Silver Lining?

Did Germany inflict a blow against the power of the European Union to rival Brexit?

Huh:

European foreign policy died in Moscow last week. The burial will be held at sea this spring, some 35 fathoms under the Baltic, where a towering Russian vessel called “Fortuna” is laying the final section of the 1,230 kilometer-long Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany. 

While the end of Europe’s geopolitical ambitions was long in coming, the coup de grâce was a jaw-dropper, if only because it was self-inflicted.

In what is being called “the humiliation” in Europe’s capitals, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stood silent in Moscow last Friday as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the EU as an “unreliable partner” during a joint appearance on live television. 

"Europe's" geopolitical ambitions means the European Union's ambitions. The EU is different than geographic Europe, a difference the Euro elites like to obscure.

The pipeline throws Ukraine under the bus and seems like a Russia-Germany non-aggression pact.

Germany is willing to use the EU to push its own interests. Letting the EU drive Germany's desires is another matter altogether.

That initial article mocks the EU by saying:

European parliamentarians reacted with outrage and calls for Borrell’s resignation. Belgian MEP Assita Kanko even asked Borrell, a Spaniard, what had happened to the EU’s cojones.

By asking the question, she unwittingly exposed the EU’s dirty little secret: It has none. 

But I don't think the EU has any desire for cojones big enough to stand up to the Russians. All the EU wants are cojones big enough to prevent their imperial subjects from thinking they are free citizens.

I won't celebrate Germany's deal with the Devil. But it does show that despite the EU's "ever closer union" project that "Europe" still doesn't have a phone number to call, as Kissinger supposedly--but did not--quipped. And I won't turn down a silver lining if Germany has harmed the proto-imperial European Union before it can strip away the prefix.

It seems like I spend more time worrying about the European Union than I worry about Russia. 

Russia is a weak enemy that is unlikely to rise much beyond a regional military power with continents-spanning defense needs. And in time, Russia may come to its senses and stop their obscured appeasement of the Chinese. 

The EU is a potential military power that in a worst case could subtract a lot of military power from the American side and put it in the enemies' ledger. 

So yeah, long term I worry more about the proto-imperial EU.