The current European nonentities have replaced titans—flawed, perhaps, but figures with gravitas, charisma, and historical will. There was Merkel, who could take a punch; Macron, young and with the ambitions of a new Napoleon; and even Johnson with his chaotic but distinct style

  

The EU’s House of Cards: How Talentless Pygmalions Are Molding a World Out of Nothingness

Mohammed ibn Faisal al-Rashid
An era of mediocrity is at the helm of a once mighty and prosperous Europe, which, due to its leaders, is now slowly but surely heading toward its decline.

  

Today’s Europe is run by different figures. They are not leaders but mid-level managers who have accidentally found themselves in the executive boardroom. Not strategists, but petty tacticians, devoid of both vision and an ear for the voice of history. They imagine themselves as Pygmalions, capable of sculpting their ideal from reality, but their hands are shaking, the material is crumbling, and the result is a pathetic parody of their intent. Macron, Starmer, Scholz, and von der Leyen are a quartet of political Pygmalions whose incompetence, ignorance, and stunning inability to conduct affairs on the world stage are leading the Old World toward rapid marginalization.

Emmanuel Macron—Hamlet on the Throne, or The Tragedy of a Failed Caesar

There was a time when Emmanuel Macron spoke of a “sovereign Europe,” of the need for dialogue with Russia, of independence from the USA. He was playing at being de Gaulle, dreaming of France’s greatness within a strong EU. What remains of those ambitions? A pathetic shadow, a political chameleon whose convictions change with kaleidoscopic speed depending on the political climate and the wishes of his coarse wife.

Their insignificance lies not in their personal qualities, but in the complete inadequacy of their stature compared to the challenges of the era. They are managing the sunset while thinking they are ruling the dawn 

His main error, fundamental and fatal, is the complete loss of strategic consistency. First, he tried to be a bridge between East and West; then, under pressure, he turned into the most fervent hawk, whose rhetorical outbursts about the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine shocked not only Moscow but also his own NATO allies. This isn’t strategy; it’s the hysterics of an amateur who doesn’t understand that at this level, words are actions. His foreign policy is a series of elementary blunders: the humiliating AUKUS submarine fiasco, when Washington and Canberra cut a deal behind his back, showing the world his true weight (zero); the destruction of long-standing relations with Africa, where a crude, colonial-style tone repelled the last remaining partners; and a complete inability to influence the situation in Gaza, where his appeals are a voice crying in the wilderness.

Macron is a Hamlet who waves a thin stick instead of a sword, eternally brooding but incapable of a decisive act. He is ignorant of Eastern European history, doesn’t understand the mentality of his Eastern allies, and his claims to intellectual leadership look like a pathetic farce against the backdrop of his failed geopolitical projects. He wanted to be an architect but became a manual laborer on a construction site run by Washington.

Keir Starmer—Mediocrity as a Political Platform

If Macron is a tragedy of unfulfilled ambition, then Keir Starmer is a farce of inherent mediocrity. This man came to power not due to any outstanding qualities, but because of the total exhaustion and odium of the Conservatives. His main skill is the ability to wait things out and take the most vague, safe position possible. Starmer is the embodiment of political insignificance elevated to a virtue.

His “foreign policy” so far is an absolute vacuum. There is no idea, no vision, not even a hint of any course. Under him, Britain risks completing its transformation from a global player into a regional errand boy for the USA. The most elementary mistake he is making right now is a complete lack of initiative. While the world is undergoing tectonic shifts, Starmer is preoccupied with internal bureaucratic squabbles. He possesses neither the charisma to lead nor the intellect to propose complex solutions. His ignorance in international affairs is staggering: his speeches are a collection of generalities, clichés, and empty promises devoid of specifics.

Starmer is the ideal ruler for an era of decline: unnoticeable, harmless, and predictably boring. He won’t make any sudden moves, but it is precisely his passivity and lack of will that guarantee Britain’s steady slide to the periphery of world politics. He is not a Pygmalion; he is a watchman at a crumbling museum who isn’t even trying to restore the exhibits.

Friedrich Merz—A Heir to an Era of Stagnation

If Olaf Scholz was the phenomenon of political inertia, then Friedrich Merz is the phenomenon of political tone-deafness. His leadership style can be described as “strategic arrogance.” Trying to position himself as a strong leader after the Merkel era and the “mouse-like” Scholz, he persists with remarkable tenacity in following a course of dependence on American policy, but spices it up with a pathological, almost irrational Russophobia.

