From the December 11, 2025, Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and moderated discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Johann Wadephul in Berlin:

And how is Putin able to continue his war against Ukraine? The answer is China. China is Russia’s lifeline. China wants to prevent its ally from losing in Ukraine. Without China’s support, Russia could not continue to wage this war, for example, about 80% of critical electronic components in Russian drones and other systems are made in China. So, when civilians die in Kyiv or Kharkiv, Chinese technology is often inside the weapons that killed them, and let’s not forget that Russia also relies on North Korea and Iran in its fight against freedom, with ammunition and military equipment.

This is outrageous and a huge mistake. To start with the blatantly stupid assertion: Oh, “80% of critical electronic components in Russian drones and other systems are made in China”? Well, a great part of the electronic components in the world are made in China! Also, there have been found American components in Russian drones!

So go fuck yourself, Rutte!

❶ Context: Trump

It’s now obvious that Trump has betrayed both Ukraine and Europe. He wants peace no matter how, as long as he can start doing business with Russia, especially regarding rare earths and energy. Only the fools and the retards believed that the United States would, under the Trump Administration, put real pressure on Russia to at least agree to a ceasefire and real negotiations!

Europe is too dependent on the US in defense. Once the Russian troops were withdrawn from Eastern Europe, the brainless European leaders should have designed a unified European defense system that would not have included any more US troops. I disagree with Putin that NATO shouldn’t have expanded to the East, as this is nobody’s business, and even if Russia doesn’t like it, this is no ground for military action against anyone. But it would have only been fair for the US troops to withdraw, too, and for Europe to take the relay. That French-German quick reaction force never materialized, which, in a sense, means that “the European project” failed.

Unfortunately, Europe relies on the US for much of its weaponry, but in theory it could have expanded its range of aircraft, tanks, howitzers, and so on. On the missile side and on the anti-missile defense front, we’re not faring well here in Europe. That’s what happens when you relegate to Uncle Sam your defense!

It should never be too late to attempt achieving independence from Uncle Sam. “Independence” is too big a word, as in a globalized world we need significant trade with one another. And we literally rely on the US for operating systems, Cloud services, search engines, almost everything that’s IT and communications. Let me remind you how Europe stands in Cloud data centers:

At scale, Europe counts for about 2.5%.

But we should try to free ourselves! The United States has become more than a fascist state: a terrorist one! The attack on Iran; the killings of people on civilian boats (alleged drug boats, but even if they were so, there are rules, rights, laws, and conventions) in international waters in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean; the hijacking of a Venezuelan oil tanker (more to be seized soon); and attacking civilians in Okinawa as if Japan were an occupied subject—not counting the terror that the ICE has created on US soil—these are only a few of the proofs that the United States has become a rogue state.

Trump hates so much everyone that he wants the US to become a hermit state. The new rules to be applied by the Department for Homeland Security to visitors from 42 countries, including the UK, Ireland, Australia, France, Germany and Japan, if they want to enter the US on the ESTA visa waiver include such requirements:

  1. Mandatory Social Media: … The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.
  2. High Value Data Elements: …
    a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;
    b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;
    c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;
    …
    e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;
    …
    h. Family member residencies;
    …
    j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;
    k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.

They forgot to ask for dick pics. Then, the new National Strategy Plan has plans to “C. Promoting European Greatness”:

Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP—down from 25 percent in 1990 to 14 percent today—partly owing to national and transnational regulations that undermine creativity and industriousness.

But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.

Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.

This is interference in the EU’s domestic affairs!

This lack of self-confidence is most evident in Europe’s relationship with Russia. European allies enjoy a significant hard power advantage over Russia by almost every measure, save nuclear weapons. As a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine, European relations with Russia are now deeply attenuated, and many Europeans regard Russia as an existential threat. Managing European relations with Russia will require significant U.S. diplomatic engagement, both to reestablish conditions of strategic stability across the Eurasian landmass, and to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states.

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The Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition. A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments’ subversion of democratic processes. This is strategically important to the United States precisely because European states cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political crisis.

Trump has a strategic interest in strengthening the ties with Russia!

Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory. We will need a strong Europe to help us successfully compete, and to work in concert with us to prevent any adversary from dominating Europe.

