Stonewall Or Die
Staying Alive,
Today's format will have to be even more Headlines & Links than usual, because there are so many headlines.
It appears that there is an elite-factional power struggle just below the surface in the Imperial court, with at least 3 factions, maybe 4, competing for position. I won't venture to try to name them all.
Simplicius, Extraordinary Events Taking Place in America [Uh, were there shell casings and nitrates testing in the second floor room with the open window?] It’s clear there is far more going on under the hood than meets the eye.
Firstly, it all ties into the Trump assassination attempt and ongoing Congressional testimony of Director of Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle. The testimony has revealed there are likely a lot of things being hidden from the public about the would-be assassin Thomas Crooks and his potential dealings with the FBI.
Tellingly, Cheatle refused to answer if Crooks was “acting alone”... ..Firstly, it must be said that the ensuing circumstances after the Trump shooting were bizarre and unprecedented: neither the FBI, DOJ, nor DHS even held an official press conference about the shooting. There were no loud bipartisan calls for investigation, or uproar in general; things simply went on as before, quietly settling down before being swept under the rug. The Democrats bided their time and even gradually rolled out conspiracy theories claiming Trump had staged the shooting.
The proceedings reeked of massive coverup as the FBI continued to stonewall all inquiries, denying FOIA requests, with Secret Service head Cheatle perjuring herself in front of Congress by refusing to answer key questions, including: how many shell casings were recovered on the roof by the shooter’s body? She said she knows, but can’t say—how convenient, as it would immediately determine the presence of a second shooter, given that we have expert audio analysis of each fired shot... ..Now it’s been admitted that Biden’s ‘Counselor’ Steve Ricchetti was the one that “helped the president with the tweet”—i.e. wrote the fateful election drop-out tweet for Biden... ..Also, recall how Biden was effectively couped by his donor class, which simply cut off funding, proving who has the true last say in American elections... ..The problem seems to be the elites are revolting, and AOC has claimed that behind the scenes they’re not happy with Harris as the pick... It’s quite interesting, the language she chooses. They are interested not only in ‘removing the president’, but ‘removing the whole ticket’—irrevocable proof that we’re witnessing an ongoing coup.
But if the Democrat elites don’t want Kamala, then who is it even pushing her to begin with? It’s hard to say, though there’s whispers that she’s the in-house Clinton family pick, while the Obama family—Dons of the Chicago political mafia—are against her, evidenced by the fact that Barrack’s only official message thus far prominently omitted mentioning Kamala and instead stated he looks forward to a newly chosen Democratic candidate. ..In short, that would make it a House Clinton vs. House Obama internecine war... ..Remember, it was Soros himself who said that no man has been more committed to the Ukrainian scheme than Biden.
Of course, none of this comes as a surprise, and in fact some of our earliest predictions here from last year were that the Biden admin would try to dump Ukraine before the election if it could not generate any battlefield success for this very reason: that Ukraine’s devastating defeat would pose one of the gravest threats to Biden’s reelection chances, tarnishing his legacy.
Trump team files FEC complaint over transfer of Biden's $91M to Harris campaign: 'Brazen money grab', Harris' campaign told Fox News Digital that the complaint was 'baseless' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-team-files-fec-complaint-over-transfer-bidens-91m-harris-campaign-brazen-money-grab
Could Kamala Harris' inappropriate laughter and 'word salads' be symptoms of a little-known psychological condition? [Not just mean and stupid?] Kamala Harris's rambling 'word salad' speeches may be a symptom of a little-known but common psychological condition called logorrhoea — also known as verbal diarrhoea. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13658931/Could-Kamala-Harris-mental-health-shaky-word-salads-laughing-inappropriately-sign-little-known-psychological-disorder-warn-experts.html
Celia Farber, It Just Got Weirder: Biden On Speaker Phone With Harris, Not Sounding Like Him, Netanyahu Arrives For State Visit, Demands Meeting With Trump, WH Flags at Half Mast , Nation Asks: "What Is Going On?" No Questions Answered In The Land Of Lies
Exclusive: President Biden suffered an undisclosed medical emergency during his time in Las Vegas, police sources say
Air Force One “flew so fast the plane shook" on its way back to the east coast.
