{"id":304382,"date":"2025-03-01T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=304382"},"modified":"2025-03-02T07:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T07:45:27","slug":"chihuahuas-not-dobermans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=304382","title":{"rendered":"Chihuahuas, Not Dobermans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Lawrence \u2013 Scheer Post.com Feb 27, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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I have never been much for schadenfreude<\/em>: It is always best to occupy one\u2019s mind with worthier matters.<\/p>\n

But I cave to temptation as Volodymyr Zelensky, the puffed-up buffoon who has paraded flamboyantly across the world stage as a hero these past half-dozen years, is publicly cut to size as President Donald Trump gets on with the business of ending the proxy war Zelensky has cynically sold to the Western world\u2019s lumpen liberals while presiding over the monstrously corrupt, Nazi-infested regime in Kiev.<\/p>\n

Let us sneer, let us snicker as the air hisses out of Zelensky\u2019s balloon.<\/p>\n

This thieving som-a-gom bears front-line responsibility \u2014 along with his masters, of course \u2014 for the deaths of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers somewhere in six figures and the ruination of the country and the citizenry to which he purports to dedicate himself.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump\u2019s d\u00e9marche toward Russia and a determination to end the Ukraine war he shares with President Vladimir Putin, leave Zelensky marooned on an island made of out-of-date propaganda ops.<\/p>\n

And now we find Europe\u2019s neoliberal elites, having war-mongered their way into the Ukraine morass because the Biden regime told them to do so, wandering on the beaches with him.<\/p>\n

As of Trump\u2019s Feb. 12 telephone call with Putin and the Munich Security Conference, held in the Bavarian capital Feb. 14\u201316, the Continent\u2019s leaders and their repellent mascot have been left holding a very big bag.<\/p>\n

Zelensky\u2019s fall is significant but was a matter of time. Europanic, as I call it, is the big news of the week.<\/p>\n

This shapes up to be more fun than a rerun of an old Terry Southern movie, supercilious hypocrites with their pants down in every scene.<\/p>\n

Zelensky has been the papier m\u00e2ch\u00e9<\/em> creation of others since he was plucked from a sit-com and re-costumed to succeed Petro Poroshenko, a chocolate magnate \u2014 Is there not a serious pol anywhere in Ukraine? \u2014 who moved into the presidential palace after the U.S.\u2013cultivated coup 11 years ago this month.<\/p>\n

He, Zelensky, was financed by one of Ukraine\u2019s countless megacrooks and coached by American image-crafters during the craven chicanery of his presidential campaign back in 2019.<\/p>\n

Link<\/a>BookmarkAs readers may recall, the propaganda got so far out of hand after Russia began its military intervention three years ago that Biden regime ideologues, with corporate media dutifully parroting the trope, had the great broad masses believing Zelensky was \u201ca 21st century Churchill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tell me, I recall thinking, somebody please tell me they are not serious.<\/p>\n

In his now-famous dismissal of Zelensky<\/a> last week, Trump marked him down as \u201ca modestly successful comedian.\u201d Sometimes even what we quaintly call reality has its appeal.<\/p>\n

As Max Blumenthal astutely observed in The Grayzone<\/em> the other day<\/a>, Trump had it wrong when he charged in his contra\u2013Zelensky broadside that the Ukrainian president started the war in Ukraine. No, he provoked it.<\/p>\n

I like the distinction. The modestly successful comedian has effectively served \u2014 very effectively, indeed \u2014 as a sort of agent provocateur<\/em> enabling those with the money and the guns to send extravagant amounts of both into the sinkhole of corruption over which Zelensky presides without the worry of domestic revolts.<\/p>\n

