By Dmitry Orlov

When, while speaking at the UN, Trump said: “If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail,” he was, of course, lying. If “your country” is part of the EU, then there is no getting away from “this green scam”: the money has already been misspent and the energy infrastructure has already been compromised. Russia has already given up on the European energy market and has reoriented its energy exports to the east. For the EU, rapid deindustrialization is now inevitable. Trump’s statement can thus be shortened to “Your country is going to fail.

But that is not what Europe’s leaders wanted to hear. Admitting that Trump is right would be tantamount to volunteering to resign from their positions and that is not what they had in mind. Instead of resigning (that would have been an honorable thing for them to do) they instead chose to greenlight a new, bigger and better scam, which I will call the Brown New Deal.

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Aside from incidental exceptions, the more commonplace connotations of “brown” are rot, Nazis, “darkies” (if you happen to be a Nazi) and shit. This wealth of connotations makes brown a good choice as the color of the decomposing Green movement, now that its public stupification program known as “anthropogenic climate change,” the refusal of pipelined hydrocarbon imports and the copious public subsidies for wind generators and solar panels have ushered in an era of financial, political and economic meltdowns throughout Europe. The new public stupification program is “Russian aggression,” and the response to it requires copious public spending on various defense programs.

The result of the Green New Deal is steadily decreasing living standards throughout Europe stemming from the root cause of lower per capita energy affordability. In turn, it is superficially stable but steadily worsening living conditions, much more so than an outright crisis, that cause populations to rebel and to overthrow their ruling elites. The ruling elites of Europe know this, do not fancy being strung up on lampposts all over Europe, and seek to at least deflect the blame and, better yet, to engineer an outright crisis which they can then pretend to mitigate heroically.

Their manufactured crisis of choice is the entirely fictional yet imminent attack on the European Union by the Russian Federation. The risible lie used to support this argument is that should the Ukrainian army be routed and should the illegitimate and corrupt Kiev regime fall, Russian tanks will then roll across Europe… just like they did in 1945! The thorny question of why Russia would ever be interested in such an escapade is avoided through irrational anti-Russian bigotry: the very fact that the Russians happen to be Russian is taken as sufficient to guarantee their propensity for such insane and self-defeating behavior.

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