere else.

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Self-reliance and self-sufficiency have been mentioned several times by the WSJ. While no country can afford a substantial decrease in international trade, self-reliance is a matter of national security. And not only in technology.

How about food? Only one country in the world produces all the food it needs, study finds:

Out of 186 countries, only Guyana produces enough food to self-sufficiently feed all its citizens without foreign imports, according to new research.

The study, published in Nature Food, investigated how well each country could feed their populations in seven food groups: fruits, vegetables, dairy, fish, meat, plant-based protein and starchy staples.

Worldwide, the study found that 65 per cent of countries were overproducing meat and dairy, compared to their own population’s dietary needs.

It also found that Guyana, located in South America, was the only country that could boast total self-sufficiency, while China and Vietnam were close behind, being able to produced enough food in six out of seven food groups.

Not there yet, but not too far away, eh? China and Vietnam share this strange peculiarity: they both claim to be “socialist” countries with “communist” ruling parties, yet their economies are capitalist. Not only that, but their respective GDP’s have grown fabulously over the last ~35 years.

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Now, to end with a piece on the EU-China relations, here’s an article in Chinese, with a translation in Romanian.

Bottom line, from a summary by Grok: “The article suggests that while 2024 saw strained EU-China relations, 2025 could see a ‘low start, high finish’ with deeper cooperation, driven by global shifts and mutual interests.”

I have no intention of learning Chinese, but being screwed by Russia, the US, and its own dogmatic bureaucracy, Europe cannot afford to ignore the opportunity to join forces with the only power that doesn’t want to invade it militarily.

In the long run, as I said, Europe will become a museum of broken ideals and forgotten culture. I only bet on the survival of Asia, hopefully Latin America, and eventually Africa. The new multipolar world order claimed by China in the name of BRICS will have a single leader: China.