Tag: European suicide

by Amal Zadok

Europe is willingly dismantling its soul to serve a patron that profits from its demise.

The post-war era birthed a powerful vision: Europe as a “Continent of Life and Social Justice.” Rising from the ashes of unimaginable destruction, it championed peace, built sophisticated social welfare models that were the envy of the world – universal healthcare, robust pensions, strong workers’ rights, affordable education, and social safety nets – and fostered unparalleled industrial prowess. Its integration project promised not just economic unity, but a society prioritizing human dignity, solidarity, and a unique alternative to raw capitalism.

Yet, a profound and unsettling reality now grips the continent: Europe is actively dismantling these very foundations, regressing towards a self-inflicted economic, social, and civilizational “Dark Ages.” Crucially, the architect of this decline is not a distant foe, but its closest ally. The uncomfortable truth Europe refuses to confront is that under its comprehensive submission to the United States – militarily, financially, economically, and socially – the primary threat to its prosperity, sovereignty, cherished social model, and increasingly, its freedom of information and speech, emanates not from Moscow, but from Washington.

The roots of this vassalage lie deep in the post-WWII settlement. The security umbrella provided by NATO offered stability but simultaneously bred a crippling, strategic dependency. Decades of deliberate underinvestment in genuine, autonomous European defense capabilities created a dangerous illusion of security. When crises erupted on its doorstep, most starkly the Ukraine conflict, Europe was exposed, impotent, and utterly reliant on American might and, critically, American decision-making.

This reliance transcends mere logistics; it dictates foreign policy, forcing Europe into alignment with US global objectives that frequently disregard Europe’s core interests and the well-being of its citizens. The imposition of sweeping sanctions on Russian energy, driven overwhelmingly by Washington’s geopolitical calculus with little regard for European vulnerability, exemplifies this destructive dynamic. Europe, ignoring its profound structural dependence on affordable Russian gas, severed its own economic lifeline in a fit of geopolitical solidarity defined elsewhere. The result was an energy shockwave of unprecedented scale, fundamentally altering Europe’s cost base, shattering household budgets, and igniting rampant inflation.

The economic autodestruction that followed was swift, brutal, and fundamentally self-inflicted under US pressure. Skyrocketing energy prices eviscerated the continent’s industrial heartland – the very engine of wealth creation that funded its famed social model. Fertilizer plants, chemical facilities, glassmakers, and metal smelters saw their competitive advantage annihilated overnight. Factories shuttered, production halted, and hundreds of thousands of jobs vanished.

This wasn’t passive decline; it was active deindustrialization, a conscious sacrifice orchestrated by European capitals yielding to intense US demands. Investment fled en masse, not merely to cheaper locations, but specifically towards the United States, lured by its shale gas bounty and the protectionist subsidies of the Inflation Reduction Act. Estimates suggest over $800 billion in industrial capital flight since the energy crisis began – a colossal, deliberate transfer of wealth and productive capacity directly benefiting the American economy at Europe’s expense, catastrophically eroding the tax base essential for sustaining its social programs.

Simultaneously, Europe embraced a militaristic surge utterly incongruent with its peaceful ideals and fiscal reality. Panicked by its exposed weakness and under relentless US pressure – amplified by the transactional threats and extortionate demands of figures like Donald Trump for tribute-like increases in NATO spending – European nations pledged massive, unsustainable hikes in defense budgets.

This is where the direct assault on the European social model and social justice becomes explicit and devastating. Billions of Euros, desperately needed to maintain universal healthcare, robust pensions, affordable childcare, unemployment benefits, social housing, and green transition initiatives – the very pillars of Europe’s enlightened society and its commitment to social justice – are now being ruthlessly diverted. Funds essential to cushion citizens against the crushing cost-of-living crisis, fueled primarily by the US-driven energy policy rupture, are instead funneled into imported military hardware – predominantly American.

The armamentistic race, dictated by Washington’s priorities and Trump’s coercive tactics, forces brutal, unjust choices upon European societies: hospitals or tanks? Pensions or missiles? Affordable heating or F-35s? Social cohesion and justice or geopolitical obedience? This fiscal drain deepens unsustainable public debt and deliberately starves the welfare state, dismantling the “European way of life” piece by piece, sacrificing social justice on the altar of alliance loyalty.

