{"id":1509310,"date":"2024-12-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1509310"},"modified":"2024-12-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T17:00:00","slug":"make-europe-great-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/make-europe-great-again-2\/1509310\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Europe Great Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make Europe Great Again<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by David Goldman via AmericanMind.org,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

European self-defense depends on conservative parties, not liberal cowards…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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My advice to President Trump on how to deal with the mess in Ukraine is simple: you should pull the plug on the Biden Administration\u2019s flailing European peanut gallery. <\/strong>Your friends and allies in Europe want to shoulder the burden of their own defense, but they don\u2019t want to pour money down the drain and risk World War III in Ukraine. Get an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, a war which no sane European wants to fight, and let the sovereigntist parties of the New Right mop up the globalist Left. They believe in their countries and will fight to protect them, unlike the Brussels liberals cowering behind the skirts of Mother America.<\/p>\n

Ending the war won\u2019t happen without an agreement to keep Ukraine neutral and out of NATO. The Deep State will try to convince you that NATO can\u2019t afford to back down on eventual Ukraine membership, and that Russia is bleeding out and ready to fold. But the opposite is true:<\/strong> Europe\u2019s willingness to defend itself depends on a revival of nationalism and the ascent of the sovereigntist parties on the Right. Freeze the fighting and deliver a political victory to European patriots whose watchword is \u201cMake Europe Great Again.\u201d<\/p>\n

A\u00a0recent poll<\/a>\u00a0found most Germans probably wouldn\u2019t fight to defend their country, and that two-fifths wouldn\u2019t fight under any circumstances. Most striking is the breakdown by party affiliation. Only 9% of supporters of Germany\u2019s Green Party\u2014the most extreme backer of the Ukraine War\u2014said they would personally take up arms to defend their country, the lowest of any group by party affiliation. Led by the bumbling, malapropism-prone Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, the Greens act like the German branch of the Biden State Department.<\/p>\n

The highest proportion of individuals ready to fight for their country came from supporters of the Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD), the conservative upstart party now polling at 20% of the national vote. In a\u00a0more recent poll<\/a>, 68% of AfD members said they would defend their country \u201cwith a weapon in their hand\u201d if Germany were attacked, compared to just 22% of Green Party supporters.<\/p>\n

The Washington Blob confuses the \u201clet\u2019s you and him fight\u201d war party with the sovereigntists who are ready to defend their country, but want nothing to do with the Blob\u2019s failed adventure in Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The European war party pledged neither their lives nor their sacred honor (they don\u2019t have any), but rather their reputations, foundation grants, fellowships, and consulting gigs on the Ukraine War. They made their careers on the twin premise of expanding NATO to the Russian border and arrogating governance to European rather than national institutions.<\/p>\n

European liberals were battered by the populist wave that began last year with Geert Wilders\u2019s surprise election victory in the Netherlands. <\/strong>It continued through last September\u2019s state elections in Germany, the local elections in the Czech Republic, the Freedom Party\u2019s first-place finish in Austria, and the collapse of the French government. But even so, the continent\u2019s liberals will fight to the last Ukrainian to keep their political privileges.<\/p>\n

If their proxy war collapses, European liberals know their figurative heads will roll.<\/strong> They have no plan except to keep the war going as long as possible. And they are doing this by trying to gaslight Americans through a targeted campaign of misinformation. The British Ministry of Defense and the Pentagon, for example, allege that Russia has taken 600,000 casualties in the Ukraine War, and is losing 1,000 to 2,000 soldiers a day in the present fighting. The spurious 600,000 figure even found its way into a Trump social media post last week.<\/p>\n

The most comprehensive database on Russian casualties,\u00a0Mediazona<\/a>, counts 82,000 Russian dead, which it calculated by scraping information from death announcements and social media posts. A statistical estimate of excess deaths would bring the number to 120,000. Assuming three wounded for every soldier killed, Russian casualties are likely somewhere between 246,000 and 360,000.<\/p>\n

A retired senior U.S. officer who tracks Ukraine war casualties observes:<\/p>\n

Ukrainian casualties from independent sources are not as diligently tracked as are Russian casualties, but counts on graves, and anecdotal reporting, suggests it is higher than the figures released by Kyiv, London, or Washington, D.C. Estimates run between 105,000 and 160,000 KIA (killed in action). Using the same ratios for KIA to WIA, this places total Ukrainian casualties at between 105,000 KIA, and 365,000 WIA (wounded in action), or 470,000 total casualties, to 160,000 KIA and 640,000 WIA, or 800,000 total casualties.<\/em><\/p>\n

