Notes on the ongoing fascist drift

1.   There are several types of households. And, it is these nuclei that constitute the true monads of social life.

·        The vast majority is threatened by the police intrusion of tax agencies, always pressured by governments to implement a growing fiscal penalty, using and abusing the possibility of digging through various databases in search of increased income from those who live on the income of the work. But less so from the so-called entrepreneurs because “they are the ones who create the jobs”, in a logic that emanates from the most reactionary skulls. It is the fiscal penalty, which is conveniently comprehensive regarding the inflows/outflows of capital to offshores.

·        In general, the overwhelming majority of family nuclei are threatened by the pressure of capitalists in conditioning the income from work, through unpaid overtime, the precariousness of work that leads to precariousness in life, the rising age for retirement, in a plan that it means less time out of work and more extended time on the job, with discounts[1]. It is the pressure of capital with the subservient cooperation of the political class, mandated and obedient.

·        All are threatened by the financial system which, capturing the apparatus of the State and the political classes, favours unbridled consumerism paid on credit or, anchored in mortgages, capable of generating brutal losses in the event of default. It is about the pressure of the financial system, as a rule slavishly carried out by governments, also highly dependent on credit.

2. There is an osmotic, promiscuous and servile relationship between the political classes and the dominant strata of the capitalists (large industry, services and the financial system); and, a hierarchy that includes the so-called PME's[2], the champions of tax evasion, with the benevolence of governments, knowing that without this flight, low wages and job insecurity, many of these PME's would not be viable. It is one more form of state support towards social harmonization, smoothing the sharpest edges.

The drive of governments are, as a rule, emanations from the political classes, in the sense of conditioning and the growing capture of income from the population; is the same drive that focuses on the idiocy of the infinite growth of GDP. This, however, is not the greatest drama of our times. More relevant is the apathy of the multitude of workers and former workers; the anchyloses of their traditional institutions (unions); which allows the existence and fattening of capitalists and political classes, through the insertion of capital in Ponzi pyramids, from of the creation of money, out of nothing, without any relation to the so-called “real economy”. Tolerance that generates apathy, the disconnect between disadvantaged human groups and the victims of the action of political and economic structures, constitutes the main cause of Humanity's dramas nowadays.

3. For those who place climate change as their first priority, we say that without the dismantling of the capitalist logic, climate change will continue to be just collateral damage, from the dominant point of view, of capital accumulation and political classes, with ecological groups childishly to believe that they can catechize the political classes, in parliamentary action, in the sense of a (chimerical) imposition on common capitalists and the financial system. The practice of ecological groups in the last fifty years has been to osmosis themselves with liberal, social-democratic or Trotskyist-Stalinist groups, whose withering is visible; together, there is nothing structural about their practices, just the underlining of a “there is no alternative ”. Claiming against the effects without trying to suppress the causes is a gross methodological and political error.

Given the occurrence of an acceleration of these           changes, a dilemma arises:

·         humans are able to manage the planet in a logic of satisfying their needs, living beings and the planet's balance, which requires the abolition of the logic of capital accumulation that, by nature, focuses on endless growth;

·        or, the capitalists and their political officials proceed to a segmentation of the human herd between the useful members to the accumulation and the negligent ones, whose number must be reduced through diseases, reduction of the birth rate and of the longevity. A process that excites technologists and capitalists, with the replacement of human beings by robots.

4. However, the costs of capitalism's damages are transferred to the States, to be paid by an ever-increasing tax burden, which is particularly burdensome on labour income. The typical intra-capitalist competition requires the presence of increasingly lethal military forces, priority users of technologies with enormous power of confinement or destruction; and, with the promotion of nationalist and racist particularisms, old and excellent instruments for dividing the human herd.

The aforementioned apathy combines with the constant flood of media rubbish from television stations, the written press and digital platforms that, magnanimous, freely dump fantasies, lies and imbecilities at the disposal of all. This immense mass of data, under the name of information, serves for the construction and measurement of the state of mind of the large, inorganic masses of people, for the adoption of practices, ideologies, consumptions and social habits, leading to a collective alienation of the crowd that, in turn, ensures “the business must go on ”. In earlier times (in Europe) alienation stemmed from the narratives surrounding the figure of a vigilant named Jesus, imposed by temporal power and by the great mass of ecclesiastics. Can data used for manipulation purposes be called information?

