From selling out to the US to admitting green-power failures to aiding the war on Iran, the bloc is wearing out its knee pads at a record pace
By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rachel-marsden/rachelmarsden.com
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen © Kena Betancur / Getty Images
Hey,
good news! The EU has found a new source of desperately needed gas amid
the current energy crunch. The bad news? It’s in the US. So it will
serve America, first. With Europe getting any sloppy seconds that Daddy
Trump feels like overcharging it for when he isn’t threatening to
invade.
It’ll be the French energy multinational, TotalEnergies,
serving it up to the US like a waiter at a Montmartre bistro, forced to
smile and bow while the guest pockets the silverware.
Even better? The company wasn’t even supposed to be over there doing that. They had planned to be building offshore windfarms.
But instead, Trump’s Department of the Interior now says that they made
a deal with the French company to spend roughly a billion dollars
investing in American gas operations in exchange for getting about the
same amount of cash back for agreeing to say goodbye to its green wind
dreams in the US.
Team Trump calls it an “innovative agreement driven by President Donald J. Trump’s Energy Dominance Agenda.” https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-and-totalenergies-agree-end-offshore-wind-projects-lowering-costs-americanBut the CEO of the European company is making the cucking sound like a big win.
“TotalEnergies is pleased to sign this settlement agreements with the DOI and to support the Administration’s Energy Policy. Considering that the development of offshore wind projects is not in the country’s interest, we have decided to renounce offshore wind development in the United States, in exchange for the reimbursement of the lease fees,”
said TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne, while adjusting his knee pads,
before continuing to service Trump via official US government press
release.
“Furthermore, these agreements, under which we will reinvest the refunded lease fees to finance the construction of the 29 Mt Rio Grande LNG plant and the development of our oil and gas activities, allows us to support the development of US gas production and export.”
Hold up. So this company gave the US about a billion dollars in
exchange for access to green energy. Then the US gave them back their
money. And now they’re reinvesting it to serve Trump’s agenda? And
publicly “pleased” about it?
Well, good riddance to – er,
I mean, so much for Europe’s green dreams, I guess. But at least it
means they’ll get easier access to more desperately needed LNG, right?
Since they’re the ones doing the heavy lifting. Not without securing a
trade agreement on America’s terms, they won’t. Which is why they’re
aiming to ratify a trade agreement with their tormentor.
Brussels
had been concerned about the agreement that was struck with Trump back
in 2025, named the Turnberry Agreement after the US president’s Scottish
golf resort where it all went down. The deal was about tariffs.
Specifically, it gave a huge break to the US with ZERO tariffs on some
of its exports to the EU, while slapping a 15-percent tariff on EU
imports to the US. Another master stroke of cuckoldry.
And yet
Trump still won’t stop talking about how the EU is constantly stiffing
America on trade. Which explains why the EU has been dragging its feet
on ratifying it, worried that maybe it was putting too many eggs in a
very unstable basket. Something that the US warned it against doing with
Russia, being only too happy to step up to offer a costlier
overdependency on itself instead.
The EU is doing the exact same
with green energy, turning its back on nuclear power before its beloved
green renewables were even ready for prime time. Which also went about
as well as you might expect from these central planning geniuses.
Calling it a screwup, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
recently announced the need to yank another €200 million from taxpayers to “support investment in innovative nuclear technologies.” The same ones they’d been busy vilifying until recently.
“In 1990, one third of Europe’s electricity came from nuclear. Today it’s only close to 15%. This reduction in the share of nuclear was a choice. And in hindsight, it was a strategic mistake,” she said
recently. Lucky for her, the wrath of taxpayer accountability is totally
irrelevant for an unelected position like hers.
Hard up for gas,
struggling to reverse course on nuclear – and now Trump is bribing them
with their own money to forget about wind and invest in American gas.
All that’s left now is to just hope that it’s enough for Daddy to not
withhold the gas produced by their investment from them.
About the
only thing they still have going for them is that the EU member states
haven’t yet officially ratified the deal to totally sell themselves out.
One can hope, right?
“A deal is a deal and we should stick to the Turnberry joint statement,” said EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič.
Whoops, okay. Well, maybe not.
Wait. What’s going on over here in this other back room?
The
German industrial city of Osnabrück is grappling with the idea that its
embattled Volkswagen factory could be saved – but only if it switches
from making cars to producing components for Israel’s Iron Dome air
defense system, reports the Financial Times.
Oh, great. When can we expect a press release on Israeli government
letterhead featuring Volkswagen celebrating an evolution from industrial
champion carmaker to cuck for an actively genocidal regime? Second
time’s a charm, right? From Hitler’s war crime economy to Israel’s is quite the swing.
Similarly, EU leaders have publicly wallowed in wishy-washiness when it comes to US-Israeli aggression in the Middle East. “Strategic ambiguity,” is what they call it. Which is cuckspeak for “talking out of both sides of my mouth.” But the Wall Street Journal has outed
Europe for playing a key role in refueling and supporting the same US
operations which they purport to denounce. So instead of acting to match
their own words, they let Washington have its way, and then tell their
own citizens that European governments will have to come up with a plan
to pay for all the cost of living damage that is beyond their control.
Please,
won’t someone please help Europe off its knees, already? It’s getting
to the point where it risks entirely forgetting how to stand up.