As Keir Starmer works hard to hand over the Chagos Islands, and hence Diego Garcia, to a Chinese puppet with no connection to the islands, it sure looks like our NATO allies are cozying up to China more explicitly than ever.
Their excuse is that the United States isn't being nice enough to them by providing for nearly 100% of their military security, which is MEAN MEAN MEAN, and that Trump is a big mean bully who is renegotiating trade relationships and demanding more control over Greenland.
They are butthurt.
Of course, the EU has been censoring Americans, directly interfering in US elections, and has been the beneficiary of trillions upon trillions of US military spending in its defense. We pulled their butts out of the fire three times now (WWI, WWII, Cold War) at enormous cost in lives and money, and rebuilt their economies after they wantonly destroyed them.
Well, OK, I understand the butthurt. It's little different than the SNAP beneficiaries bitching that their benefits no longer cover soda and cupcakes. Resentment is a natural human emotion, if it is one that should be beneath countries that created our civilization.
I literally can't with the Germans. "...Merz said on Wednesday he would seek "strategic partnerships" with China during a trip next week....We have a strategic interest in finding partners in the world who think the way we do, who act the way we do, and who above all are prepared…
— Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) February 19, 2026
We have a strategic interest in finding partners in the world who think the way we do, who act the way we do, and who above all are prepared to shape the future together so that we remain a country with prosperity and a high level of social security," Merz said.
But it's one thing to bitch, moan, and whine. And it is quite another to start talking about strategic partnerships with an enemy such as China. Yet that is what these NATO "allies" are doing, one after another.
This is what strategic partnerships with China look like pic.twitter.com/CQb2Sza4iP
— Richard Casey (@Richard_Casey) February 19, 2026
The European Union is bitching about Trump's tariffs, but by any rational measure, China's industrial policies are far more harmful to European economies than anything Trump has done. China has been pursuing predatory trade policies for decades, and has a stranglehold on critical minerals and a demonstrated will to use them to bully countries into compliance.
The latest IMF analysis of China (The staff report/ Article IV) highlights that China's export driven growth has come at the expense of its trading partners.
— Brad Setser (@Brad_Setser) February 19, 2026
That is welcome, and very necessary message
1/many pic.twitter.com/RTYAzRkFAv
Now, suddenly, our NATO allies are talking about a "New World Order" with China as their key partner, which is absolutely insane.
But then again, these are the same countries that put all their eggs in the Russian energy and Chinese "renewables" basket, which was similarly insane.
Carney is entirely owned by the PRC - completely selling out Canada. https://t.co/FItA4QyIuj
— Mark Noonan (@Mark_E_Noonan) February 16, 2026
If we view our allies through the conventional lens—the "free world" that has stood together for nearly a century against tyrants—none of this makes sense.
But if you reframe things in terms of the goals of the WEF/Internationalist technocracy, it makes perfect sense. Europe has been Sinicizing its culture for quite a while, building a social credit system, a censorship regime, limiting mobility for citizens, and exporting its industry to China.
In many ways, the ideal society in their eyes looks more like China than the US. They have been living their best life—becoming like China, under the security umbrella of the United States.
PM Carney pre-election (2025):
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 16, 2026
"Our biggest security threat is China"
PM Carney post-election (2026):
"Our partnership with China sets us up well for the New World Order" pic.twitter.com/ZLZfAH9hR3
Now that Trump is asking them to be less dependent on the United States for military protection, they look like they are leaning to joining with the new natural ally: China. They share values with them, after all.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer flew to China on the first visit by a British leader in eight years, seeking to mend ties with the world's second-largest economy and reduce his country's dependence on an increasingly unpredictable United States https://t.co/1uQFWdooCc pic.twitter.com/kJ9xJhf2NV
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 28, 2026
Or at least they think they do. China definitely has no interest in melding with Europeans as "partners." They would be happy with clients, and the Internationalists can be Satraps.
Kevin O’Leary says the quiet part out loud about what Secretary Rubio’s speech meant in Munich:
— Overton (@overton_news) February 16, 2026
“You’re either with us — or you’re not.”
O’Leary then laid out the nightmarish dystopian future if China were to win global dominance.
This was a direct warning to all of Europe.… pic.twitter.com/JE7WkkZDw0
O’Leary then laid out the nightmarish dystopian future if China were to win global dominance.
This was a direct warning to all of Europe.
O’LEARY: “This all started a few weeks ago at Davos on the famous speech Carney gave, the prime minister of Canada, with the words ‘new world order.’ That did not go well with the Trump administration, as you remember.”
“Actually, it hurt relations with Canada at this point, which hasn’t really restarted on the tariff front.”
“The point is though we are getting to a place now where there’s only adversary, and I think it’s time to just call it out, China. That’s it.”
“And so you either are with us, so to speak, against China, or you’re not.”
“Because China is getting ready for world dominance.”
“I call it what it is. Economically, militarily, AI, power, you name it, those guys are not fooling around, and if we don’t wake up and get together on this, they will be the superpower.”
“Now, if you’re okay with that and you want to live in that kind of a world, well, I don’t. So I’d like to see this thing worked out pretty damn fast.”
“Because Europe has to get on board, Canada has to get on board, everybody that believes in democracy, freedom and capitalism has to get on board.”
“Or, you will see those guys walk into your country one day.”
Perhaps Europeans think of themselves as the world's third superpower, but in that they are quite mistaken. Their power has been in decline for decades, and their influence has depended on their alliance with the US and on our willingness to let them pretend to be more important than they are.
I don't mean to underplay the economic importance of the EU. They still represent a considerable market, and, of course, we Americans have a fondness for the older version of Europe and still share values with many ordinary Europeans. I have a soft spot for the idea of Europe.
But if they think that China will give them a better deal than the US, they are grossly mistaken. Not only is China far more ruthless, but outside its sphere of influence, they have negligible real military power. A US war with China near its shores would be costly to us; anywhere else, they would last about five minutes, and only that long because it takes time for missiles to hit their targets.
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