L’Europa può fare affidamento solo su se stessa

We really need to find a way to somehow wake our politicians the fuck up. Because they are still not getting it. Trump basically just declared the EU an enemy to the US, while being completely silent about Russia.

He’s already pulling troops back from Europe, he stated that the US won’t have anything to do with defending Europe by 2027, and he’s blaming Europe for everything wrong in the world (Ukraine war, “woke”, immigrants, whatever pops up in his sick and demented mind).

And the people behind him (JD Vance, Musk, Thiel, etc.) are even *worse*, and far more dangerous, because they actually have the capacity to think (except for Musk). The people behind Trump have an actual ideology, and part of that ideology is to get rid of the EU and break up Europe, keeping it weak, tiny and divided.

*We* are the problem in the eyes of the Trump administration and their fascist tech overlords. The gloves are off now. But Brussels and our European capitals still act as if nothing is going on. They are still not moving fast enough. They are still hoping things will change in 2026, or at the latest in 2028.

We need to wake these people up. Contact your MEPs and your local politicians. Let them know what’s happening, because, apparently, they’re still not fully understanding the gravity of it all.

I hate using Europe as an all-encompassing term. Europe includes Russia. Europe also includes countries with territory on the continent but is not European. The reality is that Europe is quite disunited and this disunity is what drives insecurity. The Russo-Ukrainian war is effectively a civil war.

> “The harsh truth is that Europe’s readiness level to combat any Russian aggression doesn’t yet exist. Until that time, we are reliant on the U.S. to act as a backstop.”

Our ability to confront Russia independently evaporated after the Cold War and we never built it back. This both a problem of fiscal reality and cultural aversion. Few countries on the continent have the money to actually spend big on the military. Germany can go into debt but France is already deep in the shit while the UK has its own fiscal problems. My own country of Italy can afford small projects but we certainly can’t spend like Germany, our tax base is shrinking. Our politicians pump money into social programmes because it gets them vote, they don’t have any incentive to actually prioritize defence spending. Even when we could spend, our own people don’t want anything to do with the military. Possible military conscription brought out huge protests by German youths. The reality is that we are likely to never be able to confront Russia independently because our people have gotten too comfortable with peace to prepare for war.