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One of the stranger things about the first months of the Trump administration has been the reaction of Europe to his peace initiatives. The European “leaders” are, on the one hand, horrified by his peace push, and on the other hand they have rallied themselves to various schemes to stop them. The latest scheme is to create a peacekeeping force that they will insert into Ukraine, something the Russians have repeatedly said is a deal breaker and perhaps even an act of war.
On the surface this looks insane. There are about twenty million Ukrainian refugees in Europe with more trickling in daily. Social welfare rolls are now littered with refugees, who do not speak the local language, so they cannot work. Of course, the EU has been shipping Ukraine billions of Euros plus all its military gear. The war has become another factor eroding social trust and most importantly, trust in the political elite that insists the war must go on forever.
None of this makes any sense until you think about what it means to be in the European political elite in 2025. It means a lifetime of having been very good at winning favor with America or winning favor with the politicians close to America. The dominance of the United States since the war, but especially since the end of the Cold War, has turned the European elite into a slave class. They are the house slaves, who defend the master’s prerogatives against the field slaves.
The surest way to getting yourself exiled in European politics is to speak poorly of the Americans in favor of European interests. Even now, when they all agree Trump is a big meanie, they are obsessed with getting his attention in such a way that it reasserts their position as the loyal house slave. With respect to Ukraine, they feel like they have been sent out of the room as the master talks to another master. They all have their ear to the door, hoping to hear what is being said.
What we are seeing is the result of long subjugation. When one people come to dominate another people, the subjugated will inevitably look to survive and that means finding leaders who are good at currying favor with the master. After the war, Europe was a mess and needed the United States to stave off communism and rebuild the economy of Europe. After the Cold War, the United States was the lone superpower, and Europe became its chief flunky.
It is why there will be no European Donald Trump anytime soon. The idea of such a character terrifies the typical European, who has been conditioned since birth to look up to the house slave. Since a Donald Trump like figure must come from the field slave population, this sort of figure is not just feared by the European house slave population but despised by the field slaves of Europe. They would rather been hacked to death by a machete wielding African than taste freedom.
This also explains the absurdity of the European political class. It is a freak show of carnival acts rather than people with some idea how the world works. You see the same thing in the United States among the black population. Every black congressional district has a ridiculous person as the representative. The newest version is Jasmine Crockett, a representative from Houston, who had to learn how to sound like a ghetto queen in order to rise up the ranks.
The reason Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers had to hire the actor Barry Soetoro to play Barak Obama was that the black community is not able to produce such a figure, so they had to manufacture one. The reason Obama has so quickly disappeared from the conversation is that he was always just an actor playing a role. The show ended and he left the stage. Like a typecast actor, he can only play this role and no one has much interest in the character, so he has sunk into obscurity.
We seem to be seeing something similar with other minority communities in the United States, despite the demographic changes. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is a fast-rising Asian politician, but she is also an Asian version of Maxine Waters. The reason anyone knows her name is she is willing to perform in front of the cameras, aping the most absurd politics of upper middle-class white people. She is the East Asian version of the Sambo, dancing for her primarily white audience.
A main difference between the minority populations in America and Europe is the United States is actively trying to set Europe free. If Trump could do it, he would leave Europe entirely but he will settle for a reduced role. No one is seriously thinking about creating a black homeland or Asian homeland in America. The Trump administration actively talks about Europe standing on its own two feet again. This is why the current European elite is in such a panic. They do not want to leave the master’s house.
The question with regards to Europe is can it regain itself and do so in a way that does not require the great powers to supervise it? The glimmer of hope is the nationalist parties emerging, but they are often as clownish as the establishment. That or they exist to prevent an alternative elite emerging. Nigel Farage is an entertaining political clown whose main role is to prevent any sort of organized resistance to the nation-wrecking policies of the UK political class.
The answer may be that Europe will have to go through a dark age, so to speak, before it can produce a genuine alternative elite. Given the current demographic trends, what would emerge would be non-European. Alternatively, the nationalist movements gain power and simply ruin the existing political elite and their slave mentality. There is a period of chaos, like the end of communism in Russia, that provides the conditions for a new elite to emerges to rule Europe.
