Introduction: Reflecting Briefly on Part 1
A considerable portion of part one of this two part article consisted of a synthesis of how and why the last two and 1/2 decades of American foreign policy have been crippling for the US. In part one it was also mentioned that the US, over the course of the last three and ½ months, seems to be pivoting away from what was previously an ideologically delineated neoconservative foreign policy agenda. In fact, it was this bipartisanly followed path that “brought America and the rest of the world right up to the brink of a nuclear war at the end of 2024”.(1)
Europe’s Plan to Plunge Headlong Into the Void
Europe, on the other hand, is a different story. Unlike the vast majority of the rest of the world, many of Europe’s current leaders have essentially refused to acknowledge the transition from the Unipolar era to the Multipolar era.(2) In fact, people like Keir Starmer (UK Prime Minister), Emmanuel Macron (French President), Ursula von der Leyen (EC President) and Frank-Walter Steinmieir (German President) have all recently agreed to double down on the formerly US led charge to take on Russia militarily. These European leaders have proposed, to the astonishment of international affairs analysts across the globe, that the EU devote 800 billion dollars to Ukraine in order to prolong a war that almost every military expert with any credibility left has conceded is now a lost cause for Ukraine.(3),(3a) To add confusion to desperation, more than half of the remaining population of Ukraine now wants the war to end quickly, in a diplomatic settlement.(3b),(3c)
Essentially, the question of whether or not one remains a proponent of escalating the war in Ukraine has become, at least since the US began extracting itself from “Project Ukraine”, a mute point. Even when the US was heavily invested and involved in the war during the tenure of the Biden administration, Ukraine’s chances of achieving anything resembling victory over a considerably better equipped and much larger Russian army were, at best, slim.(4),(5) Additionally, over the course of the last three years due to a confluence of factors that we will not have time to fully address here, Europe’s involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war has plunged it into dangerous levels of inflation and near recession that it hasn’t experienced in decades.(5a)
Despite the serious economic predicament Europe is in right now, these European leaders are of the mindset that in order to protect the rest of Europe from eventual Russian invasion, they must begin the Herculean task of restructuring their combined economy so as to facilitate extensive military growth. One of several problems with this proposal is the fact that Russia has no interest in invading the rest of Europe, despite what the Western press has been saying over the course of the last few years.(5b) In fact, Russia’s hope was to not have to endure the headache and the inconvenience of annexing anymore of Ukraine than what its Special Military Operations objectives entailed.
As former US-Russia advisor Jeffrey Sachs and many other high level officials and military experts outside the Western narrative bubble know and have said, “Russia has no desire to govern the region of Ukraine that doesn’t want them there, nor does it have any wish to invade anywhere else in Europe.”(5c) Although some of this news about Russia’s actual intentions may seem surprising to those who’ve been reading propaganda about Vladimir Putin’s plan to annex half of Europe in the coming years, it is nonetheless a fact that time will make evident.
Another quite serious problem with Europe’s new plan is the fact that the majority of Europe’s population wants nothing to do with extending the war.(5d) Relatedly, in order to continue pushing their trans-European proposal forward with as few hitches as possible, those currently in power have blocked frontrunning right-wing candidates Calin Georgescu and Marine Le Pen from running for positions of government leadership in Romania and Germany.(6),(6a) To add irony to insult, one of their stated reasons for not allowing the two populist candidates to run for office was the need to preserve European Democracy. Think carefully about the sentence you just read before the one you’re reading right now.
Sadly, Europe’s current situation has crossed over from the realm of the regretful into that of the ridiculous. It would be a comedy skit but for the level of waste and tragedy involved. There’s simply no way that this plan, that this pipedream which essentially involves challenging the entire multipolar global world order without the help of the US, can be sustained. In fact, if Europe’s leaders don’t change course soon they will likely end up generating a civil war or several civil wars within the spectrum of Europe’s borders.(6b)
What America Must Do to Avoid Catastrophe
In part one of this article it was mentioned that the Trump administration’s foreign policy pivot toward diplomacy and a certain amount of cooperation with the US’s supposed “enemies” is an auspicious step. For instance, by opening up communication with Russia, which had been blocked by the Biden administration for almost three years, the incredibly dangerous, continually escalating likelihood of a nuclear confrontation with Russia has been, for the time being, side-stepped. Trump’s willingness to shift gears and to at least in some cases work with rather than against his adversaries has also been a step forward from the ideological inflexibility of both the Biden and Bush Jr. administrations. In order for this pivot toward diplomacy to remain effective though, there are a few vital objectives that must be met by the US:
1- The US’ unrelenting devotion to Israel and the Netanyahu government must cease. More specifically, any intentions to engage in a war with Iran or another country or set of countries in the Middle Eastern region must be abandoned. Not only for the sake of the US, but for the sake of Israel and the rest of the region. Israel would be destroyed in a full-on war with Iran, who have ten times the population of Israel as well as a much bigger army. Also, Iran is now a key ally of both Russia and China.(7)
2- The US must abandon its hegemonic ambitions and fully recognize that the world has changed drastically over the course of the last four years. The current administration has shown signs of some acknowledgement of the undeniable rise of BRICS and the new multipolar world order. The era of the US being able to bully the rest of the world and to loot its resources with impunity is, very definitely, over. The sooner this fact is realized and processed the better chance the US will have of being able to survive as a vital player within the newly developing multipolar world order.(8)
3- The US must drop any present day or future plans to go to war with China. The antiquated conceptions still held by military and government Neocons and “offensive realist” military analysts like John Mearsheimer (whose ideas are a product of a different historical moment), must either be updated or jettisoned. Eventually, the US is going to have to accept the fact that its main aim should not be to “contain” but rather to work in concert with China and the rest of its global neighbors in the newly developing world order.(9) This would include the Trump administration discontinuing its current tariff war against China.
*In fact, the US and every other country must become aware of the fact that the era of using war as a means of provincial expansion and enrichment is over. Aside from the moral contradictions inherent in war, it’s no longer effective as a tactical tool.(10) This is a topic that will be covered in more depth in a future article.
4- The people of the United States must eventually come to recognize the inherent counterproductivity of the currently operating socio-economic model, which seconds the well-being of its human population to the profit motive and the material gain of an exorbitantly wealthy few.(11) This subject will also be covered in more detail in a future essay.
CITATIONS:
1-https://www.jeffsachs.org/interviewsandmedia/y88h37wdwj5ckzj6tn9xeykbc8cx25
2-https://www.thenationalherald.com/in-a-multipolar-world-europe-must-reform-or-die/
3-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwyoJoTknZ4
3a-https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/ukraine-trump-zelensky-funding-eu-b2708721.html
3b-https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/11/20/most-ukrainians-now-want-an-end-to-the-war
4-https://time.com/6695261/ukraine-forever-war-danger/
5a-https://www.citigroup.com/global/insights/euro-area-back-on-the-verge-of-a-recession
5c-https://eurasiamagazine.com/jeffrey-sachs-europe-must-negotiate-with-russia
5d-https://responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-poll-ukraine-russia/
6-https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj679nk6endo
6b-https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/03/civil-war-is-coming-to-britain/
7-https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/04/19/israel-iran-war/
8-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PH-BsnnLXI
9-https://www.newsweek.com/us-japan-news-kadena-air-force-china-missile-war-2070752
10-https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2022/10/11/col-douglas-macgregor-says-support-antiwar-com/
11-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_3_PnnZ14I
