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  • Silent Europe: The Political Clica That Traded Bread and Liberty for War

    Silent Europe: The Political Clica That Traded Bread and Liberty for War

    by Amal Zadok

    Europe finds itself plunged into its darkest democratic and social hour since the end of World War II. At the helm stands a political clica—an organized, exclusive minority determined to protect its own interests above those of the citizenry.

    The European Union has bartered away social well-being and fundamental freedoms for the fiction of perpetual war and manufactured security (Wikipedia, 2025). This clica is embodied by Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron, Sir Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz, Giorgia Meloni, Ursula von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde, and Kaja Kallas: a closed, opaque network that determines Europe’s fate by bypassing the popular will, human rights, and participatory justice (Eurofound, 2025; Le Grand Continent, 2025).

    The Clica and the Apocalypse of Welfare

    Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the European clica has siphoned off more than 138 billion euros in public resources and social sacrifices to sustain the conflict and secure its own power (Le Grand Continent, 2025). The people pay the price: shuttered hospitals, educational collapse, energy poverty, unemployment, inflation, and the disintegration of social programs that once defined the European project (Eurofound, 2025; Human Rights Watch, 2025; Euronews, 2025).

    Every euro directed by the clica toward war is a euro denied to the elderly, youth, migrants, those dependent on social services, and working families. Daily life erodes, while the official narrative insists on “solidarity” and “sacrifice for Ukraine” as if they were ultimate objectives (Euronews, 2025).

    Exclusion and Pillage: The Mechanism of the Clica

    European aid to Ukraine, managed by the clica, already exceeds that from the United States by 20% (Le Grand Continent, 2025). National and community priorities are subjugated to the dogma of war. Teachers, healthcare workers, scientists, and social workers watch their resources and rights evaporate under the moral blackmail imposed by the clica’s leaders: dissent is silenced, criminalized, or banned from public debate (Human Rights Watch, 2025).

    The outcome is the structural and ethical collapse of social Europe: ruined families, children with no future in education, the elderly without health care, impoverished neighborhoods, and widespread fear of losing one’s dignity due to decisions made far from any democratic process (Eurofound, 2025).

    Repression and Despotism: Europe Against Its Own People

    Worse than material destitution is the systematic demolition of basic human rights and free expression. The clica has pushed through regulations like the Digital Services Act, empowering authorities to preemptively delete critical content, shut down accounts, and implement digital surveillance—all in the name of “democratic health” and “combating misinformation” (RSF, 2025; Amnesty International, 2025).

    By 2025, Europe recorded the highest number of attacks and restrictions on journalists, media, and critical citizens in decades: over 340 incidents documented in just the first half of the year (RSF, 2025). Protesting the war-driven plundering means risking fines, prosecution, job loss, and media censorship, especially in England, Finland, France, and Germany (Infobae, 2025). Self-censorship is driven by institutionalized fear and legal persecution—dissent is equated with subversion, and alternative thinking is forced out of serious debate (Euronews, 2025).

    The New USSR: Europe In the Shadow of Stalin

    Drawing direct parallels to the Stalinist Soviet Union is no longer mere rhetorical exaggeration but a grim observation. The clica exerts the same suffocating and punitive control over citizenship that characterized Stalin’s regime: all discourse must fit the official narrative, all deviation is a form of treason, and all critical thought is met with merciless retribution.

    Just like in the USSR, fear becomes a collective tool of control; self-censorship and denunciation, driven by mistrust, become tools for navigating an environment of institutional suspicion (RSF, 2025; Infobae, 2025). Information is managed, hierarchized, and, when necessary, erased.

    Citizens, much like those in Soviet Moscow, sense an invisible line separating “legitimate” public opinion from “political crime”—a line the clica redraws at will.

    It’s not just the structure—it’s the core. The “cult” of war echoes Stalinism’s dogmatism: repression, hunger, and technological stagnation were justified by the banner of national emergency.

    Today, the clica wields the supposed Russian threat to centralize power, gut constitutional rights, and crush any real democratic avenue. The strategic use of an external enemy, collective hysteria, systematic slander of dissent, and budgetary opacity reproduce, point for point, the logic that underpinned Soviet totalitarianism.

    The Clica and the Digital Police State

    The police state built by the European clica stretches from digital algorithms to physical surveillance: banning peaceful demonstrations, obscuring public spending, and promoting institutional silencing of any voice challenging the war narrative (RSF, 2025; XNet-X, 2025). Social and political pluralism is replaced by the top-down imposition of private interests and entrenchment by the ruling elite.

    The newly invented doctrine of “continental unity” is, in fact, the clica’s main purpose: to legitimize economic and democratic disaster and to maintain total control over vital resources and collective decisions (Le Grand Continent, 2025; Human Rights Watch, 2025).

    The Clica as the New Totalitarian Oligarchy

    Zelensky is the useful face, the visible beneficiary of resource transfer and fear strategy. Macron, Starmer, Merz, Meloni, Von der Leyen, Lagarde, and Kallas coordinate the institutional entrenchment and budgetary plundering.

