TFF PressInfo # 765: Europe is now facing two Cold Wars thanks to NATO's expansion and its self-righteous groupthink covering up that Himalayan miscalculation
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From TFF Director Jan Oberg
Lund, Sweden - February 23, 2025
Dear friend,
In a way, too much is happening too fast - and being too weird/outlandish - to comment on. We live in tumultuous times in which most of the West digs trenches in all directions.
Europe is now facing a double Cold War - to the East with Russia, to the West with Trump’s US - you know, north of the Gulf of Mexico - that is run by an authoritarian leader, his family members and business friends by executive order, statements and bizarre - but dangerous - ideas.
Will the US become the United States of Autarchy built on an American arch from Panama to Canada, the Arctic and the Nordic countries (the latter with 47 US bases under US jurisdiction) - grabbing all the resources it “deserves”? Will it turn Gaza into Las VeGaza - if so, the real reason is the huge resources outside its coast.
Like everywhere else, the US will simply leave Ukraine, a ravaged country, behind - since Obama’s regime change in 2014, which is one of modern history’s biggest crimes - but then, he is so charming, isn’t he?
Will Trump make a ‘deal’ with Russia and then control resources everywhere it thinks it needs, including in Ukraine? That would be reverse payment of war compensation by the US/NATO. It, more than anybody else, provoked Russia to start its counterproductive and law-breaking special military operation.
If Trump goes ahead, it means limitless contempt for international law and the UN. Limitless militarisation - for do not believe Trump when he talks about disarming the US. He doesn’t exclude the use of military means to grab what he wants and realise his bizarre ideas.
Tragically, European leaders do not understand that, last week, Europe changed as much as when the old Cold War broke down and the Soviet Union dissolved. They still talk - like Danish PM Mette Frederiksen (perhaps Europe’s leading militarist) - about winning the war and defeating Russia (and bleeding Ukraine to death, which they don’t bother about in their limitless cynicism).
They talk about NATO “peacekeepers” (!) in Ukraine and they still have not understood one word of Russia’s concerns and also not that the United Nations is the world’s only experienced peacekeeping organisation.
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