Sputnik International on latest French and German announcements of further military aid to Kiev

I recommend to this readership an article just published by Sputnik International that examines the new planned arms deliveries of France and Germany as they take up the slack left by Washington’s political infighting and temporary inability to approve appropriations for Kiev.

My fellow interviewee, Adriel Kasonta, former chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Bow Group think tank, makes the argument that U.S. policy makers consciously scheme to use their leverage over France and Germany and stage manage Macron and Scholz into bringing the rest of the EU into continued and rising support for America’s proxy war on Russia.

Here I would introduce the old distinction between the subjective and the objective.  Objectively this is what Blinken and Sullivan are achieving. However subjectively, I doubt that these and other major influencers and implementers of the foreign policy of the Biden Administration think in these terms. The obvious shallowness of these personalities persuades me that they actually believe the Cold War propaganda they disseminate daily in favor of democracies, the rules based order, etc. and against autocracies, especially ‘aggressive’ autocracies like Russia. In this realm even individuals with high IQs, and I would put Sullivan in that category, behave like idiots, not like crafty schemers per Kasonta.

See  https://sputnikglobe.com/20240118/how-us-coerces-france--germany-to-fund-zelenskys-failing-conflict-1116238433.html