Actionability
There is a strong component of ridicule in the whole narrative regarding Donald Biden's visit (the “oversight” is due) to the European G7. And from everything you read, it seems clear that Biden did not come to make decisions, but to check whether the conditions would still exist to make decisions in the future.
Understanding it is easy: in the concluding statements there is an absolute lack of "actionability", that is, the quality of an official position to be able to become a real conduct. Put yourself in the shoes of any of the European leaders who participated: even assuming you will remain in office for a long time, what would you actually do tomorrow, given the final declarations of the summit?
Um… nothing. Essentially nothing, for the simple reason that there is nothing "actionable" in the statements. Nothing that can be translated or mapped into a series of real actions.
I would like to underline some points:
- Biden will last 4 years in office. Then, if the Democrats find an organism (preferably a mammal) capable of running, then perhaps a Democrat will return to power. Otherwise a trumpoid will go.
- Merkel will not run, and her CDU successor was NOT present at the meeting, not even in the last few days, those that are useless. That is, no one in Germany takes the responsibility of giving any continuity to what has been decided.
- Italy and France are represented by leaders whose history will soon end. And not so much because the mandate expires, but because there is maximum uncertainty about who could take the place of Draghi and Macron.
- Biden's policy hasn't changed since Trump. Not only in the interior, where the Americans witnessed the first 100 most useless days in their history (NO reform), but in terms of foreign policy Biden came to Europe to ask for the same things Trump was asking, but (how it was said in high school) "in his own words".
The question goes without saying: with these premises, why should something real happen at this summit?
Not for nothing, the only "flab" was that which came out of the meetings with leaders who will remain in office: with von Der Leyen they closed the dispute over Boeing, while with Putin they got the ambassadors back in their respective locations. Point.
The situation of the European press is different: the trumpets are being blown to reconstruct that beautiful Cold War climate that Peppone and Don Camillo liked so much. The problem, however, is simple:
- most Europeans do not consider China a Communist country.
And not because they are refractory: the problem is that in the past 30 years, when someone dared to say "will it be safe to sell self-fertilizing nuclear technology to a communist dictatorship like China?" ALL the newspapers, that is the financiers who control them, replied “shut up, fool! can't you see that China is no longer a communist dictatorship?
After 30 years in which the press was driven by economic and political interests to extol China as the modern, reformist, enlightened, marketist, capitalist, and all good things, now the press is given 3.4 years to convince everyone, and everyone, of the fact that China is "a communist dictatorship with extermination camps". But look.
But where are those today who, until recently, told you “shut up, fancazzista with the weekend! China is the REAL free market! " when did you dare to say it was a communist dictatorship?
I'll tell you: they are the ones who will call you a communist FROM TOMORROW if you don't repeat the words that THEY criticized you when YOU said it.
They are those who until yesterday "in China there is a vote, the only difference is that it is a one-party system", those who until yesterday "have reeducation camps but my brother-in-law was there and I he said the streets are so clean you can eat a bat with gravy on them. Not like here ". They are the ones who “but haven't you seen that they have the market with companies and women with thighs ?: they are capitalists!”.
Let's face it openly: if the intention is to convince the population that China is the new "Empire of Evil", it will take at least 15.20 years of continuous hammering. The hangover of the years has yet to pass with growth at 13%. (according to the Chinese government).
There is a generation in the world, now 30 years old, that has ONLY heard of China GOOD, the older ones who are still mesmerized by “did you see? They make a hospital in one night! " , and perhaps with the young you will succeed.
- second POINT: who should leave for this new cold war?
During the last Cold War, the one against "Beppone", the rich feared that if the Communists won their wealth would be confiscated. All the financial and industrial elites were opposed to the USSR.
The church knew that if Beppone arrived, their churches would become granaries and the priests would end up in Siberia.
The middle class felt in danger, because they knew well (even the Communists) that their lifestyle would be seen as too comfortable and would be "leveled". Young people saw the USSR as a tyrannical, censorious, oppressive, suffocating system.
But who should be fighting for this new cold war today? Industrialists dream of Chinese growth rates, slave workers and being able to pollute at will. The church is tongue-in-mouth in the shower with ANYONE who monitors young people and any instance of social modernity. The priests will sell themselves to PEchino in exchange for the repression of homosexuals. Body and soul.
Young people live without a future: why should they choose between being exploited here and being exploited there?
- but especially, what exactly should we defend?
At the time of the last Cold War, we were defending the right to demonstrate, freedom of speech, democracy, freedom of the press, freedom of opinion, the possibility of calling without a regime listening to you, we didn't want a oppressive apparatus that watched over every aspect of our public life, we did not want an economy that condemned everyone to continuous, planned and underpaid exploitation.
What's left of all this?
If you manifest the fascist policemen come and beat you up, when they don't shoot you for no reason. Freedom of speech is now filtered by social media, which decide whether it can be said that covid originated in China.
Democracy is now devoured by parties that are the correspondent of the mandarins exterminated by MAO. Freedom of opinion dies under the blows of cancel culture. Phone calls are listened to, communications are listened to, every aspect of public life is monitored by cameras, the economy condemns young people to paroxysmal working hours and starvation wages.
WHAT should a cold war be fought for if we have nothing to defend but chains?
Everything the Western citizen has exists only on paper. In theory: try to demonstrate and be treated like Hong Kong protesters. Social networks catalog us and give us a rating, like in China. Our communications are spied on, like in China. Except there's a nice sheen of words on it about how free we are and how many things we could do. If only we don't dare to make them.
The only difference between the Chinese repressive apparatus and the Western one is that the Chinese one always and only works for the state, while in the West it is the sum of social, political, economic giants, media giants and ideological law enforcement agencies. fascist.
After all, it is clear that we are not even fighting for democracy, and we do not even try to hide it: we are the ones who go to have fun in Dubai and who have Saudi Arabia as an ally. What the hell are we talking about "struggle for values"?
The truth is that when the time comes, Europe will be asked to choose between a shit system run by a Communist dictatorship, and a shit system run by the GAFAM, their ass-lickers, and the usual 13 families who they own everything.
And of course, we will choose the change.
Because that's what a people tired of their chains do. If he cannot get them off himself, he opens the door to those who kill his oppressors.
This time the Cold War game won't work, unless some big ones false flags. BUT even so. I personally doubt it.