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So the biggest blockage to this plan is [[political]]. But the political facts on the ground in [[Europe]], characterised by what is happening in [[France]] right now, are bringing the final political reckoning with defeat ever closer, while making the pill more bitter.}}
So the biggest blockage to this plan is [[political]]. But the political facts on the ground in [[Europe]], characterised by what is happening in [[France]] right now, are bringing the final political reckoning with defeat ever closer, while making the pill more bitter.}}
:*[https://youtu.be/8XH1E98jtnc Jeffrey Sachs : A Framework for Peace In Ukraine].
:*[https://youtu.be/8XH1E98jtnc Jeffrey Sachs : A Framework for Peace In Ukraine].
{{quotebox-float|Europe is burning because it's in economic crisis and the political leaders in Europe don't respond to the basic interests and needs of the citizens. By the way, politically the situation is the same in the [[United States]]. Thank God the US is not burning right now, but the government is extremely unpopular in the United States because it's engaged in [[war]] rather than addressing the needs of American working families. So the situation is similar, but Europe is really suffering from its response to this [[NATO war in Ukraine|mess in Ukraine]]. It has put on more than [[Russian sanctions|20 rounds of sanctions]]. But what that has meant for [[Europe]] is to cut itself off from the low-cost [[energy]] that was core to Europe's competitiveness and its [[industrial]] base which, since 2022, is therefore been shrinking with [[job]]s being lost, with [[living standards]] going down, and all the European [[politician]]s, especially in the big countries, [[Germany]] with Chancellor [[Merz]] or [[France]] with President [[Macron]]. They speak of more [[war]]. And the [[public]] doesn't want more [[war]]. The public wants [[peace]]. It doesn't want to put hundreds of billions of [[dollar]]s or [[euro]]s into the [[Ukraine war]]. It doesn't want to pay six times the cost of [[Russian]] [[natural gas]] by buying [[American]] [[liquefied natural gas]] shipped across the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]]. So the public is disgusted and the [[European]] [[politician]]s are absolutely bizarre in my view. They have been failed politicians for years. But as the '''unhappiness''' has increased, as the approval ratings for Macron dipped below 20% and then below 15% and then reaching about 10% approval, and that means 70 or 80% disapproval. There was no reaction of the [[government]] to the '''unhappiness''' in the public, and now a spark and explosion and it's just a disaster. Of course, the [[economic]] fallout of what's happening in [[France]] is profound. [[Interest rate]]s are soaring. [[French]] [[public debt]] is already very large. Now will pay a compound penalty [[interest rate]] on top of this. This will exacerbate the [[Stagflation|economic stagnation]] and decline being felt throughout [[Europe]]. Next door in [[Germany]], the unpopularity of the Chancellor and his party are equivalent. This is the situation. It's a continent that is engaged in an extraordinarily [[NATO war in Ukraine|unpopular war with Russia]] that could be ended as I am emphasizing through a sensible [[negotiate]]d outcome. But the [[European]] leaders are choosing the drums of [[war]] rather than the negotiating table.}}
:Note: Prof. Sachs was the author of "Shock Therapy" in [[Russia]] in the 1990s which led to much '''unhappiness''' and for which he has [[repent]]ed of, and [[User:Conservative]]'s oft quoted [[Happiness Index]], for which [[User:Conservative]] has shown no interest or inclination in updating for the [[United States]], [[France]], or [[Germany]] since 2022 when [[the West]]'s funding for the [[NATO war in Ukraine]] exploded. [[User:RobSmith|Foghorn Leghorn]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 20:01, October 22, 2026 (EDT)
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