Alex Krainer, Is Civil War 2.0 coming to the USA? Will they put Biden to sleep like they did with king George V in 1936 when they were brewing up WWII? Most likely, the reason for her stonewalling was because it is becoming increasingly clear that Trump's would-be assassin wasn't acting alone. Apparently, someone was making frequent trips between the home of the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks' and a building in Washington DC that's located near an FBI office. This revelation was based on a Heritage Foundation analysis of metadata of 9 pertinent smartphone devices. Perhaps the only notable statement from Ms. Cheatle was her reference to the recently deceased representative Ms. Sheila Jackson Lee:
"I would be remiss if I did not also extend my condolences on the passing of your colleague, congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Ms. Jackson Lee was always engaged in the oversight of the Secret Services and her passing is a great loss to this body."
Those who think that men can get pregnant will appreciate the magnanimity of Ms. Cheatle's condolences. Everyone else will recognize the statement for the chilling threat that it was: don't rock the boat for us; we have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.
We will certainly learn a lot more over the coming days and weeks, but it would appear that we are looking at a real, if covert, coup d'etat unfolding in the US. Is it too far out now to consider that the 2020 election was also rigged and stolen? Either way, the country's democratic facade is now disintegrating to the extent that again, only the cohort that thinks men can get pregnant may still believe in it.
Simplicius again, [well, not yet...] Can Democrats Turn Crisis Into Opportunity? Here’s a new article from Tree of Woe wherein he predicts what he calls the American Eschaton:
I predict an American Eschaton: The end of America as we know it. It will be a Fourth Turning, but it will be a Fourth Turning that goes against us. The exact manner in which our eschaton will occur is much harder to predict. The end of America as we know it doesn’t necessarily mean nuclear apocalypse, government collapse, or secession. It could simply mean a transformation of America into something Unamerican. (The Russian Revolution of 1918 was the end of Russia as the Russian of the time knew it, for instance.)
Jaw-Dropper: A Reported 4x as Many Local Secret Service Agents Sent to Jill Biden on Same Day Trump Was Shot https://www.westernjournal.com/jaw-dropper-reported-4x-many-local-secret-service-agents-sent-jill-biden-day-trump-shot/
23 Takeaways From Secret Service Director’s Testimony Before House Oversight Panel https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/22/secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-testifies-before-congress/
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Resigns https://www.zerohedge.com/political/secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-resigns
Sen. Johnson: FBI ‘Covering Up’ Evidence of ‘Multiple Shooters’ in ‘Coordinated’ Trump Assassination Attempt https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/sen-johnson-fbi-covering-up-evidence-of-multiple-shooters-in-coordinated-trump-assassination-attempt/
Sen. Ron Johnson Reveals Preliminary Findings From Attempted Assassination Of President Trump https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sen-ron-johnson-reveals-preliminary-findings-attempted-assassination-president-trump
I don't recall the pictures of the dead shooter showing upper lip piercings, do you? https://x.com/PapaUwUx/status/1813942098229707183
Maybe a great big fragmentation bomb will work... More Agency Weaponization? Secret Service Tells Trump To Stop Having Outdoor Rallies https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pathetic-prescription-secret-service-tells-trump-stop-having-outdoor-rallies
Israel Launches New Assault on Khan Younis, Kills 70 Palestinians
The Israeli military began a heavy bombardment of the area immediately after ordering Palestinians to evacuate https://news.antiwar.com/2024/07/22/israel-launches-new-assault-on-khan-younis-kills-70-palestinians/
Jewish American Doctor In Gaza Describes Children Killed By Very Exacting Sniper Bullets, Says 30 Years and 40 Mission Trips Does Not Equal The Carnage He Has Seen In Gaza. Is He Anti-Semitic? Is There A Non "Anti-Semitic" Anti-Child Slaughter Position And Can We Name It? "No toddler gets shot twice by mistake, by 'the world's best sniper', and they're dead-center shots."
