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st we often acknowledge ourselves as heirs of Greek philosophy, Roman Law and Judeo-Christian morality. These values have been around for the past two millennia but we must remember we do not live in the Middle Ages, we live in the modern age. There is another tradition which is fundamental for the West’s modern pantheon: Westphalian sovereignty. For our American friends, I would urge them to add the four pillars of Western civilisation to their own tradition of the four freedoms.
Why is sovereignty so important a concept? Because sovereignty is the only safeguard of true independence. It was also in the old continent that nationalism was born; in fact, nation-states have consistently been a feature of the continent and their idiosyncrasies are only possible with mutually recognised sovereignty.
The compromise struck in the region of Westphalia, in 1648, after the Thirty Years War, also allowed the continent to live in relative stability up to the French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic Wars, over a century later. The Thirty Years War put to rest any pretense that any one state could have had, of moral normative superiority over other nations.
Whereas multi-ethnic tyrannies were the norm elsewhere, sovereign nations ensured the survival of multiple precious cultures in Europe. If true that blood has been shed in rivalries over the centuries, true devastation hits Europe precisely every time it attempts standardisation.
Europeans fought Europeans over the centuries but they also fought side by side against universalism: they were in league against brutal Islamic despotism, they coalesced against Jacobin terror, they allied against the totalitarians of the 20th century.
After all, Marx himself admitted that the hard working peoples are naturally conservative* and it was the white banners of conservatism that saved Europe time and again, from those who would unformise it with dystopian doctrines.
In the 21st century, Europeans must again face the threat of universalism. This time the threat does not come from any one state but rather from internal parallel bureaucracies that they naively built themselves.
Brussels is the cradle of the progressive totalitarianism we have all experienced over the last decade: it was the EU’s extremist mass immigration policy, duly promoted by its QuaNGOs and paid propaganda, that devastated the continent with crime and now threatens its demographic survival. It was Brussels’s radical censorship that stifled our voices in the only redoubt we had left in social media, it is the fonctionnaires-incited-conditionality that hampers our free trade with the world, the same world many of our ancestors explored, enlightened and truly enriched. Finally, it is the supranationalist intolerance that is currently transforming our societies into divisive arenas.
Make no mistake: Brussels is not centrist, Brussels is Marxist. It is the eurocrats’ fanatical obsession with uniformity that is driving more and more peoples away from the European Union.
The QuaNGOs promote only the culture of death, abortion and euthanasia, they do not promote life. The QuaNGOs serve only to guilt trip Europeans and smear the accomplishments of our civilisation. Racism was resurrected by the EU sponsored cultural Marxists in order to divide us and facilitate demographic replacement. Feminism has made our societies more toxic than ever, destroyed our birth rates, and condemned women to depression and solitude.
At the moment, Brussels is attempting to appropriate 800 billion euros in taxpayers money to fund its new REARM initiative, alleging a dubious Russian threat. It is important to understand that defence is one of the only sectors Brussels does not yet have jurisdiction over, in spite of numerous attempts over the years. Brussels has proposed joint European ‘battle groups’, joint defence procurement and even succeeded in setting up small joint EU military training missions in conflict areas. The goal now is to extend Brussels’s jurisdiction to military matters as well as drive the member-states to agree to mutualised debt issuing—the so-called ‘Eurobonds.’ The near trillion euro megalomania will lock in the nation-states’ dependency on Brussels and the European Central Bank, as most members are already bankrupt and overleveraged; if unable to divert funds to the military commitments, the Commission will persuade them to sign on to Eurobonds, and simply print more money. In the meantime, the generous welfare systems of the EU member-states stand to be sacrificed but with the money being channeled into expensive procurement schemes reliant on foreign technology imports.
To stand against universalism, to combat globalism, means implicitly to promote particularism, to defend national liberty and the sovereign interest of the peoples—peoples, plural. There is no such thing as a European people.
The EU has made use of concepts such as ‘bench-marking’ and ‘integration’ to subvert the authority of the nations and politicise our diplomacy and even our foreign trade. The EU has long surpassed its commercial mandate, and so have EU courts and agencies, now more concerned with biased notions of ‘human rights’ and having long forgotten their simple mission of harmonising community commerce.
The goal in Europe must be to defund the EU and dismantle at once the permanent structures that spend their time conspiring on how best to overcome the authority of the nation-states and even indulge in insulting nationalists within the very walls of the public paid Brussels institutions.
Imagine the absurdity of besmirching nationalism in the continent with the oldest nations, in the birthplace of the nation-state. Only in the heads of ultra-socialists could such an idea make sense and who best to represent them than Ursula von der Leyen, the embodied example of ‘failing upwards.’
I have studied and worked within the EU bubble and I can bear witness that moderation and reason will never arrive through the initiative of eurocrats. Confront most eurocrats, ask them who they would fight for, where their allegiance lies and you will soon learn that they despise the nation-states.
Their loyalty is only to the corrupt abnormal and corrosive bureaucracies we all put in place. At this very moment, Romanian conservatives are under lawfare attack by Soros and Brussels-aligned judges who have gone to the extreme of annulling the democratic presidential elections in the country and then barring the most popular candidate from running altogether. Călin Georgescu was actually arrested and is under investigation under the justification of ‘Russian connections’ —a recurring theme familiar to an American audience.
Nevertheless, it is hardly the first time that Brussels eurocrats resort to subversion against their own peoples: they conspired to bring down the Schüssel government in Austria, they colluded to pressure for the approval by decree of the EU constitutional treaty after its rejection in referenda in France and the Netherlands, they interfered in Ireland’s politics to push for a second referendum to the Lisbon Treaty which had previously been rejected by the Irish and they interfered again in the UK by sponsoring NGOs aiming to prevent Brexit.
It is high time Europeans unite again for another struggle for the preservation of our way of life. The communist asbestos-ridden post-modern architectural cult of the ugly gave way to a renaissance of traditional beauty on the other side of the Iron Curtain. The time has come to bring the counter-revolution to western Europe.
Europeans must remember the peace formula of 1648: ‘cuius regio, eius religio‘ or to each country its own faith. The advent of the second Trump administration and its genuinely reformist and uncompromising momentum, is a golden opportunity for tradition minded conservatives to cooperate on both sides of the Atlantic. The self-declared enemy are the entrenched liberal elites and progressive technocrats which have brought the West to bankruptcy, demographic decline and to military failure.
Donald J. Trump and Victor Orbán have dared take the first step. It is up for the rest of us to ensure that their legacy is a worthy one.
