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THE EU BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES BY THE STRAUSSIANS

by Thierry Meyssan

A US grouping, constituted around the thought of the philosopher Leo Strauss,
controls from now on both the Secretariat of Defense and the Secretariat of
State. After having organized many wars since those of Yugoslavia, they imagined
the one in Ukraine. It is now manipulating the European Union and is preparing
to deprive it of energy sources. If European leaders do not open their eyes,
their alliance with Washington will lead to the collapse of the Union’s economy.
There is no point in believing that Europeans will be spared because they are
developed. The Straussians wrote, as early as 1992, that they would not hesitate
to destroy Germany and the EU.

Voltaire Network | Paris (France) | 13 September 2022

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For Professor Leo Strauss, it was better to be Hitler than to fall into his
hands.

Beginning in 1949, the German Jewish philosopher Leo Strauss taught at the
University of Chicago. He soon formed a small group of Jewish disciples from
among his students. He taught them orally, which was quite different from his
writings. According to him, the democracies had shown their inability to protect
the Jews from the Nazi final solution. To prevent this tragedy from happening
again and the hammer from falling on them, his disciples had to be on the other
side of the handle.

He advised them to build their own dictatorship.

Organizing his followers, Leo Strauss called them his "hoplites" (soldiers of
Sparta). He trained them to disrupt the classes of some of his fellow teachers.

Several of the members of this sect have held very high positions in the United
States and Israel. The operation and ideology of this grouping were the subject
of controversy after the attacks of September 11, 2001. An abundant literature
has opposed the supporters and opponents of the philosopher. However, the facts
are indisputable [1].

Anti-Semitic authors have wrongly lumped together Straussians, Jewish
communities in the Diaspora and the State of Israel. However, the ideology of
Leo Strauss was never discussed in the Jewish world before 9/11. From a
sociological point of view, it is a sectarian phenomenon, not at all
representative of Jewish culture. However, in 2003, Benjamin Netanyahu’s
"revisionist Zionists" made a pact with the US Straussians, in the presence of
other Israeli leaders [2]. This alliance was never made public.

One of the characteristics of this group is that they are ready for anything.
For example, they wanted to return Iraq to the stone age. This is indeed what
they did. For them, all sacrifices are possible, including for themselves, as
long as they remain the first; not the best, the first [3]!

Paul Wolfowitz

In 1992, an advisor to the Secretary of Defense, the Straussian Paul Wolfowitz,
wrote the Defense Planning Guidance. It was the first official US document
reflecting the thinking of Leo Strauss [4]. Wolfowitz was introduced to Strauss’
thought by the American philosopher Allan Bloom (a friend of the Frenchman
Raymond Aron), but he himself only briefly knew the master at the end of his
teaching in Chicago. However, the US ambassador to the UN, Jeane Kirkpatrick,
recognized him as "one of the great Straussian figures" [5].

In the context of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Wolfowitz developed a
strategy to maintain US hegemony over the entire rest of the world.

The Defense Planning Guidance should have remained confidential, but the New
York Times revealed its main lines and published extracts [6]. Three days later,
the Washington Post revealed further details [7]. In the end, the original text
was never made public, but a version edited by the Secretary of Defense (and
future Vice President), Dick Cheney, was circulated.

It is known that the original document was based on a series of meetings in
which two other people, all three Straussian, participated: Andrew Marshall, the
Pentagon’s "thinker" (who was replaced three years after his death by Arthur
Cebrowski), Albert Wohlstetter, the thinker of the atomic deterrence strategy,
and his son-in-law Richard Perle, the future director of the Defense Policy
Board. The Defense Planning Guidance was written by a student of Wohlstetter,
Zalmay Khalilzad (future ambassador to the UN).

The document speaks of a new "world order [...] ultimately supported by the
United States", in which the sole superpower would only have temporary
alliances, depending on the conflict. The UN and even NATO would be increasingly
sidelined. More broadly, the Wolfowitz Doctrine theorizes the need for the
United States to block the emergence of any potential competitor to U.S.
hegemony, especially "advanced industrial nations" such as Germany and Japan.
Particularly targeted is the European Union: "While the United States supports
the European integration project, we must be careful to prevent the emergence of
a purely European security system that would undermine NATO, and particularly
its integrated military command structure. The Europeans will thus be asked to
include in the Maastricht Treaty a clause subordinating their defense policy to
that of NATO, while the Pentagon report recommends the integration of the new
Central and Eastern European states into the European Union, while giving them
the benefit of a military agreement with the United States that would protect
them against a possible Russian attack [8].

For thirty years, this document has been patiently implemented.
– The Maastricht Treaty includes a paragraph 4 in Title V, Article J4, which
stipulates: "The policy of the Union within the meaning of this Article shall
not prejudice the specific character of the security and defence policy of
certain Member States and shall respect the obligations of certain Member States
under the North Atlantic Treaty and be compatible with the common security and
defence policy established within that framework. These provisions have been
included in the various texts up to Article 42 of the Treaty on European Union.
– The former Warsaw Pact member states have almost all joined the European
Union. This decision was a choice imposed by Washington and announced by
Secretary of State James Baker just before the European Council meeting that
endorsed it.