Compounding this decline is a disturbing erosion of freedom of information and speech, often justified under the guise of security or alignment with US narratives. While fixating on external threats, European institutions and member states increasingly adopt measures that stifle dissent and critical discourse. Legislation ostensibly aimed at combating “disinformation” or “foreign interference” risks casting a wide net, potentially silencing legitimate criticism of government policies, particularly regarding the Ukraine conflict, sanctions, NATO expansion, or the very nature of the transatlantic relationship.

The pressure to conform to a US-defined geopolitical narrative creates an environment where dissenting voices – questioning the wisdom of energy sanctions, the scale of militarization, or the costs of subservience – are marginalized, labeled as pro-Russian, or subjected to online censorship and de-platforming pressures. Academic freedom faces new constraints, media pluralism diminishes as narratives converge under geopolitical pressure, and the space for open, democratic debate crucial for a healthy society shrinks. This suppression, often tacitly encouraged by the need to maintain “Western unity,” undermines a core European value: the right to scrutinize power and challenge orthodoxy.

Here lies the blinding, tragic paradox: While Europe fixates on Russia as the existential threat, the tangible, accelerating destruction of its economic base, social fabric, strategic autonomy, its world-renowned welfare model, and now its foundational freedoms, is being wrought by its alliance with the United States. The soaring energy costs, the gutted industries, the capital flight, the inflation eroding living standards, the deliberate defunding of social safety nets sacrificing social justice, and the creeping constraints on free expression – these are direct consequences of policies demanded by Washington and obediently enacted by European leaders, often against their own populations’ immediate welfare and social contract.

The US reaps immense benefits: a crippled European competitor in key industries, a vast captive market for its overpriced LNG, lucrative arms contracts, the enforced weakening of Europe’s alternative social model, and a more pliant Europe aligned with its global agenda, even at the cost of European liberties.

The specter of Trump’s potential return only intensifies this existential peril. His explicit disdain for the alliance, threats of abandonment, and demands for tribute-like payments expose the transactional cruelty underlying the relationship. His rhetoric and pressure directly accelerate the cannibalization of Europe’s social spending to feed the US arms industry and satisfy his demands, while his disdain for independent media and criticism creates a chilling effect that resonates within compliant European corridors of power.

Yet, Europe remains willfully blind, clinging to the crumbling myth of a benevolent transatlantic partnership, unable or unwilling to acknowledge that the primary strategic antagonist fostering its comprehensive decline – economic, industrial, social, sovereign, and now in the realm of fundamental freedoms – sits across the Atlantic.

The path back from this emerging Dark Ages demands nothing less than a seismic shift in consciousness and action. Europe must achieve genuine strategic sovereignty, building autonomous defense capabilities to end its humiliating military dependency and break free from coercive demands. It must pursue radical energy independence through aggressive diversification and accelerated renewables, rebuilding its industrial base on sustainable foundations to revive the tax revenues essential for reinvestment in social justice.

It must fiercely defend and rebuild its commitment to freedom of information and speech as non-negotiable pillars of democracy, resisting pressures to silence dissent under false banners of unity. Most critically, it must open its eyes: The fundamental threat to European prosperity, autonomy, its unique social welfare heritage, and its core liberties stems from its unhealthy, subservient marriage to American power.

Continuing to sacrifice its industries, its people’s welfare, its cherished social safety nets, its democratic freedoms, and its future on the altar of US geopolitical gambits and Trumpian demands is not solidarity; it is collective civilizational suicide. Recognizing that the greatest danger lies not in the East, but in the West, is the first, indispensable step towards reclaiming Europe’s light, its commitment to life and social justice, and its destiny.

The alternative is extinction. Not by invasion, but voluntary euthanasia: economies bled white, societies shattered beyond repair, voices strangled at the source – all sacrificed on the altar of Atlantic subservience.

The autopsy will read: “Death by Loyalty to American Masters”.

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