Saturday, April 19, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen Attempts to Join MS-13...
...and is in return promised membership and free lawn services for life is he succeeds in freeing his brother gang member. < /sarc>Ukrainian Ethno-Nationalism: Where the USIC Sponsored "Colour Revolution" Went Wrong
Thursday, April 17, 2025
We Don't want Him Back, Senator!
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife testified that he beat her while she was holding their baby: "the baby started to cry because he was putting pressure on him, my immediate reaction was to push him off us and then he punched."
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) April 16, 2025
This is the guy Dems are going all out for right now https://t.co/KdlqooDRka
The Tennessee Star learned on Wednesday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) who was deported to El Salvador under President Donald Trump amid legal action claiming the removal was by mistake, was suspected of being engaged in human trafficking by a Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) officer who detained him in December 2022, leading the THP to contact the FBI for guidance. Within two hours, the FBI ultimately requested the THP release Garcia and the passengers in his vehicle. THP complied with the request.
The Star learned from sources familiar with the incident that Abrego Garcia was stopped for an unknown reason on December 6, 2022, and that the THP officer responsible for the stop immediately discovered Abrego Garcia was transporting seven passengers, with eight individuals inside the vehicle.
During a nearly two-hour traffic stop, the THP officer determined that Abrego Garcia (pictured above) was operating the vehicle without a valid driver’s license and began searching for information about him.
One source told The Star that THP ultimately discovered Abrego Garcia was on a terrorist watch list, but could not locate Abrego Garcia on a deportation list. Another source told The Star that THP did not discover Abrego Garcia on a terrorist watch list but that another one of the seven passengers in the vehicle may have been on a terrorist watch list.
THP subsequently called the FBI, which was then led by former Director Christopher Wray under the Biden administration. The FBI instructed the THP officers at the scene to capture photographs of all eight people in the vehicle and document its contents.
Once the photographs were captured, this source told The Star that the FBI requested THP release all eight individuals and that the THP officers complied with this request.
In 2022, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained in Tennessee on suspicion of human trafficking. The TN Highway Patrol was instructed to release him and the seven other people in the car by Biden’s FBI. Garcia was transporting them from Texas to Maryland. https://t.co/z3xFOPEk9a
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 17, 2025
DOJ releases additional information about “Maryland man” and illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 16, 2025
In 2019 the Prince George’s County Police Gang Unit determined Garcia was an MS-13 gang member w/ contacts to other members. He admitted he was in the U.S. illegally after arrest… pic.twitter.com/7aIFn7Pqrm
"You have a Senator in Maryland (@ChrisVanHollen) who is supposed to serve his constituents, including Patty Morin... and instead, he is spending more time... flying to a foreign country in an attempt to bring back an illegal criminal alien, foreign terrorist... than he ever gave… https://t.co/tu4vAxcig0
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 17, 2025
Sturdy Woodsterman Wood...
Go here to buy him a ticketWednesday, April 16, 2025
Hageman Rocks the UK
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Monday, April 14, 2025
Continuity of Government: New Phrases for Rationalizing a Woke Authoritarian Post-Democracy...
Implementing WEF Style Global Government Through Lawfare...
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Rule of Law!
. . . the advent of Law entails a kind of ‘disalienation’: in so far as the Other itself appears submitted to the ‘absolute condition’ of Law, the subject is no more at the mercy of the Other’s whim, its desire is no more totally alienated in the Other’s desire. . . In contrast to the ‘post-structuralist’ notion of a law checking, canalizing, alienating, oppressing ‘Oedipianizing’ some previous ‘flux of desire,’ Law is here conceived as an agency of ‘disalienation’ and ‘liberation’: it opens our access to desire by enabling us to disengage ourselves from the rule of the Other’s whim.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Trump Lines Up his Tariff Domino's w/ China at the End -Max Momentum
The domino theory was a geopolitical theory popular during the Cold War, suggesting that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would also succumb, like a row of falling dominoes. This fear fueled U.S. intervention in various global conflicts, including the Vietnam War, to prevent the spread of communism
Friday, April 11, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Reconfiguring the American Wealth Pump...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Mike Benz's Prescription for Peeling Back the Globalist Agenda...