In 2000, Paul Wolfowitz was, together with Zbignew Brzezinki, the main speaker
at a large Ukrainian-US symposium in Washington, organized by Ukrainian
"integral nationalists" who had taken refuge in the USA. There he pledged to
support independent Ukraine, to provoke Russia to go to war with it, and
ultimately to finance the destruction of the resurgent rival of the USA [9].

These commitments were implemented with the passage of the Ukraine Democracy
Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 on April 28, 2022 [10]. Ukraine is now exempt
from all arms control procedures, including end-use certificates. Very expensive
weapons are leased by the USA to the EU to defend Ukraine. When the war is over,
the Europeans will have to pay for what they have consumed. And the bill will be
heavy.

Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken in John Kerry’s office

Although the European elites have benefited from their alliance with the United
States so far, they should not be surprised that the United States is now trying
to destroy them under the Defense Planning Guidance. They have already seen what
Washington was capable of after the 9/11 attacks: Paul Wolfowitz forbade
countries that had expressed reservations about the war, such as Germany and
France, to conclude contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq [11].

At present, the rise in the price of energy sources and their increasing
scarcity threaten not only the heating and transportation of individuals, but
above all the survival of all their industries. If this phenomenon continues, it
is the economy of the European Union as a whole that will suddenly collapse,
taking its population back at least a century.

This phenomenon is difficult to analyze because the prices and availability of
energy sources vary according to many factors.

First, prices depend on supply and demand. As a result, they have risen with the
overall economic recovery from the end of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Second, energy sources are the main targets of speculators. Even more so than
currencies. The world price of oil can be multiplied by 2.5 just by the effect
of speculation.

So far, everything is usual and known. But the Western sanctions against Russia,
following its application of the Minsk II Agreement, for which it was the
guarantor before the Security Council, have broken the world market. From now
on, there is no longer a global price, but different prices according to the
countries of the sellers and the customers. There are still prices quoted on the
stock exchange in Wall Street and the City, but they bear no relation to those
in Beijing and New Delhi.

Above all, oil and gas, which were abundant in the European Union, are starting
to run out, while globally they are still in overabundance.

All our reference points have been turned upside down. Our statistical tools,
designed for the global market, are not at all adapted to the current period. We
can therefore only make assumptions, without any means of verifying them. This
situation allows many people to talk nonsense with an air of authority; in fact,
we are all evolving at a guessing pace.

One of the current factors is the reflux of dollars which were used for trade
and speculation and which are no longer usable for these transactions in certain
countries. This mostly virtual currency is leaving Russia and its allies to go
to or return to the countries where it is still used. This is a gigantic
phenomenon that the Federal Reserve and the US military have always wanted to
avoid, but which the Straussians in the Biden administration (Secretary of State
Antony Blinken and his deputy Victoria Nuland) have deliberately provoked.

Wrongly convinced that Russia has invaded Ukraine and is trying to annex it, the
Europeans forbid themselves to trade with Moscow. In practice, they still
consume Russian gas, but they are convinced that Gazprom will cut off their gas
supply. For example, their press announced that the Russian company was closing
the Nord Stream pipeline, although it had announced a three-day technical
interruption. Normally, gas pipeline deliveries are interrupted for maintenance
for two days every two months. Here, Gazprom was hampered in its maintenance by
the Western blockade, which prevented the return of the turbines it had sent for
repair to Canada. However, the population understood that the evil Russians had
cut off their gas on the eve of winter.

The European propaganda aims to prepare public opinion for a definitive closure
of the gas pipeline and to put the responsibility on Russia.

In this case, the leaders of the Union are simply implementing the directives of
the Straussians. In doing so, they are scuttling European industry to the
detriment of their citizens. Already some energy-intensive factories have
reduced their production or even closed.

Ladislav Vrábel organisierte die erste pro-russische Demonstration in der
Europäischen Union. Dieser 44-jährige Unternehmer hatte sich bereits einen Namen
gemacht, als er die restriktiven Maßnahmen Brüssels gegen die Covid-19-Epidemie
in Frage stellte.

The process of decrepitude of the European Union will continue as long as no one
dares to oppose it. To everyone’s surprise, a first pro-Russian demonstration
was held on September 3 in Prague. The police admitted to 70,000 people (for a
country of 10 million), but there were probably many more. Political
commentators despise them and consider them "Putin’s useful idiots". But these
insults do not mask the unease of European elites.

Energy experts consider power cuts throughout the Union inevitable. Only
Hungary, which has previously obtained exemptions, could escape the rules of the
single energy market. Those who can produce electricity will have to share it
with those who cannot. It doesn’t matter whether this inability is the result of
bad luck or short-sightedness.