“I had children who were shot twice,” said Dr. Mark Perlmutter, who said he was in Gaza at the end of April and the first couple weeks of May. “I have two children that I have photographs of that were shot so perfectly in the chest I couldn’t put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately and directly on the side of the head in the same child.” https://news.antiwar.com/2024/07/22/american-surgeon-who-volunteered-in-gaza-says-idf-snipers-shoot-toddlers/
Israel gives 400,000 Palestinians minutes to flee Khan Yunis before latest blitz ["We warned you."]
About two million Palestinians have been forcefully displaced since 7 October as Israel regularly bombs so-called 'safe zones' The Israeli army ordered the sudden evacuation of over 400,000 Palestinians taking shelter in eastern Khan Yunis on 22 July, dropping leaflets in the besieged city moments before warplanes began their raids. https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-gives-400000-palestinians-minutes-to-flee-khan-yunis-before-latest-blitz
Oxfam: Israel Has Reduced Water Access in Gaza by 94 Percent Since October Oxfam has warned that Israel’s longstanding policy of using water as a weapon against Palestinians has reached its peak amid Israel’s genocide, with water access for Palestinians in Gaza now at a small fraction of pre-genocide levels as Palestinians die of dehydration, starvation and disease.
According to a report on Israel’s water deprivation policies by Oxfam, Israel has reduced water access in Gaza by a whopping 94 percent since October. This means Palestinians only have access to an average of roughly 4.7 liters of water per person per day, or only about 1.2 gallons a day.
In the supposed “humanitarian safe zone” in al-Mawasi — which Israeli forces have attacked relentlessly — Palestinians only have access to an average of 2.5 liters per day, the report said. https://scheerpost.com/2024/07/23/oxfam-israel-has-reduced-water-access-in-gaza-by-94-percent-since-october/
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the statement said, "As of July 22, nearly 83 percent of the Gaza Strip has been placed under evacuation orders or designated as 'no-go zones' by the Israeli military." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-rejects-chinas-gaza-mediation-efforts
Senior congressman labels Netanyahu 'worst leader in Jewish history' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "the worst leader in Jewish history," United States Congressman Jerrold Nadler said ahead of Netanyahu's address to a joint session of the US Congress.
Nadler, a Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee and the most senior Jewish member of the House of Representatives, released an extensive statement on Tuesday, blasting Netanyahu's performance as Israeli prime minister. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/senior-congressman-labels-netanyahu-worst-leader-in-jewish-h
Israeli government allocates millions to unauthorised West Bank settler outposts
The Israeli government has allocated $20.5 million to protect small, unauthorised Jewish farms in the occupied West Bank, aiming to develop them into settlements. Documents uncovered by Peace Now reveal that Israel's pro-settler government has discreetly funneled money into unauthorised outposts, separate from its over 100 officially recognised settlements. https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240723-israeli-government-allocates-millions-unauthorised-west-bank-settler-outposts
Israeli settlers set fire to olive groves in the occupied West Bank
Videos show Palestinian olive groves on fire after Israeli settlers reportedly set them alight in the occupied West Bank village of Burin. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/7/23/israeli-settlers-set-fire-to-olive-groves-in-the-occupied-west-bank
Netanyahu seeks support for war in Gaza with speech to Congress but sparks protests and boycotts Tall steel barriers ringed entrances to the Capitol complex Wednesday, and security officers were deployed on foot, bicycle and with dogs. Overnight, hundreds of anti-war protesters organized by a Jewish group staged a sit-in at a congressional office building, crying, “Not in our name.” ... ..Some leading Democrats and political independent Bernie Sanders plan to boycott Netanyahu’s speech. But the most notable absence will be Vice President Kamala Harris, who serves as president of the Senate and traditionally would sit behind whatever dignitary is speaking. She said a long-scheduled trip will keep her away.
The next Democrat in line, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, is declining to attend, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would be meeting with families of Israeli victims of Hamas instead.
