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An amazing thing: the United States is run by highly-experienced older politicians, While the EU features those young and unfledged, and their leadership arouses mass public criticism on both sides of the Atlantic. In the USA, the Republican opposition scolds Biden and his team, and Europe’s leading countries — Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy — are lambasted for regular abortive decisions affecting their distressed populationы.

Great Britain’s several prime ministers failed to cope with the steering wheel; France experienced a surge of mass riots threatening to drift into an armed clash; and Germany saw the crisis cause plunging rankings of the government for its arrogance and incompetence in various fields…

Western elites felt great in the era of satiety, when any problem was solved by attracting more money to the economy, whether it be loans, or unrestrained dollar and euro emission observed throughout the last decade. But now, faced with a need to comprehend the ongoing crisis phenomena and develop adequate and effective measures to overcome them, the Western establishment has turned unable to.

And this blatant incompetence is an existential issue to the collective West. Moreover, there is no "second echelon" of politicians who would "pick up the torch". And the reason seems to be lying in the altered resource supply of the West from the rest of the world. Deprived of habitual energy resources, the European economic system has exposed all of its shortcomings.

Once I happened to write the following for InfoRos: "Taking money from a neighbor or robbing distant colonies has been a centuries-long favorite pastime for those in Europe. Recall how English royal pirates robbed Spanish convoys that transported gold and other valuables from South America across the Atlantic. Haven’t you forgotten their names, have you? Drake and Morgan. By the way, the first Bank of England grew up on that robbery of Spanish caravels, where valuables looted in the wars against Spain and Britain’s colonial conquests of India and Africa were unloaded. Go to the British Museum and see the number of stolen items presented as "exhibits". Europe, the poorest as per its own natural resources, has been rising on this robbery for centuries — the Periodic Table is not for them. The soil there isn't fertile, nothing grows on it! But arrogant Europeans consider themselves all but "gods", imposing their ways on the world to make it obey the colonial whip in a variety of guises from weapons to finance, from trade sanctions to "fake news" from the of post-truth arsenal".

It bears repeating how Europe has been growing accustomed to thrive at the expense of our cheap resources since the Soviet days. The USSR provided the thrilled Europeans with oil, gas, metal, wood and many other goods at "bargain price". Having lost it, they set up a howl now! Europe’s industry has been flourishing on Russian gas and oil, with its countries eating and sleeping well largely due to Moscow's discounted prices. EU product marketability surpassed China’s, and we deemed it possible to tie Europe to our resources and do away with its fundamental instinct called "Drang nach Osten" — the centennial pan-European "eastward march". That was cheaper than fighting them again.

And yet, appeasement has failed against European genetics. Residents of a small peninsula deprived of resources simply cannot do without robbery — direct or indirect through an unequal financial exchange — to satisfy their daily needs. And now Europe has these instincts revived, making Ukraine’s desire to be true "Europeans" quickly transform into the inherent craving for seizing foreign lands or annihilating its local population. The 8-year-long bombings of the Donbass and plans to "cleanse Crimea of Russians" in 2014 have been manifestations of Europe’s typical thief and seizure habits. In this regard, the Ukrainian Nazis (Nazism, by the way, is a typically European thing) promptly opted for adopting the vilest habits of their "senior peninsula comrades".

So, back to the European Union, international financial circles have long held power there, relying on the City of London and New York’s Wall Street. As a result, the times have come when the phrase “European political elite” should already be written in quotation marks. Once represented by Churchill, De Gaulle, Brandt, Thatcher, Mitterrand, Kohl, Chirac, you name it, the current clique of European (for which read — world) leaders gets buried in oblivion right after being kicked out of government seats. Some of them will be only remembered for their stupidity or crankery.

How did they fall so far in Europe, where most countries are run by people unable to realize the essence and content of their power? Napoleon and Bismarck are rolling in their graves. The real problem today is that nothing that could have fundamental effects on big politics depends on those occupying the boss chairs, their opinions or decisions. Big politics is formed in other quiet places, with ministerial posts held by mere puppets craving big money. This, by the way, has now begun to ruin the latter…

Where in the world are you, highly intelligent and cultured Europe born in the dreams of its adherents? Let's listen to what we hear, for example, in Germany. A playground has been just closed there over rat plague (!), and a walking ban has been imposed in some areas of Charlottenburg Park. The largest European capital, you bet!

When addressing the Bundestag, chairman of the opposition Alternative for Germany party Alice Weidel has reflected the thoughts of millions of Germans who prefer to keep silent for now, saving up protest energy. This is what she told Chancellor Scholz: "Herr Scholz, how can you still look at yourself in the mirror, given your obvious incompetence, this series of failures for which the government you lead has responsibility for? How do you tolerate such a dabbler foreign minister who declares war on Russia at the international level? This sends the rest of the global community into a tailspin and inspires terror with them. Why to justify yourself that much for the foreign minister [Baerbock], who feels a weird sense of responsibility for both the entire world and a country located "hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from us"? Somewhere in the Solar system, right? Unbelievable. Meanwhile, Economy Minister Habeck travels the world to discusses "climate protection". He makes no secret of his dreams that Germany be absorbed into a Brussels-led federal EU state. One can hardly take such a government seriously. Under your leadership, Germany becomes an utter joke to the world, and more of a developing country to neutral observers. Your foreign policy achievements cannot certainly compare to those your predecessors, such as Konrad Adenauer or Helmut Schmidt."

