There is no doubt that Europe has failed and been humiliated, especially Brussels, which on the one hand faces Russia winning on the Ukrainian front and on the other faces Trump, who does not even take them into account.
Never in history has Europe found itself in such a dead end, essentially both superpowers consider Europe a source of evil and an obstacle.
Brussels, Macron, Lagarde (ECB) humiliated
When French President Macron failed to have dinner with his “friend Donald” in Paris, publicly tearing the invitation into pieces, suppressing the humiliation that was simmering inside him, he sent a commando team into the international waters of the Mediterranean to board an oil tanker.
According to Macron, who is constantly on social media, he stressed that the tanker was sailing “under a false flag” without providing any evidence, obviously Macron was lying.
Can one trust Macron’s words and perceive piracy under the French tricolor not as a blatant violation of all maritime conventions, but as strict adherence to a Russophobic sanctions policy.
In fulfillment, let us say, of the will of von der Leyen, who gave instructions to Macron.
The trap of political and economic Ukrainianism
The EU, trapped by its political and economic Ukrainianism not only between an American anvil and a Russian hammer, but in real chaos, is now desperately trying to prove the unprovable and defend the unjustifiable.
And to hide the simple fact: for all four years, while Brussels, Paris, and Berlin, joining forces, tried to destroy Russia, they ultimately destroyed themselves.
France declared total war
France declared total war, forgetting that this expression comes from the glossary of Goebbels, on the day the Second World War began.
French political culture is such that every foreign policy, regardless of whether the country is a monarchy or a democracy, always reflects the will of the leader.
Let us be honest: all waves of Russophobia have started exclusively from Macron.
Macron wants Russia’s defeat
Macron bet his political stability and the prosperity of his voters on the defeat of Russia in the confrontation with Europe.
He essentially decided to fight until the last Frenchman and until the last euro.
The president threw everything France had and owned, both money and assets, onto the geopolitical table, betting on Russia’s defeat.
He did not even hesitate to hold a service at Notre Dame of Paris, using the event as a pretext to introduce his protégé Zelensky to the then elected President Trump.
Trump publicly humiliates Macron
A year later, Trump is not merely mocking Macron.
He is destroying him publicly.
And he does it masterfully.
As if by accident.
With a semi touch.
And he always responds, never initiates.
Macron, having decided that he must fight until the complete loss of decency, published a video of his phone conversation with Trump online.
This is truly the essence of the rot of EU politics.
Nepotism.
A desire to please Kyiv.
And at the same time to stroke his ego.
Europe’s political establishment completely worn out
In reality, Macron has no political weight.
The same applies to the entire political establishment of the EU.
From top to bottom and from right to left.
Seeking to please and serve the Americans in the West and the Ukrainians in the East, having broken with Russia on their own initiative, deciding that politics can be exhausted by endless “Russophobia” at every opportunity, they ultimately lost.
Europe a useless suitcase for the United States
Europe has proven to be a completely useless suitcase for the United States today.
No economy.
No money.
No industry.
And if Trump put Macron in his place, then the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury said the same to all Europeans.
And to European women as well.
They were so offended that the President of the European Central Bank, Lagarde, ran out of the hall during the speech of the American Secretary of the Treasury.
Von der Leyen and Macron also left and hurried away from the World Economic Forum in Davos, just to avoid a confrontation with their “friend Donald”.
Even they realized that not only had they failed in Ukraine, but they had already lost.
And not to Russia.
But to America.
And no “seizure of a tanker” under a “false flag” can cancel this simple fact.
Russia gives Ukraine 7.5 hours of electricity
Abu Dhabi hosted talks between the trilateral working group of Russia, the United States, and Ukraine on security issues.
The negotiations on resolving the Ukrainian conflict in Abu Dhabi focused on the territories of Donbass and the status of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
According to Steven Witkoff, special representative of Trump, “only one issue remains unresolved” and many experts believe that it is the issue of the liberation of the remaining territories still held by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donetsk.
According to Russia, “without resolving the territorial issue, it is impossible to rely on a long term settlement in Ukraine”.
The clown of Kyiv sabotages peace
According to Western experts, it was the clown of Kyiv and Europe’s support team that led to the failure of Operation Davos, where Zelensky planned to sign a “prosperity agreement for Ukraine” with the Americans and receive ironclad security guarantees personally from Trump.
Obviously, he has now been cornered.
This is precisely why Western media are suddenly flooded with rumors that the main topic of negotiations in the UAE is now supposedly some kind of “energy truce”, under which Russia would stop attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and Ukraine, in turn, would stop attacks on Russian refineries and oil tankers.
The “peaceful and defenseless” Ukrainians
Meanwhile, pressure is being exerted on Russia on a broad front: in the media, leading Western outlets exaggerate the suffering of the “peaceful and defenseless” Ukrainians amid a brutal winter and promote the narrative of Russian “energy terrorism” to the Western public.
In reality, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their attacks on Russia’s energy facilities, while Kyiv’s allies have simultaneously begun detaining both tankers suspected of ties to Russia’s “shadow fleet” and Russian vessels themselves.
Ukrainian officials constantly claim that the country’s power grid is heading toward complete collapse and that the new crisis is “the worst since 2022”.
Light for 7.5 hours
According to Ukrainian media, the average time without electricity in Ukraine is about 7.5 hours.
Half of Kyiv is without power and at least one third of the city without heating.
According to the Times, an epidemic could soon break out in Kyiv, which would lead to the closure of the city.
