Entene Cordiale in the Balkans

It was on April 1, this year that Hungary and Serbia signed a military agreement. Hungary is a NATO member, Serbia is not. One might be tempted to think that once we have NATO in most of Europe, no other military alliance – agreement – cooperation outside NATO is possible. Lo and behold, it is. Why?

All uniting organizations – whether economic or military – sooner or later (rather sooner) begin to fall apart simply because the interests of the member states are discrepant and also simply because dominant states usually cannot restrain themselves from throwing their weight about, which naturally pushes the weaker players to look for ways out. Now Serbia is a kind of a political odd man out: it neither belongs to the European Union nor does it belong to the Atlantic military alliance. Worse, on March 18 this year in Tirana, Albania, Kosovo and Croatia signed a joint declaration of cooperation on defence, clearly a measure directed against Serbia. Hence, Belgrade needs partners. Hungary is a member of both the EU and NATO, but – as is well known – Hungary’s leadership is not compliant with the policies conducted by Brussels and was not compliant with those of Washington during the time of the Biden administration, reason enough for Budapest to feel insecure and to search for support outside the two mentioned international structures.

The military agreement between Belgrade and Budapest is open to other signatories. Since Brussels has already alienated a number of member states, they might consider joining the Serbia-Hungary bloc. Slovakia comes to mind as first. Its political leaders have repeatedly thrown the gauntlet down for the EU to take up when it comes to the latter’s belligerent policy towards Russia. That would create a vertical north-south axis, which might be further joined by Czechia and Austria if only anti-EU parties take the upper hand there, which is quite possible. We would land up with a military and political bloc uniting most members of the former Austria-Hungary (Habsburg) Dual Monarchy.

Since Serbia has good relations with China, Beijing might try to expand its influence in the Balkans and central Europe a bit further. China means not merely the Middle Kingdom, but also the BRICS countries (of which Russia is one of the more important member). Brussels’ insatiable drive for dominance and the resultant pressure that it keeps exerting on Serbia and Hungary might push those countries into the Chinese embrace. Was not Moscow pushed into the alliance with China by the collective West?

More pressure on the part of the EU on the countries of this region might translate in a loss of influence that Brussels still has here. One needs only to think about Romania and the EU’s unprecedented interference in the presidential election there. Given a victory in the May election of a candidate who is not particularly pro-European, and given the offence that the Romanian nation experienced at the hands of the EU autocrats, all scenarios are on the table.

The Western world pays little attention to such things as the agreement between Serbia and Hungary. They see through such tiny entities, and that’s where they are wrong. The collective West thought little of BRICS for that matter and today BRICS is emerging as quite a threat to both Brussels and Washington. So much so that the declaration on the defence cooperation signed between Belgrade and Hungary might also aim at involving in it Republika Srpska, an autonomous part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which territorially adjoins Serbia. Republika Srpska is a fully artificial political creation of the managers of the world: rather than allow Serbs to live together in one state, the managers of the world have created Serbia outside Serbia, and have subdued this “outer” Serbia to yet another artificial political creation that is known as Bosnia and Herzegovina. A typical tinderbox that only waits for someone playing with matches. Yet, as we have remarked again and again, politicians are not individuals who are conversant with even the recent past to draw lessons from. Thinking about the Balkans, about Serbia proper and outer Serbia, thinking about Bosnia and Herzegovina, they should recall Sarajevo. Not the Sarajevo that became notorious during the wars that were waged in the former Yugoslavia towards the end of the twentieth century, but about the Sarajevo from the beginning of the same century. It was in that city where Gavrilo Princip, a Serb, carried out his successful assassination of Archduke Ferdinand struck the spark that ignited the whole continent. The Austria-Hungary Dual Monarchy – the predecessor of the European Union (made up of Austrians (=Germans), Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians, Croatians, Slovenians, Serbs, Poles and Ukrainians), after the initial military success suffered a debacle and disintegrated. It was virtually smashed to smithereens giving rise to a number of independent states which have existed ever since. Are we in for a historic repeat?