Brussels should start with voltage reductions, then cut off at night, and
finally during the day. Individuals will have difficulties to maintain
elevators, to heat their homes in winter, to cook if they use electric plates
and, those who use trains, buses or electric cars, should have difficulties to
move. Energy-intensive businesses, such as blast furnaces, are expected to
close. Infrastructures are expected to become impassable, such as long tunnels
that can no longer be ventilated. Above all, electronic installations designed
for continuous operation will not be able to withstand repeated interruptions.
This will be the case, for example, for antennas that are essential for cell
phone networks, which will be thrown away after three months of this treatment.

In third world countries where electricity is scarce, battery powered leds are
used for lighting and UPS to power low consumption machines, such as computers
or televisions. But these materials are currently not available in the EU.

The EU’s GDP has already fallen by almost 1%. Will this recession continue as
the Straussians plan, or will the citizens of the Union interrupt it, as part of
the Czech people are trying to do?

The Straussians will go all the way. They have taken advantage of the decadence
of the United States to take over the real power. Since a junkie, never elected,
can use official planes galore to do business all over the world [12], they have
quietly moved into the shadow of President Biden and are governing in his place.
European leaders, on the other hand, are either blind or too committed to stop,
acknowledge their thirty years of mistakes and turn back.

> What to remember:
> – The Straussians are a fanatical sect ready to do anything to maintain the
> supremacy of the United States over the world. They imagined the wars that
> have plagued the world for the past thirty years and the one in Ukraine today.
> – They persuaded the European Union that Moscow wanted to annex first Ukraine
> and then all of Central Europe. With that, they convinced Brussels to stop all
> trade with Russia.
> – The energy crisis that is beginning is leading the European Union towards
> electricity and power cuts that will wreak havoc on the way of life of its
> citizens and on its economy.


Thierry Meyssan

Translation
Roger Lagassé





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[1] Specialists of Leo Strauss’ political thought interpret it in a very
contradictory way. For my part, I am not interested in what the philosopher
thought of classical authors, but in what those who, rightly or wrongly, claim
to be his followers at the Pentagon and, from now on, at the State Department,
profess. Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, Shadia B. Drury, Palgrave Macmillan
(1988.); Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, Anne Norton, Yale
University Press (2005); The Truth About Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and
American Democracy, Catherine H. Zuckert & Michael P. Zuckert, University of
Chicago Press (2008); Leo Strauss and the conservative movement in America : a
critical appraisal, Paul Edward Gottfried, Cambridge University Press (2011);
Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and
West, Harry V. Jaffa, Rowman & Littlefield (2012); Leo Strauss and
Anglo-American Democracy: A Conservative Critique, Grant Havers, Cornell
University Press (2013); Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq: Encountering the
Abyss, Aggie Hirst, Routledge (2013); Leo Strauss, The Straussians, and the
Study of the American Regime, Kenneth L. Deutsch, Rowman & Littlefield (2013);
Straussophobia : Defending Leo Strauss and Straussians Against Shadia Drury and
Other Accusers, Peter Minowitz, Lexington Books (2016); Leo Strauss in Northeast
Asia, Jun-Hyeok Kwak & Sungwoo Park, Routledge (2019).

[2] « Sommet historique pour sceller l’Alliance des guerriers de Dieu », Réseau
Voltaire, 17 octobre 2003.

[3] For a brief history of the Straussians, see: “Russia declares war on the
Straussians”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network, 5 March 2022.

[4] The 1976 report of the "B Team" accusing the USSR of wanting to dominate the
world was not a statement of doctrine, but a propaganda argument to justify it.

[5] Interview with James Mann, quoted in Rise of the Vulcans: The History of
Bush’s War Cabinet, James Mann, Viking (2004).

[6] « US Strategy Plan Calls For Insuring No Rivals Develop » Patrick E. Tyler,
New York Times, March 8, 1992. The newspaper also publishes large excerpts on
page 14: « Excerpts from Pentagon’s Plan : "Prevent the Re-Emergence of a New
Rival" ».

[7] « Keeping the US First, Pentagon Would preclude a Rival Superpower » Barton
Gellman, The Washington Post, March 11, 1992.

[8] “Paul Wolfowitz, the Pentagon’s Soul”, by Paul Labarique, Voltaire Network,
4 October 2004.

[9] Cf. “Ukraine : the Second World War continues”, by Thierry Meyssan,
Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 26 April 2022.

[10] Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022, US Congress.

[11] « Instructions et conclusions sur les marchés de reconstruction et d’aide
en Irak », par Paul Wolfowitz, Réseau Voltaire, 10 décembre 2003.

[12] « La décadence de l’Empire états-unien », par Thierry Meyssan, Réseau
Voltaire, 6 septembre 2022.



THIERRY MEYSSAN

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