How many generations does it take to go from ruin to ruin?
A systemic crisis is gaining momentum in the EU. The former affluence of German burghers and Parisian shopkeepers is fading. Businesses are closing, the standard of living of citizens is declining while the EU bureaucracy is trying to seize power over sovereign countries and is ramping up its military budget. How might it all end?
Serving hatch is closing
Not so long ago, European countries were seen by many as some kind of fabulous cornucopia. Today, however, this idea is more in the realm of naive old wives’ tales. First, the United Kingdom quietly left the European Union; then it turned out that not everyone is fascinated by the euro. The Schengen area continues to be marked out by border infrastructure, whereas along the EU’s outer perimeter, an iron curtain is being forged. Now, Poland is packing its bags to leave the common European home. Meanwhile, wealthy Western investors with multi-billion capitals are flocking to the Global East and the United States.Brussels has failed to become a new financial city upon a hill. And how it strived! Once upon a time, Eastern European countries, jostling, rushed to this serving hatch, which is now closing more and more tightly. In Brussels, they are already thinking about who could disburse funds to them. Euro officials are circling around Russian savings. They greedily swallow saliva, but are still afraid to ‘feast’. After all, they might get their teeth knocked out.
Heavy burden
The EU’s own economy is deflating like a punctured football. In the year before last, Germany’s GDP shrank by 0.3 percent, and last year — by 0.2 percent. It faced a similar fall in the second quarter of this year, whereas the third quarter registered a zero growth. The situation is similar in the third-largest economy, Italy. Notably, the second-largest economy — France — showed, with a great effort, a rise of 0.5 percent. Yet, political instability might cut short even this modest improvement.Recently, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered a eulogy for the German ‘welfare state’. The usual system of social benefits, he said, should be forgotten. In the French budget for next year, inflation indexation of pensions and payments to those in need is nowhere to be seen — moreover, the current budget deficit has reached 5.4 percent. This is despite the fact that in the EU, under threat of financial sequestration, one must not exceed the three percent mark, and government debt must not exceed 60 percent. So, in France, it has exceeded 110 percent this year, in Italy — 130, Greece — 150, and so on.
Economy in the crosshairs
How is the EU planning to escape this abyss? Apparently, using the same old scheme. In European capitals, leaders are already poring over tables with military maps spread. Dates for potential global battles are being mentioned. Military enterprises are bursting with orders, casting more and more cannons and shells. Kiev is being told to fight to the last Ukrainian — and there will be no problems with money, they say. The German budget, approved recently by the Bundestag, includes a record sum of €11.5bn for Ukraine next year. The European Commission has stated its intention to increase the EU’s military budget more than fivefold within the seven-year plan for 2028–2034. Incidentally, according to the report by the European Defence Agency (EDA), EU countries’ defence spending reached an unprecedented €343bn last year. This represents a 19 percent increase compared to the previous year, with military spending accounting for 1.9 percent of GDP. The plan is to reach €381bn (2.1 percent of GDP) by the end of 2025, and a target of five percent has been set for 2035. Is the economy, like peace, achievable only through force?Unelected by the people
To implement its militaristic plans, the EU is trying to force everyone to fall into line and move in a clearly defined direction. There is now increasing talk of shifting to decision-making based not on unanimity, but on qualified majority voting (QMV), and further down the line, moving towards a federal structure. So the puck is being pushed far ahead, because the policies of Brussels, for many countries, provoke nothing but whistles and cries of ‘hang the Eurocrats’. How to ensure that those who disagree are sidelined?Ursula von der Leyen is a visible confirmation of the globalists’ plans. In theory, the power in the EU should be formed by the party that wins the elections. In 2019, this was the European People’s Party (EPP). It nominated its candidate for the post of president of the European Commission. And it was not Ursula. At the time she was holding the post of German Defence Minister and barely managing to extricate herself from the scandals she regularly found herself in. However, forces unseen by many ensured that she took the key position in the European Union, and the EPP candidate was quickly sidelined.
In the 2024 election race, Frau Leyen already headed the EPP list. In this case, the ears were perhaps not sticking out so provocatively in terms of the personnel issue. Her second term running the European Union is overshadowed by regular attempts to pass a vote of no confidence in her. But will Brussels allow this? The leader of the EU is not elected by the people. Should they not be the ones to remove the EU leader, either? This is another point of the burgeoning crisis, which could end — when a critical mass is reached — with the European Union being torn to shreds.
Historical standards
Why is the EU a peculiar anti-magnet today? It is enough to answer simple questions. Where is it safer: on the streets of Berlin, Paris or Vitebsk and Gomel? Where do breakthrough technologies appear: in China or in France? Why are the notorious German car brands losing the race for customers to competitors from the East, even in Europe itself? What about Brussels imposing so-called European values on the whole world? After all, these are anti-values.Brussels, as if gone mad, is doing everything to put an end to the European project, which its founding fathers so painstakingly gathered bit by bit after the Second World War, from the union of coal and steel. Yet, their descendants turned out to be terribly wasteful, mildly speaking. Was Winston Churchill right, who figuratively said that ‘the path from wooden shoes to wooden shoes’ is short? The first generation creates, the second multiplies, the third squanders, and the fourth — ‘puts on wooden shoes’ again. What generation of leaders is in Europe now by historical standards?
GAP IS INCREASING
In 2008, the United States and the European Union were virtually equal in terms of GDP: they had approximately $14tn each. Here is 2024: the EU has $19tn, whereas the USA boasts $29tn. By the way, had Brexit not happened, this gap would not have been much smaller. So, if the EU continues to follow its current path, then soon it will not be Washington that will seek to annex Greenland, but Greenland itself, along with Denmark, will beg the White House to take them on as dependants.IMPORTANT!
As President Aleksandr Lukashenko has emphasised, Belarus is interested in the EU as one of the poles of power in the nascent new world order. However, to become this geopolitical centre, the EU must meet global requirements. The future is not about colonies, diktat or imposing one’s will on independent countries. “In the emerging multipolar world order, the European Union should occupy a crucial place. The strong European Union. We are convinced of this, and we have repeatedly called for it. It is one of the pillars, the foundations of the planetary system, on which peace rests. But whether the EU will be able to occupy such a place remains to be seen,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted in his speech at the 3rd Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security last October.By Viktor Leshchenko