Monday, April 7, 2025
Maryland State Government Hypocrisy On Full Display
"We could never have anticipated the sheer volume of cases"
This is the very embodiment of corruption in the most evil kind of way.Maryland lawmakers passed a measure Saturday to try to limit future liabilities from claims of sexual abuse at state and private institutions after thousands of people unexpectedly came forward with allegations of abuse, many of them in youth detention centers, putting potentially billions of dollars at stake for the state.In 2023, Maryland passed the Child Victims Act that was signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore lifting the time limit on how long people could wait to sue over alleged child sexual abuse by institutions.
The wave of cases targeting the state’s juvenile justice system resulted after Maryland eliminated the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse claims two years ago with the Catholic Church abuse scandal in mind.
“The passage of time will not prevent survivors from seeking justice for sexual abuse they suffered as children. I am proud of the role our office played in defending this landmark statute,” Attorney General Anthony Brown promised earlier this year
Now Maryland is rushing to gut the Child Victims Act because it’s not just the Catholic Church getting sued.
How long did it take Maryland Dems to rush the bill through shielding themselves? Two days.The rapid-fire passage of House Bill 1378 — it got out of the House, through the Senate, back to the House and to the governor’s desk in just two days…Two days. That’s how corrupt everyone involved in this.
C.T. Wilson, who introduced the Child Victims Act bill, then introduced a bill gutting the bill because the bill was getting too high.The measure, which now goes to Gov. Wes Moore, reduces caps on settlements from $890,000 to $400,000 for cases filed after May 31 for state institutions and from $1.5 million to $700,000 for private institutions.Note that the cap for government institutions is $400,000, but at $700,000 for private ones. Why is that?A number of Democrats who voted for the bill in committee said it was a tough decision, but expressed concerns about the potential costs to the state.If Maryland is expecting to go bankrupt over all those lawsuits, that either raises questions about the level of abuse by the state… or the credibility of the lawsuits.
Del. David Moon (D-Montgomery) said the state “does not have the option of bankruptcy to run from our obligations the way our private counterparts do.” Moon voted to move the bill out of committee “with great regret … and apologies to the victims.”The State should not be above the law. And that’s what Maryland Democrats are doing here.We would never have done this if we knew just how badly we were going to get sued.
Maryland state Sen. Will Smith, who chairs the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, said it has been estimated that Maryland is facing a potential liability between $3 billion and $4 billion.
Smith, a Democrat, noted that lawmakers approved the 2023 Child Victims Act in response “to a long fight to have justice for victims of child sex abuse, where our prior framework barred some of those claims if you were above the age of 38.”
“But what we could never have anticipated was just the sheer volume of cases that ensued,” Smith said.“This is the most knowingly unconstitutional piece of legislation this legislative body has ever passed,” said Corey Stern, an attorney representing child sexual abuse survivors, in a text after Saturday’s full Senate vote. “The members who voted for it should be ashamed of themselves. The leadership that insisted they do should be voted out of office.”If they were capable of shame, none of this would have happened in the first place.
Friday, April 4, 2025
On Estonia's New Digital Internment Camps...
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Taibbi on Coordinating Global Media Censorship and Smearing Non-Establishment figures...
EO-13721 Creating GEC - The Global Engagement Center @ US DoS used later to smear domestic conservative politicians and supporters of Bernie Sanders with being sources of "Russian Disinformation" and of being promoted by "Russian and Chinese" bot-armies (ala- Hamilton 68) through guilt by association and coordinated though weaponized Government (GEC).
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Where Goest Thou, Germany?
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Going Down, Dervy?
Another April Fool Awakens...
Whan that April with his showres soote The droughte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veine in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flowr; Whan Zephyrus eek with his sweete breethe Inspired hath in every holt and heethe The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne, And smale fowles maken melodye That sleepen al the night with open y6-- So priketh hem Nature in hir corages-- Thanne langen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seeken straunge strondes To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of Engelond to Canterbury they wende, The holy blisful martyr for to seeke That hem hath holpen whan that they were se
-Chaucer , "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales"
Monday, March 31, 2025
TDS Democrats Should Move to Venezuela...
...and experience living in an actual 'Socialist Paradise'!
Le Pen Banned. Representative Democracy has Died in France
Saturday, March 29, 2025
EU Deep State Plots Moves to Remove France's Le Pen...
Friday, March 28, 2025
Dervish Sanders, Pathocratic DNC/ PMC Pawn...
