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The European Union Is About to Crack

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Guest post by Drieu Godefridi

The European Union (EU) is entering a critical phase. What is unfolding in Brussels is no longer merely a crisis of governance: it is an existential crisis. Between radical green ideology, authoritarian drift, East–West divisions, and growing rejection by the people, everything indicates that the community system, as it has functioned for the past fifty years, is buckling under the weight of reality.

1. An Elite Disconnected from the People

No one voted for Ursula von der Leyen or any of the European commissioners, whose faces are unknown to most Europeans — who, however, know their iron rule all too well.

Under the guise of ecology, Brussels has imposed a Green Deal that impoverishes the middle class, prevents farmers from working, and accelerates the deindustrialisation of the continent. Energy bills are soaring, and businesses are closing one after another. The United States and China, meanwhile, are reaping the rewards in terms of jobs and investment.

Figures such as Spanish Commissioner Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, are emblematic of this mindset. Convinced of holding the truth, Ribera advocates reinforcing the Green Deal even as European industry collapses — all in the name of reducing, again and again, CO₂ emissions.

In reality, outside Europe, few still care about CO₂ emissions, since humanity will adapt to climate change as it always has. We are preparing to colonise and terraform Mars, to conquer the solar system — yet we are told we cannot adapt to a 1.5-degree temperature rise?

Instead of listening to its citizens — those who simply wish to work, prosper, and raise their children — the EU responds with censorship. It multiplies regulations against so-called “disinformation,” tightens surveillance over social media, and represses dissenting voices. To crown it all, Commissioner Ribera now proposes a full-scale tariff war with Washington — as if Europe, already on its knees, could afford to alienate its only ally.

The divorce between the EU bureaucracy and the peoples of Europe has never been deeper.

2. The End of the Anti-Right Cordon Sanitaire

For decades, European democracy has rested on a tacit agreement: the centre-right (EPP) refuses to ally with the right, preferring to govern with the left and radical greens. This mechanism — a cordon sanitaire imported from German and French political culture — nullifies democracy. The left has thus maintained ideological control over the Union, even when it loses elections.

But this system is collapsing.

In France, the strategy of systematically excluding the national right is no longer tenable. In Germany, yet another coalition cobbled together to block the AfD is struggling to convince a nation whose once-mighty industry is crumbling. In Brussels, electoral reality is becoming impossible to ignore: voters are turning en masse to the right, expressing a massive rejection of European policies.

The EPP will have to break with the left and finally heed its electorate — as it has already begun to do.

3. Eastern Europe Says No to Islamic Immigration

The countries of Central and Eastern Europe — Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and the Balkans — reject the Western European model founded on mass immigration, the dilution of national identities, and imposed multiculturalism.
They oppose Islamisation, the social dependency of “migrants” sustained by welfare systems, and the staggering cost of this delusional migration policy. Their rejection is not circumstantial; it is cultural and definitive.

The East sees the West as a weary illusion, eaten away by post-colonial guilt and progressive ideology. To believe that Eastern Europeans will change their minds while Islamist attacks multiply — and the Belgian Prime Minister narrowly escapes a drone attack orchestrated by his Islamist neighbours (!) — is pure fantasy.

The Islamisation of pockets of Western Europe — Molenbeek and Brussels, the 93rd arrondissement and Marseille — is already well advanced. But there will be no Islamisation in Central and Eastern Europe. This divide alone constitutes a vital threat to the EU, because the left-wing “elites” of Europe have made Islam a matter of principle. Their multicultural utopia, nourished by hatred of the West, demands the massive importation of Islamic populations.

4. The European People Are Waking Up

Under the combined effects of the Green Deal, carbon taxes, deindustrialisation, and Byzantine regulations — more than 200,000 pages of European law — the European economy is collapsing.

When Americans pay $100 to heat their homes, Europeans pay 500. Meanwhile, the average American earns net 2.5 times more than the average European. Even a child can see that this is unsustainable — a child, but not the European Commission. European households struggle to heat their homes, feed themselves, and clothe their children. Farmers block roads, truckers protest, the middle class slides into poverty, rises again, then falls back — a harsh, endless cycle.

In response, right-wing parties are rising to power across almost all European countries. The left — which has staked everything on migrants and extreme ideologies such as transgender activism, open borders, and radical environmentalism, often inspired and financed by American groups like Mr. Soros’s Open Society — is collapsing everywhere.

The story is simple: when you strip people of their dignity, they fight back.

Conclusion: An Inevitable Implosion?

The European Union, in its current form, is nearing its end. Its agony may last months, perhaps a few years — no one knows.
The EU is being scuttled by an “elite” that no longer believes in the people, and by people who no longer believe in it.

The EU will crack.

The only question is when — and in what form — the Europe that follows will be reborn.

Drieu Godefridi is a jurist (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain), philosopher (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain) and PhD in legal theory (Paris IV-Sorbonne). He is an entrepreneur, CEO of a European private education group and director of PAN Medias Group. He is the author of The Green Reich (2020).

You can follow Drieu on X.