What we see in Europe and America is a good example of how success sets the conditions for decline. Conquering people makes them into dependents and eventually, their dependency becomes too much to carry. The United States is about to cut the Europeans loose for this reason. What suffering comes from the newly liberated house slaves of Europe will seem unfair to them, but three generations of dependency are the cause, not their impending liberation.
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The Europeans aren’t the house slaves, they’re the court eunuchs.
What is the EU but women and eunuchs? And the U.S. Congress ain’t far behind.
i don’t see how the current elite is left alive (after US) goes home. the native population hates them with a white hot rage, but so do the newly imported “natives”.
Maybe the imported browns will take care of the white house slave rulers of Europe? The good white people of Europe do not despise the white overlords enough because they are similar to them in blood, maybe it’s best to face the brown Islamic hordes because they will be very different in blood and culture? Francis Yockey wrote that Europe would have been better off under the communism of Stalin rather than the liberal democracy of the aliens ruling the United States because Europe was more likely to reject Soviet communism because it was so different in its culture while… Read more »
it seems like the animating force of the CCCP transmigrated to the US, and is still ‘alive’.
Oh, yes. To claim the US was on the winning side is to ignore what has unfolded since.
“it seems like the animating force of the CCCP transmigrated to the US, and is still ‘alive’.” Indeed it has and is. I’ve said this on this site many times and always get pushback from the hairsplitters: The left, the commies, the progressives, whatever you want to call them WON the Cold War. The West (nationalists, nativists, conservatives, whatever you want to call THEM) LOST. Every White country with the notable exception of Russia and a few other eastern Euro countries turned unmistakably leftward after the Berlin Wall fell. This what the war in Ukraine and all the Russophobia that… Read more »
Only one quibble: it is 80 years rather than 35 years. There is no need to focus on the labels. The West lost.
Perhaps an upside of the current wave of immigration is that they are not assimilated. They are not the Visigoths in the 5th century. These people dont want to be European (or American). They come for the gibs and to get access to White women. They’re not even like our immigrants who for better or worse at least, until very recently, actually did come to work. If Europe collapses and they don’t get any of either then they are likely to just go home. They’re not going to take on the trappings of the European regime and seek out some… Read more »
What I see in Europe is Snow Whites Seven Dwarfs having a dick measuring contest.
“…Europe will have to go through a dark age, so to speak, before it can produce a genuine alternative elite.” Europe is already in a Dark Age. It plunged into it in 1914 and the lights are still off. It may be that some type of catastrophe similar to the two others will be required in order to sweep the political and economic stage clear of the 20th century debris that has piled up. I liken Europe to an old-growth forest with too much detritus on the forest floor. The next conflagration will be disastrous…whether fire or disease. The decadence… Read more »
By that measure, America’s is no different.
The difference is: the US is wielding a lot of power and is independent. The king of a debauched nation with a powerful army can swing one helluva wrecking ball.
And, I think Europeans tend to be more conformist than Americans. This was very, very noticeable when I was in Britain, and it also seems true in countries on the continent.
To that point, the United States is infinitely worse demographically. Europeans could cull leadership and restore their nations. The United States no longer can.
The whole point of “Europe” as we think about it today is to keep Europeans from actually asserting their own interests. Now, in 1945, I could see where this motivation came from. But here we are and the EU has trampled on every single member country and is run by a totally hostile elite group. They hate Europeans but love “Europe.” It’s a very bizarre situation, but Europe cannot be saved until these shackles are thrown off.
Epaminondas: “Europe will have to go through a dark age, so to speak, before it can produce a genuine alternative elite.” At the end of the day, all that matters are Fertility Rates. If European sh!tlibs refuse to procreate, then they will vanish into extinction. Whereas if an hypothetical core of European Tradcons were to continue procreating, then Europe would be just fine. The MacGuffin is the Council of the Sanhedrin flooding Europe with the absolute detritus of the hominid world. In retrospect, it’s absolutely fascinating that Jean Raspail & Enoch Powell are proving to have been the moast prescient… Read more »
With regards to chaos. Natural systems, including human societies, function in a dynamic that moves from order to chaos. The order looks like an equilibrium, and we take it as “normal” when it is just a phase in order/chaos dynamic. We can intervene to preserve order, but the price is even greater chaos when the system flips.