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
On Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)
How much do Human CO2 and other Greenhouse Gas emissions contribute to the Total Global Warming effect upon the Earth? What "percent" is directly attributable to industrialization and human activity in general (aka AGW)? Answer 0.28%. The other 99.72% is completely "natural" (not the result of human activity).
On Your "Protectors" in the US Government and US Intelligence Community...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Replacing Historical Monuments
MiniTru Momemts
The Democratic Party's Utopian Vision of the 'Perfect' Society
“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”–Hannah Ardent, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"
Once the Party of White Superiority and Jim Crow (model for NAZI anti-Jewish Laws), the Democrats have Reinvented themselves and committed themselves to a new mission, atoning for their own historical bigotry. It's the Party of White Guilt-Pride. Guilty for its' Past History... yet Proud of it's new Mission of Redemption granted to them by their Patron Saint, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement that they once so arduously fought, succumbed to in '64, and then re-purposed through supporting, with over-swollen "white guilt-pride Spirit" in their new-found commitment to the virtue of nondiscrimination (aka- "not thinking/ not distinguishing and finding patterns in information") with the zeal of a born-again Christian convert, using "race" as the excuse to "not-see race" (as past sin atonement), rather than simply not seeing race as a very useful "category of thought" like normal people.
Marx's vision of Communism remains all too much a vision of Capitalism without Capital, without Capitalism. Marx always speaks as if we have this incredible dynamic in Capitalism, but then at a certain stage of development, you drop the form of Capital, search for profit, and so on; and you will get uh self-propelled, even more crazy, wild expansion reproduction. I think precisely, and here I'm entering your topic of lack and access, I think that precisely, leaps as we are experiencing today, this will not happen.
The greatest Hegelian Insight that we get is that something that may appear to be an obstacle to full development of a field is its' condition of possibility. So you take away the obstacle, and you lose, at the same time, what this was an obstacle to.
Now we take an example, I apologize myself sincerely but I just don't have a better example, if it will sound slightly male chauvinist, no? It's an old story that I repeat again all the time. I was flirting, years ago with a lady. I will not tell you "where, who said, "The last lover who saw me naked told me that my body is perfect... just, it was "almost perfect", it would have been just better, if I were to lose just two pounds. And I told her immediately, "just don't do that." Because you need this imperfection to give birth to the fantasy, "My god, without that you would be perfect!" But if you take away the obstacle, she would just be bland, average, you lose it.
So, I will not lose time here, something along this, I think, happens with Marx, when he all the time says that "the form of Capital is the obstacle." Yes, but only in the form of this obstacle can the expanded self reproduction function.
The Democratic Party's vision of a perfect society is a society without any traces of discrimination. It's prime function is to eliminate ALL and EVERY vestige of discrimination, and make every citizen exactly the same... perfect "equity", not only in an "opportunity" sense, but in a "realized" one.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."-Nietzsche
But what would happen if that mission were to be realized, if this goal were to be accomplished? The Democratic Party's entire purpose and function would disappear, the Party would revert to being a bland, average, "Republican-style UniParty. Anti-discrimination is the Democratic Party's very political-market discriminator. Without the perception of rampant discrimination, and a villain perpetrating it to be vanquished (ala Hamlet's Claudius), the Democratic Party would disappear. And so it keeps its' imaginary politically-derived-divisions of villains: racists, homophobes, trans-phobes, alive. It see's them everywhere... even as "systemic" in nature. It must, because without them, they would serve no purpose.
To the monsters, we're the monsters
And as the Democratic Party get closer and closer to accomplishing this goal of complete and total "equity", it needs to not only invent new categories of discrimination, but it must keep the vanquished categories of villains and incidents alive as well, lest it lose its' +50% elected majority. It becomes a victim of its' own success, requiring ever new, petty, and ever miniscule "categories" of victims. And so it must manufacture hate crimes, and hold them up as examples of their party's continued relevancy. It must keep memories of the old, vanquished discriminating oppressors alive, lest they lose the votes of their formerly historically victimized and oppressed groups. They believe that their Party alone must be perceived as the Heroes and Saviours of the perpetually oppressed, and anyone who opposes them, one of the vile and perennially evil discriminating/ oppressor class.