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PAYBACK TIME: US Department of War Planning Retribution for Failing Allies, Including Suspending Spain From the Alliance and ‘Reviewing’ UK’s Claims to the Falkland Islands

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A digital artwork featuring two men engaged in discussion, with a prominent image of Donald Trump in the background, creating a dramatic political atmosphere.A digital artwork featuring two men engaged in discussion, with a prominent image of Donald Trump in the background, creating a dramatic political atmosphere.Failing allies, leftist-Globalists Sanchez (Spain) and Starmer (UK) are about to taste retribution from Trump – Wiki Commons

Failing allies under pressure.

As we have been reporting here on TGP, US President Donald J. Trump is hardly the man to forgive and forget a slight or a betrayal.

And it’s been reported that Trump and his team have compiled a ‘naughty list’ of failing allies, and that some for of payback was expected against these countries.

And today, it arises that the Pentagon is exploring ways to punish NATO countries that failed to support the US during the Iran conflict – including drastic measures like suspending Spain from the alliance.

This was first reported by Reuters, but was picked up by a multitude of outlets, primarily in the UK, where there is widespread concern over the planned US ‘review’ of the British claim to the Falkland Islands.

Daily Mail reported:

“The policy options are detailed in an email expressing frustration at some allies’ perceived reluctance or refusal to grant Washington access, basing and overflight (ABO) rights for the Iran war. The email stated that ABO is ‘just the absolute baseline for NATO,’ according to the official, who added that the options were circulating at high levels in the Pentagon.

The memo also includes an option to consider reassessing US diplomatic support for longstanding European ‘imperial possessions,’ such as the Falkland Islands near Argentina.”

Needless to say, the response by the Euro-Globalists was immediate.

On the one hand, NATO states there is no provision to oust Spain, while the UK reaffirms its sovereignty over the South American Islands.

Read more:

NATO and the Bar Fight: A Bar Tab Europe Expects America To Pay Forever

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AXIS OF ECONOMIC LOSERS: Japan and Germany’s Socialist “Stakeholder” Takeover Turned Economic Superpowers Into Stagnant Ghost Towns – And the Left Wants This Poison for America

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Image depicting tattered flags of Germany and Japan with the text "The Axis of Losers," symbolizing the Axis Powers of World War II.Image depicting tattered flags of Germany and Japan with the text "The Axis of Losers," symbolizing the Axis Powers of World War II.Japan and Germany are dying from the same disease: socialism.

Back in the late 1980s and early ’90s, the so-called “experts,” the mainstream media, and every smug Ivy League economist couldn’t stop drooling over Japan. “Japan as Number One!” they screamed. Books flew off the shelves. Newsweek and Time covers warned of an “economic Pearl Harbor.”

Paul Harvey wailed about Japan buying up America with our own money. Paul Kennedy’s bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers basically coronated the Land of the Rising Sun as the next global hegemon.

The keiretsu system, the MITI bureaucrats, the lifetime employment model — it was all supposed to be the future. America was finished. The Japanese were going to own us.

Fast-forward to 2025-2026. Japan is a cautionary tale on life support. GDP per capita (PPP) hovers around a pathetic $55,000–$56,000 — crushed by America’s nearly $94,000. After taxes and cost of living? It’s even worse. The “Lost Decades” aren’t a glitch — they’re the feature. Zombie companies, endless stagnation, and a demographic death spiral made infinitely worse by policies that treat businesses like government welfare offices rather than wealth-creation machines.

The mainstream press will blame everything except the real culprit: the deliberate socialization of the corporation.

Keiretsu

In Japan, it’s the infamous keiretsu system — giant corporate clans glued together by cross-shareholdings and a house bank that plays mommy to every failing division. Lifetime employment. Seniority-based pay and promotions instead of merit. Company unions that treat every layoff like a war crime. The goal isn’t profit — heaven forbid — it’s “harmony” and keeping everyone employed forever. Result? Total paralysis. You can’t fire the dead weight. You can’t reallocate capital to what actually works. You can’t innovate like a maniac because revolution is “disruptive.”

When the 1990s bubble popped, they didn’t clean house — they dragged toxic debt around like a ball and chain for decades.

And don’t look now, but Germany — once the envy of Europe — is right there with them in the loser’s club. Years of zero or outright negative growth. Factories shuttering. The proud German export machine is coughing up blood. The vaunted “Rhine model” has turned into a slow-motion industrial suicide.

Mitbestimmung

Because Germany took the socialization even further with the notorious Mitbestimmung — “co-determination.” In big companies, workers and union reps literally occupy half the seats on the supervisory board. They get veto power over layoffs, plant closings, relocations, and major restructurings. It’s not capitalism anymore — it’s corporate communism with better engineering. The boardroom isn’t deciding how to crush competitors and reward shareholders; it’s negotiating how to protect today’s insiders at the expense of tomorrow’s growth.

Add in the deranged Energiewende — the green energy fantasy that tripled electricity costs — and you have the perfect storm. German industry is literally powering down while the rest of the world races ahead.

