Ukrainian war and European confusion

Todd refuses to acknowledge “the loss of the sense of reality Europeans experience compared to Russians and Americans who, on the contrary, have a very clear idea of ​​power,” says Todd (1).

Europeans “boast of peace and the spread of humanist values”However, they have lost their understanding of geopolitics, explains the political scientist at the National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris.

“The Europeans are in complete confusion between the American offensive strategy and the Russian defensive strategy, and this is especially true for the Germans,” he continues.

“France does not have an important role in this war. It lacks political weight. (President) Macron speaks and travels. Others laugh. But not the worst He is by far not the most anti-Russian,” he admits.

“Germany is a country that doesn’t want to know anything about the war, has almost no army, brings very few children into the world, and only cares about importing labor to keep its industry afloat.” shield.

The author of more than twenty books on politics, anthropology, and demography and a good expert on both Japan and the United States, Todd explains that Germany “is in the same position as Japan,” the other country that lost the Second World War.

But Japan didn’t want immigrants: it wanted to continue being Japan and Germany chose to outsource its industry to China, while keeping its own industry: it is only interested in the economy and in buying cheap gas from Russia, a country of which it is a complement.

From such “rational reflections” arose the Nord Stream project – the Russian-German Baltic gas pipeline – which served to avoid tariffs that must be paid for the passage of gas to Ukraine and Poland through their territory.

The United States, for its part, seeks to defend its hegemony against Germany, which it sees above all as a dangerous economic rival, following the doctrine named after Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy’s national security adviser.

According to this doctrine, to maintain its current global hegemony, The USA should prevent the union of the Eurasian continent. It is a matter of separating Western Europe, and Germany in particular, from both Russia, the main supplier of natural resources, and the large Chinese market.

That’s why Emmanuel Todd has not the slightest doubt that Washington was behind the mysterious blowup of Nord Stream’s two gas pipelines, with the complicity of the British, which some blame directly.

But it’s not who did the sabotage that matters, he explains. “How can a whole society believe that this could be the Russians”. He seems to believe it was Russia who fired at a nuclear power plant already occupied by his troops.

“Truth has been reversed, which is even worse. It’s fascinating to study this society, and to that I dedicate the book I’m currently writing, the last of which I want to be,” Todd announces.

For the French thinker, the expansion of NATO into Eastern European countries was less so to the detriment of Russia than Washington’s aim was to placate Germany’s anger. A new axis as a result: Washington, London, Warsaw, Kyiv, at the expense of the previous Paris-Berlin.

It is difficult to summarize Todd’s statements in the limited space of this column, who also disagreed with the well-known American political scientist John Mearsheimer’s thesis that Washington might one day “leave” Ukraine.

this is war “an existential threat” not only for Russia but also for the United StatesTodd argues that if Russia wins, the “imperial system” will collapse: it must take “tribute” from its allies to maintain its current debt-extraordinary and increasingly endangered welfare state. So we have a war for a while.