Acta non Verba: Masculine Activism (Hamlet); NOT Ophelia in War Communism or Pallas Athena
The more perfect our society actually becomes, the more inventive of victims, the more "petty" the Democratic Party arguments justifying their intervention must become. Vanquishing 99.99999% of the racists is never enough. They need to relentlessly pursue and masculinely exterminate the remaining 0.00001% with NAZI-Like fascistic determination. And if they succeed, much as with Marx's vision of Communism, the Government will *poof* disappear... and along with it, the Democratic Party itself thereby proving the adage that "What begins in tragedy, ends in farce." The unseen problem being that not only will the need for Government disappear, but there will be nothing left of the Utopian society it envisioned either. For the apparent obstacle to full development of a field is also its' very condition of possibility, forming a "quantum entanglement" of ideological concepts that pop into and out of conscious existence.
Monday, March 24, 2025
The Revolution Will NOT Be Televised!
...all that spectators got to know about the war was in the form of propaganda imagery. The closely watched media presentations made it impossible to distinguish between the experience of what truly happened in the conflict, and its stylized, selective misrepresentation through simulacra.
The American people are once again asserting their right to self-governance
On March 23, 1775, a month before the first shots would ring out at Lexington and Concord, Patrick Henry entered Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia to deliver a bold conviction. “The war is actually begun,” he said, “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Henry’s rallying cry remains one of the most iconic speeches in American history and is one of my personal favorites. Indeed, multiple times since we moved to northern Virginia in 2021, my family and I have made the drive south to see Henry’s speech reenacted. The message remains as compelling as ever, and this year, on its 250th anniversary, I believe it is especially relevant to our current political moment.
We are facing a struggle for ordered liberty. We are challenging a political regime that subverts our rights, ignores our petitions, persecutes our friends and spurns our way of life. We are, as I put it on Steve Bannon’s War Room last July, “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
When I first suggested this, the Biden campaign, MSNBC hosts and their wax-museum conservative counterparts relentlessly mocked and attacked me – just as British loyalists and “moderate” colonists no doubt did to Henry in 1775 when he correctly predicted that conflict was inevitable. But much as the subsequent victories at Lexington and Concord confirmed Henry’s prediction, President Trump’s definitive victory in November and his blitz of executive actions to cut down the deep state since taking office have confirmed my own.
The American people are once again asserting their right to self-governance. They are rejecting submission to unelected bureaucrats and slavery to technocratic government. They are embracing common sense and exercising their power to advance the common good. And the left – bereft of ideas and more concerned with maintaining the status quo than honoring the will of the American people – has responded to this popular upheaval with desperation, profanity and violence.
This became obvious to every American when President Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania last July. It has only become more undeniable since.
On Inauguration Day a man in Oregon threw Molotov cocktails at a Tesla and threatened the driver with a gun. Later that month, a woman in Colorado repeatedly went to a Tesla car lot to spray paint “Nazi” on the dealership’s sign. This, it turns out, was only the beginning. Since then, the American car business has been under attack across the country, as more cars get set alight.
Meanwhile a crazed Massachusetts man came to Washington with Molotov cocktails, knives and the intent to burn down the Heritage Foundation and kill Pete Hegseth, Speaker Mike Johnson and Scott Bessent.
In February, Democrat elected representatives joined in and began pushing crazy rhetoric of their own. Representative Kweisi Mfume – whose birth name is Frizzell Gerard Tate – proposed a “street fight” to push back against Elon Musk. Ilhan Omar escalated even further, arguing that Musk’s efforts “might actually see somebody get killed.” And to make the second American Revolution analogy concrete, Representative LaMonica McIver came right out and said, “We are at war!”
This insane rhetoric only shows how out of touch Democrats are with the American people. Today their motto is effectively: give me $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala or give me death. It is the antithesis of the American spirit, and their “resistance” is as pathetic as it sounds.
That’s because the Democrats don’t represent a “resistance” at all. They are part and parcel of the Uniparty establishment that controls Washington and has been working for decades to expand its malign influence into every part of American life. Similarities between them and the overbearing British who ruled over the colonies in the 1760s and 70s abound.
The British forced Patrick Henry and his fellow patriots to quarter soldiers in their homes. Our tyrannical elite is forcing us to pay millions of dollars to process illegal immigrants into our country, house them in our communities and educate them in our schools.
Britain’s Royal Proclamation of 1763 restrained Americans’ frontier spirit by forbidding them from settling west of the Appalachian mountains. The unelected bureaucrats that rule us are restraining that same spirit through overregulation and censorship.
