From Pepe Escobar via Rabobank:
“This unelected gaggle of insufferable mediocrities --from von der Leyden and Borrell to that piece of Norwegian wood Stoltenberg-- may dream they live in the pre-1914 era, when Europe was at the political centre. Yet now not only “the centre cannot hold” (Yeats) but Eurocrat-infested Europe has been definitely engulfed by the maelstrom, an irrelevant political backwater seriously flirting with reversion to 12th century status.
The physical aspects of the Fall --austerity, inflation, no hot showers, freezing to death to support neo-Nazis in Kiev-- has been preceded, and no Christianized imagery need apply, by the fires of sulphur and brimstone of a Spiritual Fall. The transatlantic masters of those parrots posing as “elites” could never come up with any idea to sell to the Global South centred on harmony and much less “community”…. We still do not have a post-Tik Tok Tintoretto to depict the collective West’s multi-wallowing in Dante-esque chambers of pop Hell. “
—as seen at ZeroHedge