Lawfare against Le Pen

Marie Le Pen has been found guilty. Whether Marie Marie Le Pen is guilty of the charges or not is a different matter. ECB’s boss Christine Lagarde or EU’s CEO Ursula von der Leyen have also faced charges and weaseled out of responsibility with ease. The former has been “guilty of negligence but” the court “did not hand down any punishment” while the latter was not even forced to as much as resign from her post over the so called Pfizergate affair. Now Marie Le Pen has been indicted and sentenced. Altogether she must pay a financial fine and serve a suspended term in prison, which is compounded by the duty to wear a humiliating electronic bracelet. This is not all. Now comes the gist of the whole matter: Marie Le Pen has been banned from funning for political office. It is the 2027 presidential election that is on the radar of the French establishment.

With the presidential election cancelled in Romania, with the threats of delegalizing Germany’s AfD, with Brussels’ similar acts of interference in Italy and Austria, one cannot rid oneself of the impression that a certain pattern is in play. It appears, the EU commissioners overlooked the “threat” rising in Bucharest and then were forced to act in a panic mode by resorting to ridiculous pretexts on which the cancellation of the election was based, so now they decided to act preemptively in Paris. Why wait for Marie Le Pen’s victory? It is much more advisable to nip the problem in the bud. Since Marie Le Pen and her National Rally become more and more popular, they need to be stopped in the tracks. The make such a verdict justified to the public, the leftist media across Europe and in the United States reporting on the case and writing about Marie Le Pen and her National Rally are going to great lengths to impress the reader or the viewer with the term “far-right”: Marie Le Pen and her National Rally are far-right.

Everybody and any organization that does not comply with the party line of the Western self-styled elites is automatically called “far-right”, while the consumers of information circulated by the mass media have been trained for years to make a straightforward association between the term far-right and Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler’s henchmen, though waving red flags and professing their belief in socialism are somehow not referred to as left or – still better – far-left but right, far-right. Which is to say in other words that such “capitalists” and “financiers” as Hitler, Heß, Goebbels, Göring and Borman were far-right, you see?

What does this far-right mean? The association that is imposed on the consumers of information suggests nothing less than concentration camps and witch hunts. In reality, the National Rally wants to make France French again. The National Rally wants to stop immigration, make peace with Russia, put a ban on the propaganda of rainbow sexuality and a few other normal things, things that were regarded as pillars of society and culture twenty-thirty years ago. That’s what far-right stands for in reality. Since most people would like the same goals to be pursued, another association has been created by the powers that be: that of “nazis”. Somehow even this rabid propaganda against Marie Le Pen and the National Rally turned out to become less and less effective, hence the powers that be decided to resort to lawfare. Marie Le Pen had to be stopped from taking part in the 2027 presidential election by hook or by crook or else France might run the risk of having a female counterpart of President Donald Trump, which is unpalatable to the European elites in general and French elites in particular.

The EU under “Führer Ursula” is not a peaceful project, says Lavrov

A few days ago, this week, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gave an interview to three Americans: Judge Napolitano, Larry Johnson, and Mario Nawfal. Judge Napolitano runs a popular YouTube channel Judging Freedom, Larry Johnson is a former CIA operative, while Mario Nawfal runs his own channel on YouTube. A few days prior to the Lavrov interview, the last of the three mentioned interviewed Belarus’ President Alexandr Lukashenko. The interview with Minister Lavrov lasted an hour and a half and was conducted in English without an interpreter.

Go and have a listen before it is not taken down by YouTube. If you think you can form your own judgement, you need to know what the other side to the conflict has to say. Especially from the horse’s mouth, so much so that Minister Lavrov did 95% of the talking. Below a few take-aways from the interview.

① Russia is a Christian country, a Christian nation with Christian values. The United States and Western Europe have departed from Christianity and have been pursuing deviant ideas of the alphabet sexuality, unisex toilets and the like.

② The West promised Mikhail Gorbachev not to expand NATO eastwards by an inch and broke its promise. Even if it were not formulated in written form (it was), a man of honour keeps his word.

③ Security cannot be divisible, i.e. one country cannot provide for its security at the expense of another country. Expanding NATO may increase the West’s security, but it certainly decreases the security of the Russian Federation.

④ Ukraine itself is to blame for the losses that it has sustained. Had there be no coup d’etat as a result of which legitimate President Viktor Yanukovych was made to flee the country, Ukraine would not have lost Crimea; had Kiev abided by the Minsk I and Minsk II Accords, Ukraine would not have lost the four eastern provinces.