Apathy incorporates, as genetics, the idea of ​​defending the homeland[3] and allows the daydreams with which the political classes finance military institutions; this incorporation can manifest itself in the trivialization of a culture of acceptance of violence and war, taken with natural elements for resolving differences, whether on the battlefield or in street demonstrations, in the silent violence of the workplace and residence. This apathy flattens, for example, domestic violence, taken as something with strong roots in society and, therefore, trivialized, as the subordination of women.

5. The nationalist idea fosters antagonisms between people who are not at all conflicting with each other, who do not even know each other, but only because they focus on different coloured cloths waving in the wind, if not on racist prejudices. Nationalism is a gift that is offered to the powerful and politicians of a country to legally and therefore, with impunity, demand resources and sacrifices from the population; putting immigrants in the background, in terms of rights and income, in a racist, exclusionary and cowardly attitude. Dividing and ruling is a practice with millennia of practice.

6.   The anchoring of family income and economic life in general is evident in the opaque activity of the financial system, whose databases allow for an almost nudity in people's everyday lives; the next abolition of physical money will be a giant step towards the lechery and control of each human being or by the financial system, in partnership with the “operationals” who show their face – the political classes. I partiti politici si dividono in grandi e piccoli. I grandi mentono e rubano. I piccolli desiderano sopprattutto di crescere (E. de Straznik).

7. The ideological defilement is permanent and overwhelming. In schools and universities, utilitarianism prevails, contempt for the social sciences, which have become instruments of social domestication or instruments of value generation, which, obviously, will essentially accumulate in the capitalists' patrimony. Is it by chance that economics taught at universities is essentially a technical discipline, with a lot of GDP, profit, supply, demand, competitiveness, value creation, entrepreneurship and the like? The interest of capitalists in introducing themselves into economic education aims to train agents of capital who, taking into account the cost of fees, privilege the offspring of capitalists, naturally nullifying this possibility among young people from the middle and lower classes of the population who, according to “modern” political regimes, they should be limited to their economic and social subordination. The time of the stairwell universities that honored figures of the Portuguese intelligentsia, such as Relvas, Passos, Sócrates or Vara, seems to have passed.

8.  The credit chains, involving States, families, companies, duly monitored by central banks and by the voluptuousness of stock exchanges, they are consistent with the infinite growth of GDP, as an inexhaustible source of enrichment for capitalists, with the intrusion and monitoring of the so-called “big date”. Conversely, the families, they are faced with huge debts for the use of a house, with high risks in terms of unemployment, increases in the tax burden and prices defined by oligopolies (fuels, banking services, transport, supermarkets, telecommunications). The tare of infinite GDP growth constitutes the usual engine of the diaphanous unreality that enriches the rich, on the one hand, and fosters huge pockets of poverty – absolute or relative among workers, pensioners, and the unemployed. Recently, the frightening and impoverishing contribution of COVID-19 has strongly increased the autocratic and repressive power of the state apparatus, to the precariousness of work, to the confinement required by telework and, consequently, to the fragility of the poorest people's lives.

9. It is clear that companies and capitalists also contribute to fiscal punishment, but their relationship with the state apparatus is much more promiscuous and varied; there is tax evasion, subsidies, legislative support and, above all, a real possibility of raising prices, reducing costs, contracting debt and obtaining subsidies or tax deductions from the State.

At the top of the state apparatus are the various strains of the political class, much more equal than diversified; and, always complainants lack of financial resources by pressing the plebs towards increasing revenue tax and expenditure restraint public social character; hence, as a rule, increases in taxes and public debt.

The divorce between those who live on income from work and the State is evident; their interests are antagonistic or, if the capitalist state, is not an enormous abscess in the life of communities.