Be grateful for Trump, further extension of the order that the USA lived under would have led to a horrible chaos, one that is still possible given the deep distortion of reality that extending the managerial order has inflicted on the country.
the word you are looking for is “entropy”
“Even now, when they all agree Trump is a big meanie” They treat Trump as an aberration, an anomaly. They sigh with nostalgia for Biden, Obama, GWB, Clinton. They call Trump a bully and “erratic.” They seem not to understand that “cometh the hour, cometh the man.” That the USA itself is in a crisis stage, has its back to the wall, and can no longer serve as hegemon and global policeman. They can’t get it into their thick skulls that the old game is over, the rules are obsolete. Taking care of Europe is a losing proposition and Trump… Read more »
I was going to do a riff on Ramaswamy, so South Asian was on my mind there. Fixed.
And isn’t Boston’s Mayor married to a white man? It’s like the first thing the invaders do, when their bright children get to Harvard/Yale/med/law schools. They locate some naive white guy/girl, from an elite background if possible, and latch on for the ride. I have seen this happen in my own family, which has that sort of educational background. Look at J. D. Vance, with Usha at his side, smiling sweetly. Three kids — and no more blue eyes;-)
Look at Vance’s mother-in-law. She is a Phd who was on the Vanguard of pushing DEI at San Diego State. An American state University with a Hindu provost/dean and a colonized faculty that is engaging in a pogrom of Americans.Then the great identitarian hop is her son-in-law. There is a photo of a family gathering. Vance and a couple of aging white guys at a backyard pool and then a massive family of subcontinentals. I wonder if the family is divided now that Vance is on an anti-DEI crusade. This thing is so incoherent and compromised it doesn’t know where… Read more »
the squabbling European children in line but once absent, the squabbling will begin again
Yes. Macron is touting French arms and indicating his country is ready, willing and able to become the continental leader. The UK and Germany nod along as they plot how to play the role France envisions. It is all fantasy and nonsense, of course. While I loathe what “Biden” did and the Blob in general, the erratic behavior of European leaders/figureheads has explained in part why the Ukraine idiocy was indulged. Z is exactly right about slaves–they kind of like it.
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girl child in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don’t forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Downy sins of streetlight fancies Chase the costumes she shall wear Ermine furs adorn the imperious Severin, Severin awaits you there I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather Shiny leather in the dark Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you Strike, dear mistress, and cure his… Read more »
Good choice. I was going with the Devo classic but this one’s better.
Zman’s own theory of positive/negative identity is likely an excellent predictor of the countries which can survive intact, along with historical cohesion. On these criteria, you’d expect Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Holland, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Norway, Greece, Sweden, Portugal, Czechia, Slovakia to make it. Germany (negative identity), Belgium (Flemish already hate Walloons, then add Africans), Ireland (negative identity) have almost no chance. Rumania, Finland and Baltics have a good shot. UK and France are underdogs. The others are toss-ups (Spain, Italy, France).
I am reminded of the movie ‘Wall-E’ near the end when all the fat people fall off their hoverchairs and learn how to move their bodies, grow things, and love again. It’ll be wobbly, but I think the Euros can pull it off.
The trend that is emerging is for the emergent American oligarchy to lend support to an emergent and very young European identitarian counter-elite. It is starting with Twitter/Musk being used to lend legitimacy to nationalist movements on the ascent but being oppressed. The next, inevitable step will be what always has to happen for nationalist/localist/particularist political movements to have a chance at success. That is financial and logistical support. What is strange is that merchant oligarchies are filled with contradictions and incoherency. Can Karp, Musk, Ellison … … help emergent European nationalists while selling their oppressors the tools of a… Read more »
Speaking of foreign predation. These are recent ideas proposed by, “conservatives.” https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/21/how-president-trump-can-deploy-a-missile-defense-shield-to-defend-america-in-only-three-years/ This is my favorite. It probably dovetails perfectly with the Bergum/HUD-secretary announcement and it was probably paid for by Fink/Kushner as a way to get in on even more of the action: https://americanmind.org/salvo/from-illegal-immigrants-to-republican-voters/ The only path forward and path for survival in North America for European people is to understand that this is not a country. It is certainly not your country. It is a flea market. Every faction that organizes and understands what this is will be in a position to fleece it. There are 180 million… Read more »
Good Lord. There is no political solution. Those soothing essays are like the candy held by the owner of the van. Voting can be tool if it helps sow discord but that’s about it.
eta: Sorting already is underway and we see redoubts in their embryonic stages. We saw how “Biden” responded. If or whether Trump responds will be interesting. Disinterest is our friend.