⑤ Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s president who was toppled by the coup in 2014, had every right to reconsider Ukraine’s association with the European Union. There was no malice on his part, nor was he a Russophile. The decision of associating Ukraine with the European Union had very serious economic consequences. At that time there were no tariffs between Ukraine and Russia, but there were tariffs between Ukraine and the European Union. An association with the European Union meant lifting the tariffs between the EU and Ukraine, which would have meant the necessity of imposing such tariffs between Ukraine and the Russian Federation as the Russian Federation needed to protect its market against European products. Since Ukraine’s trade with Russia was way larger than that with the EU, an association with the EU would have meant huge economic losses for the country.

⑥ The European Union is not a peaceful project. Minister Lavrov quoted Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen who said that “peace in Ukraine could actually be more dangerous than the war that is currently taking place,” and quoted Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general, who floated an idea of expanding the alliance or the alliance’s tentacles as far east as China, Korea and the Pacific Ocean. One of the most bellicose politicians of the European Union is its leader Führer Ursula, as Lavrov put it, and mentioned the 800 billion earmarked by her for the re-militarization of the continent.

⑦ All the anti-Russian campaigns like those centered around the downing of the Malaysian airliner, the Skripal and the Navalny cases, the Bucha massacre allegedly perpetrated by Russians were aimed at harming the international image of the Russian Federation. This is easy to prove because in each of the aforementioned cases Russia’s request to have access to the medical, chemical, legal and other documentation was denied.

⑧ Human rights have been weaponized by the West. Human rights only serve as a pretext to meddle with the internal affairs of other nations and as a justification for assaulting them militarily.

That’s Minister Lavrov’s understanding of the ongoing conflict between the West and the Russian Federation, that’s in a nutshell Russia’s view of the current political situation and its causes.

Is presidential candidate Călin Georgescu a political reincarnation of Pastor László Tőkés?

Over 30 years ago protests in Romania made a spectacular mark of the collapse of the communist system in Europe. Are the present protests in Romania going to be a mark of the collapse of the European Union?

Romania is having a fever. Romania is being brought to boiling point. One of these days Romania might explode.

Romanians more or less regularly have been taking to the streets over a couple of the last weeks to protest the decision of the Romanian Constitutional Court – in fact the decisions of the European dictators in Brussels. The decision was to annul the results of the presidential election that took place on 24 November 2024 on the flimsiest of grounds that there were ever of foreign interference in the form of exerting the political influence on the voters via TikTok. This most ridiculous justification underlying the decision to annul the election results has been compounded with others. What do we have, indeed! Yes, yes, the usual string of accusations that Călin Georgescu is far-right (how otherwise!), antisemitic (sure!), a sympathizer of fascism and Russia. One wonders which of these grave sins is the gravest. The list is not complete. Wikipedia has gathered all the remaining “nasty” facts about Călin Georgescu including his belief that humans did not land on the moon. Surely, an “intelligent” Wikipedia’s consumer will immediately classify Călin Georgescu as a nitwit. Some of the indictments, though, reveal why the managers of the European Union fear Călin Georgescu so much: Călin Georgescu thinks that Romania has been and continues to be exploited by Western companies and that the West has stemmed Romanian economic development. Now that’s something serious! Călin Georgescu might spoil the business of the many corporations. He could be far-right and even a fascist if only he did not want to deprive the powers that be of their profit! Fool that he is, he dared to touch the most sacred of the sacred: someone’s money!

The authorities did not stop at simply cancelling the vote. Since the polling data show that Călin Georgescu is now by far the most popular candidate, Bucharest – Romania’s capital – obviously took orders from Brussels, the overlord, to prevent Călin Georgescu from taking part in the repeat of the election that is planned for May this year. Indeed, when Călin Georgescu was filing his candidacy for the 2025 presidential election, he was detained and interrogated for a couple of hours. Two days later his candidacy was rejected. Democracy at work made by the EU.

The commissioners do not have a good memory. It was more than 30 years ago – that is well within living memory – that such protests in Romania brought about the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu and the communist political system in the country. Similar protests did not erupt at that time in other socialist countries like Poland or Czechoslovakia, Hungary or Bulgaria or for that matter in East Germany: they erupted in Romania of all the places. Why?

