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A few recent articles trying to tackle the European mess:
Sergey Karaganov
On avoiding oblivion… and rehabilitating humanity https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/features/avoiding-oblivion----and-rehabilitating-humanity Nora Hoppe and Tariq Marzbaan talk with Professor Sergey Karaganov - Al Mayadeen - 14 Feb 2026 - Alternative https://www.sott.net/article/504664-Professor-Sergey-Karaganov-On-avoiding-oblivion-and-rehabilitating-humanity
I started my scientific career as a professional “Americanologist”, so I know their history well, and I do not view them through rose-tinted glasses. And I know that they have to be pushed aside.
On the other hand, I know that they are also somehow indispensable, because they are very powerful - economically, strategically and even culturally. So they should be invited to be one of the leaders of equal standing in the world in the future configuration of powers, if and when we come to a new global power concept. With all their sins, with all their many crimes, they are still in the picture.
Europe, on the other hand, is becoming negligible - economically, politically, morally, socially, etc. So it’s better just to push them aside and let them stew in their juices. And there may be some hope that they might recover after decades or centuries. After all, we had a Europe falling into a black hole from the fifth to the twelfth century - their Dark Ages. So, maybe it will be possible for them to recover, but it’s not none of our business, we can only be hopeful.
We still have a lot of people who are still infatuated with old European dreams, but the reality is becoming obvious. And less and less people in Russia are calling themselves Europeans. We, of course, appreciate European culture, but we are very different. And we are starting at last to acknowledge that - with pleasure.
Previous interviews at: Russia Update https://metagora.blogspot.com/2025/07/russia-update.html - Fri, July 25, 2025
Richard D. Wolff
Europe Today: Historic Crisis or End Times? https://braveneweurope.com/richard-d-wolff-europe-today-historic-crisis-or-end-times by Richard D. Wolff - Feb 12, 2026 - Brave New Europe - Archive https://archive.ph/EqyW6
For Europe to build the military system and its allied technical and manufacturing foundation – given their decline over the last 75 years – it would need to spend an immense amount of money for many years. It has no empire from which to draw the necessary resources and now it is burdened with tribute owed to the US. Nor is European borrowing, given the risks it entails for creditors, capable of funding the kind of spending needed to seriously address the problem of Europe’s historic decline.
Richard D. Wolff is an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs at The New School.
Ali Abunimah
EU sanctions German journalist in shocking first over Gaza reporting https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/eu-sanctions-german-journalist-shocking-first-over-gaza-reporting by Ali Abunimah - Electronic Intifada - 19 Feb 2026 - Alternative https://www.sott.net/article/504793-EU-Sanctions-German-Journalist-In-Shocking-First-Over-Gaza-Reporting
Dogru is the first European Union citizen known to be living inside the EU to face extrajudicial sanctions imposed by Brussels – robbing him of fundamental civil and humanitarian rights.
He’s also the first person to be sanctioned specifically for his reporting related to Palestine.
Ali Abunimah is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine, now out from Haymarket Books.
Almut Rochowanski
Europe’s Leaders Have No Strategy for Peace https://jacobin.com/2025/11/europe-war-ukraine-strategy-peace By Almut Rochowanski - Jacobin - Nov 27, 2025 - Archive https://archive.ph/oI0f6
European politicians, diplomats, aid workers, and the commentariat that cozies up to them have become used to living beyond their power-politics means: pompously lecturing others about values, heavy-handed interference in the internal affairs of third countries, seizing their resources and forcing their markets open, and dabbling in military adventurism, as in Libya. In the comfortable shade of American primacy, European states have been able to afford a self-centered, lucrative, and at times unscrupulous foreign policy. If the United States bids goodbye to its unipolar-era global hegemony, Europeans will lose the stature of vicarious primacy and have to start treating states around the world as sovereign equals. The thought of it brings many in Europe’s foreign policy establishment to the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Almut Rochowanski is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and an independent activist. https://quincyinst.org/author/almut-rochowanski/
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