By “adversary,” he means China, not Russia!

Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.

By “non-European,” he refers to migration in a way that’s totally unacceptable, insulting, and gross.

Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize:

  • Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia;
  • Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense, without being dominated by any adversarial power;
  • Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations;
  • Opening European markets to U.S. goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of U.S. workers and businesses;
  • Building up the healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe through commercial ties, weapons sales, political collaboration, and cultural and educational exchanges;
  • Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance; and
  • Encouraging Europe to take action to combat mercantilist overcapacity, technological theft, cyber espionage, and other hostile economic practices.

Again, “strategic stability with Russia” would benefit the US. But “Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations” is blatant sabotaging of the EU and supporting idiots like Viktor Orbán! This is reminiscent of the interventions of the CIA in Latin America in the 1960s! And those “healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe” are Hungary and Slovakia, whose leaders are Putin’s friends and allies! Finally, “Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance” is a concession made to Putin.

Under the Trump Administration, the United States is already a foe of the European Union and of Continental Europe in general. The presence of American troops ceased being a security asset and has become a liability: troops of a pro-Putin country in each European NATO member country!

We are trapped.

For the first time, the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (FE) is not only mentioning Russia and China as potential threats in their annual threat assessment. The report “Udsyn 2025” states that, “The US is now using its economic and technological strength as a means of power, even against allies and partners.”

The US might not take Greenland by force yet, but, as Professor of International Politics Ole Wæver from the University of Copenhagen remarks, “The US itself can be a threat. Not least in Greenland.”

Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, senior researcher in US foreign policy at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), notes that this is “a well-known fact, but it is remarkable that the intelligence service writes it down because they are cautious about criticizing the US.” Also, it would be “strange” not to mention how Trump’s US acts aggressively towards allies: “This is also a warning to Danish politicians that we are economically and technologically so dependent on the US that they can hit us hard if they want. Therefore, one should consider how to become less dependent [on the US].”

According to POLITICO, the Trump team is weighing forming a 5-nation group with Russia to replace the G7: How a new Russia-China-US network could work.

No, it won’t work. But TASS is happy about that. Indeed, such an initiative would bring the US and Russia closer, but don’t expect China to genuinely like the US doing that.

But first and foremost, we shouldn’t like that!

❷ Context: Europe

We in NATO and we in Europe are now captive to an American tyrant, who also happens to be uncultured, completely amoral, mentally retarded, and senile. It’s high time we changed that, no matter how difficult this will be! We should have started decades ago.

What’s worse is that Europe’s defense is NATO. To Putin, the EU and NATO have become almost synonymous, one or the other being used interchangeably by Dmitry Peskov. When the Kremlin wants to name a specific enemy, the focus has shifted from Berlin to London.

But when the NATO general secretary insists that Russia will soon attack a NATO country, what he means is a European country. The only countries that could be attacked, realistically, are the Baltic States and Moldova, because pretexts are easy to fabricate in their cases. But a general invasion of Europe is highly unlikely.

This being said, strengthening one’s defense is one thing, and crowing like a rooster is another. It is not the time to cultivate amicable relations with Putin’s Russia, but Mark Rutte’s furor is disturbing. NATO is not a diplomatic institution, yet Rutte’s behavior is kind of embarrassing.

The political convention is that NATO always had a European for its civilian leadership (the Secretary General) and an American general for its military command (the Supreme Allied Commander Europe or SACEUR).

Now Rutte has a grudge against China because Russia alone is not enough of an enemy.

When the current NATO Secretary General makes such statements, this has repercussions over the entire Europe, not just over NATO. More precisely, it particularly affects Europe much, much more than, say, Canada, and it has no practical effects on the US or even Turkey.

Rutte has chosen to be more than a sycophant; he’s Trump’s ass-licker and cock-sucker. This is the reason he strongly lambasted China: because China is perceived by Trump as his number one enemy!

We have let Mark Rutte devise the EU’s external policy! Sure thing, both Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas had already been so retarded as to repeatedly make hostile statements regarding China, and the EU had an idée fixe, an obsession with raising the tariffs on Chinese EVs, but now one thing is clear: Europe considers China an enemy.

This is a strategic mistake.

❸ Context: France

So, China is Russia’s lifeline, right? Think again.