Well, the communist authorities in the aforementioned countries were wise enough to feel the anger of their people, which resulted in their decision to cave in. as a result, there were only civilized, so to say, or mild revolutions or protests, round table talks and the like that gave vent to popular dissatisfaction with the political and economic reality. Only in Romania did the communist authorities not deem it clever to handle the rising tension with care: they chose to strengthen the iron grip on society and to suppress all manifestations of discontent by force and violence. So it came to pass that an initially insignificant protest in Timișoara that occurred in December 1989 morphed into a nation-wide revolution that brought about the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu’s rule and, indeed, his death. Are the European commissioners not afraid of a repeat?

When one watches film footages showing the 1989 protests and compares them with the footages showing the 2025 protests, one thing attracts the viewer’s attention. In 1989, Romanians waved national flags with huge holes in their centre, an empty space left after the national coat of arms symbolizing socialist or communist Romania had been torn away. A clear message that the people were not merely against Romania’s President Ceausescu, but against the whole political system. What attracts attention in today’s protests is the fact that Romanians are waving plenty of Romanian national flags and… no flag of the European Union. Clearly, Romanians are aware of who the ultimate perpetrators of cancelling the election and banning Călin Georgescu

from the round in May are, and clearly Romanians say a big NO to the European Union.

The 1989 protests in Timișoara broke out over the person of Pastor László Tőkés, who was to be evicted by the authorities from his parish. The 2025 protests are over the annulment of the election results and over the banning of Călin Georgescu from presidential elections. Will Călin Georgescu become a symbol of another revolution that will be sparked not only in Romania but in the whole of the EU bloc?

Warmongering and Fear-Mongering

Women empowerment, indeed! Ursula von der Leyen and one Kaja Kallas are in the forefront of rearmament and aggressive policy of the European Union. Prime Minister of the European Union’s government has called on huge almost war-time expenditure – some 800 billion euros – on the military, while Kaja Kallas from teeny-weeny Estonia, vice-prime minister of the same supranational, Paneuropean government, flexes her? European? muscles in an effort not only to overcome Russia but also to take on… China! Wow! Really, women empowerment in action! The two women even look alike. Who said that men are aggressive and women are not? Whoever did, he had better reconsider.

Ursula von der Leyen’s idea goes by the name of Re-Arm Europe Plan. Faced with American disengagement from the war in Ukraine, European demagogues, apparatchiks and chickenhawks are throwing temper tantrums. You may bet that neither Ursula von der Leyen’s family nor the family of Kaja Kallas are or ever will be exposed to danger in case war with Russia breaks out. What they are preparing is for us alone. They and their company will only draw benefits from war mongering or from war.

Their hatred of Russia in general and of Putin in particular is passionate and implacable. Their greed is insatiable. Their drive for dominance is unparalleled just as unparalleled is their insolence and mendacity. Fear of Russia – a new treat for the Europeans after the notorious virus scare. Just as at the time of the so-called pandemic we were supposed to be wiped out from the face of the earth by the chemical compound attacking us surreptitiously, so now we are going to be invaded and enslaved by… Russians! And you know what? Europeans are going to buy into it lock, stock and barrel. They already bought into all this clap-trap about Russian threat many years before. This fire only needs fuelling, from time to time. This fire only needs to be fed on the black-and-white fairy tale according to which we, the Europeans are the good guys, they, the Russians, are the bad guys. It only needs Orwellian two-minutes of hate now and again, with the face of the dictator from the east to be spat on and screamed at. No big deal for European propaganda managers.

Once Ukrainians fell for this trap. They flexed their muscles in the belief that the whole West flexed its muscles with them. As a result, Ukrainians were oh so confident about their prevalence over Russia in everything. Yet, when push came to shove, they saw that they were left to their own devices. That is, yes, the West provided them with arms and intel, the West kept pummelling Russia with “sanctions” (while purchasing Russian gas via go-betweens), and the West saluted to Zelensky and pandered to his whims and wishes, but all proved to be of no avail. Worse, recently the United States – the West’s overlord – rode roughshod over Ukrainian president, over Ukraine as such, over all that heretofore was held oh so dear and sacrosanct.

Implacable hatred towards Putin on the part of Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas can surely be explained in a Freudian manner: the two women with their brains invaded by feminist ideas (think of Annalena Baerbock and her feminist diplomacy!) just cannot come to terms with the fact that a male, a white male, a white representative of patriarchy dares to oppose them and seems to be getting the upper hand! Indeed, it must be a nightmare with which Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas keep waking up in the dead of night, sweat on their bodies. Why, Ursula von der Leyen has become empress of Europe the likes of which history has never seen and – lo and behold – a Russian muzhik has thrown down the gauntlet and has questioned the moral and political preponderance of the progressive ideas made by the EU.

