Adam Tooze

They just couldn't process the fact that Europe has this complex polity.

This time around, Luttwik on stage literally said, you know this way, the way this goes.

We bully.

You agree to be bullied.

Then he literally said, Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump get together and do a deal.

And it was like, what has happened here?

This is so strange.

And the Biden people, of course, prepared this because they really deliberately promoted Brussels and the commission and von der Leyen into the telephone number that you call in Europe.

There's no question now.

You call the ECB and you call Brussels.

This is where you call.

There's no ambiguity about it, really.

The Germans and the French you need to talk to too, but-

increasingly the trend has gotten towards that centralization.

No, I mean, I think there is a real, I mean, I love Ivan's mapping of this is delirious.

It is fascinating.

But I mean, don't we have to talk about the Norway letter?

I mean, and the silence about the Norway letter.

And actually goes further.

He says, now I don't have to care about universal peace.