President Trump is facing multiple fronts: the war in Ukraine with Russia, the ongoing faceoff with China over Taiwan, clashes with Islamic terrorists in the Middle East and Africa, a new front in the Caribbean against Venezuela’s narco-empire, and now, added to all that, schisms with the European Union over its technocratic authoritarian drift that’s clashing with American interests globally.
In a National Security Strategy assessment published last month, the U.S. administration calls attention to “activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition.” The paper expresses concern over Europe’s declining “creativity and industriousness,” and “loss of national identities and self-confidence.” (RELATED: America’s Robust National Security Strategy)
“Should present trends continue,” the document states, “the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. It is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path.”
The body has come under the rigid control of an unaccountable nomenklatura that’s taking on characteristics of the communist Soviet bureaucracy that the U.S. fought the Cold War against.
The EU was created to facilitate the movement of goods and people within Europe to secure peace, freedom, and prosperity for its people after WWII. But the body has come under the rigid control of an unaccountable nomenklatura that’s taking on characteristics of the communist Soviet bureaucracy that the U.S. fought the Cold War against.
An elected European parliament has no power over the European Commission, which is selected by the ruling bureaucrats of member states to wield virtually unchecked regulatory powers. The European Commission, in turn, chooses the EU president who is invariably rubber-stamped by the parliament in much the same way that the Soviet Union’s Politburo told the party congress which Premier to anoint.
While many criticized the undemocratic character of the EU when it began embarking on federalizing Europe, with the British opting out of it in the Brexit referendum, the experiment in transnational government has been generally applauded as a benign effort to integrate complex monetary systems and level economic inequalities between Europe’s rich and poor nations.
But the insertion of globalist Marxist brains into the macroeconomic body has turned the EU into a Frankenstein, taking over border policies of member states to implement mass migration, imposing net zero targets, destroying industries and living standards, signing globalist trade deals that condemn entire sectors of its population to economic genocide and social engineering.
Growing alarms among Europeans about the EU’s path, has given rise to right-wing nationalist parties in practically all of Europe, seeking to reverse policies whose ill effects are being felt by the average citizen in the crime ridden streets of once safe and beautiful capitals, broken pocketbooks with which they could once afford La Dolce Vita, and traditional Christmas street markets bunkered up against Islamic suicide drivers.
AfD in Germany, RN in France, Vox in Spain — to name outstanding examples — threaten the cozy ruling arrangement between increasingly leftward social democrats and establishment conservatives enjoying the Euro gravy train of the nomenklatura. The new hybrid Eurocrat is properly exemplified by EU president Ursula von der Leyen, who started her career in Germany’s center-right CDU and recently squeezed back into a second term with support from Socialists and Greens as a growing number of conservative representatives shied away from her centralizing zeal and developing scandals. She is accused of disproportionate purchases of COVID vaccines during the pandemic, through an affiliate of a big pharma conglomerate in which her husband owns shares.
Something akin to a Byzantine court has grown around Europe’s woke Reich Führer at her high-tech castle in Berlaymont, the gargantuan glass building housing EU headquarters in Brussels, where bureaucrats share luxurious offices with mushrooming renewable energy contractors and NGOs taking billions in subsidies to mirror official policies. But cracks are starting to appear.
Some governments, namely Italy — whose right-wing prime minister Giorgia Meloni was branded by Europe’s establishment press as a “fascist” when she came to office in 2022 — as well as Hungary, Poland, and other eastern European states, are increasingly challenging EU directives, especially on immigration.
French President Emmanuel Macron, worried about the plunging popularity of his Renaissance party, is having to oppose von der Leyen’s signature trade deal with Brazil that would flood Europe with cheap agricultural produce from South America, which would put Europe’s farmers out of business and threaten the continent’s future food security. Farmers are a critically large and highly mobilized constituency in France.
To protect their power, Eurocrats have introduced the European Digital Services Act, designed to police the internet and censor social media. It’s the one issue on which they refused to yield in recent negotiations with Trump. They gave way on tariffs and a host of other economic concessions, but have inflicted punitive fines on Elon Musk’s X for supposedly breaching their EDSA safe space.
The U.S. has responded by sanctioning five European officials enforcing EDSA through thought police mechanisms. But the EU vows to fight back, threatening “retaliatory measures” against the U.S. even as Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatens more sanctions to come.
