I had to deal with the energy shock in Germany after Putin invaded Ukraine. The solution now is the same: buy ourselves out of the fossil fuels trap, says Robert Habeck, former vice-Chancellor of Germany
The US is literally the final torchbearer of the European global empire. From language to food to religion to fashion to architecture to white supremacy to racism to sexism to fascism to banking and finance to agriculture to child-rearing to education to philosophy. It’s the same continuous process. The US broke away from European governance, but not from the historical process of European empire.
Europe has lived off the spoils of 600 years of conquest. It will have to be unwound. The power structures will need to be dismantled. The wealth will need to be rematriated. Truth and reconciliation will be required. And it will hurt, because Europeans have benefited from brutal white supremacist empire for so many centuries that they don’t even recognize it
The US is literally the final torchbearer of the European global empire. From language to food to religion to fashion to architecture to white supremacy to racism to sexism to fascism to banking and finance to agriculture to child-rearing to education to philosophy. It’s the same continuous process. The US broke away from European governance, but not from the historical process of European empire.
Europe has lived off the spoils of 600 years of conquest. It will have to be unwound. The power structures will need to be dismantled. The wealth will need to be rematriated. Truth and reconciliation will be required. And it will hurt, because Europeans have benefited from brutal white supremacist empire for so many centuries that they don’t even recognize it