Republicans said the absence of Harris, the new Democratic front-runner for the presidency, was a sign of disloyalty to an ally. Former President Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said he would also be a no-show for Netanyahu’s speech, citing the need to campaign. https://apnews.com/article/netanyahu-congress-gaza-hamas-israel-6ea5daf3cd1988b0ad6e874bd450f9bf
Labor Unions Urge Biden to Halt Military Aid for Israel https://scheerpost.com/2024/07/23/labor-unions-urge-biden-to-halt-military-aid-for-israel/
US Capitol Police arrest Jewish activists calling for Israel arms embargo
Hundreds of advocates rallied at Capitol Hill on the eve of Netanyahu’s speech to urge an end to weapons transfers to Israel. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/23/us-capitol-police-arrest-jewish-activists-calling-for-israel-arms-embargo
Protesters zip-tied, escorted out of Capitol ahead of Netanyahu speech https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/protesters-zip-tied--escorted-out-of-capitol-ahead-of-netany
Trump Confirms Netanyahu Meeting At Mar-A-Lago https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-have-separate-meetings-biden-harris-likely-trump-too
Celia Farber, Trump Recording Emerges In Which He Reveals Netanyahu Never Wanted To Make A Deal. "I Thought The Palestinians Were Impossible And That The Israelis Would Do Anything To Make Peace And A Deal... I Found That Not To Be True."
Several hours after he announced a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this Friday, former President Trump published a letter he received from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and pledged to work for peace in the Middle East.
Why it matters: Abbas' letter is a signal that the Palestinian president wants to start a new chapter with the Republican presidential nominee following their fallout as a result of Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the U.S. embassy to the city in December 2017.
It also shows that Trump didn't abandon his aspiration to reach a historic peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Trump's post frames his meeting with Netanyahu not only as a photo-op that the Israeli prime minister wanted to get, but as a more substantive meeting about advancing peace amid the war in Gaza. https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/trump-palestinian-leader-letter-netanyahu-meeting-peace
Biden’s Cured But Won’t Meet with Netanyahu [Too risky all around, I guess.] https://www.independentsentinel.com/bidens-cured-but-wont-meet-with-netanyahu/
Vance not attending Netanyahu speech to Congress Jason Miller, senior adviser to the Trump campaign, said in a statement that Vance has “duties to fulfill as the Republican nominee for Vice President.”
“Senator Vance stands steadfastly with the people of Israel in their fight to defend their homeland, eradicate terrorist threats, and bring back their countrymen held hostage,” Miller said. “He will not, however, be in attendance for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress.”
Vance, who is holding campaign events in Ohio and Virginia on Monday, will defer to former President Trump for direct communication with Netanyahu this week, according to a source familiar with the matter. https://www.yahoo.com/news/vance-not-attending-netanyahu-speech-194645023.html
YAF release footage, specifications of Yafa drone that hit Tel Aviv [Balsa wood?] The Ansar Allah leader affirmed that the Yafa drone was manufactured in Yemen and was launched by the YAF, denying claims that it was produced and deployed by another party. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yaf-release-footage--specifications-of-yafa-drone-that-hit-t
China Brokers Unity In Palestine Rival Palestinian factions including Fatah and Hamas have signed an agreement aimed at ending their division and building unity following talks in Beijing, marking a diplomatic win for China.
Over the years Fatah and Hamas had already signed several agreements to build some unity government. All however have failed.
What gives hope is that this agreement might be sustained is the participation of all other Palestinian groups as well as the significance of China as the guarantee power behind this. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/07/china-brokers-unity-in-palestine.html
Gilbert Doctorow, What a Ukraine peace treaty brokered by Trump might look like https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/07/22/what-a-ukraine-peace-treaty-brokered-by-trump-might-look-like/
Almost Half of EU Members Wanted to Hold Top Diplomats Meeting in Hungary On Monday, Borrell said that the next meeting of the foreign ministers would be held in Brussels, not Budapest, due to Hungary's position on Ukraine.
