President Donald Trump – as is known – has imposed tariffs on European and south-east Asian countries. What is peculiar about those tariffs is the fact that the United States has imposed different levels of tariffs on particular EU countries. That’s something. If there were one approach in this respect to the European Union, this uniform approach would strengthen the Union, its entirety or its – to use the fashionable word – integrity. Now since the tariffs differ from member-state to member-state, the unity is being weakened. Brussels will either have to accept this American policy as is or the EU government (known as Commission so that the gullible continue to think that there is no superstate) will have to counteract it. How? The EU government will need to implement and impose tariff agreements between particular member-states so as to distribute the tariff burden equally or at least more or less equally. Whatever policy will be adopted, the pretentious grandeur of the European Union will have received a dent. The famed tariff-free transfer of goods and services is about to be shattered.
That’s how pretentious declarations usually end. Man has always been tempted to shape future and please himself with the thought of being capable of arranging life for himself as he sees fit. In this effort man has always been unsuccessful. Why? Because vivimus non ut volumus, sed ut possumus – We live, not as we want, but as we can. The European elites have been wanting to shape life to suit their ideals that were born in their heads or the heads of the philosophers and magicians of the word who conjure up social and psychological constructs and are somehow miraculously regarded as social scientists. Reality, however, obstinately refuses to comply with human wishes. Europe is in decline and this decline is being denied. Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron behave like they were leaders of imperial Britain and imperial France. The fact is that today’s France is not the France of Louis XIV or Napoleon I; nor is today’s Britain the Britain of Queen Elizabeth I or Queen Victoria.
In the 19th century the United Kingdom and France had colonies around the globe; today they themselves are being colonized by the people from around the globe. In the 19th century the French and the British believed in their civilizational mission; today neither the French nor the British believe they have anything to offer to the world. Rather, they believe they ought to apologize to the once suppressed and exploited peoples and they ought to adore and worship men and women of different skin colour. In the 19th century England and France would bring culture and education to Africa and Asia; today the two nations obliterate and cancel their own historical and cultural heritage, playing down its importance and re-interpreting or de-constructing it.
Europe is becoming an unimportant corner of the world: Europe’s industry is dying, Europe’s culture is deteriorating, Europe’s political leverage is becoming irrelevant, Europe’s military proves to be weak and ineffective. The Old Continent’s industry is dying because the European elites have turned into worshippers of the Mother Earth and they themselves have deliberately destroyed the industrial potential of their own countries. Europe’s culture is deteriorating because its artists have given in to ugliness and repulsiveness, to cultural experimentation and cultural nihilism. Europe’s politicians – saturated with ambitious and inept women selected to the high posts on the basis of women empowerment quotas – have stopped playing any considerable role in world affairs. Significantly, talks over Ukraine are conducted between the United States and the Russian Federation, bypassing London, Paris and Berlin. Europe’s military is a joke: weak industry translates into little armament, while armies saturated with effeminate males, rainbow recruits, and women “soldiers” are armies in name only. Yet, industry, which is the basis for the military, is frowned upon by the advocates of green economy. The result? Some of our readers will have known that Poland, a NATO member, has bought hundreds of tanks from… Korea. Whether the decision was dictated by the fact that no European country can produce sufficient numbers of tanks anymore or by the fact that German tanks have proved to be mostly useless in Ukraine is also an interesting question.
All this havoc was wrought by ideology – pernicious ideology – that has been born in the minds of leftist intellectuals and has been reigning supreme for a few decades now and is about to reign further on in the foreseeable future. The pernicious ideology of equality and uniformity, a mutiny against reality, a satanic non serviam: I will not serve. I will not obey even the laws of nature! I’ve been born a man, but I want to be a woman, and I will! I’ve been born a woman, but I want to be a man, and I will! Nonsensical, detrimental, childish, downright foolish.
