President Trump’s efforts to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine may be complicated by the political instability among key NATO allies caused by the efforts of Europe’s globalists to repress start up political parties aligned with his MAGA agenda.
Vice president J.D. Vance called out Europe’s EU leadership in his speech before the Munich Security Conference last week, attacking measures recently introduced to censor opponents, cancel elections, and engineer left leaning coalitions to keep conservatives out of power.
The EU Deep State is obviously afraid of DOGE type investigations … including a network of NGOs supported by the European Commission that operate as a virtual shadow government.
The European Commission presided over by Ursula von der Leyen is establishing a regulatory media network called “Shield for Democracy,” with inquisitorial powers to intervene in elections by monitoring so-called “disinformation,” which they label as “geopolitical interference.”
Its findings recently canceled the electoral victory of independent conservative candidate Calin Georgescu in Romania over what have turned out to be fake allegations that TikTok tweets supporting his candidacy originated in Russia.
EU officials are now preparing to intervene in Germany where Alternative for Germany (AfD), which calls for major deregulation of the economy, ditching the Green agenda, and massively deporting migrants from Islamic countries, is expected to get the second largest share of votes in the elections this month.
A European Commission directive issued last December states that
In the EU, the broad concept of information integrity falls within the scope of the evolving European democracy shield idea.… [T]he democracy shield initiative links existing work to counter foreign information manipulation and interference with the implementation of key initiatives to boost the health of the information sphere. This includes regulation of online platforms and search engines … to curb information manipulation and hate speech through the work of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and its regional hubs.
It’s a response to a surge in support for AfD and other right wing parties including Spain’s Vox and France’s National Rally in last year’s elections for the European parliament. “The 2024 European Parliament elections saw … deceptive narratives linked with geopolitical tension, benefiting authoritarian actors seeking to erode trust in democracy” the EU directive states.
Like medieval monks huddled to witness a dangerous act of heresy, 143 EDMO analysts monitored a recent interview of AfD leader, Alice Weidel, by Elon Musk on X to determine grounds for excommunication. The EU has threatened to levy fines calculated at six percent of annual revenue on companies with media platforms violating its safe space and restrict European access to X.
Polls suggest that the AfD, which is virtually banned from most of Europe’s mainstream media, will come in second in February 23 elections, just behind the centrist CDU and well ahead of the Social Democrats and their far left allies whose patchwork governing coalition recently collapsed.
EU officials have already denounced X for giving AfD “unfair advantage” over other parties even as Greens, polling a little over 10 percent, get constant coverage on the main television news channels. One hundred and twenty-four Social Democrat, Green, and other far left representatives in Germany’s Bundestag have tabled a parliamentary motion to declare the AfD illegal in desperate efforts to pre-empt a possible coalition between Weidel’s party and the CDU. Von der Leyen is pushing for a coalition between the CDU and the Greens to secure a parliamentary majority acceptable to her European Commission.
Former EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Bretton, an IT executive and one of the architects of “The Shield of Democracy,” says all options are on the table. “We are now equipped to enforce this law to protect our democracies in Europe.… For now, let’s keep calm and enforce our laws in Europe, when there is a risk that they will be bypassed, it can lead to intervention as we did in Romania and if necessary we will have to do it in Germany as well,” he said on German TV.
Romania has been plunged into political chaos. As mass protests hit the streets, the courts failed to produce evidence to substantiate claims that Georgescu is supported by Russia, and EU-backed president Klaus Iohannis has been forced to resign.
The apparent implication of NATO officials in election interference in Romania could even endanger public support for the U.S.-led alliance. As Iohannis disregarded the December vote and swore most of his cabinet back in last December, a member of NATO’s military committee, Dutch admiral Rob Bauer, appeared on Romanian television seemingly justifying the election’s annulment as a “whole societal approach” to fighting Russia.
Bauer’s native Holland has been without a democratically elected government for months as the result of backroom pressures by EU operators blocking anti-Islamic activist Geert Wilders from forming a government after his group gained the plurality of votes in elections last year. A coalition Wilders tried forming quickly fell apart and he was replaced as prime minister by the head of Holland’s spy services Dick Schoof. Austria’s Freedom party, which received the most votes in elections last month, is facing similar difficulties.
The “Shield of Democracy” has little to do with stopping Russia. One of its main proponents, Spain’s socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez, is Europe’s biggest buyer of Russian gas, having doubled its Russian imports since Putin invaded Ukraine. Spain has the lowest defense expenditure proportional to GDP in NATO, while pouring subsidies into joint Green Energy ventures with China.
Having received less than a third of the vote in the last Spanish elections, Sanchez governs through a shaky coalition with far left groups that include militant Hamas supporters, political heirs of Cuban-trained ETA terrorists, and Catalan separatists with well-documented ties to Russia’s GRU.
NATO produced extensive reports of how a 2018 independence bid led by fugitive Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, whom Sanchez consults prior to any major government decision, was backed by an aggressive Russian operated social media campaign managed from a bot farm in Saint Petersburg run by Putin’s top henchman at the time, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The EU has never called out Sanchez on Russia. He has instead anointed himself as “leader of the resistance to Trump” before last month’s WEF meeting in Davos, where he proposed eliminating anonymity in social media networks, intrusive inspections of network algorithms, and prosecuting high tech CEOs he accused of “poisoning our societies.”
The EU Deep State is obviously afraid of DOGE type investigations into its inner finances, including a network of NGOs supported by the European Commission that operate as a virtual shadow government in a range of areas stretching from immigration to Green lobbies. There are also conflict of interest allegations pending against Von der Leyen.
The EU also fears rural and farming communities opposed to crucial global trade deals that threaten their livelihoods. They are major backers of the new right parties. Protesting farmers besieged EU headquarters in Brussels two years ago, burning piles of manure dumped at its entrances.
“If you are afraid of your own people there is nothing that America can do for you,” Vice President Vance told European allies at a NATO security summit in Munich this week. “You cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail.”
“They are going to try everything against us, including assassination” warned Vox leader Santiago Abascal at the Patriot Summit of new conservative parties held in Madrid days earlier.
European officials admitted at the Munich conference that they cannot fight Russia on their own and the U.S. must make it clear to them that it will not protect an EU woke police state.
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