“The Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European officials perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition,” states Trump’s National Strategy white paper.
Censoring information or what von der Leyen calls “prebunking” is critical to neutralize the surging right and “subvert the democratic process,” as the U.S. administration warns. There has been systematic persecution of Germany’s AfD, leading to midnight arrests and raids of private homes for nothing more than off-color tweets, and even suspected assassinations of AfD activists. Some are seeking asylum in the U.S.
There is lawfare against French RN leader Marine Le Pen to incapacitate her for a presidential run in the coming elections, which all opinion polls indicate she would win by a landslide. There are reports that Spain’s ruling Socialists are using Venezuelan criminal migrant gangs against Vox. Blacking out coverage of what could turn into violent repression and possible vote manipulation could be easily done in Europe without free social media, as all major television news channels such as the BBC, France24, or Germany’s Deutsche Welle, are state-operated. (RELATED: Is This the End of the Road for Marine Le Pen?)
The futuristic unified Europe that would shine upon the world as a model of rational planning and constitute the core of a new global order, in the dreams of its ideologues, is degenerating into the type of third-world autocracy that some of its key leaders are cultivating. Scandals surrounding Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, who poses as the very model of a modern euro technocrat, involve an estimated 1 billion dollars of Venezuelan narco money handled by one of his closest collaborators, ex-Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whose dealings with Nicolás Maduro are under investigation by Spain’s Guardia Civil and the U.S. Treasury Department. (RELATED: Sánchez’s Spain Is a Caricature of Political Corruption)
Intimate ties between Spain’s ruling socialists and the Venezuelan regime came to light last year when Maduro’s vice-president, Delcy Rodriguez, landed at Madrid’s Barajas airport despite being banned from European territory by international sanctions. Sanchez’s lifelong confidante and transport minister at the time, José Luis Ábalos — currently in jail — drove out to receive her, holding a meeting with Maduro’s number two in the airport’s VIP lounge as forty suitcases were unloaded from her jet. Their contents remain a mystery but are believed to involve Zapatero’s business interests in Venezuela, reported to include a gold mine.
The EU never objected to Spain’s brazen violation of “Schengen” territory, and far from being blacklisted, Zapatero keeps going to Brussels to lobby for Maduro, who pays him million-dollar retainers to keep the Europeans in line. Zapatero is proposing a European-brokered solution to the Venezuelan crisis that would place Delcy Rodriguez at the head of a transitional government while Maduro goes into golden exile. The idea is backed by Brazil’s socialist leader Lula da Silva, whose trade deal with von der Leyen would mitigate the effects of recent sanctions placed by Trump on his regime for imprisoning his chief political rival, Jair Bolsonaro.
Soon after Trump gave a televised White House scolding to South Africa’s strongman president, Cyril Ramaphosa, over appeals by some of his closest followers to “kill whites,” von der Leyen flew to Praetoria to meet him. She came back with major deals for European clean energy companies for Green projects in one of the world’s most corrupt countries. (RELATED: A Bonfire of the Vanities at the White House)
The EU did recently impose stiff tariffs on Chinese EVs as part of its agreements with Trump. But Sanchez is working around that by inviting Chinese firms to set up EV factories in Spain. He recently cleared out an entire town in the province of Aragon to house 2,000 Chinese workers sent to start the project. Turning Spain into China’s European beachhead has involved contracting the PLA-linked Huawei to service government information systems that could tap into U.S. military communications at key Spanish bases in Moron and Rota.
Eurocrats are sneaky. To show its technical proficiency as a functioning federation, the EU has recently unveiled a computerized Entry and Exit system at its borders to record biometric data of foreigners coming in legally, even as millions of unchecked hordes from Africa and the Middle East get ushered in for free rides. Neither do EU federalist projects do much to address the basic human needs of average Europeans.
I personally know of the tragic case of a 65-year-old French woman in delicate health, semi-paralyzed by disjointed hips, who had to escape from the sexual abuse of a perverted cousin in France (with an ample police record) and had her social benefits and health coverage cut off when she went to Spain to look after an elderly mother with dementia. Applying for Spanish benefits requires her to register as a “foreign resident,” have $10,000 in a local bank account, and wait five years. She is destitute and barely surviving with help from an American friend.
People got their ration cards canceled when moving from one state to another in Russia’s old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Perhaps that’s the new vision of Europe from the heights of Berlaymont.
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