In total, 13 countries said that they preferred to meet in Budapest, while five others, especially states in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, said that they would boycott the gathering in the Hungarian capital., according to Politico. In the end, Borrell picked Brussels in a move that aims to "send a signal, even if it is a symbolic signal," to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240723/almost-half-of-eu-members-wanted-to-hold-top-diplomats-meeting-in-hungary-1119468532.html
EU may not be right fit for Hungary – member state. Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has said Budapest’s views do not correspond with the bloc’s official line “Of course, it is up to the individual country to do so,” Valtonen told the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. “But at some point, it may be worth asking whether the European Union is the right reference group if the ideas differ so fundamentally from our common values.” https://swentr.site/news/601534-hungary-should-reconsider-eu-membership/
EU state issues €6.5bn ultimatum to Ukraine, Hungary is moving to punish Kiev for its blockade of oil deliveries from Russia https://swentr.site/news/601553-hungary-ukraine-eu-funding/
Andrew Korybko, Ukraine Might Actually Be Semi-Serious About Resuming Peace Talks With Russia Zelensky knows that his maximalist goal of reconquering all of Ukraine’s lost territory is unrealistic no matter what he says for the purpose of keeping morale high. He therefore wants to retake as much as he can before the US either becomes too fatigued with its latest “forever war” or is forced by circumstances into “Pivoting (back) to Asia” before it’s ready. By publicly displaying interest in China’s mediation, he hopes to either keep the US supporting him for longer or to reach a better peace deal with China’s help.
It's a gamble, but he hopes that the next US President might either become so nervous about him flirting with China that they decide to give him more of what he’s been demanding and remove their restrictions or that China can convince Russia to scale back some of its maximalist demands for peace if they won’t. Nobody can confidently predict how far he’ll go in this regard nor exactly how serious he is, but it’s undeniable that Zelensky is changing tack to an extent, which is remarkable development in this conflict.
France Unbowed Leader Melenchon Calls for Withdrawal From NATO (A real Leftist.) "I choose the logic of disarmament and appeasement … If I were at the Elysee Palace, I would certainly systematically and in an organized manner withdraw from the joint military command, from NATO. Especially during the war, to avoid seeing the country involved in this story," Melenchon told the newspaper. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240721/france-unbowed-leader-melenchon-calls-for-withdrawal-from-nato-1119450182.html
Two from Surplus energy Economics. This is what declining cheap energy looks like. The seductive risk of financialization , THE VARIABLE GEOMETRY OF MONEY
Measured as a system which supplies physical products and services to society, the global economy was 29% larger in 2023 than it had been in 2003.
By contrast, best estimates indicate that aggregate financial assets increased by about 150%, in real terms, between those years, whilst the combined stock of bank and central bank money expanded by about 160%. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/283-the-seductive-risk-of-financialization/
Maybe later, THE VIEW FROM PEAK TECH
Over the coming ten years, the ability of the global economy to afford discretionary (non-essential) products and services is poised to decline by about 17%, with affordability at the average per capita level falling by a projected 23%.
Anyone who thinks that this can be consistent with rising sales in the leisure, travel, hospitality, entertainment or media sectors is out of touch with reality. If we further suppose that businesses funded by advertising or subscription revenues, or by the sale of non-essential gadgets, can continue to defy economic gravity under these circumstances, we are setting ourselves up for a massive misallocation of capital.
This is one of the two ways in which the “peak tech” of the title should be understood. The other is the unfolding realization that technology can’t, as has so long been supposed, provide a ‘fix’ for every economic and environmental ill. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/284-maybe-later/#like-43065
In Major Shift, British Newspapers Begin Warning of Perils of Cashless Society After Global IT Outage The mainstream media has, until now, played a key role in advancing the Global War on Cash — a war that began with no official declaration but in which propaganda, as with all wars, is a vital weapon.
