Europe’s Suicidal Follies

European leaders are a badly misguided bunch engaged in dangerous, even suicidal follies. While imagining themselves to be the defenders of a great European project, the EU, with global pretensions, they are little more than a gaggle of self-deluded ideologues and narcissists, defending a bureaucratic statist endeavor they propagandize as a democratic republic. Entranced by delusions of grandeur, they are mired in preserving their power and petty power struggles inside and outside the EU. In economics, having eschewed industrial manufacturing for the over-promised virtual economy, for which it is ill-equipped to compete in, they implement sanctions, cut off sources of badly needed energy, and overspend on costly social welfare and cultural programs all while burdening their budgets and societies with highly state-dependent immigrants from alien cultures. In foreign policy, they lack their own army, are subordinate to and dependent on a distant superpower for their security and have made one of the world’s great powers – one situated next door – their self-declared enemy by provoking and then doing everything to prolong and escalate the already catastrophic NATO-Russia Ukrainian War.

Finally, the EU, being an awkward conglomerate of distinct separate pieces, is usually very much split. Last week former German Chancellor Angela Merkel disclosed how Poland and the Baltic states conspired to block her and others’ efforts to resolve the Donbass dispute between Kiev and Moscow. Thus, division brought Europe the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War. Now, division prevents efforts to push for peace, with some European leaders supporting US President Donald Trump’s stalled peace efforts, and others supporting them, most notably Hungary and Slovakia, two countries bordering Ukraine. Adventurers like French Premier Emmanuel Macron have been pushing to station European troops in Ukraine to support a ceasefire that both Russia and the U.S. have rejected. EU officials push for the creation of a European army or European NATO. Poland and the Baltic states continue to seek escalation. The Baltic states, most recently Estonia, have sought to parlay what was at most an insignificant violation of its airspace and at the least a fairy tale, into establishing more liberal rules for shooting down of Russian aircraft that may stray or intentionally repeat this alleged act. The drone incursion into Poland remains murky and suspicious.