French President Emmanuel Macron's recent remarks have caused an uproar in the West. Europe must show that it will not become a vassal of the United States, he said, and that if it does not engage in dialogue on an equal footing with the rest of the world, Europe in the future risks being weakened or, in the worst case, possibly perishing.
Macron
This sounds a bit strange at first glance, when the United States is a vassal, how can Europe perish, isn't it just a few leeks cut, but let's combine the current world situation in which the United States shows its fangs against China, Russia and Iran, and what happened to Germany and France in the past two years, we will know that Macron's anxiety is not groundless.
The United States' hostility toward China, Russia, and Iran has been undisguised, and the package of bills just passed by the US Congress is the best proof of this. The bill is called the Foreign Aid Act, and the main content is military aid to Ukraine and Israel, but in the bill, it is also written that the ownership of TikTok, the looting of Russia's $5 billion sovereign assets, and more sanctions against Iran, as well as more arms sales to the mainland and Taiwan. In addition, a week ago, the U.S. Congress passed the "China-Iran Energy Act" with a high vote, the core content of which is one sentence: China is not allowed to buy Iranian oil.
U.S. Congress
These bills may seem messy, but they are actually a combination of targets that the United States wants to target include Iran and Russia selling energy to China and obtaining foreign exchange earnings, Chinese financial institutions involved in the oil trade between the two countries, and inciting chaos and putting pressure on us in sensitive areas around China. These tactics are pressure, threatening, divisive, and divisive, and fully embody the "political wisdom" of US politicians. But in the final analysis, it is still the competition between China and the United States, so why is Europe perishing? Because the United States wants to use Europe as ammunition.
Today, the United States is indeed still a "global leader", and their military, technological and economic strength is still very strong. However, with the increasing erosion of the two conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Palestine and Israel, and the fact that the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for two years and has not dared to cut interest rates, as well as the fact that the US federal government has a debt of more than 34 trillion yuan, the economic growth rate in the first quarter is far lower than expected. All of this shows that the United States has serious problems in terms of external strategic energy, internal economic stability, and monetary hegemony.
Biden
In such a situation, the United States, which has been deindustrialized for decades, wants to rely on self-reliance to solve the problem, it is basically impossible, and can only increase the frequency of cutting leeks externally. Soon, the United States chose to turn the knife inward and cut its own people. Europe's energy market is dominated by the United States, Germany's core industries, flowing to the United States with money and talent, and Japan being forced to raise interest rates and rapidly depreciating its currency in 2024, all of which have led to an influx of wealth into the United States, at a cost borne entirely by allies.
However, this is only the first step, and if the United States wants to contain the possibility of a potential "huddle" between China, Russia, and Iran, it must attack in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia at the same time. Who will pay for the money? It is certainly not the United States, and even on the issue of aid to Ukraine, the United States is constantly putting pressure on Europe to come up with more money to take over the baton and "defend" its own security.
Biden and Macron
In the past few months, the "Russia threat theory" that has suddenly been hyped up in Europe, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba's request for Europe to enter a "wartime state" are all part of the United States' "strategy of forcing Europe to pay money", and after the United States confiscated Russia's 5 billion sovereign funds, it demanded that Europe confiscate 210 billion euros, and even more wanted to force the EU's credibility to completely bankrupt and let more capital flow back to the United States. It is also because of these that Macron resolutely opposes the re-election of European Commission President von der Leyen, he knows that a huge crisis is approaching the European Union, but it is a pity that he has "woken up", and what is the way to confront the United States?