Joseph P. Farrell – Geopolitical fallout from the wave of anti-globaloneyism that appears to be sweeping the West continues. In just the last week, we’ve seen the House of Commons in the U.K. vote overwhelmingly against the “remoaners,” i.e., against the Europhiles who want to sabotage the BREXIT vote.
M. Hollande has indicated he will not run for the French Presidency again; Nicholas Sarkozy was crushed in early primaries within his own party for another stay in the Elysee; Dutch opposition party leader Geert Wilders was convicted of “discrimination” by a Dutch court in what can only be viewed as a purely political attempt to derail him; Marine Le Pen’s party in France has a strong position in the polls as France heads into an election year, and Europhile Matteo Renzi suffered a crushing defeat in the Italian constitutional referendum.
But at the center, as the old pre-war song goes, of all these upcoming battles is Berlin, as outlined in this very significant article that was shared by Mr. V.Z.:
The ‘Battle of Berlin’ Will Be Last of Globalism
Chancellor Merkel has squandered her once mighty political capital over the immigration (and southern European austerity) issues with such a reckless abandon that one can only wonder whether or not she engineered it. The short answer is, probably not, for she now shifting positions faster than the particles in the hadron collider (but Merkel’s PhD is, after all, in quantum chemistry, so it’s not surprising).