Welcome to the Jungle, Josep Borrell!
EU Foreign Policy Chief Inserts His Foot in His Mouth and Exposes So Much About the EU
Josep Borrell is a curmudgeonly old Spanish politician serving since 2019 as the EU’s High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. This is a position that sounds a lot more important than it is. It’s a position that imagines itself as some kind of Foreign Minister of the EU, if the EU was actually unified in terms of foreign policy, had the powers of a state actor in international affairs, and the office itself held any real powers. Unfortunately for Borrell, none of the above is true and the position mostly serves as an annoying gadfly and spokesman of the Brussels technocrats, fantasizing as if all of the above were true.
The truth is that for most of his years as the EU’s High muckety muck Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy”, hardly anyone even in Europe, even knew he existed. But in the past week, Borrell has very shrilly opened his mouth a lot, stuck his foot in it, and unintentionally revealed so much about the EU in doing so.
First Borrell, who has previously said that for the West the war in Ukraine “must be won on the battlefield”, has gone and thrown down even more smack and proclaimed that, "any nuclear attack against Ukraine will create an answer. Not a nuclear answer, but such a powerful answer from the military side that the Russian army will be annihilated," which are pretty big words from the High Foreign Policy Muckety Muck of an EU which has no unified military at its command.
Of course, Russia is not going to use a nuke in Ukraine, and the all the mindless chatter that it might do so is just more distortion and disinfo.
And has it escaped Borell’s notice that with just a self-limited 150,000 troop Special Military Operation, Russia was doing a pretty decent job of demilitarizing not just the Western client state Putsch regime in Kiev but all of NATO as well, with all the military aid they have thrown away into the meat grinder there. And now Russia has called up hundreds of thousands of reserves and taken the kids gloves off. Someone is going to win on the battlefield and someone is going to be annihilated, but not who Josep thinks.
Then in perhaps the most telling. Exceptionalist, racist and NeoColonialist bile to spew forth from any European official’s mouth in decades, Borell said,
“Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. The rest of the world is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden. The gardeners should take care of it, but they will not protect the garden by building walls. A nice small garden surrounded by high walls in order to prevent the jungle from coming in is not going to be a solution. Because the jungle has a strong growth capacity, and the wall will never be high enough in order to protect the garden. The gardeners have to go to the jungle. Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us, by different ways and means.”
Yeah – we got it Josep – you in the EU are the beautiful and intellectual gardners with your old white man’s burden and the rest of us are just barbarian monkeys in the jungle. Everything is clear.
Finally – Borell actually said something intelligent. He noted something that I have been saying on this channel and elsewhere for months now, that European prosperity has been built on Russian energy… and Chinese production “Our prosperity has been based on cheap energy coming from Russia. Russian gas – cheap and supposedly affordable, secure, and stable. It has been proved not [to be] the case,”. Well with the blowback from your existential economic war of sanctions on Russia – you made it not so.
As Hungarian PM Victor Orban dryly noted, “It’s not so much that we shot ourselves in the foot with these sanctions,but shot ourselves In the lungs”.
You did this to yourselves. And that prosperity and EU “garden paradise” is now over. Forever. There is no going back.
Welcome to the jungle, Josep Borrell.
”We've got fun and games
We got everything you want honey, we know the names
We are the people that can find whatever you may need
If you got the money, honey, we got your disease
In the jungle, welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your sha-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n knees, knees
Mwah, I, I wanna watch you bleed,”…Josep Borrell.