BMW/Tesla

Want proof? Look at BMW versus Tesla. BMW sells about 2.5 million vehicles a year. Tesla sells around 1.5 million. BMW’s market cap? A measly ~$55 billion. Tesla’s? Over twenty times higher. One company is run by visionaries who embrace the future and reward risk-takers. The other is run like a German labor ministry with a side hustle in cars.

This is what happens when you let “stakeholders” — code for unions, bureaucrats, and professional grievance-mongers — hijack the boardroom. The enterprise stops being a profit machine that lifts everyone through growth and becomes a social-work project designed to protect yesterday’s workers at the expense of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, young people, and innovators.

It’s the exact same philosophy the American left has been trying to smuggle into U.S. boardrooms for years: ESG scores, “stakeholder capitalism,” DEI mandates, union power grabs, and the constant war on shareholders. They call it compassionate. It’s actually economic castration. Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” — the engine of real progress — gets sacrificed on the altar of Karl Marx’s class warfare dressed up in a suit and tie.

America’s model is raw, unapologetic, and brutally effective: The company exists to make money for its owners. Management executes or gets fired. You restructure, you pivot, you kill failing divisions without crying about “humanity.” It looks ugly to the European and Japanese salon socialists. It also creates the iPhones, the SpaceX rockets, the shale revolution, and the stock market that funds retirements for millions.

The Axis of Losers

Japan and Germany didn’t fail because of demographics or one bad energy policy. They failed because they turned their greatest companies into paralyzed extensions of the welfare state. The “Axis of Losers” chose preservation over progress — and they’re paying for it in lost decades and lost futures.

America still has a choice. We can reject this European-Japanese corporate socialism, tell the unions and the stakeholder grifters to pound sand, and keep rewarding the risk-takers and wealth-creators who actually build the future.

Or we can follow the Axis of Losers straight into the economic graveyard. The choice should be obvious — but the radical left never learns. They just rebrand failure as “equity” and keep selling the same poison. Don’t let them.

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WATCH: Mother of Feral NYC Teen Who Body-Slammed and Stomped 15-Year-Old Girl’s Head DEFENDS Violent Son, Claims Victim ‘Bullied’ Him After She Refused to Give Him Her Phone Number

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Woman speaking to the media in a hallway while a man is seen attacking another person on the street in a separate scene.

Woman speaking to the media in a hallway while a man is seen attacking another person on the street in a separate scene.

A horrifying video from New York has sparked nationwide outrage after a 14-year-old boy was caught on camera brutally body-slamming a 15-year-old girl to the concrete and then stomping on her head, all because she refused to give him her phone number.

Now, the boy’s mother is publicly defending her son, claiming the victim was “bullying” him and that his savage and animalistic attack was somehow justified because he is a “humble” Christian.

The shocking attack occurred around 3:30 p.m. on Monday at the corner of East 107th Street and Third Avenue in East Harlem, just after school let out.

The 15-year-old girl, a ninth-grade student-athlete at East Harlem Scholars Academy Charter School heading to squash practice, was confronted by the 14-year-old masked suspect, who had reportedly been harassing her for weeks.

In the disturbing footage, the girl is seen trying to walk away and yelling, “Get the f–k away from me.”

The boy follows her, grabs her from behind, lifts her off the ground, slams her to the pavement, and then stomps directly on her head.

His friends can be heard laughing and egging him on as the girl lies motionless on the ground.

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The girl suffered a concussion and was rushed to Harlem Hospital.

The 14-year-old suspect was arrested on Wednesday and appeared in Manhattan Family Court, where he was ordered held in custody by the Division of Youth and Family Justice.

Because both parties are minors, his name has not been publicly released.

In an interview captured outside the courthouse, the boy’s mother, Selma Allen, issued a wild defense of her violent son.

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Allen claimed the 15-year-old girl had been bullying him in school, sending messages, and even pushing him down, and that this somehow justified the vicious attack.

“She was being a bully to him, that’s it,” Allen told reporters.

“He’s been complaining about her. I bring it to the principal’s attention but he don’t address it. The way my son is being bullied, he doesn’t want to go to school.”

She claimed her son is a “quiet” boy who “doesn’t provoke nobody,” and described him as a “humble Christian.”

“He don’t provoke nobody. But if you provoke him, he will lash out.”

Allen insisted her son had proof on WhatsApp and Instagram and repeatedly shifted blame onto the victim while downplaying the savage stomp on the girl’s head.

None of the reporters asked the obvious question: if the girl was truly bullying him, why was he aggressively demanding her phone number and following her?

The victim’s mother, Lucinda Arroyo, spoke out Thursday in an interview with the New York Post. She said her daughter had been dealing with weeks of harassment from the boy and said it was a “miracle” her daughter survived.

“She’s very upset that her whole life has been completely flipped upside down right now,” Arroyo said. “She’s known him as someone who’s bad news for a while.”

“This is not even bullying, this is outright assault — and he could have killed her,” she asserted.

Her daughter was left with a concussion, bleeding, a potential brain injury, crushing headaches and a twisted neck, and will require ongoing physical therapy.

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