plawolf
Lieutenant General
Heard a crazy conspiracy theory just now:
Suppose EU and China want to suddenly ditch the dollar and switch to trading with their own currencies ala Brazil, in a "En tu, Brute?" moment.
Who will need to visit Beijing and talk to Xi to make this happen?
Anyone else? Baerbock isn't really required but would be useful if you want to conduct this grand conspiracy.
- Scholz (he's already been)
- Macron (on the way)
- von der Leyen (on the way)
- Pedro Sánchez (on the way)
- Giorgia Meloni (on the way in May)
- Charles Michel
- Josep Borrell
Seems unlikely but crazier things have happened in history.
You are about 20 years and one Great War too early for that
Eurotrash politicians don’t have the coordination or vision or autonomy for such grand plays in the game.
The US made damn such the EU is fragmented, bogged down in red tape and riddled with US agents and useful idiots to such an extent it cannot make any substantive decisions without US approval.
Individual EU countries can still make big moves themselves, but not the EU as a whole, as that would require countless rounds of endless debates and votes and then need to be ratified by each and every member state.
Thus, the only way the EU can change sides is if the US was utter shattered and broken that the writing on the wall is big and bold enough for even the myopic inbred idiots stuffing the EU halls of power to see clearly.
China had hoped that the EU’s own bloat, rigidity, need for consensus and red tape would also apply in the EU in terms of taking the US’ side in any Sino-US clash. But the speed at which the EU fell into line behind the US on Ukraine probably woke them up from that delusion.
China would not have entered into a de facto alliance with Russia if it still harboured any hope for even a neutral EU.
China will still focus on the US, but it’s not going to do the EU any favours in the meantime. The best the EU can hope for is that China won’t active rug pull them. Because China isn’t as stupid or arrogant as the US to go out of its way to start a two front war. But the position of the EU as assumed enemy to China is now basically taken as a given. China won’t actively attack the EU, overtly at least, but it’s not going to do it any favours.
I think all these visits from EU countries and officials are more about China keeping their enemies close and not tipping its hand too blatantly. Q