Pleading & Complaining <\/strong><\/h2>\n

With the regularity of a seasonal TV series, Zelensky would bleat that Ukraine needs more weapons, Ukraine needs more money and Ukraine needs it all now. I especially liked it when he would bark that Western leaders \u2014 President Joe Biden, the Europeans \u2014 were sloughing off their responsibilities. The impudent, scolding tone: You had to appreciate this.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t meant for Biden or any of the trans\u2013Atlantic clients. I have had a hunch all along that the Biden White House, which acknowledged daily telephone contacts with Zelensky, rehearsed him regularly as to what to say, when to say it and how desperately to make the assigned point.<\/p>\n

No, Zelensky\u2019s pleading-and-complaining routines, at times so rude Biden\u2019s people told him to throttle back, were meant for the American and European publics \u2014 a perception management op to keep the blue-and-yellow flags drooping off millions of balconies and front porches.<\/p>\n

Zelensky was a professional showman and his was a showman\u2019s work. His other job was fully to harness Ukraine\u2019s neo\u2013Nazi fanaticism \u2014 in the political sphere, in the military \u2014 while dressing it up to look like a presentable democracy worthy of all the billions of taxpayers\u2019 money wastefully lavished upon it.<\/p>\n

And so to the bout of early-onset schadenfreude<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Zelensky in Munich was little more than a gadfly. It was minorly wonderful to watch: You saw in the video footage the face of an uncertain man who knew his star was falling, and his anxious features reminded you that the grotesque operation this nobody was oddly instrumental in sustaining was falling with him.<\/p>\n

The European Turn <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s have a pivot, shall we \u2014 that overworked word the mainstream press has not been able to resist since Hillary Clinton\u2019s celebrated-but-without-substance \u201cpivot to Asia\u201d way back when. Post\u2013Munich, the suddenly desperate Zelensky \u2014 authentically desperate this time \u2014 pivoted on a dime to the Europeans.<\/p>\n

The modestly successful comedian had not even departed from that lovely city of Bierg\u00e4rten<\/em> and parks before he was calling for \u201can army of Europe\u201d<\/a> \u2014 this as if to imply he and his regime were, but of course, as European as the French or the Portuguese.<\/p>\n

And now we have the spectacle of the European powers, ignoring the fact that Zelensky\u2019s diadem just turned into tin foil, throwing in their lot with him and his regime once again \u2014 never mind the only two powers capable of negotiating an end to the war are about to do so over their heads (where, indeed, the U.S.\u2013Russian talks ought to take place).<\/p>\n

I absolutely loved an unnamed Trump administration official\u2019s assessment of Zelensky\u2019s new circumstances a few days after the Munich conference ended.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a shit sandwich,\u201d this source said<\/a>, according to Moon of Alabama<\/em> (which cited a brief Axios<\/em> report). \u201cBut Ukraine is going to have to eat it because he [Trump] has made clear this is no longer our problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now it is decided: The European powers are going to chow down with him.<\/p>\n

We are now treated to a daily procession of chest-beating European leaders professing their determination to go it alone with the Kiev regime. Europe must \u201cstep up,\u201d Keir Starmer said<\/a> a day after the Munich gathering concluded. \u201cIt\u2019s time for us to take responsibility for our security, for our continent.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is from The Times<\/em> of London. The Telegraph<\/em> subsequently reported<\/a> the British PM plans \u201cto defy Trump\u201d with a \u201ctriple whammy\u201d \u2014 vulgarity goes trans\u2013Atlantic these days \u2014 that will include military support and yet more sanctions against Russian interests.<\/p>\n

I am always on for more deluded silliness from Annalena Baerbock, the dependably deluded and silly German foreign minister. And she did not disappoint last week.<\/p>\n

As RT International reported<\/a> under the headline, \u201cGermany issues warning to U.S.,\u201d it quoted Baerbock offering this gem at a Potsdam campaign rally just before Germany\u2019s national elections Sunday:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re increasing pressure on the Americans [so they know] they have a lot to lose if they don\u2019t stand on the side of Europe\u2019s liberal democracies.\u201d<\/p>\n