This sweaty nightmare that the two women experience must be compounded by the fact that another white, dominant male across the Atlantic took power and seems to be intent on establishing a friendly relationship with – who could have thought it possible a couple of months earlier! – Moscow. It is not Kamala Harris but Donald Trump on the Hill! How wholeheartedly would Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas embrace Kamala Harris at a meeting in Paris or London, or in Washington! Tough luck, though. Again two dominant males on the political stage, and – to make things even worse – a third one on the horizon: Xi Jinping in China! What the two women must experience would make a very interesting case for Sigismund Freud or for that matter Carl Gustav Jung.

There certainly is more to all this than meets the eye. Threat alleged threat from Russia is the declared problem, but what is the genuine aim? The genuine aim is concealed from us. Do you remember the public outrage when it turned out that Ursula von der Leyen ordered hundreds of millions of vaccines in a company where her husband was employed? Europe loves finger-pointing at Russia when it comes to corruption, when it comes to bribery, yet in this case everything has been swept under the carpet. The pandemic designed or exploited or both by the managers of the world enriched the same managers of the world, the same designers, the same exploiters. Millions for vaccine manufacturers and more power for politicians under the guise of the public good. It was as simple as that. Now what do you think what purpose the Re-Arm Europe Plan is going to serve? Yes, you guessed it right. The managers of Europe will line their pockets. Simultaneously they will be free and justified to blame all failures in economy and social policy on the war expenditure, on Russia, ultimately on Putin! Indeed, if there were no Putin, the European Union would have to invent one. More to it, the apparatchiks and demagogues of the European Union will feel justified in curtailing free speech under the disguise of preventing Russian propaganda! They could cancel election after election (think of Romania) because of Russian interference. What a godsend this Putin is, really!

And you may rest assured that although money will be needed for rearmament, there will be no slowing down of the policy of importing people from outside Europe. Miraculously, there will always be money for accommodating them. It is the indigenous Europeans who will pay the price for the war between Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas on the one hand, and Vladimir Putin on the other.

Coming back to Sigismund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung. The case of Kaja Kallas from Estonia is really fascinating and intgriguing. Her lilliputian home country borders on the gargantuan Russian Federation, and still she indulges herself in war mongering. There must be something the matter with her brain. A list of European cities that number more inhabitants than the whole population of Estonia would be longer than a hundred… or maybe I have exaggerated, but you get the point. Estonia has 1.3 million inhabitants of which Estonian as a mother tongue is spoken by merely 67%. So, a third of the population are not even ethnic Estonians. Guess who they are! Yes, you guessed it right: for the most part they are Russians. Is Estonia going to shell them like Ukrainians did the Russian minority in the Donbass? Is Estonia going to pick up a fight with Russia? Does Estonia count on the effectiveness of sanctions that the European Union will impose on Russia in case of aggression? Does Kaja Kallas really think NATO will go to war over one million Estonians somewhere on the east Baltic coast? If she believes it, then she needs to consult a specialist. If she does not, then why is she pursuing this policy of antagonizing Russia?

Consider also, that Estonia’s population was the largest when the country was occupied and exploited as it is fashionable to say today by the Soviet Union. In 1990, shortly before independence from the Soviet Union, Estonia numbered a bit more than 1.5 million citizens. Since that time the population trend is only downwards. Is it because of the many benefits that the membership in the European Union has blessed Estonia with?

Let us take on Ursula von der Leyen for a change. What she might have at the back of her weird mind is perhaps ultimately a war with Russia. That’s at least the impression that one gets while consuming this war mongering and fear mongering propaganda. Now, I would very much like to ask the European Prime Minister a simple question: does she think all those Third World people who have become Europeans at the stroke of a pen will rally around the star-spangled blue banner of the European Union and fight for it? Does she think the Nigerians and the Afghanis, the Syrians and the Libyans have left their war-torn countries and come to Europe for the purpose of… dying or becoming maimed in a war? Give me a break!

So, it is going to be the white, indigenous Europeans who will be made to fight in the name of Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas, that is, in the name of Europe, in the name of democracy and “values”. Yet, how many Europeans identify with Europe, with the alphabet sexuality, with diversity- equality-inclusion, with women empowerment, with, with, with? Are they going to defend these “values” and lose their limbs? I’m eager to see it happen!

