The inability of the United States to reach Europe is irrelevant

U.S. President Donald Trump’s two-month-old administration’s most shocking scandal so far so far violated this week AtlanticIt was revealed that he had been invited to participate in a private text theme initiated by Trump’s national security team on the signal. Someone in the group was accidental or designed to add Goldberg to a group that specializes in the campaign to bomb Yemen with a strategic plan. Discussions and bombing took place on March 15.

How to choose Goldberg remains a mystery. This is a journalist who announced his verdict on the new administration a day ago: “Two months after the second term, President Trump is destabilizing the world order.” We might think that this is not the kind of media one might think of which Trump officials want to reward through a spoon.

Goldberg did not disclose “accurate information about weapons packages, goals and timing,” warning, “it is conceivable to be used to harm U.S. military and intelligence personnel.” However, he did recount many of the comments that officials expressed their views on the wisdom of action.

As The New York Times According to reports, allegedly Trump’s top aide, Stephen Miller “recommends that Egypt and ‘Europe’ should compensate the United States for this action.” The actual offer for the person identified as “SM” reads: “If Europe does not repay the compensation, then what? If the United States successfully restores freedom of navigation at a huge cost, further economic benefits are needed to bring to the return.”

Today’s Weekly Devil’s Dictionary definition:

remuneration:

Intransitive verbs are added to the political vocabulary in 2025 to replace traditional verbs with a modern meaning of paying feudal membership fees to the Master of Universe located in Washington, D.C.

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Miller’s logic seems to be consistent with the thoughts of his master and master Trump, whose foreign policy is consistently described as a “deal”, a polite way to say “it’s all about Benjamins”. Miller wants those who ask, but in his eyes, they get the benefits from Trump’s bold move. This represents a form of economic logic that has not been practiced in the Western world since the Middle Ages.

Time has changed. Everything Trump does tells us that the political rules of “civilized” have changed. But so are economic rules. Forget Adam Smith, he first imagined the “invisible hand” of the smooth operation of the market. Forget Friedrich Hayek’s “Caltallaxy”, his impeccable self-modulating network dominated by theological virtues of unrestricted communication. It’s time to give up Milton Friedman and his world where lunch is never free. Civilization takes a bold step forward…unless of course, unless this step happens to be backwards.

Yanis Varoufakis claims that today our economy has abandoned all the basic principles we have relating to industrial capitalism. It has settled in a new model, which he calls technology-based technology, a system digital platform and large technology companies have replaced the traditional capitalist market, thus creating a new form of feudal hierarchy.

Some may think that the former Greek finance minister’s characteristic is an interesting metaphor, but the idea of ​​returning to the logic of the feudal past also seems to exist in the evolution of American democracy. The obsession with the walls of architecture and the taxation across the border reminds us of the way European society worked a thousand years ago. Although the United States remains a formal democracy of “all people get equal,” those who watch Trump’s second inauguration do not say where the honor is, a new Techno-Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. We should be surprised that Trump’s youngest son was not yet adult until recently and was named Barron?

In media coverage of the story, many commentators highlighted the disgusting reactions of European officials to the attitudes expressed in the clues. Miller not only wanted to tax Europe Washington’s nobility to defend Europe’s first profitable privileged trade route; exchanges provided opportunities for individuals on Trump’s team to openly despise Europeans in general.

“I totally share your dislike for European free carriers,” Pete Hegseth answered JD Vance’s question about the idea that the United States is having a lot of trouble with this region of marginal interest. “I think we are making mistakes,” Vance said guardian“added that while only 3% of U.S. trade passes through the Suez Canal, 40% of European trade does.” He described it as “release of Europe again.” As the BBC reported, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was responsible for creating the list and mentioned that “his team is working with the Ministry of Defense and state departments to determine how to compile the costs and collect costs from the Europeans.” That’s what the feudal baron did.

History

Although Vance, Waltz and Miller may not know this, the feudal barons of Europe’s past proposed a practice that corresponds to their contemporary ideas. They proposed a tax called “Scutage”. Britannica defines this in the following terms: “In feudal law, the payment of the knight is for the military service he owes his Lord. A Lord can accept a sum of money (or other valuable things, usually a horse) from his closure in lieu of some adventure.” Although there is no provision in modern law, European leaders can expect to learn in the near future how much they owe once Waltz’s words and collect the cost.

Europeans are obviously more uncomfortable with the idea of ​​returning to feudal thinking than politicians and business leaders in the 21st century. Observers of economic trends note that despite all its achievements as a font for modern civilization and as a leader of the industrial revolution, Europe has produced no conquering technological monopoly, now dominant global economy. Nevertheless, it pays tribute to all Technobarons and depends on their network.

Meanwhile, the drama surrounding the Ukrainian war has made people realize that the NATO umbrella produced by the United States during World War II (even if not the imperial conqueror of European fascism) was not to protect Europe but to protect Europe’s design, but to incorporate it into a new global announcement in New York and New York State, and to develop a new New York in New York, both companies building new New York.

Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may be right when he qualifies Europe as “tragic”. It’s not necessarily because of the reason he quotes it, but because politics “UK and European officials and diplomats reacted with hurt and angry to the leak of private information.” They were upset: “Now they realize that the U.S. government has a bad view of them.” An EU diplomat admitted: “It is eye-catching to see the way they talk about Europe when they think no one is listening.”

Please allow me to express my surprise in this post, but surprise. EU diplomats were so young that they intercepted the phone with Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in February 2014 in the notorious recording of the infamous Barack Obama, Vice-President Vice-President Secretary of State Victoria Nuland? After planning details of a coup that will take place in the next few weeks and overthrow the government of Ukrainian President Yanukovych, Nuland advises not to consult these actions in simple phrases: “And the fuck the EU!”

exist Nowwe read this comment: “But with the growing hostility of the United States towards Europe, mainland officials are considering a future that, in the precious relationships spread across the Atlantic, the foundations of relative peace and prosperity that may never be the same.”

The foundation has not changed. It’s just that we can see it more clearly today.

* (In the time of Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain, journalist Ambrose Bierce produced a series of ironic definitions, ironic definitions of common terms, illuminating their hidden meanings in real discourse. Bierce eventually collected and published it as a book and used it as a book, and he mastered his depliment in 1911, and in the continuous effort, his title was ongoing, his title was shame, and his title was ongoing effort. Fair Observer Devil Dictionary)

((Lee Thompson-Kolar Edited this. )

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