“Britain may withdraw from
the EU unless there is a new treaty arrangement for countries that reject the Superstate
project. There is no prospect of Britain
joining the euro or becoming part of a "centralising project". …says the British Chancellor just meters from
stony faced German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble at the Davos economic
summit …………………….Daily Telegraph Jan 24 2015
An air of pessimism hangs over the resort as realities come
to roost over the Eurozone’s performance and EU failed adventure in the
Ukraine.
The Greeks have spoken out against “Fiscal Waterboarding.”
The anti-austerity spectrum is gaining strength. The EU is finally seeing the
massive social cracks it created and which it though would fear the people into
political submission. This has backfired spectacularly. The 1% has a lot to loath after Syriza’s victory.
It is now fashionable to be anti-EU and fashionable to be
part of a New Europe where Empire and Superstate is no longer a given solution
to Europe’s troubled past.
For all the puffing and huffing about how the EU is doomed
the bigger picture lies east of Kishinev where the Russian sponsored Donbass
separatists are pushing for a corridor to Crimea. Should that succeed then it
will be Odessa/Tiraspol’s turn to link a swath of southern Ukraine from
Tiraspol to Luhansk. (The Wild Fields)
Miscalculation by the west over its involvement in Ukraine
has been staggering. Russians are consolidation for a stand-off with the US and
the EU. It threatens to split the world in two.
As sanctions are the only weapons the west can use for now
against Russia, the Kremlin on the other hand can hand the west an impoverished
and desolate rump Ukraine in 2015. Coupled with an Oriental response to
Washington’s hawkish moves to control the world’s financial systems we may be
seeing a return to divisions not witnessed since 1963.