King George III and the British parliament unjustly taxed the colonists to pay for their incompetent management of a global empire. And if Donald Trump’s dismantling of USAID has proven anything, it is that our rulers have been unjustly taxing us to pay for their own incompetent management of a global empire.
The Second American Revolution pits this insulated elite class of managers and bureaucrats against an increasingly broad swath of the American people, whom they do not know, can make no credible claim to represent and have utterly failed. The diverse coalition that elected President Trump this November proves as much. One in four black men under 50 voted for Trump. Roughly 45 percent of Latinos voted for Trump. Voters without a college degree supported President Trump by 13 points.
These Americans have even less in common with the progressive bureaucrats ruling them than America’s founders did with their British overlords at the time of the first American revolution. Sure, it could take up to six weeks to travel across the Atlantic in the 1770s, but at least the English spoke the same language as their subjects, structured their families in similar ways and worshipped the same God. Today, our bureaucrats mock religion and are so morally bankrupt that it is oftentimes impossible to reason with them.
The only legitimate option is to defeat them. Like our founding fathers, we must be victorious.
The good news is that we are well on our way. Right now, President Trump’s executive orders and decisive actions are systematically dismantling the deep state’s hard power. On his first day in office, he terminated all remote work arrangements for federal employees. Then, he introduced an unprecedented, deferred resignation program which convinced more than 75,000 unelected bureaucrats to resign their posts. And last month he signed a new executive order requiring all federal agencies to fire at least four people for every one person they hire. Meanwhile, the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DoGE) incredible work has undermined the regime’s soft power by exposing its waste and corruption unlike ever before.
Make no mistake, these have only been the opening skirmishes in what will be a long fight. Though President Trump’s has already delivered a major blow, the deep state remains powerful. Slowly but surely, it is forming its counteroffensive. Corrupt federal judges are blocking the President’s executive orders. Colleges and universities are disguising their DEI programs to prevent losing federal funding. Countless bureaucrats are laying low in federal agencies, waiting for the opportunity to upend the people’s agenda. Even as fewer and fewer people are tuning in, the mainstream media is still doing everything it can to disparage Trump.
Confronting such a force, there is no room for complacency. Patrick Henry understood this. In his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech, he reminded his fellow patriots of the need for urgent action against the enemy, saying: “They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger?”
We must heed his words and ask the same question today. When shall the American people be stronger? When will the American people have a better chance to dismantle the deep state and restore their rights? When will they get another opportunity to rescue the Republic our ancestors fought and died for?
They may not get another opportunity. There is no better time than now.
We are living in the Second American Revolution. We are stronger than we’ve ever been, and we must use every moral lever of power at our disposal to restore our founding principles, recover the basic norms of Western civilization (such as the notion that men and women are different), and revive the traditional institutions of American life by restoring their original purpose.
Despite the left’s fearmongering, none of this requires violence. But it does require us to remember the promise of Patrick Henry that “millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.”
Sunday, March 23, 2025
TRANtifa-Adjacent Kitsch Stays Public
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Europe's Voice of Reason...
If we truly want to strengthen Europe, the first step is not to rearm. It is to forge the democratic union without which stagnation will continue to erode Europe’s capacities, rendering it unable to rebuild what is left of Ukraine once Vladimir Putin is finished with it.ATHENS – Inducting Ukraine into NATO after forcing Russia back behind its pre-2014 borders has been the only strategic aim EU leaders have allowed themselves to contemplate since Russia’s invasion three years ago. Alas, well before US President Donald Trump’s re-election, this aim slipped into the realm of infeasibility. The writing had been on the wall for a while.
First, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war economy proved a godsend to his regime. Second, even Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, was terminally unwilling to push for Ukraine’s NATO membership, leading the country down the garden path with vague promises. And, third, there was strong bipartisan opposition in the United States to the idea of NATO troops fighting alongside Ukrainians.
So, in a display of breathtaking hypocrisy, the many “Putin is the new Hitler” speeches never resulted in a commitment to fight alongside the Ukrainians until Putin’s army was defeated on the ground. Instead, a cowardly West kept sending weapons to the exhausted Ukrainians so that they could defeat the “new Hitler” on its behalf – but on their own.