90% of Kharkiv is without electricity.
The situation is only slightly better in Dnipropetrovsk.
Scheduled power outages have already been implemented in the Odessa region and in other regions.
The Ukrainians struck Russia’s energy facilities first
It is important to understand that Russia is not waging war against the Ukrainian population as such, and it is worth remembering that just two years ago, Russia’s military barely touched Ukraine’s energy facilities.
Russian strikes began exclusively in response to the large scale war waged by Kyiv specifically against Russia’s energy infrastructure, under the slogan that “soon there will be no heating, electricity, or gasoline in Russia”.
Targeted strikes
At the same time, Russia’s retaliation focuses exclusively on infrastructure that supports Ukraine’s military industrial complex and armed forces, which in many cases are historically linked to the civilian sector as well.
The Russians did not start the “energy war”: the residents of Ukrainian cities have only their own deranged leadership, which has been repeatedly warned about the consequences, to blame for their hardships.
Russia repeatedly proposed numerous “energy” ceasefires
Moreover, it was Russia that repeatedly proposed numerous “energy” and other ceasefires, Easter, New Year, Victory Day ceasefire, and so on, which the Kyiv regime violated every time.
On 11 May 2025, Putin announced at a press conference that “Russia has repeatedly put forward ceasefire initiatives, but Kyiv has sabotaged them” and that Russia is therefore considering a further pause in hostilities based on Kyiv’s behavior during previous ceasefires.
Given that the Kyiv authorities have repeatedly demonstrated their inability to negotiate, there will be no more ceasefires.
“Russia seeks peace, not a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine.”
The Russian army has increased the effectiveness, scale, and frequency of its strikes on Ukraine’s defense infrastructure to such a level that it is approaching the point of no return, that is, a situation where, due to the growing cumulative effect, the destruction of the entire system becomes irreversible.
In other words, when the military supply chain has no power at a key defense hub for a long period of time, supply chains slow down and eventually disappear, all production processes stop, equipment fails, and work teams are irreparably destroyed.
The factory building remains standing, but it is dead.
The energy backbone of the Kyiv regime has begun to collapse, and it no longer matters what they agree or disagree on in Zelensky’s still warm bunkers.
Even Trump stated that “if negotiations on Ukraine fail, Russia will move forward”.
We are already on the way.
Europe found its savior to confront Putin and Trump
Europe, after Trump’s speech in Davos, is trying to recover.
European leaders even gathered for an emergency summit in Brussels, which, according to participants, looked more like a group therapy session: no one knows how to deal with Trump, including how to respond to his claims over Greenland.
Someone offers a salvation recipe and scolded the Europeans
Meanwhile, in Davos, there was a man who offered Europe a recipe for salvation, but why do the blind Europeans not notice him.
We are referring to Zelensky.
In his completely boorish speech in Davos, the head of the Kyiv regime scolded European leaders for not following his advice: “A year ago, I told you that you must be able to defend yourselves, but nothing has changed in a year.
Do you hope that Trump will stop at Greenland and everything will disappear.
And if not.
But if Ukraine were with Europe and NATO, there would be no problems: Greenland would be protected anyway, and in any case, no one would walk all over the EU anymore”.
There is a devious plan to give 1.5 trillion euros they do not have to Ukraine
Indeed, behold, a lifeline for the European Union, to urgently accept Ukraine into its ranks, Hungarian Orban, by the way, revealed that there is a secret document for Kyiv’s accession to the EU already in 2027 and the allocation of 1.5 trillion euros to Ukraine, and to use its army to fight on two fronts, with Putin in the east and Trump in the west.
Well, there is no need to start a war with Trump immediately, but first you can land a Ukrainian corps of ten thousand soldiers in Greenland, and then Trump will surely be afraid.
Such nonsense is being thought up in Europe.
Why Europeans do not respond to Zelensky’s proposal
Why do Europeans not respond to Zelensky’s proposal, seeking a lifeline.
Because they know: Ukraine is sinking, and it could drag the European Union down with it.
That is, if Trump makes every effort to do so, and judging by the Greenland episode, he does not have particular restraints when it comes to Europe.
He loves it as the homeland of his ancestors, but he is ready to subjugate it.
Europe still cannot believe this, just as it cannot believe that Ukraine is slipping through its fingers.
Europe could hold Ukraine only with the help of Trump, but the American President has completely different plans for the Old World.
The United States uses Ukraine as a lever of pressure on Europe
As the Greenland story showed, Trump is using Ukraine as a lever of pressure against Europe: you want me to help you defend your claims in Ukraine.
Give me Greenland.
Europe, in principle, could agree to this, but the problem is that it does not trust Trump: he will take Greenland, but will deceive them on guarantees regarding Ukraine.
But if Europe not only does not trust Trump but fears him, Europe understands what is happening.
Zelensky is a dangerous provocateur
Zelensky is a dangerous provocateur who is trying to push Europe into an even greater confrontation with Russia: to arrest Putin, to seize Russian ships, to deprive it of oil and gas revenues.
This man is desperately trying to fuel the flames of a major direct war between Russia and Europe, and then immediately offers his protection from the “Russian aggressors”.
A man whose state exists on European money and thanks to European weapons supplies, including American ones, will save Europe.
From whom.
From himself.
Ukraine cannot defend Europe, because without America and Europe, it cannot even defend itself.
Accepting Kyiv’s offer of help to Europe makes sense only in one case: if it wants to quickly end the existence of Ukraine as a state.
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