Russia has had about 9,000 desertions in the course of the war. More than 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers face\u00a0official charges of desertion<\/a>, and the actual number is double that. Forty-thousand Ukrainians have been killed or wounded defending\u00a0an incursion into Russian territory near Kursk, according to NATO intelligence sources\u2014and the country has already lost half of the territory it gained in the August 2024 raid.<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s sovereigntist parties know this and want to stop the war now. <\/strong>The AfD wants to stop weapons deliveries to Ukraine and advocates a negotiated solution. It is excoriated by the establishment press as a neo-Nazi throwback, and quarantined by legacy parties with a fraction of its voter base. The Greens, represented by Annalena Baerbock and Economics Minister Robert Habeck, are ironically Germany\u2019s most vociferous war hawks. Though they won\u2019t fight for their own country, they want to fight the war to the last Ukrainian.<\/p>\n

President-elect Trump sent shockwaves through the European Establishment last February when he told a South Carolina rally, \u201cNATO was busted until I came along. I said, \u2018Everybody\u2019s gonna pay.\u2019 They said, \u2018Well, if we don\u2019t pay, are you still going to protect us?\u2019 I said, \u2018Absolutely not.\u2019 They couldn\u2019t believe the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said \u201cone of the presidents of a big country\u201d at one point asked him whether the U.S. would still defend Ukraine if they were invaded by Russia\u2014even if they \u201cdon\u2019t pay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I would not protect you,\u201d Trump recalled. \u201cIn fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That provoked a storm of opprobrium against Trump, who stood accused of inviting Russia to invade Western Europe. But that\u2019s not what he said: Trump maintained that Europe should defend itself. It used to. In 1989 Germany fielded 12 battle-ready divisions, 3,000 main battle tanks, and a formidable conscript army that could stand off the Warsaw Pact. It doesn\u2019t have a single battle-ready division today. And Angela Merkel\u2019s government eliminated conscription in 2011 at the peak of post-Cold War complacency.<\/p>\n

Germany needs military conscription, and the only German political party that clearly proposes reviving it is the AfD. Its position paper, available on the party website, states:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Military service is honorable service. It should not be understood first of all as an impingement on the fundamental rights of a citizen, but rather as the civic duty to act on behalf of peace and security, and to guarantee the existence of our country and its stable democracy. The national army should be anchored in society, and the elimination of conscription has done significant damage to this relationship in only a few years.<\/p>\n

The AfD, like the ruling parties of Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia, is not afraid of fighting. It opposes the Ukraine War because it is pointless and unwinnable. Germany\u2019s Greens, by contrast,\u00a0oppose conscription<\/a>\u2014in Germany, that is. They\u2019re all for conscription in Ukraine. Germany\u2019s Social Democrats and Christian Democrats meanwhile think it might be a good idea to revisit the idea of conscription sometime in the future, but they won\u2019t do anything now\u2014or in any relevant time horizon.<\/p>\n

Some Brussels hawks have floated the idea of\u00a0European conscription<\/a>\u00a0to provide soldiers for Ukraine, a proposal denounced by Hungary\u2019s Foreign Minister, who declared, \u201cWe do not want Hungarian young people dragged into the Ukrainian-Russian war front. This is not our war.\u201d National conscription to defend national homelands is another matter.<\/p>\n

Maligned as an extremist fringe group, the AfD stands to receive 20% of the vote in Germany\u2019s February 23 national elections. Its candidates won about 30% of the vote in three East German states that went to the polls in September. Olaf Scholz\u2019s Social Democrats are running at just 17% of the vote, and the Greens, which had 20% of the vote in Germany\u2019s last national election, are at just 11.5%. The AfD supports tight controls on immigration, tax cuts, and an immediate end to the Ukraine War. Its view of Ukraine is the same as that of Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orban, whom Trump has consulted repeatedly.<\/p>\n

The AfD is the most popular party among Germany\u2019s 18-24 year-olds. Its message is that it\u2019s alright to be proud of being German. Maximilian Krah, a European Parliament member now running for a Bundestag seat, delivered that message on TikTok. \u201cOne in three young German men doesn\u2019t have a girlfriend. Are you one of them?\u201d he asked in one video. \u201cDon\u2019t watch porno, don\u2019t vote for the Greens, get out into the fresh air\u2026. Real men have ideals, real men are Patriots\u2014and that\u2019s how you find a girlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Real men, the AfD avers, are willing to defend their country. If the United States wants partners instead of puppets, it will find them among Europe\u2019s sovereigntist parties.<\/strong><\/p>\n

*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 12\/22\/2024 – 07:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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