All of which is compounded by the ideology of struggle or – better put – setting one social group against another, playing off one political system against another. In the 19th century it used to be the workers and the peasants against the “owners of the means of production” and the landlords; now it is women against men, blacks against whites, homosexuals against heterosexuals, political left against political right, democracy against autocracy – you name it. It is a never-ending story. There must always be fascists and antifa, far-right and far-left, climate-change deniers and climate-change advocates, those who doubt the notorious pandemics and those who exaggerate its dangers, anti-Putin and pro-Zelensky, racists and anti-racists, misogynists or supporters of patriarchy and feminists, followers of the CNN and BBC on the one hand and followers of conspiracy theories on the other, adorers of Palestinians or adorers of Israel – the list is really endless.
Individuals identifying with one group or another hurl at their opponents labels without noticing that the labels are most of the time misleading. Why, Communist China is developing a capitalist model of economy, while the European Union, which never ceases to talk about human rights and liberties, is censoring free speech and meting out penalties to those who dare drop a word of dissent on social media or to those who dare pray in the vicinity of an abortion clinic.
The Western world is divided within itself, the Western world is denying its own identity at the ideological level (as described above) and virtually by means of saturating its populations with arrivals from non-western countries, by means of assigning individuals of non-European descent to the highest positions and by means of casting non-whites in historical typically European roles in the movies.
There are three hallmarks of the European Union: ① ethnic replacement, ② rainbow sexuality, and ③ green economy. Nominally Christian Europe is ① anti-Christian (though not anti-Muslim!), ② anti-Russian, and ③ anti political right (which is always viciously and misleadingly referred to as far-right). Europe’s identity is thus dying because it is not going to remain either Christian or white. Europe’s influence in the world is dying as well: rather than developing its industry, its is turning itself into a tourist resort. In the near future affluent visitors from China and India will spend their holidays by touring Italy and Spain, France and the United Kingdom, and admire the remnants of their past glory: castles and palaces, churches and cathedrals, old towns and 19th century factories turned into shopping malls or residential apartments. China and India will have their political and economic outposts in Europe while Europeans will look up to the Chinese and Indians the way their predecessors from the 19th and 20th centuries were looked up to by the Chinese and the Indians. What a reversal of roles! What a reversal of fortune!
It was fashionable among the 19th century gentry and aristocracy from the United Kingdom and France, from Russia and the German states to go south and visit the ruins of the Roman Empire in Italy and the ancient architectural remnants in Greece. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece – wrote George Gordon Byron inspired by the sights of the glorious past of the Athenians and Spartans – where burning Sappho loved and sung, where grew the arts of war and peace, where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, but all, except their sun, is set.
Ancient Greece used to be full of entrepreneurial, military, cultural and economic stamina. It was not the biggest political entity or rather a cluster of entities, but it was proud and prosperous, and it expanded, colonizing the littoral regions of the the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. When a power from outside Europe – Persia – attempted to suppress it, to subjugate it, to dominate it, proud Greeks put up a fight rather than importing the Persians to their cities, rather than squeamishly making room for newcomers under the noble pretext of helping the poor. And bear in mind: ancient Greek towns did not form a political union like the EU. Just the opposite: they waged wars among themselves. Yet, ancient Greece was at its best when it was divided, just as Europe was at its best when it was divided.
Then came decay. Comfort, deteriorating morals, and the fratricidal senseless Peloponnesian War, which lasted almost thirty years (431-404 BC), and which weakened Greece the way Europe was weakened by its fratricidal thirty-year conflict of 1914-1945. The result? Greece fell prey to Romans and then to Turks. For centuries never to regain their glory.
Nowadays, United Europe becomes weaker and weaker in a similar fashion. United Europe looks for salvation in ecology and rainbow sexuality, in censorship and ethnic replacement, in the cancellation of its identity and in feminism. Europe is sawing off the branch on which it is sitting, Europe is despising itself in that Europe is cancelling its culture and its God. Europe is finishing off what the two fratricidal wars did not manage to destroy: Europe is virtually aborting itself out of existence. In the not distant future a Chinese or an Indian Byron will come to the Old Continent and reflecting on its past glory he will write:
- Cradle of culture long deceased!
Here Shakespeare wrote and Goethe sung,
here grew the arts of war and peace,
here Paris rose, and London sprung!
Eternal summer gilds thee yet,
but all, except thy sun, is set.