10.  The exclusions and dormancy in which most peoples of the world live facilitate the authoritarian and fascist impulses on the part of governments that, if necessary, will make use of heavily armed police officers and indoctrinated in canine obedience to … attack with water cannons, sticks, humanized dogs to attack people, if not rubber or real bullets that – always accidentally – injure or kill protesters; as it was frequent in the demonstrations of the French Gillets Jaunes.

The surveillance of each person's movements and opinions is potentially carried out through numerous channels - landline or mobile telephone network - the so-called “social” networks where imbecilities predominate but under the scrutiny of big data and the police, whenever If necessary, they can carry out specific queries to identify “dangerous” ideas. This happens while the courts are proving to be bottomless pits where cases of scams and corruption involving people of the political class and media entrepreneurs are in a state of dormancy.  Recently, fourteen members of the gang in government functions (PS) issued, with pomp and circumstance, a Portuguese Charter on Human Rights in the Digital Age that was identified as “belonging to the family of censorship”

The media, little differentiated, highly concentrated in the hands of financial or advertising groups, clearly practice an erasure of ideas that are unfriendly to power; and, to present a democratic facade, they promote one or another, allegedly left-wing, commentator.

11. The dominant representation model shows a substitute monarch to symbolize the homeland and which is called the President of the Republic, although there are cases in Europe in which folklore is carried out by a king. They are individuals at the end of their careers, walking in procession through the territory or, in presidential regimes, individuals duly trained in the management of the interests of the powerful.

Elections for parliaments usually fall to individuals belonging to institutions – the parties – which are divided into two large groups.

·          The most relevant group is those who manage the State apparatus, in an osmotic relationship with the capitalists, the financial system or, members of cavernous entities such as law firms, specialized in influence peddling; they will also benefit from permissive, dubious legislation, cumbersome and ineffective judicial systems;

·          The minority group is that of deputies who are the protagonists of the opposition and the media animation that aims to attract the (scarce) assistant people.

The two groups have in common their presentation as interpreters and caretakers of popular interests, even if they do not comply with the basic rule of representation — that the decision rests with the represented and not the representative.

12.  To finish, and taking advantage of the next electoral carnival, of a municipal character, we add some notes that intend to show what is a representation and a democratic decision : and, what is the totalitarian manoeuver that constitutes the DNA of the party sects:

·          The decisions on the collective needs are taken by its direct stakeholders (the population) in line with their elected and, not emanating from supporters directories;

·    The election is aimed at individuals, at the local/regional/national level, through their own initiative applications. Thus, there are no applications in the form of lists. The elected will have to harmonize, collectively, for the decision;

·          Limitation of the number of mandates (maximum of two or three). The exercise of political functions, of representation, is not a way of life but a duty of citizenship. It is intended to avoid the encystment of political classes;

·          Possibility of termination by referendum, of mandates on the initiative of voters, of the same geographical framework in which the election was carried out;

·          Opening and facilitating referendums by decision of the political structures or of the population inserted in the same geographical framework;

·          Total absence of perks and immunities for all those who hold positions representing the population; and, an aggravated criminal framework without prescription, for cases of corruption;

·         The staff of the Public administration and the judiciary are technical structures, independent of the various levels of government action;

·      The government consists of the elected representatives for RA and , as such , may be dismissed, of these functions under parliamentary decision or have the mandate as a deputy impeached, by popular referendum.

·       Free and easy access to all files and decisions of public bodies

·   Judgement of corrupt and mismanagement acts that have taken place in the last 25 years

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[1] In Portugal, this innovation was carried out by two PS entities; such Vieira da Silva, a former minister who retired and Pedro Marques, his subordinate and executor of this innovation about fifteen years ago, currently to accumulate political weight in the European Parliament.

[2] The concepts of nationality and patriotism emerged with capitalism , when the bourgeoisie found it useful to define a territory and a population as their own, excluding all those who were outside the borders, subject to very tight control. In the U E , the creation of a global market suffered a setback with the use of covid-19 to confine and impoverish populations and make even more precarious employment and access to regular income, even if meager.

Still on patriotism, note the competitive and excluding commitment of international football championships. Perhaps one day the mobs' winning eagerness will slide into the demand for a degree of violence like the one well portrayed in the movie Rollerball (2002).

 

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[1] In Portugal, this innovation was carried out by two PS entities; such Vieira da Silva, a former minister who retired and Pedro Marques, his subordinate and executor of this innovation about fifteen years ago, currently to accumulate political weight in the European Parliament.

[2] PME – Pequenas e Médias Empresas (Small and Median Compamies)

[3] The concepts of nationality and patriotism emerged with capitalism , when the bourgeoisie found it useful to define a territory and a population as their own, excluding all those who were outside the borders, subject to very tight control. In the U E , the creation of a global market suffered a setback with the use of covid-19 to confine and impoverish populations and make even more precarious employment and access to regular income, even if meager.

 

Europe - a continent that turns into a peninsula

We have become used to considering Europe as a continent. What if the political and economic realities transform it from an American dependency to an Asian peninsula?

1 - The European Union of inequalities

In advanced capitalism, with a neoliberal profile, borders are seen as obstacles that can make it difficult for goods to be processed. And the internet has exponentially facilitated contacts in general, capital operations and speculative dementia in particular. As for human beings, things are somewhat different; Citizen cards, passports, visas, residence permits and … in progress, a certificate on the situation vis-à-vis covid-19 will be required.

The EU intended to be a factor of homogeneity in terms of rights and usufructs in the sense of facilitating exchanges between member countries, as a response to the great rivalry that emerged from World War II, between the North Americans and the Soviets. Initially, the political and economic differences between its members were not many until the integration of Greece (1981) and the Iberian countries (1986), with degrees of economic development clearly inferior to the founders. Later, with the inclusion of the countries that left Comecon and the bloody dismemberment of Yugoslavia, inequalities within the enlarged EU grew substantially, presenting huge pockets of potential emigrants destined to work in the richer countries, desertifying and aging their countries of origin, taken as labor exporters. Like the Levels of training in these countries are among the highest in Europe (especially in the East) and, with this training being paid for by the families of the countries of their origin, it is immediately seen that those who will benefit from the qualification of these emigrant workers are the rich countries, with enough money to pay salaries that are not practiced in the countries of origin. As these inequalities are of interest to contractors (rich countries) and contractors (workers from poor countries), to speak of social and territorial cohesion within the EU is a lie consolidated over time.

The godly goal of unification and solidarity has not been fulfilled. Countries or regions in the process of population regression and those that attract population are perfectly visible , although in the EU there is not only migration between member states but also of people from abroad. For example, Turks go to Germany, Moroccans to Spain, Indians and Pakistanis to Great Britain, Brazilians to Portugal…

The richest countries saw the poorest countries integrated in the EU as interesting destinations for investments, taking advantage of low local wage levels and, in many cases, linked to high educational levels (especially in the former Comecon countries); in these territories there were people eager for consumption and well-being, ready to work and improve their lives.[1] . On the other hand, the integration of these countries would work as a model for the consolidation of centers and peripheries, with these orbiting countries with greater economic, demographic or financial strength; a model of spatial and economic reorganization, generating inequalities that are of interest to be permanent, namely in the chapter on labor prices. All, however, well camouflaged in a language of egalitarianism that reality proves to be false; registering among the peripheries cases of some success, such as total failure.

All this architecture is well wrapped up in legal texts, extensive and detailed, which clearly show the difficulties for countries that want to go back, leaving the Union; notwithstanding the obvious disaster of an exit for any member state with lesser status, especially if included in the euro area[2] . Great Britain managed to leave but took with it problems that jeopardize the continuity of its peripheral parts – Scotland and Ulster – leaving Greater London to royalty as a powerful financial center linked to the numerous offshore points spread across the planet. The viability of the exit of unstructured, poor countries, with trade largely carried out within the EU and dependent on community support, is doubtful. The EU replicates in its midst the inequalities typical of the federated states; in the US the differences between Florida and West Virginia are stark; in Brazil, the state of São Paulo has an income capitation three times higher than that of Ceará; in Spain, income in the Community of Madrid is double that of the poorest autonomy (Extremadura); and in Portugal, the North region presents an income slightly above 2/3 of that registered in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo. In short, the EU replicates the social and economic inequalities existing in all nation-states and these will never disappear in a framework of capitalist competition; the global management of the current pandemic reveals to the full the differences that capitalism generates and sustains. Cooperation and mutual help give better results than the insanity of accumulating capital to infinity.

If initially, the CEE countries had approximate income levels and productive structures, after the entry of Greece into the then CEE, things changed with the inclusion of that poor country, with very different production structures and incomes; and followed by the Iberian countries, etc. As is evident, the political classes of the less developed countries, eager to become the link and protagonists of a corrupt absorption of community funds, did not bother to consult the populations on the acceptance or not of such a geopolitical change. On the contrary, they made full use of what they could and some became “entrepreneurs” benefiting from the good connections within the PS/PSD party-state, in the Portuguese case. The so-called international investors know that they have to pay a specific fee for any business with a country where corruption is natural, and they try to hire authorized intermediaries – law firms.

Where a political plan of territorial, political and well-being cohesion was affirmed, in reality there was only a hierarchy of countries with different levels of political, commercial and technological power, competing with each other to take advantage of the community funds that would make it possible for capitalists from the richest countries to invest in the less rich ones, with the lowest salary levels, also giving scope for the application of these funds in accordance with the interests of the party mafias, national or local authorities. Europe of Regions, does anyone remember?

In reality, the poorest countries remain at the bottom of the hierarchy, with the EU remaining a union of unequals.

In this context, there is a “specialization”. EU countries with more powerful economic structures and productive specializations with greater technological content tend to focus on trade relations with a wide range of countries, mainly on exports – this is the obvious case for Germany. Countries with less advanced specialization patterns tend to focus on the production of goods with lower technological content, such as agricultural or tourist products, with the richest countries in the Union as buyers. And, in the case of agricultural export products, there is no shortage local mobsters for the integration of non-community immigrants under substandard conditions and wages .

2 - The EU at the global level

At the end of World War II, Europe became a politically and militarily shared area. In the western part, the presence of North American troops would be aimed at defending against any Soviet advance; and, to this end, NATO was created in 1949, to which Greece and Turkey joined in 1952. In response, in 1955, the Warsaw Pact emerged, covering the countries with a Soviet model, led by the USSR. A segmented, bipartite Europe, forced to accept the end of centuries of colonization, presented itself even more fragile before the two colossi of the moment – ​​USA and USSR.

With the end of the so-called cold war, NATO maintained its existence, expanded its geographic scope with the integration of the countries of the extinct Warsaw Pact, with military interventions in the Balkans and, outside the European scope, in Libya, the Sahel and in Afghanistan. The US military and political dominance in the European scenario also represents the guarantee of a captive market for the enormous North American weaponry production; It keeps the political influence of the US west of the Russian border and, the Mediterranean; and, it also intends to contain the penetration of China's commercial and political influence in all corners of the planet (see map at the end of the text) .

The combined military spending of the USA, France, Great Britain and Germany in 2020 was $942,700 million of which $778,000 million is for the US and, knowing that the use of such resources is widespread across the planet and not just in Europe. Russia's military spending was $61,700 million, certainly not just centered on the European scene . And China, for its part, spent $ 252,000 million, concentered in the Far East.

Other factors draw the European underage Euro failed to supplant the dollar as the global currency, the renminbi Chinese also did not and, the pound is a shadow of its past. It is not strange that Europe shows itself as an exporting power (despite its glaring internal inequalities) but with a reduced capacity for intervention in the global political chessboard. It remains, therefore, the situation of a Europe as a US base for the strategic area of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, counting even the US with the political and economic disintegration of the space stretching from Lebanon to Mesopotamia and the sea of Oman, encompassing there, obviously the Persian Gulf [3]; and, above all, with the support of the faithful Zionist entity. In short, the US retains its strategic control over Europe; and this highlights  its political minority focusing on bureaucratic minutiae, leaving the distance global leadership marked at Lepanto (1571) and, consolidated in the second siege of Vienna (1683).

A major change is underway coming from East Asia, after a first phase led by the economic performance of Japan and South Korea, countries that have continued since the end of World War II under the protectorate of the USA (as in Europe with the presence of NATO ) although not dispensing with high military costs; those two countries in 2020 spent with the armed forces a little less than $ 50,000 M each.

This militaristic fad that characterizes the US, with bases and fleets around the world, with the involvement in wars and astonishing destruction, made the US totally distanced from the creation, in 2014 of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB); or, in 2020, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership ( RCEP) which includes countries militarily protected by the USA (South Korea and Japan) or, under its political influence (Australia and New Zealand) and in which India did not want to participate… by while, during the consulate of the Hindu fanatic, Modi. History records that trade, exchanges, bring peoples together, promote cultural interactions and constitute an enormous instrument of economic development, unlike militarism; as can be seen in the following table.

    Percentage of world GDP (in terms of purchasing power parity )

	1980	1990	2000	2010	2015	2020 (est)
EU	30.2	27.6	23.7	19.0	16.9	15.6
USA	21.9	22.1	20.7	16.8	15.8	14.7
China	2.3	4.1	7.5	13.9	17.3	19.0

                                          Source: IMF - Economic Outlook 2016

In 2020, the Chinese economic power meant that the EU has become China as its biggest trading partner, sending the US for second place; the way both countries faced the coronavirus outbreak reveals the decay of the US and its replacement by China as the world's main economy .

The relationship that will be established in Euro-Asia involves several aspects. One is the strengthening of Russia as a vital link between East Asia and Europe; a link that could be practiced across the Arctic. Another is a development of the Russian gas supply to Germany via the Baltic, in the face of US bitterness.

A third aspect is the establishment of several sections of the Silk Road, integrating the countries of Central Asia and the Muslim countries of the Near and Middle East, through  high speed trains, an area in which China has a high performance, as it reveals below. According to Keith Bradsher of the New York Times, in 2012, China inaugurated a high-speed rail line that runs 2298 km between Beijing and Guangzou, with 35 stops in ten hours; transposed to Europe, this infrastructure would make a London-Belgrade journey in… eight hours. The above distance is equivalent to the distance between New York and Key West, in South Florida; however, a current, slightly shorter rail route (New York/Miami) is now completed in … 30 hours of travel. Such developments in China as in Europe may offer diversified routes for transactions between Europe and the East and include the countries of the aforementioned ASEAN and the East coast of Africa.

Taking into account the population of the “European Peninsula”, Eurasian integration (for the time being, excluding India) goes beyond 2500 M people connected by a continuous and diverse continental mass, culturally and in terms of living or upbringing of wealth.

A war in Europe with a global dimension is not to be expected. The US military presence was justified for nearly half a century with the existence of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. The extinction of the latter would have been a good opportunity for the burial of military alliances; however, NATO continues to exist, happy to have encompassed the Balkan countries; and hoping, after the inclusion of the countries of the extinct Comecon, to encircle the Russian borders in Ukraine and the Caucasus .

After the end of the Cold War, the US, with or without the NATO mask, waged wars in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, invaded Libya and Afghanistan, armed ISIS to destabilize Syria and Iraq, with the strengthening of the connection to the monarchies Gulf to isolate Iran and, develop the Zionist cancer the exact extent of the Palestinian people crushing. The US continues to be present in Africa conflicts, keeping the seat of its Africom, located in Stuttgart (!), a showing of their role as strange entity among the peoples of the continent; and including, among other auxiliaries, also in Africa, Portuguese mercenaries.

The militarized bet of the USA is a real dementia, especially when taking into account the degree of poverty of a large part of its population and its deficiencies in terms of infrastructure, as exemplified above. Its military presence in Europe continues to use and reproduce the Cold War scenario, attributing to Russia an economic and military power it does not have. Russia has only 150 million inhabitants and its military spending is more than twelve times less than that of the USA. 

