Seymour Hersh warned the U.S. of the colossal consequences of undermining the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines because these actions were directed against the interests of Europe. Hersh predicts dramatic consequences, up to the withdrawal of a number of countries from…

The issue I see in western Europe is that the elected leadership is incompetent over all. It does not serve the interests of the people and sacrifices the functionality of the state for the goals of those actually pulling the levers of power outside the elected body of…

We live in an age where many incompetent public figures are in high positions in the west as a whole. We know that it is impossible that they are making all decisions. Those that are making the decisions do not care if functionality of the states they have control over…

The old tranche of elite we used to have cared about the functionality of the state and the ability to continue as a going concern. The new breed is particularly short sighted as though they have given up on continuance of functionality in exchange for immediate gains.

It could be they realize resources needed to keep it going are looking to be in shorter supply in the near future. All that is left to do is look out for themselves even though they created much of the resource overuse problems over the last 30 years trying to save money to…