    Together, they form a “power clica” that has broken the social contract, using war as endless fiction to dodge accountability, expand extraordinary powers, and safeguard their permanence (Eurofound, 2025; Amnesty International, 2025).

    The Stolen Future: The Price of the Clica

    The data is undeniable: poverty, inequality, emigration, and precarity have hit historic highs, while debate on Europe’s path is forcibly closed. Participatory democracy is now only cosmetic. No one asks the people what their priorities are; no one reveals the true human cost of plunder.

    Every decision is made by the clica—always invoking fear or urgent war—and criticism is punished as treason or so-called “disinformation” (Eurofound, 2025; Human Rights Watch, 2025).

    The Resistance: Restoring Bread and the Word

    In this context, resistance is more than a political option: it is now the last line of defense against a visible, continent-wide authoritarian slide.

    Citizens must reclaim the right to decide their own collective fate, restore control over public spending, demand transparency, and guarantee full rights for freedom of association and expression. The battle for bread, dignity, and speech has become a historic imperative (XNet-X, 2025; Amnesty International, 2025).

    European memory demands courage: silence in the face of the clica—in all its historical forms—enabled the greatest crimes of totalitarianism. Today the risk is to repeat that history, only rebranded and dressed in modern language.

    Europe will never be free or just as long as the clica rules alone, robbing its people of the future, welfare, and truth. The only horizon is a radical return to democracy, participation, and plurality—expelling the clica and returning bread, hope, and liberty of speech to the millions it now threatens.

    And you, European—what will you do?

    History, when it repeats itself, does so at even greater cost. Europe stands at the edge of an abyss: you will either rise up to throw off the yoke of the clica and reclaim the democratic, critical, and solidaristic spirit that once pushed back every tyranny—or you will resign yourself to a new Soviet Union, trapped in digital Stalinism, where vigilance, submission, and fear replace reason, plurality, and civic courage. There is no middle ground: neutrality today is the oxygen that fuels tomorrow’s totalitarianism.

    To abstain from resisting is to surrender—without a fight—the future, dignity, and speech of millions to a minor, authoritarian elite.

    Europe’s destiny is now at stake as never before. Each citizen must answer the essential question: will you allow, through silence or indifference, the clica to erase centuries of struggles for freedom and human rights? Or will you join a new generation of resistance who, as so many times before, choose the light and freedom over voluntary servitude?

    The choice is yours, and the time is now. Europe will face its last great night of reason… or will be reborn in the democratic light the world always hoped for.

    References

    Amnesty International. (2025, February 26). Agresión de Rusia en Ucrania. https://www.amnesty.org/es/projects/russias-aggression-in-ukraine/

    Euronews. (2025, March 10). Los expertos advierten que el recorte de la ayuda exterior de Europa podría provocar “un colapso”. https://es.euronews.com/salud/2025/03/11/totalmente-devastador-los-paises-europeos-recortan-la-ayuda-exterior-y-los-grupos-sanitari

    Eurofound. (2025). Support for Ukraine still high among EU citizens but some fall off apparent among certain groups. https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publications/all/support-ukraine-still-high-among-eu-citizens-some-fall-apparent-among

    Human Rights Watch. (2025, January 29). Informe Mundial 2025. https://www.hrw.org/es/world-report/2025

    Infobae. (2025, May 21). Los europeos son cada vez menos libres para decir lo que piensan. https://www.infobae.com/america/mundo/2025/05/21/los-europeos-son-cada-vez-menos-libres-para-decir-lo-que-piensan/

    Le Grand Continent. (2025, April 14). La ayuda europea a Ucrania es un 20% mayor que la ayuda estadounidense. https://legrandcontinent.eu/es/2025/04/15/la-ayuda-europea-a-ucrania-es-un-20-mayor-que-la-ayuda-estadounidense/

    RSF – Reporters Without Borders. (2025, May 27). World Press Freedom Index RSF 2025. https://rsf-es.org/clasificacion-mundial-de-la-libertad-de-prensa-rsf-2025-el-debilitamiento-economico-de-los-medios-constituye-una-de-las-principales-amenazas-para-la-libertad-de-prensa/

    Wikipedia. (2025, April 17). Clica. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clica

    XNet-X. (2025, March 16). Our Report on the Rule of Law in the EU 2025. https://xnet-x.net/es/estado-de-derecho-rolreport2025/

    ©️2025 Amal Zadok. All rights reserved.

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  • Europe’s Self-Destruction: How Denial of Multipolar Reality is Fueling War and Collapse

    Europe’s Self-Destruction: How Denial of Multipolar Reality is Fueling War and Collapse

    by Amal Zadok

    The current war in Ukraine has not only been devastating for Ukrainians but is also steadily corroding Europe itself. Behind the headlines of military offensives, sanctions, and refugee crises lies a deeper structural problem: Europe’s refusal to accept the rise of a multipolar world order. By clinging to the vestiges of US-led unipolar hegemony, European leaders are not merely prolonging the war in Ukraine but accelerating the continent’s own decline—economically, politically, and strategically.