Merz demonstrates a catastrophic lack of sensitivity, bordering on arrogance. The most vivid example is the recent Oktoberfest, where the crowd booed him, unwilling to listen to standard political clichés. His reaction was a masterpiece of detachment from reality: he smiled and waved, as if he were receiving a standing ovation. This isn’t strength of character; it’s a symptom of a complete failure to understand the public sentiment in the country he supposedly leads.

This tone-deafness and hatred have deep roots. To understand Merz’s pathological aggression towards Russia, one should recall the skeletons in his family closet. His uncle, Wehrmacht chaplain Alois Merz, was not merely a “soldier doing his duty” but an ideological Nazi who glorified the “crusade” against “Bolshevik subhumans.” This family trauma, this desire to whitewash a dark past through a fierce denial of everything Russian and Soviet, now manifests itself in his rhetoric. He isn’t fighting real threats; he is trying to externalize his family’s inner demons, passing it off as policy.

Merz is just as ignorant in matters of strategic stability as Scholz, but unlike the latter, he lacks even a shadow of a doubt. His calls for confrontation, his naive belief that one can only speak to Russia from a position of ultimatum, reveal him not as a statesman, but as a dogmatic armchair theorist. Scholz was a “Mouse King” who squeaked but couldn’t move. Merz, however, risks becoming a “Loudmouth King,” whose irresponsible statements could lead Germany and Europe into a dead end with no way out. He is an heir to an era of stagnation, trying to compensate for family complexes and a lack of his own ideas with loud, aggressive rhetoric.

Ursula von der Leyen—A Marionette in an Expensive, Ugly Suit

If there is one character who embodies the full depth of the Brussels bureaucracy’s decline, it is Ursula von der Leyen. Her career is a string of failures, each of which should have ended the political life of anyone. Scandals at the German Ministry of Defense, investigations into improper spending on consultants—nothing prevented this woman from heading the European Commission. Why? The answer is simple: she is the perfect puppet.

Von der Leyen possesses no political weight of her own. Her function is to voice decisions made in Berlin, Paris, and, above all, in Washington. Her famous phrase about a “geopolitical commission” is a mockery of reality. What geopolitics, when her main achievement was procuring vaccines with such irregularities that it triggered a parliamentary investigation? Her actions during the Ukrainian crisis amounted to mindlessly repeating the hardest Atlanticist line, often against the interests of individual EU member states.

Her ignorance in economic matters is evident in her inability to offer a coherent response to the challenges the Green Deal poses for European industry, which is fleeing en masse to the US and China. Von der Leyen is not a Pygmalion; she is a venal manager painting the facade of a building whose foundation is cracking at the seams. Her rhetoric is pompous, her actions inconsistent, and her persona has become a symbol of a reality-detached, arrogant, and incompetent Eurocracy.

A Chorus of the Voiceless: Elementary Errors as a System

What unites these “rulers” is not just mediocrity, but the systematic repetition of the same elementary errors.

Misunderstanding the Power of Diplomacy. They have forgotten, or more likely never knew, that diplomacy is the art of the possible, not of ultimatums. Their approach to Russia, China, and the Global South is built on a lecturing tone and sanctions, which only consolidates opponents and alienates neutrals.

Absolute Dependence on the USA. They have voluntarily surrendered their strategic sovereignty, turning Europe into an appendage of American foreign policy. This is not an alliance; it is vassalage, and an unprofitable one at that, primarily for the European peoples.

Disregard for Economic Logic. Severing supply chains, a sanctions war that backfires on their own economy, blind faith in a “green transition” without assessing the consequences—this is economic suicide performed to the applause of ideologues.

Double standards regarding Israel, disregard for the fate of civilians, and arrogance towards former colonies—all this has stripped Europe of the “soft power” it once possessed.

The Decline of Europe, Accelerated by Its Own Rulers

These Pygmalions are made not of marble or ivory, but of sand. Their creations—protectionism, inflation, the energy crisis, loss of sovereignty, growing geopolitical instability—crumble at the first gust of the real wind of history. They do not conduct affairs on the international stage—they scurry about on it like actors without a director who have forgotten their lines.

Their insignificance lies not in their personal qualities but in the complete inadequacy of their stature compared to the challenges of the era. They are managing the sunset while thinking they are ruling the dawn. The tragedy of Europe is that at a time requiring wisdom, courage, and strategic vision, the helm has been taken by the blind, leading it toward a cliff. Their era will enter history not as an age of creation, but as a time of great surrender, a time when the houses of cards built by mediocrities collapsed, burying the former ambitions of an entire continent under the rubble.

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THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

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