Thank-you for your comments and for your kind words about our article. Your support really means a lot to us.
Regarding your comment about our UK government being relatively silent about the US's current words and actions, we feel the root of this lies in Brexit. We are economically adrift from the EU, and Starmer is afraid to make a bold decision and return to Europe (which is the right thing to do, for meany reasons). He has recently said that he doesn't believe one has to pick between the US and EU, but recent events make that stance even more questionable. Starmer and Lammy have recently started to say what sounds like the right things, such as standing with Ukraine. We won't get too excited about that however, until it turns into actions. We will wait and see.
You are correct about the Lisbon Treaty. The EU is really just a neoliberal economic conglomerate, with all the petty mistrusts and dislikes that go back centuries. We think you are being rational rather than pessimistic, but, this is the moment that Europe *have to* get their act together, otherwise they will see country after country fall. We're not just talking about Russia: we're talking about America and China asset stripping any country that has resources they want. For Europe, it really is a 'now or never' moment.
A masterful analysis and sound conclusions and recommendations. Our UK government is in hock to the Yanks and cannot even raise a squeak of independent protest about anything. If Europe had genuinely wanted Lisbon to work it would be some sort of federated assemblage with a genuinely democratic leadership structure. It has the bureaucracy for economic cooperation but not the political will, and definitely not the leadership, capable of standing united against Russia and the USA now acting together against all of us in EU and UK and others. Please convince me I am being overly pessimistic...
Thank-you for your comments and for your kind words about our article. Your support really means a lot to us.
Regarding your comment about our UK government being relatively silent about the US's current words and actions, we feel the root of this lies in Brexit. We are economically adrift from the EU, and Starmer is afraid to make a bold decision and return to Europe (which is the right thing to do, for meany reasons). He has recently said that he doesn't believe one has to pick between the US and EU, but recent events make that stance even more questionable. Starmer and Lammy have recently started to say what sounds like the right things, such as standing with Ukraine. We won't get too excited about that however, until it turns into actions. We will wait and see.
You are correct about the Lisbon Treaty. The EU is really just a neoliberal economic conglomerate, with all the petty mistrusts and dislikes that go back centuries. We think you are being rational rather than pessimistic, but, this is the moment that Europe *have to* get their act together, otherwise they will see country after country fall. We're not just talking about Russia: we're talking about America and China asset stripping any country that has resources they want. For Europe, it really is a 'now or never' moment.
A masterful analysis and sound conclusions and recommendations. Our UK government is in hock to the Yanks and cannot even raise a squeak of independent protest about anything. If Europe had genuinely wanted Lisbon to work it would be some sort of federated assemblage with a genuinely democratic leadership structure. It has the bureaucracy for economic cooperation but not the political will, and definitely not the leadership, capable of standing united against Russia and the USA now acting together against all of us in EU and UK and others. Please convince me I am being overly pessimistic...