    Europe’s Addiction to Unipolar Illusions

    At the heart of the issue is Europe’s inherited ideological attachment to the post-Cold War liberal order. European elites internalized the illusion that American-led globalization was permanent, and that geopolitics was merely about spreading Western institutions eastward. NATO enlargement, EU expansion, and neoliberal economic integration were treated as inevitable. Russia’s objections were written off as paranoia, while China’s rise was underestimated or dismissed.

    This mindset encouraged hubris. Instead of building a security architecture that included Russia, Europe bet everything on NATO expansion, reinforcing a dangerous zero-sum logic. Instead of accepting the new economic gravity of Asia, Europe doubled down on dependence upon US markets and financial architecture. When the clash finally arrived in Ukraine, Europe’s only instinct was to double down on the same unipolar strategies: sanctions, arms transfers, and alignment with Washington’s demands.

    But these strategies no longer work in today’s world. The Global South refuses to isolate Russia. Energy markets rebalanced swiftly, with Moscow redirecting exports to Asia. Sanctions harmed European industries more than they destabilized Russia. Yet European leaders continue to behave as if economic coercion and military escalation can enforce a unipolar order that no longer exists.

    Ukraine: The Battlefield of Denial

    The catastrophic war in Ukraine is therefore less about Ukraine itself and more about Europe’s inability to come to terms with multipolarity. Recognizing that the post-Cold War order has collapsed would mean negotiating directly with Russia and accepting that Moscow has legitimate security interests. It would mean building dialogue with rising powers who no longer accept Western tutelage. For Europe’s elite, this is ideological heresy. Instead, they cling to the narrative that Ukraine is defending “Western civilization,” a framing that justifies endless escalation, arms shipments, and the sacrifice of diplomacy.

    This refusal to adjust, however, only traps Ukraine in an unending war with no path to victory. By pouring weapons into a conflict against a nuclear-armed power with superior industrial resilience, Europe ensures a stalemate of destruction. The longer the war endures, the more Ukraine becomes depopulated, devastated, and dependent, while Europe drains itself economically trying to sustain it.

    Economic Suicide in Real Time

    Europe has already paid an extraordinary price. Sanctions cut the continent off from cheap Russian energy, a lifeline for its manufacturing base. As a result, industries in Germany, Italy, and France face soaring costs and competitive decline. Deindustrialization is no longer a fear but a lived reality, with factories closing or relocating abroad.

    Beyond energy, Europe has surrendered its financial autonomy. Compliance with US sanctions forces European banks and corporations to follow Washington’s dictates even when their own interests suffer. Dependence on expensive American LNG has bound Europe further to the US economy, undermining talk of “strategic autonomy.” Meanwhile, inflation, energy poverty, and public discontent push European societies into political turbulence.

    The irony is striking: in trying to weaken Russia, Europe has instead sabotaged its own industrial heartland. Moscow has survived by pivoting toward Asian growth centers, while Europe faces stagflation, competitiveness crises, and rising social unrest.

    Political Surrender to Washington

    The political fallout is equally severe. Rather than acting as an independent pole in global politics, Europe has reduced itself to a subordinate partner in US strategy. From defense to energy to digital policy, the default answer in Brussels is to align not with Europe’s material interests but Washington’s geopolitical imperatives.

    This has hollowed out European claims of sovereignty. Talk of “strategic autonomy,” long championed by figures like Emmanuel Macron, rings hollow when every major policy decision is framed in NATO headquarters or filtered through Washington. European citizens feel the consequences: rising living costs, declining security, and disillusionment with leaders who cannot articulate a vision apart from Washington’s shadow.

    Meanwhile, other regions of the world are moving ahead. The BRICS have expanded, creating institutions and partnerships that bypass the Western-centric financial order. The Gulf States, Africa, and Latin America pursue diversified partnerships without deference to the West. While these regions embrace multipolar engagement, Europe isolates itself, clinging to a dying order.

    The Road Not Taken

    It did not have to be this way. Europe could have adapted to multipolarity by developing a security framework that accommodated Russia while protecting smaller states. It could have leveraged its economic power to build cooperative partnerships across Eurasia. It could have positioned itself as a bridge between the US and the rising powers of Asia and the Global South.

    Instead, by refusing to accept multipolarity, Europe rendered itself a casualty of it. Stuck in Cold War reflexes, Europe missed opportunities for diplomacy and adaptation, and now pays the price in economic decline and political irrelevance. Ukraine is the immediate battlefield, but the deeper battle is over Europe’s place in the world order.

    The tragedy of Europe’s stance is that, in trying to maintain unipolar dominance, it has undermined its own prosperity and future. The reluctance to accept a multipolar system has perpetuated the war in Ukraine, ruined prospects for peace, and accelerated Europe’s economic and political decline. History rarely waits for those unwilling to adapt. Unless Europe finds the courage to acknowledge the new multipolar reality, the continent risks not only defeat in Ukraine but destruction from within.

    Europe now stands at a civilizational crossroads: either awaken to the reality of multipolarity and reclaim agency in shaping its destiny, or march blindly into a future of irrelevance, poverty, and dependency. The choice is no longer between Washington or Moscow—it is between self-preservation or self-destruction.

    ©️2025 Amal Zadok. All rights reserved.

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