A Continental Pact for Permanent War
Starmer and Macron are aligning Britain and Europe around a long-haul strategy of containment and confrontation with Russia.
Macron visited London to draw Britain back into the European Union. He was received with full ceremony, met the King, and addressed Parliament. Starmer supported the visit and used it to show that his government stands closely with European leadership. Nothing was agreed on trade, energy, or borders, and no concrete policy was proposed. The visit was organised to show political alignment without offering anything useful to the public. Starmer has not hidden his aim to return Britain to the European Union by stages. The event was another step in that plan.
Neither side offered serious proposals on trade, industry, or economics. Both governments face the same structural problems, de-industrialisation, shrinking birth rates, political fragmentation, and fiscal collapse. French and British industries continue to close. Demographic decline has accelerated, more so since the genocidal covid plandemic. Migration flows remain unresolved, not that it was even a real policy concern for the elites. Public services are stretched, and defence capacity is paper thin. Yet none of these issues featured in the joint meetings. Instead, both governments reaffirmed their shared commitment to the shameful money pit Ukraine war and to the wider European totalitarian project it now serves.
Starmer treats Britain’s return to the EU as gradual alignment through shared action rather than declared policy. Project Ukraine provides the necessary cover for this deception. By standing with Europe on the war, Britain integrates without another referendum vote, quite a “cute” backdoor strategy. If Ukraine continues to fight, the UK stays close to the EU as a military partner. If Ukraine collapses, the EU and the UK will frame Russia as the common threat. Either way, the end result is the same. Starmer has accepted Macron’s vision of foreign policy driven by European institutions, with less reliance on the United States and none on China. European defence and economic planning are to be centred in Brussels and backed in London.
France claims to hold red lines on the Ukraine war. The French defence minister has stated that Ukraine must retain military capacity under any peace terms. That position rejects Russian demands for demilitarisation. But France lacks the force to uphold those red lines. Its military capacity is limited, because just like Little Britain, French economy is stagnant, and its arms production is slow. Paris cannot intervene in Ukraine without U.S. support, and Washington is not offering it. The claim that France will prevent Ukrainian demilitarisation has no backing. Russia holds the ground, its clearly in charge, and sets the pace. Moscow enforces its red lines with game changing weaponry. France cannot, and can never match Russia's power. What can those useless Dassault Rafale jets plucked from the sky by Pakistan like a gamebird do to Russia's power?
Germany is now following a single foreign policy track. Friedrich Merz has moved the country into open confrontation with Russia, declaring diplomacy over. Military support for Ukraine will continue indefinitely it now appears to be the forever strategy. There's no debate that the German industry is struggling, budgets are tight, and energy costs are high since the Nordstream debacle and woke green policies, yet the government keeps the same policy. Merz views the conflict as a national priority, and true to form, doing the bidding of the warmongers that put him in power. His critics inside the government have little power, lets just say non existent. The AfD and other opposition parties continue to grow, but the establishment holds control of the media and the parliament. Bans on dissent are being prepared under the argument that wartime conditions require unity.
German history adds another layer. The policy now being followed amounts to a third confrontation with Russia. World War II has been pushed to the edge of public memory, as that generation with memory of it, fade away. Germany is now openly preparing for war in the East, something once considered impossible. Little Britain and France are pushing and encouraging it. The United States, under Trump, has not pushed back either. Merz has met with U.S. officials and received support for Germany’s military build-up. Russia sees this and has responded by building its own defences and preparing for a long drawn conflict. The Kremlin now speaks of Germany as a permanent threat and treats Europe as a region beyond repair. Diplomatic ties have completely broken down, as military readiness is the only policy left across the board.
The Ukraine conflict serves many roles. For France and Britain, it justifies EU integration. For Germany, it serves as a long-term confrontation with Moscow. For the EU as a whole, it covers a lack of internal economic policy and hides structural decline from its fleeced citizens. European governments now see the war in Ukraine as something that will just keep going. Whether Ukraine wins or loses doesn’t seem to matter to them anymore, keeping the conflict going is all that matters. A permanent state of confrontation provides political cover and strategic purpose. Domestic failure can be blamed on external threat. The BRICS nations observe the situation with increasing detachment, as Russia, China, India, and others come to regard Europe as unstable and strategically irrelevant. As seen at the summit in Brazil, their focus has shifted to building alternative systems outside of western control. The war in Ukraine now marks the dividing line between global systems. While the West clings to its position, much of the world is preparing to move on. Europe’s approach is no longer grounded in peace, development, or meaningful reform, it is anchored in prolonging a war it cannot win.
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