Crockett reps Dallas and a little Southwards. She went to U of Houston.
Keep my fingers crossed that her wig catches fire on live TV
Even the younger Vietnamese are starting to ape the leftist white elite out here in California. They held out the longest among the Asian groups because almost every one was one of the “boat people,” or the parents or grandparents were. They hated communism. But after two generations, they’re assimilating into the California degeneracy.
The only problem I have with this is that the European elites got a bit too uppity as house slaves. They insisted on pushing their censorship policies on to the American people and tried to throttle the tech giants. Starmer’s government went so far as to threaten American people with their censorship laws. Lastly, they have always tried to push their climate cult policies onto the rest of the world, including America. Perhaps this was due to the Biden administration favoring these policies. But there was a spirit of independent emphasis on the part of European elite for these policies.… Read more »
With respect to Ukraine, they feel like they have been sent out of the room as the master talks to another master. Also, they’re presumably a bit disoriented that Orange Retard has just reversed seven decades worth of Western security structure, ripping up the rule book overnight. European politicians have to live with their Washington overlords long after Trump is gone, so maybe the prudent choice is to run out the clock. And if Trump wants to set Europe free, he can start by withdrawing the American occupation forces, rather than threaten to landgrab Euro territory for asset stripping. It… Read more »
And if Trump wants to set Europe free, he can start by withdrawing the American occupation forces, rather than threaten to landgrab Euro territory for asset stripping.
This. If it were attempted, of course, who actually runs the Global American Empire would become even more obvious, if that is possible. The reason the occupation forces will remain is due to domestic concerns.
Any suggestion of it would have the entire political class chaining themselves to American military hardware so it could not be returned home. And for the record, Ukraine ain’t Europe.
Europe is lost.
Merkel’s Millions, British Pakastani ripe gangs, speech laws that will land you in jail if you notice either, deindustrialization for the feelings of an autistic female child puppet, the death of Christianity being replaced with a tribal savage religion….
I’ll weep for them; it was once powerful and beautiful.
But it was almost the US. Still could be. Cautionary tale that entropy must be resisted with every generation.
The reason Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers had to hire the actor Barry Soetoro to play Barak Obama was that the black community is not able to produce such a figure, so they had to manufacture one. The reason Obama has so quickly disappeared from the conversation is that he was always just an actor playing a role. The show ended and he left the stage. Like a typecast actor, he can only play this role and no one has much interest in the character, so he has sunk into obscurity. Yet I regularly encounter “conservative” readers and pundits both… Read more »
My very favorite part of the 2024 election was when they sent Obama out to campaign for Kamala Harris and he stopped into a Pittsburgh Democratic Campaign office to try to convince the black men working on the campaign to vote for Kamala.
Remember the whole vibe they built up about him being Cool, Smooth, “No Drama Obama”? Yeah, watching him switch between alternately scolding and pleading with the workers shot that image to Hell.
Baby, how can we miss you if you don’t leave?
It seems like success in our current political system is mainly about avoiding stepping on rakes when you are temporarily occupying your current office. See Karen Bass. People forget that she was being considered for VP by Biden. She had serious aspirations but they are likely done now because of the LA fires. Of course, the fires were not her fault. Yea, the government enabled them and the LA Fire Department was primarily a lesbian grooming operation and secondarily a firefighting outfit, but this has nothing to do with Karen Bass. Karen Bass is not a real executive with actual… Read more »
That was the least of Wu’s anti-White policies. Under her reign she organized massive international PR campaigns for Boston’s tourism initiatives. The PR campaign explicitly excluded White owned businesses and districts where the businesses are still primarily White owned. If that wasn’t enough, she proposed taxes be levied exclusively on White owned businesses. The no-Whites-allowed Christmas party with her and a bunch of blacks LARPing as Boston Brahmins in a finely 17th century European parlor ala Haiti’s generals LARPing as European warriors was just a cherry on top. It is a terrible thing to follow the real news. Wu is… Read more »
Forgive me if it has been talked about in the past, but the notion that “They would rather be hacked to death by a machete wielding African than taste freedom”.