I can do no better with this one than Tom Harrington, emeritus at Trinity College, Hartford, and an energetic blogger with that pithy wit for which we all appreciate the Irish. Under the headline, \u201cThe perils of method acting\u201d he gives us this:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are a chihuahua and you play a Doberman for many years on TV, you can forget you are actually a chihuahua. This can lead to much delusion when the director calls off the production.\u201d<\/p>\n

I loved typing those lines just now and wish they were mine. These people are blowing bubbles.<\/p>\n

Neither Britain nor Germany \u2014 nor any other member of Ukraine\u2019s European constituency \u2014 has the money, the military, or the domestic consensus to act consequentially in Kiev\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

They have been supine clients of the U.S. for too long. In Tom Harrington\u2019s terms, they are yelping chihuahuas.<\/p>\n

\u2018Into the Valley of Death\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Euros and their Canadian cousins in the neoliberal cause, a dozen top officials in all, gathered in Kiev Monday to put their money \u2014 so wastefully and unwisely \u2014 where their mouths are.<\/p>\n

European foreign ministers convened simultaneously in Brussels. And between them they considered sending Ukraine an additional \u20ac20 billion straight off the top \u2014 more coming is the implication\u2014 and a wide variety of additional sanctions \u2014 on energy, trade, financial services and so on \u2014 against the Russians.<\/p>\n

So: The killing must go on more senselessly by the day, and the European citizenry must continue to suffer, ditto.<\/p>\n

Why do I keep thinking of the Charge of the Light Brigade and Lord Tennyson\u2019s mournful memorial<\/a> to that catastrophic miscalculation \u2014 \u201cInto the valley of death\u201d and all that:<\/p>\n

\u201cForward, the Light Brigade!<\/em>
\nCharge for the guns!\u201d he said\u2026.<\/em>
\n\u201cForward, the Light Brigade!\u201d<\/em>
\nWas there a man dismayed?<\/em>
\nNot though the soldier knew<\/em>
\nSomeone had blundered.<\/em>
\nTheirs not to make reply,<\/em>
\nTheirs not to reason why,<\/em>
\nTheirs but to do and die\u2026. <\/em><\/p>\n

This new round of foolishness among the Europeans is not funny. This is not a Terry Southern script. Under the circumstances \u2014 a likely settlement somewhere in the offing \u2014 it is a criminally careless of human lives and the well-being of 450 million European citizens.<\/p>\n

I see only one explanation for this. It is the diabolic outcome of the liberal authoritarianism I go on about in this space. The neoliberal order must must must prevail no matter what the cost, no matter how obviously irrational this repudiation of reason proves.<\/p>\n

Keir Starmer is off to Washington this week for his first encounter with President Trump. We cannot know what will transpire when they meet in the Oval Office, but these two could not possibly be more opposite in their politics, their temperaments, their intentions.<\/p>\n

Emmanuel Macron, who concluded his visit to the White House Monday, proved predictably ineffectual. He seemed, at least, to understand \u2014 a modest virtue \u2014 that he is no more than a chihuahua.<\/p>\n

Taking as a guide the French president\u2019s failure to get anything done, I see little coming out of Starmer\u2019s small summit \u2014 perhaps, if Trump shuts down the famously spineless Brit, another occasion for the indulgence of a little schadenfreude<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I have waited decades \u2014 I go back here to the mid\u2013Cold War years \u2014 for the Europeans to think and act for themselves, to stand as an independent force as de Gaulle and a few others urged, to serve as a bridge between the Atlantic world of which they are a part and the great East that is their neighbor.<\/p>\n

How superbly moral the world order they could bring into being, I imagined. V\u00e1clav Havel shared such a vision \u2014 or, I had better say out of respect, I shared his.<\/p>\n

Now circumstances at last force the Europeans to go their own way. And they charge in precisely the wrong direction \u2014 clinging for dear life to the old binaries generations of Americans have long insisted upon even as America\u2019s new leadership, countless objections to it notwithstanding, seems to begin looking beyond all that.<\/p>\n

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