Inevitably, and despite gallant fighting by increasingly outgunned and outnumbered Ukrainian soldiers, European leaders’ sole strategic aim turned to dust – a reality that would have become undeniable regardless of who won the US presidency last November. Trump merely brought it forward with a brutality reflecting his long-held contempt not just for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky but also for the EU itself. And so, lacking any Plan B, a Europe weakened by a two-decades-long economic slump is now struggling to respond to Trump’s Ukraine policy.
After the Munich Agreement in 1938, Winston Churchill famously proclaimed that Neville Chamberlain had been “given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.” In their angst not to make the same mistake, EU leaders are about to repeat it, in reverse: their war-until-victory approach will give way to the humiliating peace that Trump will gleefully impose on them, and on Zelensky’s government, when they eventually come begging.
While it is undoubtedly true that Europe must either rise to the occasion or disintegrate, the question is: Rise how? What’s really wrong with Europe? What is the EU missing the most?
It beggars belief that Europeans cannot recognize the answer staring us in the face: Europe is missing a proper Treasury, the equivalent of the State Department, and a Parliament with the power to dismiss what passes as its government (the European Council). Even worse, there is still no discussion of how to plug these gaping holes in Europe’s institutional architecture.
The EU has always dreaded the beginning of any Ukraine peace process precisely because it would expose the bloc’s nakedness. Who would represent Europe at the negotiating table, even if Trump invited us to join? Even if the European Commission and Council could wave a magic wand to conjure a large, well-armed EU army into existence, who would have the democratic authority to send it into battle to kill and be killed?
Moreover, who can raise enough taxes to ensure the EU army’s permanent combat-readiness? The EU’s intergovernmental decision-making means that no one has the democratic legitimacy to make such decisions.
When Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, recently announced her new ReArm Europe initiative, sad memories of the incompetent Juncker Plan, Green Deal, and Recovery Plan came flooding back. Large headline figures were again being tossed about, only to be exposed on closer scrutiny as smoke and mirrors. Does anyone seriously expect France to increase its already-unsustainable public-finance deficit to fund weaponry?
Absent the institutions to enact military Keynesianism, the only way Europe can rearm is by shifting funds from its crumbling social and physical infrastructure – further weakening a Europe already reaping the bitter harvest of popular discontent, which is fueling the rise of far-right forces across the continent. And for what? Does anyone believe that Putin will be deterred by a Europe that may have a few more shells and howitzers but is drifting further away from the prospect of the federal governance needed to decide matters of war and peace?
ReArm Europe will do nothing to win the war for Ukraine. It will, however, almost certainly drive the EU deeper into its pre-existing economic slump – the underlying cause of Europe’s weakness. To keep Europeans safe in the face of the twin challenges posed by Trump and Putin, the EU must embark on its own multipronged Peace Now process.
First, the EU must reject outright Trump’s predatory effort to grab Ukraine’s natural resources. Then, after floating the prospect of relaxing sanctions and returning $300 billion in frozen assets (which cannot simultaneously be used as a bargaining chip and for Ukraine’s reconstruction), the EU should commence negotiations with the Kremlin, offering the prospect of a comprehensive strategic arrangement within which Ukraine becomes what Austria was during the Cold War: sovereign, armed, neutral, and as integrated with Western Europe as its citizens desire.
Third, instead of a permanent stand-off between two large armies along the agreed border, the EU should propose a demilitarized zone at least 500 kilometers (310 miles) deep on each side, the right of return of all displaced people, a Good Friday-style agreement for the governance of disputed areas, and a Green New Deal for the war-torn areas, jointly financed by the EU and Russia. All outstanding issues should be addressed in negotiations held under the auspices of the United Nations.
Lastly, the EU should use the prospect of relaxing tariffs on Chinese goods (green tech, in particular) and sanctions on technology exports to open negotiations with China with a view to a new security arrangement that reduces tensions and enlists the Chinese to the goal of safeguarding Ukraine’s sovereignty.
If we truly want to strengthen Europe, the first step is not to rearm. It is to forge the democratic union without which stagnation will continue to erode Europe’s capacities, rendering it unable to rebuild what is left of Ukraine once Putin is finished with it.
Unveiling UK Government Sponsored Fascism...
Friday, March 21, 2025
Trans Activists ala 'Ziz' Behind Tesla Terrorism? Or just Impotent Left Black Bloc Activists of All Stripes?
