[Eugyppis] Last Friday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky held the most amazing press conference of all time. For 30 minutes, Trump insisted on the importance of a peace deal in Ukraine and Zelensky refused to concede any concrete points that would make a peace deal possible. Tempers flared, and Trump ended the meeting by telling Zelensky that "the problem is I’ve empowered you to be a tough guy," and that "I don’t think you’d be a tough guy without the United States." He told Zelensky that "You don’t have the cards" and that "you’re either going to make a deal or we’re out," in which case the Ukrainians would have to "fight it out" without U.S. support, which "I don’t think is going to be pretty." Thereafter administration officials sent the Ukrainian delegation packing, their minerals deal unsigned, their lunch uneaten.
The exchange cast the entire European establishment into a psychiatric crisis. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it "took [his] breath away," adding, absurdly, that he "would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States." German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, meanwhile, deplored this "new era of lawlessness," emphasising that "For us, it is clear that we stand firmly by the side of sovereign and free Ukraine." The "enemy," she said, "sits alone in the Kremlin, not in Kyiv or Brussels. We can never accept a reversal of the roles of perpetrator and victim." You will note that German political leaders have ceased regarding the United States — the foremost guarantor of their security — as their most central ally. Their primary loyalties have shifted to the Ukraine. More on that below.
On Sunday, Germany’s most tiresome state media talkshow host, Caren Miosga, convened an emergency meeting of very stupid people to have a sad about the breakdown in Ukraine-U.S. relations.
Our Mickey Mouse Club foreign minister Baerbock was there, and she spoke in grave tones about the immorality of it all, insisting that "we Europeans" must show "resolve" in this dark time. Claudia Major, a lunatic political scientist suffering from a surfeit of estrogen and a deficit of neural matter, deplored Trump’s "preference for Russia" and his "preference for autocracy." She said it was outrageous that great powers like the United States and Russia could just sit at a table and "clarify the important questions" while all others have no role to play at all and are reduced to the status of mere "bargaining chips." Perhaps if Germany had more than 150 operational main battle tanks and munitions stores to last us beyond a few days of fighting, we would not be mere bargaining chips. Instead, we have one of the world’s most expensive social welfare systems and a tumorous bureaucracy the likes of which human civilisation has never seen before. Priorities!
Major also said many other crazy things. For example, she said we have to be very clear on the importance of fighting for the Ukraine and against Russia. That means, I guess, that we will fight Russia all by ourselves if we have to. With what, is unclear. Then a vacant Baerbock said we need to find partners across the world, including the Gulf states, to ensure that Russia, China and the United States don’t just divide up the world among themselves. Apparently Baerbock has no idea that these nations, being great powers, have long since done precisely that. She furthermore explained that the United States aren’t our partner anymore, and then she also said that we have to do everything to ensure the United States continues to be our partner, among other things by explaining to the Americans that there will be "consequences" if they cease being our partner.
Such is the state of political discourse in the insane asylum known as the Federal Republic of Germany, in case you were wondering.
Also on Sunday, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened his farcical Ukraine Summit in London. The event had been scheduled well before Zelensky’s Oval Office beatdown, but it was an opportunity to stand strong with the black jumper man, who was apparently so traumatised by his international humiliation on Friday that he had yet to change his clothes.
At the end of it all the Eurotards and Zelensky, together with a politically disgraced Justin Trudeau and the Turkish Foreign Minister, stood impotently on a staircase for a group photo, flanked by profoundly lame "SECURING OUR FUTURE" signs. It is all about making a statement, saying the right words, and sending the right media message, here in newly independent Europe. 
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