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French president calls for urgent talks in Paris amid fears US leader is put on the back burner its allies. The End of Another Forever War: European Leaders Panic as Peace Threatens Profits

For the last three years, the Western establishment has funnelled billions of taxpayers’ money (governments don’t have money they manage your money). The NATO-KYIV vs. Russia was intended to be a forever war.

Not a single Western leader has seriously pursued a peace deal or been seen in a place of worship). Instead, the conflict has been a lucrative venture, with arms manufacturers raking in profits, politicians securing geopolitical leverage, and taxpayers footing the bill. But now, the game is changing.

With Donald Trump back in the White House dismantling the New World Order, he has done the unthinkable: decreed there will be peace.

It’s remarkable how three simple words – there will be peace – can send the entire military-industrial complex into apoplexy.

The arms dealers and their political salesmen, who spent years painting Trump as a warmonger, now find themselves in the awkward position of arguing for continued conflict.

Their panic reveals a truth they’d rather keep hidden: war is profitable, peace is bad for business, and principles are negotiable when billions are at stake.

Emmanuel Macron’s desperate attempt to convene an emergency meeting in Paris lays bare the real anxiety gripping Western leaders: not the prospect of peace, but the threat of being cut out of the war’s profitable finale.

For eleven years, these same leaders have orchestrated continuous conflict. First by backing the Maidan coup in 2014 that plunged Ukraine and its Donbas area into civil war, then by feeding the flames until Russia crossed the border on February 22, 2022.

Throughout it all, they’ve funnelled billions in public money to arms manufacturers, wrapping naked profit in the noble flags of democracy and territorial sovereignty.

Not one proposed a peace deal. Not one questioned the strategy. Not one asked how many lives their profits were worth. The gravy train rolled on, its wheels greased with Ukrainian and Russian blood. Now Donald Trump threatens to derail their lucrative enterprise.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski openly admitted that Trump is a problem for Europe. Macron’s hurried efforts to unite European leaders behind a common stance reveal the deep anxiety over being sidelined.

European officials fear that Trump, rather than letting them dictate terms, will strike a deal with Russia that prioritizes America’s interests over their own – and it will.

Meanwhile, Zelensky, once the darling of Western summits, watches his star fade as world leaders haggle over Ukraine’s fertile black soil.

And in the wings, Larry Fink’s BlackRock stands ready, their financial tractors primed to plough deep into Ukraine’s resources, transforming a nation’s tragedy into quarterly profits.

The vultures didn’t even wait for the war to end before dividing the spoils. Israeli citizen Zelensky signed away Ukraine’s economic sovereignty to BlackRock in the same week he was begging for more weapons, a grim preview of the ‘reconstruction’ to come.

This entire war was Biden’s big push, his last hurrah for American imperialism, with the EU eagerly playing supporting actor in hopes of extending its own influence eastward.

The script was familiar – wave the fake flag of democracy while pursuing naked economic interests. But like so many American adventures abroad, it’s failed dramatically, leaving behind a trail of death, destruction and debt that others will be expected to clean up.

European leaders are flapping, both politically and in the polls. Enter Keir Starmer, ever the establishment’s eager butler, dashing to Paris at Macron’s beckoning lest Britain miss the last scraps from the war table.

With practised gravitas, he proclaims this a ‘once-in-a-generation moment’ for national security, pledging unwavering loyalty to whoever will take it.

But strip away the diplomatic veneer, and what remains? A man desperately trying to bind Britain to an endless £3.5 billion annual commitment to Ukraine, a bottomless pit of military spending that stretches toward infinity.

Meanwhile, back home, British schools crumble and pensioners huddle under blankets. But don’t dare mention domestic priorities; we’re routinely reminded it’s much colder in Ukraine as if suffering were a competition rather than a tragedy to be ended.

The true ‘once-in-a-generation moment’ might be the chance to break this cycle, but Starmer seems determined to miss it, too focused on impressing his future masters in Washington and Brussels. His government of no vision to blind to notice the growing anger on Britain’s streets.

