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A Swan-song For Europe

Aurelian
http://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/a-swan-song-for-europe

Date Written:  12/03/2025
Year Published:  2025  
Resource Type:  Article

And so, by common consent, Europe faces its gravest collective political crisis since 1945. And so, by equally common consent, its political class has never been so weak and incompetent, and so evidently out of its depth, encountering for once a problem that cannot be solved by well-judged tweets and complicated financial instruments. Socked around the face by the large wet fish of Real Life, the European political class retreats into silly games, hallucinatory fantasies and futile aggressivity.

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Europe is in a hell of a mess. The reasons for are not the extravagant ones that you find in certain quarters (CIA mind-control techniques, the operations of the Bildeberg Group or the City of London,— you know the kind of thing I mean) but are instead buried in history, and particularly in the terror of repeating it. What makes it worse is that we have a European ruling class which is haunted by fears that it doesn't fully understand, and which have their ultimate origin in events it only ever studied superficially at school, if that.

So I'm going to discuss three topics in order. First, the ultimate historical origins of the current collective nervous breakdown of the European political class; second how, paradoxically, attempts to deal with the problems caused by these original events backfired spectacularly; and third, how that political class therefore finds itself incapable of so much as understanding, much less of dealing with, the consequences of the past and the challenges of today.

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