Glenn Diesen - Greater Eurasia Podcast Einar Tangen: U.S. Declares War on Multipolarity & Europe is Lost
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Feb 16, 2026 
Einar Tangen, Senior Fellow at Taihe Institute and CIGI, is a geopolitics analyst. He discusses how US rhetoric aims to halt multipolarity. He argues Europe faces being treated as expendable or must adapt. Conversation covers elite capture, Europe’s economic woes, transactional ties with China, and multilateral alternatives like BRICS and trilateral platforms.
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U.S. Declares War On Multipolarity
- Marco Rubio's Munich speech signals a U.S. push to restore Western dominance rather than accept multipolarity.
- Einar Tangen and Glenn Diesen interpret this as a declaration of intent to revive imperial-style geopolitics.
Elite Vision Of Renewed Colonialism
- Einar Tangen frames Rubio and Eldridge Colby's ideas as a form of revived colonialism tailored for U.S. advantage.
- He warns this approach treats Europe and the Global South as disposable pawns in a U.S.-led contest with China.
Europe At Risk Of Being A Vassal
- Europe is waking to its loss of leverage and risks becoming a U.S. vassal if it follows Washington's revivalist agenda.
- Tangen argues Europe's elites are captured by special interests and nostalgia for 1990s unipolarity.