UK foreign secretary, David Lammy urged the US not to disengage from Ukraine, saying the best security guarantee for the country against future (fanciful) Russian aggression was binding US industry, business and defence capability into its future.

What he’s really asking for is a guarantee the ‘threat’ will always remain. A story to frighten the taxpayers while ensuring their money is well spent… on arms…

For years, we’ve been told that Ukraine is the last line of defence against a rampaging Russia, poised to steamroll into Europe. And yet, a ragtag army of Ukrainian troops, with no navy and no air force, has supposedly held back the Russian military with nothing more than $200 billion in Western loans and borrowed equipment.

If Russia were truly the unstoppable juggernaut that NATO talking heads claim, Ukraine would have fallen long ago.

How many Ukrainian heroes and Russian conscripts were they prepared to sacrifice on the altar of Western arms profits? How many more cities needed to be reduced to rubble before someone, somewhere said enough?

Of course, BlackRock sits patiently waiting in the wings, Larry Fink a Jewish trillionaire having already secured his company’s role in ‘managing’ Ukraine’s post-war economy, a vulture circling what remains of a nation’s sovereignty.

A peace deal means the cash flow from Western taxpayers to the arms industry slows down. It means European leaders lose their excuse for spiralling military budgets and deepening control over their citizens.

It also means admitting that their entire strategy, sanctions, escalation, and unyielding hostility toward Russia, has been a catastrophic miscalculation.

The real question is: Who, exactly, benefits from this ongoing war? European citizens, struggling under the weight of inflation and energy crises, certainly do not. The stinking rich parasite class, however, has every reason to keep the war machine running.

These are the same politicians who can’t maintain their own social services, and now dream of commanding a continental fighting force. Yet with Trump threatening NATO’s divorce unless members increase their payments, defense contractors are already salivating at the prospect.

After all, nothing opens government purse strings quite like fear—and Europe is currently drowning in the propaganda of it.

The mask finally slips with one European diplomat’s telling complaint: ‘Europe is going to be asked to police a deal that it had no direct hand in negotiating.’

There, in that moment of unguarded candour, we glimpse the true face of diplomatic anxiety—not a noble concern for peace, but a naked fear of being excluded from the carve-up.

And what a carve-up it promises to be, with Trump reportedly eyeing ‘50% control of Ukraine’s rare minerals.’

So much for defending democracy and national borders; this is beginning to look more like a multinational corporate raid dressed in diplomatic garb.

Yes, the gas might flow again to Europe’s homes but don’t expect your energy bills to shrink. There are too many hands reaching for too many pockets.

The only thing trickling down in this new arrangement will be the costs, never the benefits, if you thought the war was expensive wait until they give you the receipt for the peace.

The endgame was clear to see. European leaders went into Saturday’s session of the Munich conference already reeling from the confrontational speech on Friday by the US vice-president, JD Vance, in which he scolded them for ignoring popular concerns over immigration and accused them of suppressing free speech.

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, characterized Vance as ‘trying to pick a fight’ with Europe, home to some of the US’s closest allies.

Europe’s worst fear isn’t Russian aggression—it’s American disengagement. They worry that Trump will strike a deal, declare victory, and leave them to clean up the mess.

European leaders now face a stark choice: accept peace on terms they don’t dictate or scramble to prolong a war they can’t win. Their fear is not of Russian tanks rolling into Berlin but of Trump shutting off the money tap and forcing them to face the consequences of their failed enterprise.

The truth is, none of these leaders expected peace to break out. They’ve built their political careers on perpetual crisis and endless military spending.

Now that Trump’s administration has different priorities, Europe’s political class is realizing their gravy train might have reached its final station.

Their scramble to maintain relevance would be amusing if it hadn’t cost so many lives and so much public money.

Perhaps it’s fitting that Trump, the supposed warmonger, might end this forever war while Europe’s ‘liberal elite’ fight to keep it going. The hypocrisy of the post-war order has finally come full circle. PLEASE INSPIRE OTHERS BY SHARING OUR STORIES