Last week’s global IT outage appears to have shaken some British media outlets’ confidence in the idea of a fully cashless society. When a content update by the cyber-security giant CrowdStrike caused millions of Microsoft systems around the world to crash on Friday morning, bringing the operating systems of banks, payment card firms, airlines, hospitals, NHS clinics, retailers and hospitality businesses to a standstill, businesses were faced with a stark choice: go cash-only, or close until the systems came back online. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/07/in-historic-u-turn-corporate-media-begins-warning-of-perils-of-cashless-society-after-global-it-outage.html
Iran's plan to establish BRICS-wide currency could change global trade dynamics Iran and Russia have effectively established the essential conditions for the transfer of trade payments to national currencies by connecting their national payment systems through their respective central banks at the bilateral level. Iran continues to engage in negotiations with Russia about the potential expansion of this mechanism to include the BRICS countries, the diplomat stated. https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/iran-s-plan-to-establish-brics-wide-currency-could-change-gl
California senators pass SB 553 to prohibit retailers from stopping shoplifters Lawmakers in California are gunning for the passage of a new law, Senate Bill 553, that would bar retail stores throughout the state from confronting shoplifters. SB 553 was introduced just a few weeks after a 26-year-old Home Depot security guard named Blake Mohs was shot to death during an attempted store robbery in Pleasanton, in the East Bay. The incident prompted California lawmakers to reevaluate the state's standards for dealing with robberies.
"The bill has made its way to the Assembly where it under consideration by the Labor & Employment Committee," tweeted the @amuse X account. "Too many retailers and citizens are intervening as the police ignore the problem." https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-07-22-california-senators-pass-sb553-prohibit-retailers-shoplifters.html
California court rules children have no free speech rights – only old people covered by First Amendment? Both the child who drew the picture and the child who received it were confused upon being confronted about the matter. Their innocence is color blind, after all, which cannot be said for the recipient child's mother, Becerra, or the rest of the "adults" who proceeded to destroy these children's innocence to push a deranged, anti-white political agenda.
The child who drew the picture was told that she could no longer draw and give pictures to her classmates. Teachers also banned the child from recess for two full weeks without telling her why, and without telling her parents.
The child's parents eventually found out about the punishment roughly a year after the incident, prompting them to press the school for answers. Since the school was uncooperative, the child's parents sued the school, only to have a local judge rule in favor of Becerra and against the child, arguing that Becerra was operating under qualified immunity against the drawing author's First Amendment and retaliation claims.
The case is being appealed by the Pacific Legal Foundation and will soon, probably within the next year, be heard and decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-07-23-california-court-rules-children-no-free-speech-rights.html
William Makis MD, Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus was suspended for investigating 9 babies who died after their mothers received COVID-19 Vaccinations.
A Midwestern Doctor, Exposing The Great Osteoporosis Scam, How conventional osteoporosis care often makes things worse and the forgotten ways to regain bone health.
Friend of Healthy Bones and Children (pictured with Jenny and grandkids)
I have to wonder at your willingness to show your grandkids images online. To me, it's risky, but I suppose you do it with intention.
' EU may not be right fit for Hungary – member state. Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has said Budapest’s views do not correspond with the bloc’s official line'
Interesting statement. The Finnish Foreign Minister is suggesting that the bloc's official line DOES correspond with the views of European citizens.
I would be most surprised if a referendum on that matter proved her correct. The EU's official line on most things is 'what Washington tells them it is'.
There is zero support for 'farming without farmers'. There is zero support for 'enforced mRNA vaccinations against bird flu'. There is zero support for spending billions making Zelensky and his oligarch co-criminals multi-billionaires. There is zero support for sanctions against Russia but paying 500% over the odds for LNG from the global genocidalist, the USA.
In Europe right now, there is a lot of belief that 'elections' are being fixed, mostly by overseas oligarchs. There is a firm belief that 'our leaders' are not ours, they do not represent us. There is a firm belief that the USA is on the wrong side of history but that it has an iron grip over Europe right now.
There is also an implacable belief that the reason so many migrants are coming to Europe from Libya is because the USA bombed the place to a pulp and it is a sine qua non that the USA should bear the financial cost for that.