Millions of Ukrainians have fled their country, reluctant to take up arms. Lots of them do not feel Ukrainians in the first place. To defend a nation you need to feel strongly about it. Now Europeans have been taught for decades that patriotism and national sentiment are evil, that masculinity is evil. How then can Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas count on European effeminate males who have unlearned manliness and forgotten patriotism to take up arms? I bet the two women can’t even grasp what fix they are in. They can’t grasp it not only because their mental faculties are not sufficient, but also because they have mingled with the EU apparatchiks and demagogues for so long that they have lost all and any contact with reality. Here think of Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, who boasted about her “feminist diplomacy” and you get the whole picture. These three women – von der Leyen, Kallas, Baerbock (soon to part with her ministerial position, what a loss for Europe!) – might act in the opening scene of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, bent over the cauldron in which they are boiling the hated Putin alive, while muttering war-mongering and fear-mongering curses.

Military (mis)calculation

Recently, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk quoted the International Institute for Strategic Studies according to which Europe together with Ukraine has a strength of 2.6 million troops, the United States has 1.3 million troops, while China – 2 million and Russia barely 1.1 million. Then the Polish prime minister pathetically suggested that Russia should be crushed under such a force and should fear the West. Wow!

You know, Donald Tusk was a student of history. He must have been absent-minded during the lectures or he may have forgotten every bit of what he may have learnt. When throughout the history of humankind has it ever been a rule that sheer numbers always prevail in conflicts? An example from European history.

The Kingdom of Prussia comprised basically two relatively small territories, one around Berlin and on both sides of the Oder estuary, and the other on the Baltic Sea (present-day north-eastern Poland plus the Kaliningrad province that since World War Two belongs to Russia). These two territories were even not connected by land: they were flat, with no resources, and scarcely populated This small Kingdom of Prussia threw down the gauntlet to a huge Habsburg Monarchy (yesterday’s European Union in the centre of the Old Continent, made up of present-day Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, and a huge part of Romania) and won the wars of 1740-42 and 1744-45, tearing away from the Habsburg monarchy Silesia (today’s south-western Poland). In an attempt to regain the lost province, yesterday’s European Union, i.e. the Habsburg Empire, allied itself with Russia and France – two superpowers of that day – and again went to war against the little Kingdom of Prussia – the Seven Years’ War of 1756-63 – and… lost it a third time. The numerical advantage of the anti-Prussian coalition was enormous (the Habsburg Monarchy, France and Russia along with Saxony, not to mention many other German principalities) and yet it turned out the be of no use. Towards the end of that costly and protracted war Russia decided to withdraw its troops (just like today the United States is disengaging from the crusade in Ukraine), and since Russia left the battlefield, the alliance was soon dissolved.

Another example, an example from today, an example that everybody, not even one interested in politics, is aware of. The tiny state of Israel that is located in the sea of – nay – in the ocean of the hostile Arab, Islamic world. The state of Israel stands its ground, and has stood its ground since its inception. True, it has been supported by the United States, but even then: Israel is a tiny country surrounded by usually unfriendly, much more densely populated Arab states. Egypt alone has some 100 million inhabitants, while Israel merely 10 million of which 2 million are Arabs!

That’s the numerical part of the problem. The Polish prime minister did not take into consideration other factors, especially the factor of motivation. Why should the Portuguese or the Norwegians, the Greeks or the Swiss go to war with Russia over Ukraine? Why should they sacrifice anything for this war? Why should they compromise the quality of their life because of Ukraine of which they know next to nothing, of which the older generations did not even learn at school as a separate state because thirty years ago there was no Ukraine on the political map of Europe? Even if forced, Portuguese, Greek or Norwegian soldiers are not likely to really fight somewhere in the East, somewhere in Ukraine. Do you remember the Italian, Hungarian and Romanian soldiers that fought hand in hand with Germans on the eastern front during World War Two? They were usually more of a burden rather than real aid. Was it not the same with Napoleon’s incursion into Russia? The French emperor led troops from almost all of Europe. His numerical advantage was more than obvious. How did he fare?

