POSTWAR EUROPE IS DYING in GAZA and UKRAINE

Postwar Europe as a community of values and ideals is dying. It is failing and falling because of two things: the slaughter in Gaza and RusFed’s war against Ukraine. European politicians en masse, but first of all the British and German ones, are complicit in the slaughter Israel has committed in Gaza. As for Ukraine, the half-hearted military support extended by Western European powers, coupled with these powers’ long-standing efforts to accommodate Putin prior to 2022, spell out more disasters ahead because Putin can be stopped only with steely determination, not with half-heartedness.

The European political elites have long been turning a blind eye on Israel’s crimes – some willingly, others simply because they found it easier to go with the flow – but nowadays this complicity is simply impossible to ignore.

All of the above does not imply that there was ever a “golden age” of European peace and democracy – no, there wasn’t, and a stockpile of political crimes and sins had accumulated over the course of many years. Speaking about the past, I cannot but mention the participation of many European countries in the invasion of Iraq. Not only was the war criminal (although Saddam was a stinking despot) but it also had very low approval ratings among European populace, so the European elites who chose to join the USA-led coalition were breaching the democratic principles which they presumably must uphold.

And yet, despite all the bad things, there was hope and the feeling that bad things could be set right. Not any more. A dirty colonial war outside Europe in which Europe is directly complicit, both as an arms provider and a stifler of the anti-war dissent (Germany and UK are arguably the worst culprits) + a war inside Europe, the first post-WWII state-on-state war not flowing out of a civil war, in which Europe cannot muster the courage to defeat the aggressor: these are two critical events which, I’m afraid, are going to finish off postwar Europe as we know it and to usher in far darker times.

P.S. This is just sketchy thoughts; as I re-read the text after posting it, I think that I should have mentioned Europe’s complicity in the “concomitant” crimes: Israel’s occupation of, and destruction wrought in, Lebanon and Syria. So I’m correcting myself.

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