Fred Alan Medforth

After Maduro’s arrest, Spain’s Sánchez breaks out in a cold sweat – Allah's Willing Executioners

By arresting Nicolás Maduro in a flawless military operation and taking control of the political transition in Venezuela, Trump has once again struck hard and caught everyone off guard. As the world absorbs the abrupt arrival of a new geopolitical era, the debates between “legalists” and “realists” fade in the face of the fait accompli, and observers are forced to acknowledge the obvious: The EU is completely out of the game. Kallas’ statement supported by 26 Member states (Hungary refusing to sign), is a collection of platitudes and contradictory diplomatic stammering.
Through these inaudible reactions and its attempts to reassert an order that has been shattered, the EU is acknowledging its impotence, if not its obsolescence. Europe is naked; it carries no weight. It dreamed of being a trendsetter, a benevolent regulator of a globalised world, and finds itself brutally ejected from the course of history. All that remains for it is to rearm itself, to clean house (illegal migration …

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