What do numbers mean? Numbers only have their abstract value in abstract mathematical considerations. It is only in maths that every one and every other one is always the same two. In real life these two soldiers are by no means the same as those two soldiers, the military value of these two tanks and their crews is not comparable to the military value of those two tanks and their crews, and so on, and so forth. There are so many factors that matter that it is almost impossible to take them all into account. Numbers only win when other major factors are more or less comparable. Numbers in themselves are just stats, abstract metrics. Europe and the United States – to quote again Donald Tusk or the International Institute for Strategic Studies – have altogether 3.9 million of professional troops, Russia – 1.1: a proportion of roughly 4 to 1. What is reality? Reality demonstrates that Russia is holding a quarter of Ukrainian territory while Europe is flexing its flaccid muscles and issuing threatening statements – now from Paris, now from London – and becomes ever more livid with its helpless – childlike – hatred of Russia.

Crusade in Europe

It was eighty years ago that Europe was liberated from fascism by Americans and Russians. Dwight Eisenhower, the commander-in-chief on the Western front, wrote about this effort in his “Crusade in Europe.” The story is repeating itself: by an odd quirk of history the European Union with its authoritarian inclinations, headed by – funnily enough – Germany, stands again in need of liberation, and again it is the Russians from the east and the Americans from the west who are doing this necessary job. They are carrying out another crusade in Europe.

This time the initial blow from the West was delivered by JD Vance, American vice president, at the Munich Security Conference, which is held annually. What he said was a master stroke, a magisterial speech (transcript and audio). Vice President JD Vance ran afoul of the European dictatorial establishment delivering a few knock-out blows of truth and common sense. The assertion that Europe is not threatened from outside – neither by Russia or China – set the stage for what followed. Europe is a threat to itself, Europe is sliding into fascism (though JD Vance did not use this term) because freedom of speech and free elections are anathema to the men and women at the top of the European pyramid. The commissioners have learnt how to keep European nations on a short leash, how to keep control of their minds and actions, how to steer public opinion and browbeat opponents into submission or silence. The EU commissioners are viscerally opposed to democratic processes just like their spiritual predecessors in the Soviet Union once were: they skew or engineer elections (Romania is a prime example, which JD Vance makes use of), they fabricate false narratives, and they act contrary to the wishes of their voters, especially in the case of immigration, as they want to settle Europe with people from outside the continent.

In Munich, Brussels’ acolytes and protégés suffered enormous damage to their prestige, to their stature. They have been exposed, their schemes have been laid bare. Contrary to what the commissioners wanted their subjects (yes, subjects, because Europeans can barely be viewed as citizens) to believe in they have been unmasked for what they are: totalitarian bullies whose lexicon does not contain words like compromise or freedom or democracy. Bullies who are democrats in name only, intimidators who cobble together laws that

impose heavy media censorship or shut down social media;
cancel or invalidate elections;
criminalize silent prayer in the vicinity of abortion clinics, also prayers held at homes that happen to be within the so called protected zones of the said clinics (all of this mentioned in JD Vance’s speech);
ruthlessly suppress alternative viewpoints.

Indeed, JD Vance – just like Dwight D Eisenhower eight decades earlier – has launched a crusade in Europe. For a crusade it is, complete with a spiritual fight. Europe has been embroiled in a spiderweb of inhuman ideologies just as it was embroiled in them towards the end of the first half of the 20th century. The EU bureaucrats are afraid of the voters just like their Bolshevik predecessors in the Soviet Union were, and the EU bureaucrats are rabidly anti-Christian just like their fascist predecessors in Germany were. Just think of it: one gets fined and imprisoned for silent prayer in the street or at home! If that does not prove the existence of Satan and his followers than I don’t know what does. Simultaneously, the ugly repellent repulsive disgusting revolting sickening nauseating obscene loathsome alphabet-parades are not only allowed but also encouraged and propagated! Dante’s inferno, indeed, sewage is backing up into our homes, into our public spaces, into our lives.

And to top it all, rather than quoting Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi – the darlings of the Western world – to wind up his speech, JD Vance quoted Pope John Paul II, who famously said “Do not be afraid” to the crowds gathered in Warsaw in 1979, the crowds that were oppressed by the communists. John Paul II addressed these words primarily to the common people, JD Vance addressed them to the commissioners, for they are scared of their people across Europe just as their predecessors in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union once were. And no wonder, the EU commissioners are the same ideological kinsfolk whose leftist members once forcibly controlled the Eastern bloc. Proof? All the former communists from central and eastern Europe flocked to the European Union without a second thought. Obviously, like draws like.