October 10, 2025: 7 EU states increase Russian energy imports in 2025, Reuters reports:

In the first eight months of 2025, the European Union imported over 11 billion euros ($12,7 billion) worth of Russian energy. That amount comes despite a 90% reduction in reliance on Russian supplies since 2022.

Among the seven nations increasing their purchases, France saw a 40% year-on-year jump, importing 2.2 billion euros ($2.5 billion), while the Netherlands’ imports surged 72% to 498 million euros ($579 million).

OMG. This can’t be! We are Ukraine’s friends and allies, and we want it to win the war!

Yeah, sure. We’re fucking hypocrites. Defence24.com, on Sept. 2: France Still Imports Gas from Russia:

Although France is a leader in nuclear energy production, it still imports substantial amounts of natural gas. In 2024, the main suppliers were Norway (32%), the United States (20%) and Russia (17%). Despite the sanctions imposed on the Kremlin, imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from that country have not been completely halted …

President Emmanuel Macron regularly speaks about the need to tighten sanctions on the Russian Federation, further arms deliveries to Ukraine, and the key role of European states in defending against Moscow’s imperial policy. Yet when it comes to LNG, suddenly the war seems to lose importance. This is an issue that must be raised, because Russia profits from selling its resources and invests directly into its war economy.

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If Russia is the enemy, then one should not cooperate with it – right? Right?

Ultimately, it is not just about France – the whole of Europe is sending mixed signals. According to data from July 2024, Russian pipeline gas exports to Europe rose by as much as 37% month-on-month, with Gazprom delivering nearly 10 billion cubic metres of gas in the first half of the year. This shows that Moscow continues to profit from energy exports, which contradicts the narrative of Russia’s supposed energy isolation.

Leaders. We have strong leaders in Europe. Politico, in April 2024, about Q1 2024:

In the first three months of this year, Russian liquefied natural gas deliveries to France grew more than to any other country in the EU compared to last year, according to data analyzed by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) think tank for POLITICO.

In all, Paris has paid over €600 million to the Kremlin for gas supplies since the start of the year, the data showed — leading to calls for France to clamp down on its rising purchases.

“It cannot be that France, on the one hand, says that we have to be harsh with Russia and on the other hand, is paying them off with big money,” said a diplomat from one EU country, who like others for this story, was granted anonymity to speak candidly.

In 2025, France has increased its imports from Russia. February 2025:

France has thus become Europe’s leading importer of Russian LNG: in the first half of 2024, it accounted for 37% of Russian LNG imports into Europe via its Dunkirk and Montoir-de-Bretagne terminals. As Europe’s biggest consumer of chemical fertilisers, France is also one of the leading importers of Russian fertilisers, along with Poland and Germany.

But no, China is to blame.

❹ Context: China

I had a dream some time ago. A lucid dream. Even as China disappointed me with its “non-neutral neutrality” regarding Russia, I granted it a couple of mitigating circumstances.

Let’s only consider the accusations that matter. The Chinese vs. the American components in Russian drones is a moot case.

First, China needs energy much more than we do (China remains the world’s manufacturing powerhouse). They also have a longstanding cooperation with Rosatom, and they require nuclear fuel for their nuclear power plants built with Russian technology: 4 reactors in operation and 4 in construction. (China also has more than 50 nuclear reactors built with French, Canadian, US, Japanese, and Chinese technology.)

Everyone needs energy. India needs energy. Europe needs energy and still imports Russian gas!

We’re not as ethical as we believe we are. China purchases Iranian oil, but the West has always purchased oil from the entire Middle East, and those sheiks aren’t exactly democratic.

Second, BRICS+ and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are pragmatic organizations meant to ensure China’s economic and political dominance in as much of the world as possible. Xi Jinping doesn’t respect Vladimir Putin; he’s just doing business with Russia, and he’s also using it as a lever against US dominance over the world. It’s now evident that the US military is not always a means of reassurance and that economically, Trump is blackmailing everyone with absurd tariffs, even America’s best allies and partners.

