🇪🇺 The E.U. Is Revealing Its True Identity. Europeans Don’t Like It.

In European Parliament elections this month, voters in most of the European Union’s 27 countries rallied to parties that hold the union in contempt. Analysts have leaped to the conclusion that the European Union must have done something wrong.
It didn’t. The specific policy grievances that drove the election results were national, not continental.

Such local complaints, to be sure, occasionally echo frustrations with corresponding E.U. policies on immigration and energy. But the European Union’s governing machinery in Brussels is never where voters’ hearts and hopes are. Indeed, that is the real problem with the union: not what it does but what it is.

Founded in the wake of the Cold War to meld Europe’s nation-states into an “ever closer union” and to form a continental government that would practice a new kind of politics, the European Union has wound up more outdated than the nation-states it was meant to supplant. Imposing common rules and laws on nations that had for decades or centuries viewed lawmaking as their own democratic business was harder than it seemed. The union is looking more and more like one of those 19th- and 20th-century projects to universalize the un-universalizable, like Esperanto.

One way to look at the E.U. project, in fact, was as a codification of the values that had won the Cold War. That values win wars is a bold assertion, but back then, the West was in a self-confident mood. The prime minister of Luxembourg (and later, European Commission president) Jean-Claude Juncker was soon crediting European integration with having brought “50 years of peace,” even though the European Union had not yet been founded when the Berlin Wall fell. A more sober analysis would credit that peace to American occupation, NATO vigilance and Russian caution.

There was only one way to get the power required to build a European superpower: by usurping the prerogatives of the continent’s existing nation-states. Tasks delegated to Brussels were considered to have been delegated to it permanently. An Orwellian vocabulary emerged. European Union leaders, widely viewed as politicians who had failed on their own national scenes, referred to themselves as “Europe,” and to anyone who opposed their state-building schemes as “anti-European.” Soon “anti-European” joined the list of intolerances that were grounds for ostracism and censure.

Starting a form of government at the close of an era, as the founders of the European Union tried to do, is not necessarily a doomed project. The United States may be called the last nation that was established before the onset of the Industrial Revolution. But you cannot really have an overarching federal government, such as the United States has, unless people are content to see the states lose power to the capital over the long term. Americans have made their peace with this, although it required a civil war and a good deal of other violence to bring consensus.

Europe is different. Europeans are mostly not aware that they have been enlisted in a project that has as its end point the extinction of France, Germany, Italy and the rest of Europe’s historic nations as meaningful political units. Brussels has been able to win assent to its project only by concealing its nature. Europe’s younger generation appears to have seen through the dissembling. We are only at the beginning of the consequences.

🔗 https://archive.ph/3EIYO

🏹 🇷🇺 🏭 Artillery production in Russia.

— At the start of 2022, Russia produced 250,000 rounds of 152mm ammunition annually.
— By early 2023, production increased to 1 million rounds per year.
— For 2024, Russia expects to manufacture 1.325 million rounds of 152mm shells.
— 122mm artillery ammunition production is projected to reach 800,000 rounds in 2024.
— Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) production is growing rapidly:
2023: 33,000 rounds of 122mm Grad rockets
2024: Expected to exceed 500,000 rounds
📎 Source: RUSI analysis, quoting an internal RU MoD report
— Also, a recent CNN report claimed Russia is producing artillery shells at a much faster rate than Ukraine's allies, with the ability to manufacture around 4.5 million 152mm shells this year at a cost of $1,000 per round.
— In contrast, European countries and the US are only expected to produce 1.3 million 155mm shells combined in 2024, at an average cost of $4,000 per unit.

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🚤 🇾🇪 💥 Houthis published footage of their attack on the ship "Transworld Navigator" using their new "Toofan 1" kamikaze USV [23.06.2024]

Scenes of the Yemeni Armed Forces targeting the TRANSWORLD NAVIGATOR ship, belonging to one of the companies violating the decision to ban ships from entering the ports of occupied Palestine, with a boat (Flood the Destroyer) with a maneuver and information for the piloted boat Toofan the Destroyer - June 23, 2024 AD

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🇫🇷🗳📝 — France, Ifop-Fiducial exit poll, Snap national parliament election (seat distribution):

🐔 RN and allies (Far-Right Coalition):

➡️ 240-270 seats

🌹 New Populat Front (Left-wing Broad Front): 180-200

➡️ 180-200 seats

🇪🇺 Macron's Essemble (Pro-EU Centrists/Liberals):

➡️ 60-90 seats

🤑 French Republican Party (Moderate Conservatives):

➡️ 30-50 seats

Other parties:

➡️ 13-21

🔗 Europe Elects (@EuropeElects)

🇧🇴🔥❗️ — Former Bolivan Leftist President Evo Morales denounced that current Bolivian President Arce, claiming that the Coup was actually a Farce to prompt up Arce's popularity

On Twitter, Morales said:

President Luis Arce deceived and lied to the Bolivian people and the world. It is unfortunate that a topic as sensitive as reporting a coup is used.

Faced with this reality, I must apologize to the international community for the alarm generated and thank you for your solidarity with our country. It is important that a complete and independent investigation demonstrates the truth of this fact.

🔗 Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo)