Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski is a writer and analyst with a specific focus on globalization, industrial policy, and international conflict. He worked as an analyst in one of the agencies overseeing industrial policy in Poland.
Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski frames his essay via Neo-Con Ghoul Robert Kagan. What better way to assure his readership at The Telegraph that he is part of that cadre!
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More than twenty years ago, American neocon Robert Kagan wrote in his book Of Paradise and Power that while Europe lives in a Kantian zone of peace, America could not possibly ignore the realities of power. And precisely because Washington wielded power, Europe was able to nurture its illusion that history did not concern it anymore.
While European Union can no longer afford to be a paradise oblivious to the logic of power, it hasn’t become comfortable with it just yet. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, would like to turn the EU into a geopolitical actor. This is evident in the more mercantilist attitude of Brussels, which wants to defend the continent’s interests with a new ‘anti-coercion instrument’.
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But now trouble is brewing in paradise. Whereas twenty years ago, when Kagan wrote his book, Berlin and Paris, the so-called engine of Europe, formed a united front and opposed the US invasion of Iraq, today they no longer see eye to eye. The French Minister for Europe, Laurence Boone, may argue that the two countries still share the same vision, but the list of contentious issues only grows longer.
prime ministers of Belgium and Spain, Prime Minister of Slovakia, Geert Wilders , Hungary, too, Europe may be on the verge of much greater shifts, while Europe lives in a Kantian zone of peace, Europe was able to nurture its illusion that history did not concern it anymore, European Union, Ursula von der Leyen, Brussels, tariffs and export controls, European Parliament, European Council, Global Gateway project, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, European Commission, Rhodium Group analyst Noah Barkin, that Europe is afraid of geopolitics, twenty years ago, when Kagan wrote his book, The French Minister for Europe, Laurence Boone, Germany has fought vehemently against the inclusion of nuclear energy, Cancellor Scholz is instilling fear in Paris, It is the China question, the Franco-German couple with eventual break-up,
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There are 297 words before The Reader reaches the final paragraph, that at it’s ultimate sentence, offers this dire prediction/inevitability : ‘Collision seems inevitable’.
That final paragraph:
Many countries in Europe may think that Washington’s attitude towards China is too confrontational. With the ambiguity of European capitals, America may find the temptation of unilateralism irresistible. However, if taken too far, it could trigger a similar attitude to Germany’s in other European states, namely short-sighted egoism at all cost. Above all, the break-up of the Franco-German couple opens up novel political possibilities. For the US, to shape new, more effective coalitions. For Europe, to enter the realm of power politics and leave behind its post-historical illusions.
Consider that Robert Kagan is a notorious Neo-Conservative, married to Victoria Nuland, a utterly notorious War Monger, who heads Biden’s Foreign Policy Technocrats, and participated in the 2014 Uranian Coup. Tyszka-Drozdowski demonstrates the he too is a Neo-Con, or at the least a fellow traveler. Kagan and his his coterie are steeped in Leo Struss’s appropriation of ‘The Noble Lie’:
In the Republic the Noble Lie is supposed to make the citizens of Callipolis care more for their city. Schofield (2009) argues that the guards, having to do philosophy from their youth, may eventually find philosophizing “more attractive than doing their patriotic duty” (115). Philosophy, claims Schofield, provides the guards with knowledge, not with love and devotion for their city. The Noble Lie is supposed to engender in them devotion for their city and instill in them the belief that they should “invest their best energies into promoting what they judge to be the city’s best interests” (113). The preambles to a number of laws in the Laws that are meant to be taken as exhortations to the laws in question and that contain elements of traditional mythology (see 790c3, 812a2, 841c6) may also be taken as “noble lies”.
Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer.
'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.'
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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