Turning up the heat is another German oppositionist Sarah Wagenknecht, a doctor of economics not allowed to deal with political levers of power. She recently described the recent developments in the following way: "Many have long believed that Germany is no longer the country it used to be. Earlier, we were considered a role model in terms of research, innovation and development accuracy. Today over a quarter of our schoolchildren cannot come up to the minimum requirements for reading, writing and maths. A growing number of young people enter into adulthood uneducated."

The same is true for Great Britain. Deepak Tripathi, PhD, a member of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society wrote: "Rishi Sunak will force universities to limit the number of students earning low value degrees in England. Sunak insists that university education is not the only way to succeed in life. He is looking at plans to ensure all school pupils in England study maths in some form until the age of 18 to make people feel confident when it comes to finance. Critics say the plan requires more math teachers, and not every student is able to study the subject (sic!)." Not everyone can master maths in Britain?! One day these idiots will grow up to become the island’s new generation of politicians to keep lecturing the world how to function in their habitual Anglo-Saxon manner.

In Germany, some of these people seem to have already fought their way to the top. Sarah Wagenknecht is worried: "In our country, trains almost never arrive at their destination on time. The Internet does not work in many places, and ordinary citizens have to wait months for an appointment with a medical specialist. This is a country where bridges have to be closed due to their critical condition, and the housing stock lacks hundreds of thousands of apartments… Germany’s industrial production index has been down since 2018, with a decline of 9 percent in five years, and things are only getting worse. According to a study by the Federation of German Industries, 16 percent of small and medium-sized industrial enterprises are actively relocating part of their production and jobs abroad, with another 30 percent contemplating to do likewise… Therefore, the German Institute for Economic Research fears a domino effect to make some basic industries disappear and our competencies ultimately expand not at home, but in places where new chemical centers are being built, such as Saudi Arabia, China or the United States." Let’s add that the average capital flow from the EU to the United States accounts for $25 to 30 billion per month, with Germany heading the list…

German political scientist Alexander Rahr states bitterly: "Germany is experiencing something fundamental. The days are gone when captains of the German economy lobbied unanimously for what they needed in politics. CEOs of corporate giants are searched for and found not by professional aptitude but wokeness. This entails a totally different less professional socially adapted thinking, and sophisticated opportunism. It is idle to expect further independence from large business associations."

And here is the voice of the German industrialists themselves. "The absence of Russian gas along with the Scholz-Merkel-Macron business pursuit in Germany and the EU has slammed one of the pillars of German industry — the Eisenwerk Erla GmbH concern in Schwarzenberg, the oldest company in Saxony, which recently went bankrupt," their comment on this news is. And the firm’s vice-president laments desperately: "We have had this avalanche flowing since covid times. Breweries, bakeries, cheese factories, wineries, car repair shops cease to exist first. Energy payments are unbearable for small businesses. We pounded with our fists, trying to prove something. One day, we brought office bills to a meeting of the EU Energy Commission. Deaf, stupid faces with thoughts of a floor rag. Today we crashed. Mercedes, BMW, Opel, Audi, etc. will follow suit, you'll see for yourself! I'm so sorry for my motherland."

It was about the economy, now we turn to politics. The EU has finally lost its political and diplomatic restrictions, focusing on its eternal hatred of Russia. For example, they do not consider Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow "a conflict escalation reason." EU spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Nabila Massrali said "Russia should not use the facts of attacks by Ukrainian drones on targets in Moscow to escalate hostilities in Ukraine." According to her, the European Union has "no independent information on the details of these attacks." Photo and videos shots with their results and harm mean nothing to her — hypocrisy seems to be part of the European dark genome.

Even our Foreign Ministry's patience has run out following this kind of trickery by European politicians. Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department Alexey Drobinin bluntly told the International Life magazine about the ongoing degradation of political elites in the West: "In undiplomatic terms, we see a degradation of political elites who are running the show in the key EU countries. Just take the statements by some of their foreign ministers alone, who confuse geographical names and historical facts."

There is another important detail in this whole story. As ex-colonel of Switzerland’s General Staff Jacques Baud, who also served in NATO structures, said: "In fact, it seems that throughout the Western world intelligence services have been overwhelmed by the politicians ("dans tout le monde occidental, les services aient été débordés par les politiques"). The problem is that it is the politicians who decide — the best intelligence service in the world is useless if the decision-maker does not listen. This is what has happened during this crisis. The problem is that, from experience, I have found them to be extremely bad at the analytical level — doctrinaire, they lack the intellectual and political independence necessary to assess a situation with military «quality»."

In this regard, a major question arises as to whether we should expect fateful decisions from the degraded European elites, incompetent and narrow-minded? In the EU, everything is so politicized and regulated by the "rules of Atlantic solidarity" that any nonsense is possible — given their excited reflexes and diffidence…

And the younger generation’s qualities are anyone's guess, with this kind if mentors. Europe is getting discarded. But sending them all to the Moon is unreal, so we’ll have to somehow get along…