Whilst it is important not to underestimate Atlanticist influence in Europe, it is equally important not to overestimate it. Vernochet’s claim that the centralisation of Europe’s institutions renders them, automatically, subordinate to Washington strikes me as a defeatist fantasy. Even supposed puppet governments in nations occupied by US forces are escaping the empire’s control. Europe has nothing to gain by subordinating itself to Washington and London: the latter’s only hope is to break up Europe and destroy the euro, which threatens the dollar’s monopoly on international transactions. This, precisely, is the goal of the concerted destabilisation campaign against Europe which Vernochet has the merit of recognising. It is for this reason, the defence of the European project itself, that nominally Atlanticist politicians like Merkel have taken decisive action against anglo-saxon speculators and also why China has reaffirmed its support for that project. Vernochet fails to make the case that “nothing can prevent the integration of Europe within a trans-Atlantic Bloc”. On the contrary, despite the US/UK throwing in everything at their disposal, the Battle for Europe seems to have been lost and we are witnessing an independent Europe emerging.

The Greek budgetary crisis, which has become a crisis of the euro, is not the inevitable result of market self-regulation, but rather the consequence of a deliberate attack. According to Jean-Michel Vernochet, the crisis was provoked by an economic offensive directed from Washington and London that followed similar principles to those of contemporary military warfare, employing game theory and a strategy of ‘constructive chaos’. The ultimate aim is to oblige the Europeans to enter into an Atlantic bloc, i.e. an empire where Anglo-American budgetary deficits would be automatically financed through the expedient of a dollarised euro. The agreement concluded between the European Union and the IMF, giving the Fund partial oversight of Union economic policies, is a first step in this direction.

Jean-Michel Vernochet

Voltairenet

11th June, 2010

The financial attack launched against Greece because of its sovereign debt and its potential insolvency soon proved to be an offensive against the Euro and to have only a distant relationship with the flaws and structural deficits of the Greek economy itself. These ‘vices’, incidentally, are largely shared by the bulk of post-industrial countries which have acquired the bad habit of living beyond their means and on credit, hence the soaring quantum of debt, a bubble (as any other) doomed to burst.

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As anglo-american fraudsters try yet again the rating agency trick, China backs Greece and the euro.

Telegraph

15th June, 2010

Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Dejiang visits the debt-laden country on Tuesday and will reportedly commit to investment in maritime affairs, telecoms and the renovation of a landmark tower building in Athens’ port of Piraeus, the Financial Times said, citing an unnamed Greek government official.

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