History is a cruel teacher, but some people never learn. The European Union, for instance, still clings to the fantasy that Washington cares about its well-being. For years, the EU played the loyal sidekick, dutifully following the U.S. into one geopolitical disaster after another. It got punked into ramping up NATO spending. It got bullied into severing its energy ties with Russia. It even looked the other way when its own economic interests were sabotaged—literally, with the Nord Stream pipeline bombing. And now, as Trump 2.0 sets his sights on a new imperial recalibration, the EU finds itself exactly where the U.S. always intended: out in the cold, broke, and disposable.
Ukraine, of course, was the first to be fed to the war machine. The country never stood a chance. The U.S. didn’t bankroll the 2014 Maidan coup because it cared about “democracy” or “freedom.” No, Ukraine was always just a piece on the chessboard, a tool to weaken Russia and drive a permanent wedge between Moscow and the EU. The whole thing was an expensive exercise in destruction—one that the EU eagerly signed up for, thinking it was part of some grand Western project to uphold “European values.”
Fast forward to today, and what do we see? The war has become a slow-motion catastrophe. The “unwavering support” for Ukraine is unraveling. Military aid is drying up. The war effort is stalling. And the EU, after torching its own economy in the name of standing with Washington, is realizing too late that the U.S. never had a long-term plan. The Americans got what they wanted—Europe severed from Russia, Germany deindustrialized, NATO budgets boosted—and now they’re walking away from the mess they made.
Ukraine Was the Sacrifice, Europe Is the Chokepoint
If Ukraine was the sacrificial lamb, then Europe is the next major chokepoint in Trump 2.0’s imperial game plan. The old neoliberal order—where the U.S., EU, and Japan ruled as the trilateral core of global capitalism—is breaking down. Trump and his technofascist backers aren’t interested in alliances anymore. They’re interested in leverage.
Consider the strategic genius of what Washington pulled off:
Convince Europe to commit economic suicide. Russia offered cheap gas, stable trade, and a way for Europe to remain competitive in global markets. The U.S. made sure to destroy all of that by forcing Europe to sanction itself into economic decline. Now, German industry is collapsing, energy costs are through the roof, and the EU is bleeding wealth.
Force Europe into deeper NATO dependence. Remember when Trump threw a tantrum about NATO members not paying their “fair share”? The EU caved, boosted military spending, and became even more reliant on U.S. arms manufacturers. Now, Trump 2.0 is questioning NATO’s very purpose, signaling that if Russia comes knocking, Europe’s on its own.
Turn the EU into a captive market. With Russian gas off the table, the U.S. made sure Europe had no choice but to buy overpriced American LNG. At the same time, U.S. corporations are poaching European industries, offering tax incentives for them to relocate to the U.S. This isn’t “partnership.” It’s economic plunder.
And what does Europe get in return? Nothing. Not even a handshake. Just a vague promise that the U.S. might still pick up the phone if things go sideways.
Trilateral Imperialism Is Dead—This Is Something Worse
For decades, the U.S. treated Europe as a junior partner in the imperialist club. That’s over. Under Trump 2.0, Europe isn’t a partner—it’s a pawn. The new U.S. strategy isn’t about maintaining an empire through alliances. It’s about ruling through brute force, economic extortion, and outright resource theft. The U.S. isn’t protecting the EU. It’s looting it.
This is what I mean when I say the era of trilateral imperialism is dead. The U.S. doesn’t need an Atlanticist empire anymore. It needs a leaner, meaner imperial structure—one that controls chokepoints, critical resources, and global trade routes rather than wasting time maintaining obsolete alliances.
That’s why Trump is far more interested in annexing Canada and Greenland than in strengthening NATO. He doesn’t want allies. He wants territory, commodities, and monopolies. This is the logic of settler-colonial imperialism on a planetary scale—a system where old dependencies (like Europe) are discarded in favor of direct imperial control over the world’s most strategic regions.
For Europe, this means a lose-lose scenario:
1. Remain a U.S. vassal—accept permanent economic decline, increased militarization, and total submission to American corporate power.
2. Try to break free—and face the wrath of U.S. financial warfare, sanctions, and political destabilization.
Either way, Europe’s golden age is over. The “transatlantic alliance” was always a lie, a polite fiction that masked the real power dynamics at play. The EU thought it was part of the imperialist club—only to wake up and realize that it’s being treated like the Global South. The plundering, the economic coercion, the total disregard for European sovereignty—this is what the U.S. has been doing to Latin America, Africa, and Asia for a century. Now it’s Europe’s turn.
Wake Up, or Get Wiped Out
At this point, the EU has two options. It can either continue its march toward total subjugation, or it can start acting like an independent power and carve out a real strategy for survival. That would require cutting ties with Washington’s suicide pact, normalizing relations with Russia and China, and rebuilding its own economic base. But let’s be real—Europe’s ruling elites are too spineless to make that call. They’ll keep hoping that the U.S. will change course, that Trump will have a change of heart, that the alliance will somehow be restored.
It won’t. The U.S. doesn’t need Europe anymore. It needs control, leverage, and extraction—and if that means driving the EU into the ground, so be it.
Ukraine was the first to be abandoned. Europe is next. The only question is whether the EU realizes it before it’s too late—or if it will keep playing the fool until the empire decides it’s time to pull the plug.
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