A good analysis of current affairs. It is a long video, about 2 hours and 15 minutes long, but it is well worth watching. I am only going to briefly comment on what Ray McGovern has said right at the end of the video, in the closing remarks. At around 2:11:15 timestamp into the video he says:
“... but I am also thinking that the impetus has to come from Europe now. I mean, just as Putin has given up on the West—I mean, I have sort of given up on the West as well! I don’t see any enlightened people, except maybe Bill Burns, enabled to do, to make the policy advances. What is going to happen, in my view, is Europe has got to feel what is really happening here. We have to make sure, and others, that they are educated enough to know that they have been had, okay, and that they can’t act like a bunch of lemmings anymore, okay. There is a famous cartoon, with the lemming hesitating going over the cliff; and he turns around through the next lemming, and he says, ‘Do we really have to do this?’ And the other one says, ‘To do anything other than this, is to violate the sacred trust of all the lemmings that have gone before us.’ Well, for God’s sake, when you are freezing to death, when your industry is going back into the United States, if you can’t act like an adult at that point—which the Germans clearly need to do—well then, I don’t know, I don’t understand human behavior. So it seems to me that the crucible is in Europe right now. It is winter time. There is going to be an offensive in Ukraine. Won’t the Europeans stand up and say, Enough, that is it, we are done with this stuff; and we are going to have to force some sort of resolution to this. We have to take into account Russia’s security interests, its core interests, as China has its core interests—and the two of them together—we can’t let this go on. So I am hoping that—I am leaving it to you Europeans, Glenn, and the UK, and you Alexander—if we call you guys Europeans—to push the buttons now and say, you know, We have to act like adults. We have got to tell the United States that their hegemony is over; that, you know, we need the gas, we need the oil, and we need to refurbish our own economies, because it isn’t Russia that is suffering from these sanctions, it is us.”
The only comment that I will add here is that he gives “Europe” a lot more credit than they deserve or expect to receive. He is assuming that all the wrong policy decisions are originating from the US, and the Europeans are just blindly and sheepishly following them. Nothing could be further from the truth. The animosity towards Russia in Europe is stronger than it is in the US—and not for quite the same reasons. The European globalists want to create a totalitarian system that governs and controls the whole of Europe—and Russia is the chief obstacle to achieving their goals. Russia is a powerful European country, with a strong industrial, agricultural, and economic base; and which is also self-sufficient in natural resources and fuel. And they have figured out what the European globalists are up to, and are not buying it. All the animosity towards Russia in Europe originates from that. They keep demonizing Vladimir Putin as if he made all the decisions, which of course is not the case. The whole of the Russian establishment has wised up to this, and are not buying it. Just recently the Russian Parliament passed a law banning all kinds of “LGBTQ propaganda” in Russia, seeing it as a “cultural invasion” from the West. And it was passed by a unanimous vote of the Russian Parliament. All the Russian establishment are united over these issues; it is not just Vladimir Putin. Putin is actually a “moderate,” compared with the rest. Anyone else replacing Putin would probably be more hard-line.
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