Say Trump doesn’t invade Venezuela*, or he’s only invading Venezuela. But this is not just about Trump. In December 1989, Bush Sr. invaded Panama and deposed Manuel Noriega. In 1999, under the Clinton Administration, NATO bombed Yugoslavia. In 2003, Bush Jr. invaded Iraq on false pretenses of WMDs that never existed. There is no way the US could be trusted! As I lived behind the Iron Curtain, I had hopes, and I received information and propaganda (VOA, Radio Free Europe) from the Americans, but I never fully trusted them.

*UPDATE: Oh, yes, he will invade Venezuela. Prepare for it. “Fentanyl is a WMD.” (Venezuela produces zero fentanyl.) “South America literally has the name America in it.” (So it basically belongs to the US.)

Make no mistake: China talks of multipolarism, but the bipolar US-USSR world is dead, so China wants to replace the US as the world’s unique leader. We might like it or not, but this goal is as legitimate (or illegitimate) for China as it is for the United States.

China is not Russia’s ally. China has no allies. China has satellites.

Now, here’s the dream I had:

I nursed hopes that, once the Europeans realize that Trump has no intention to put real pressure on Putin and does not care about a just peace in Ukraine, they will turn to China for a mediator between Russia and Ukraine. China has more economic levers than the US, especially regarding Russia.

Obviously, this did not and will not happen. Ursula von der Leyen made clear that China is a foe more than one. Kaja Kallas did the same, repeatedly, too. Now the NATO retard-in-chief’s comments only added fuel to the fire.

And yet, Emmanuel Macron conducted a state visit to China on December 3-5, including a notable stop in Chengdu, where President Xi Jinping personally accompanied him in Dujiangyan, echoing the symbolic “walk-and-talk” style from the previous visit from April 5-7, 2023. Back then, on the final day, Xi and Macron traveled to Guangzhou, where they held an informal meeting at the Pine Garden in Songyuan.

This time, Xi took on an unusually personal and ceremonious role, acting almost as a tour guide for Macron. This was most notably seen in Chengdu, where Xi personally led Macron and their spouses on a stroll along the Yangong Path, then he explained the history and significance of Dujiangyan. Xi’s gesture was interpreted as a rare and highly symbolic display of respect and a diplomatic signal that China wants to strengthen its relationship with France and, by extension, if possible, with Europe. Or, maybe, France is seen as a more trusted partner than the EU as a whole.

This came after more serious talks in Beijing on Ukraine, trade, and climate, but Emmanuel Macron patently failed to persuade Xi to engage in a more active role in the Russian war.

If this episode was a lost opportunity, the EU’s suicidal attitude towards China is to blame. And now, this retard of Mark Rutte…

Now, moralists would insist that China is not a multiparty democracy. It never claimed it was; the CCP insists that it’s not a political party in the Western sense and that the Western model of society isn’t adequate for today’s China.

I can criticize China, too: I asked Kimi about Macron’s visit to China, and, three times in a row, it censored itself and deleted the answers it started to spit out. From the search results briefly displayed in a right frame, I noticed it found English-language articles on the subject, and I suppose it choked on the criticism found in some of them. On the other hand, Qwen, after initially denying that Macron ever visited China in 2025, performed a more cursory search, and its output wasn’t self-censored. Stupid censorship that deletes EVERYTHING! This visit isn’t subject to censure in itself. Qwen’s answer was a positive one. Even Mistral, which is French, had a favorable view of the visit. I didn’t ask for criticism; I asked for information.

The same rigorists would also invoke the Uyghur question. I don’t give a rat’s ass about religious beliefs, and it appears that those “reeducated” expressed their Muslim faith in a way deemed inappropriate. It’s worth noting that Iran has excellent relations with China. If the ayatollah doesn’t care about Uyghur, why would I? I literally believe religion to be toxic.

On Tibet: Tibet was a de facto independent entity only between 1912 and 1950. Between 1644 and 1912, Tibet was under the suzerainty of the Qing Empire. Again, I couldn’t care less. What did they lose? If Tibet was a country with a true economy and “parliamentary democracy,” I am the Pope.