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Where there seems to be a lot of homogeneity among EU members is in strategic subservience to NATO, with the acceptance of US leadership[4]. The EU seems to want to keep the US with one foot in Europe, to avoid a total immersion of the European Peninsula in the infrastructure of the Silk Road, the implementation of which will keep the US fleets in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, which tend to be obsolete. from a strategic point of view, with the increasing relevance of land routes in the connection between the East, Central Asia and Europe. China's economic strength, combined with its demographic strength (more than double that of the EU countries) promises to give Europe a second place. This marginalization, in the past, was very evident in Bretton Woods, with the segmentation of Europe into West and East, with the presence of military bases of occupying powers and, with bloody decolonizations (Algeria, Vietnam and Portuguese colonies).

What role will Europe have in the medium or long term?

·           Regional economic power without a relevant role in international politics inserted, without protagonism, in the strategic confrontation China/USA?

·           As for China, Europe will seek a relationship of mutual economic advantages by joining the planned logistical corridors for whose construction most European countries have joined (the AIIB mentioned above);

·           Maintenance of current and glaring regional inequalities within the EU susceptible to deviant political positions, such as what the GB decided with its Brexit? And enhancers of diversified cleavages, facilitated by the great diversity of cultures and recent historical frameworks?

A preference as a subordinate ally of the USA whose relative decay is evident, as observed in the management of the pandemic, in the huge pockets of poverty, for the political and social problems resulting from an ancestral importance given to “race”? A nation-state that spends as much on armaments as all the others and that forces its allies to buy what they need to maintain its huge and influential military-industrial complex?

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[1] An exemplary case lived in Portugal is related to the Volkswagen factory in Palmela, whose genesis is interesting to be known. In the last years of the fascist regime (ended 1974), it was intended to place as the centerpiece of industrial investment the port of Sines with petrochemical facilities and as an interface for large oil tankers coming from the Middle East via the Cape route, since the Suez was closed after the war of 1967 between Egypt and the Zionist entity occupant of Palestine; and, on the other hand, to install large shipyards for shipbuilding/repair and an area of ​​chemistry in the Setúbal Peninsula. As the Suez Canal reopened in 1973, the entire project became meaningless and the facilities were eventually nationalized in 1975, after the fall of the fascist regime. This change came to be harshly reflected in that Peninsula, an area then marked by the most radical activism in the country. Volkswagen ended up establishing a factory in the region (1991), with community funds financing means of communication, training for workers, a hospital, becoming one of the main exporters in the country and an anchor for several supplier companies.

[2] On a supposed exit of Portugal from the euro zone, see:

http://grazia-tanta.blogspot.pt/2017/05/europa-periferias-e-desastres.html

http://grazia-tanta.blogspot.pt/2016/06/centro-e-periferias-3-portugal-uma.html

http://grazia-tanta.blogspot.pt/2016/06/centro-e-periferias-na-europa-2.html

http://grazia-tanta.blogspot.pt/2016/06/centro-e-periferias-3-portugal-uma.html

[3] Not forgetting Afghanistan, where the US and its allies have stood against the Taliban and in favor of the opium trade. It would be unfair to forget the importance of Portuguese mercenaries guarding the airport in Kabul. The big Bagram base will see the US evacuation. Throughout this time, Chinese and Indians have established businesses in the country.

 

[4] See the European commitment to the tension of relations with Russia or Turkey, knowing that these countries are essential pieces in a Eurasian integration that is at the door. The relevance given to Navalny or to the Belarusian trapped in a plane diverted to Minsk is frankly overblown, giving rise to sanctions that prove useless or ridiculous but satisfy the interests of the USA in maintaining disagreements in the European space. On the other hand, the EU offers troops to frame Africom's activity in the Sahel or Afghanistan and keeps Assange imprisoned, under a curtain of silence because he was the protagonist, years ago, in the dissemination of US war crimes. In European politics, the case of the plane diverted to Minsk serves to make us forget the occupation of Palestine and the most recent crimes of Zionism against the Palestinian people. The political dwarves who run Europe can only see in Africa and Asia refugees and immigrants arriving in Lesbos, Pantelleria or Ceuta, ready for a total precariousness of life and pushing wage levels down.