Is that the gaslighting/mind virus, or a deep seated cultural defect?
I can’t think of any situation where the getting hacked to death would be preferable to anything. But that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.
There was a time – briefly – in the nineties when Europe looked like the Next Big Thing. The end of the Cold War meant it did not have to lean on the US for military security, and with the development of the EU and its common currency, Europe looked formidable on paper, with a collective population and economy far larger than the US. It turns out, unsurprisingly in retrospect, that you can have an empire, or you can have nations, but you can’t have both. Europe’s “leadership” is now drafted from the post-national, Davos class hatched and financed by… Read more »
I was reading about what happened at the Jimmy Carter funeral last night. Karen Pence snubbed the Trumps and so did the Bushes, but Trump was chummy with Zero. I guess Michael Obama and Karen Pence didn’t attend the inauguration festivities, either. Karen Pence must be butt hurt that her husband has been frozen out. Or, maybe the rumors about him being a pedo are true and she’s bitter that she got stuck with one. I don’t like the guy simply because he can’t give a straight answer to the most simple question. He always tries to tap dance around… Read more »
It’s debatable if Trump and The Precious were actually chummy. Many have noted that laughing when challenged is an old habit of his.
I’m left wondering what does it mean to be “European”? The wholesale rejection of Christian morality both in Europe and America implies the elites have embraced suicidal cosmopolitanism. The elites of the GOP are the most pathetic example of political suicide in history. QUOTE: Returning to the Republican Party, we see a political side that claims to support many of the same things as Christians – such as the elimination of abortion and same-sex marriage. Yet, the 2024 Republican Party Platform is interestingly muted on all social subjects. It takes no such clear stance on issues of morality. Additionally, many… Read more »
The paragraph about Obama stood out to me. I’ve heard from at least a few Boomer conservative-types that the half-black messiah was running the Biden Administration from behind the scenes. That always struck me as funny because, like Zman, I view Obama as an actor whose role called on him to deliver lines from a script with little or no input of his own regarding policy. It seems even some on the Right have fallen for the idea that the man is some kind of savant.
The over-the-top bashing of Europe from white Americans never felt right to me, and the pessimism never quite lines up with my actual experience when I travel through those countries. Europe isn’t done – they’ve been closer to destruction in the past. Yes, London was a mess of foreigners, but the countryside was a different story. Yes, many of the leaders are buffoons, but I’ve found the average young north western euro to be smart, helpful, and aware. Yes, the demographics aren’t great, but they’re not great anywhere truly industrialized. It’s not clear that they’re great for the immigrant pops… Read more »
The political changes in AINO would have been impossible without the loss of faith in the MSM. In Europe, no similar process has occurred. There, the official Narrative remains the predominant “reality.” And probably will for the foreseeable future, as there is no sufficient mass of “nationalists” to counter both the many baizuo (who are a greater percentage in Europe than in AINO) or the election rigging, which is just as bad as in AINO if not worse. IOW, the current European “leadership” class is probably going to go down with the ship.
‘Since a Donald Trump like figure must come from the field slave population, this sort of figure is not just feared by the European house slave population but despised by the field slaves of Europe’ Of course, L’Orange is not a field slave. He is a plantation owner born into great wealth and privilege. What field slave rises to power in Amerika? I see none. There’s JD, lookin good homie except . . . hm Yale Law Journal, venture capitalist with Thiel, not so rootsy there eh? ‘The reason Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers had to hire the actor Barry… Read more »
It is the difference between a ruling class and an administrative class. If a class exercising power (coercion and persuasion: police, education, media, etc) over a population through both governmental and private institutions has no power to make changes to the structure of their civilization (ex trade, foreign, industrial, immigration policies) then they merely administrate, but do not rule. An administrative class, with veneer of legitimacy provided by the theatre of ‘democracy’, exercises power over the population it governs, but itself has power exercised over it (through coercion and persuasion) by an actual ruling class which makes decisions regarding civilizational… Read more »