On Taiwan, this seems to be an accurate enough chronology:

  • 1624–1662: The Dutch established a colony and referred to the island as Formosa.
  • 1683–1895: The Qing Dynasty incorporated Taiwan as a prefecture.
  • 1895–1945: After the First Sino-Japanese War, Taiwan was ceded to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki. The name “Formosa” was widely used in English and other Western languages.
  • 1945–1949: After Japan’s defeat in World War II, Taiwan was placed under the administration of the Republic of China (ROC). The ROC continued to claim legitimacy as the government of all China, while the CCP established the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the mainland.
  • 1949: End of the Chinese Civil War. The CCP proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the mainland. Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan and made it the de facto capital of the ROC. Since then, the island has functioned as a de facto independent state, though the PRC claims it as part of China under the “One China” policy.
  • 1971: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) replaced the Republic of China (ROC) in the United Nations Security Council.
  • 1979: The United States established its policy of “strategic ambiguity” and formalized its commitment to arms sales to Taiwan with the passage of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) in 1979.

To me, this sounds ridiculous. Not only that such an island can claim independence in such a historical context, but that the West couldn’t have the cojones to recognize it as an independent territory! Before the death of Mao, the US and the entire West had all the time in the world to clearly declare they recognized Taiwan’s independence. Back then, the trade with China was minuscule!

But the US spoiled everything. Technically, they don’t recognize Taiwan’s statehood. Only the Vatican and a number of island states do. Utterly ridiculous.

Now, it was preferable, from a Western standpoint, to have Taiwan and South Korea under the rule of military dictators rather than Communists. The US tolerated and even supported these dictatorships because they were stable allies in the Cold War. Both Taiwan and South Korea became democratic in the late 1980s. For South Korea, it’s indisputable that the alternative would have proven catastrophic. Less so for Taiwan.

The fact that the US didn’t recognize Taiwan as independent in 1950, but still considered the ROC (Taiwan) as the legitimate government of all China until 1979 is beyond ridicule. It just doesn’t make sense! Let’s not provoke the PRC, but at the same time, let’s defy it! This is a masterclass in geopolitical contradiction that only the Americans could have devised.

Today, it’s unrealistic to hope that Taiwan will escape Beijing’s rule for much longer. This is just the reality. And the Americans know that they cannot defend Taiwan!

❺ Context: Real life

Europe is at odds with the US (because Trump wants it to be this way), with China, and with most BRICS+ countries. Which are our friends and allies? Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan, and South Korea? This isn’t enough, and it can’t be good.

Pragmatically, we Europeans cannot afford to ignore, alienate, and antagonize China, especially as we’re painfully more and more irrelevant economically and technologically. But we just gave them the bird!

As it happens, China is taking measures to minimize the impact of the AI bubble crash in the United States: La Chine mise sur l’explosion de la bulle IA aux États-Unis — comprendre le plan Yifu Lin.

In brief, Chinese economist Justin Yifu Lin predicts that an AI bubble similar to the 2000 dot-com crash will likely burst during China’s 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), potentially causing damage comparable to the 2008 U.S. housing crisis and triggering a global financial crisis.

Rationale: The Dow Jones has surged from 12,000 points in 2008, already considered bubble territory, to over 46,000 today, despite the US real economy not fully recovering. The current AI boom shows warning signs similar to the pre-2000 internet bubble.

China’s strategic counterplan should be to accelerate GDP growth during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Lin believes China can sustain approximately 8% annual economic growth through 2035. The target is to achieve half the US GDP per capita, which would mean that China’s GDP would be double the US (given China’s 4x larger population), and advanced coastal regions (Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, and five eastern provinces with 400+ million people) would reach US-level GDP per capita.

When these regions match US productivity and industrial development, America will lose its technological edge and struggle to contain China’s development. On the other hand, China is already the world’s largest market; at double the US economic size, access to the Chinese market would become existential for US high-tech companies, while average Americans would still depend on affordable Chinese goods. (So would we!)

China wants to be indispensable, unavoidable, even after the AI bubble bursts!

But we failed to act responsibly and have better relations with China, politically and economically. It would have helped us:

  1. Survive the big AI bubble crash that’s approaching.
  2. Make China consider us an important trade partner.
  3. Persuade China to side with us and help achieve a just peace in Ukraine.

Instead, we have chosen to:

  1. Suck Trump’s dick and support the US even as the US doesn’t support us and is treating us inamicably.
  2. Insult and alienate China.
  3. Jeopardize the future of our continent.

We’re sooo very fucked!