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US engaging in ‘extreme rightwing tropes’ reminiscent of 1930s, British MPs warn

The US is engaging in “extreme rightwing tropes” with echoes of the 1930s and threatening “chilling” interference in European democracies, British MPs warned ministers on Thursday.

The House of Commons rounded on Donald Trump’s national security strategy, which stated that Europe was facing “civilisational erasure” and vowed to help the continent “correct its current trajectory and promote patriotic European parties”.

Matt Western, a Labour MP and chair of parliament’s joint committee on the UK government’s national security strategy, warned: “The United States consensus that has led the western world since the second world war appears shattered.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

A Civilisational Crisis: Europe in the Eyes of the USA

Without warning, the United States of America released a much-anticipated National Security Strategy (NSS), which aims to refocus American security around an updated set of core American interests–sovereignty and borders, security at home, and restoring “American Greatness.”

The strategy has significant implications for America’s role on the world stage, its priorities at home, and how to put ‘America First’ into practise. But it is the short, declaratory section of Europe that has attracted the loudest howls of outrage.

The document pulls no punches. In the opening sentences, it declares that Europe’s “economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” In this, the document can be seen as an extension of Vice President Vance’s notorious comments in Munich that European countries had no idea what “they were supposed to be fighting for.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Donald Trump is calling for Europe to save itself

National Security Strategy warnings are motivated by desire to preserve Christian civilisation

One particular passage in America’s National Security Strategy, published last week, is causing meltdown in Britain and Europe and on the American left. Economic decline in Europe, said the NSS, is being eclipsed by “civilisational erasure”.

Some European countries are on course to become majority non-European. The EU and other transnational bodies are undermining political liberty and censoring free speech. Birth rates are cratering and national identities and self-confidence are being lost.

“Should present trends continue,” the NSS authors wrote, “the continent will be unrecognisable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Europe, European Union, USA

The EU Is Enabling Religious Persecution in Pakistan

Pakistan is engulfed in a deepening crisis of religious intolerance and systemic persecution. This year has witnessed a disturbing surge of violence, discrimination and institutional complicity. Christian, Ahmadiyya and Hindu communities have particularly been targeted.

Despite repeated calls for reform and international condemnation, Pakistan’s failure to protect its most vulnerable citizens has left a trail of shattered lives, desecrated places of worship, and a society increasingly fractured by hate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", European Union, Pakistan

How the EU Pays Mainstream Media to Promote Its Narratives

The unelected leadership of the evidently corrupt European Union (EU) is now paying mainstream media to promote the agendas of its EU “elites.” The EU appears to have spent as much as 1 billion euros during the past decade alone in the process, according to a recent report, “Brussels’s media machine: European media funding and the shaping of public discourse,” by Thomas Fazi, from the European think tank MCC Brussels.

Framing the projects as “fighting disinformation” and “promoting European integration” the EU has been throwing taxpayer money, conservatively estimated at €80 million annually, to “media projects” — not including indirect funding, such as advertising contracts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEuropean Union

The EU ‘Elites’, Part III The EU Needs Its Own Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

The idea of a European Union Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to clean up the waste and fraud that goes on with EU taxpayer money is slowly spreading in Europe, but more than overdue. Most Europeans are completely unaware of the madness of EU spending on useless, batty projects, including NGOs that have turned out to be a way for many of the EU’s “elites” to receive nice kickbacks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEuropean Union

The EU ‘Elites’- Corruption and Foreign Influence Operations

“The European Union is one of the least corrupt regions in the world,” boasts the European Commission on its website.

Oh really? Let us take a look at the EU organization itself, which — once again –- is at the center of a new corruption scandal.

Belgian police raided more than 20 locations in Belgium and Portugal in March in an investigation of alleged “active corruption within the European Parliament,” for the benefit of China’s tech giant Huawei, according to Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office. Huawei’s main lobbying office in Brussels was raided, alongside European Parliament offices.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEuropean Union

EU Accused of Silence Over Islamist Violence Against Christians

Brussels officials are never lost for words on Gaza or the war in Ukraine. But critics say it is another matter entirely when it comes to the persecution of foreign Christians, especially by Islamists.

Dutch conservative MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen said on Monday that the European Union—as well as other international communities—is “far too silent about jihadist violence against Christians.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", EU, European Union, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamization of the West

Trump, EU Reach Tariff Deal To Avoid Trade War

President Trump said he reached a trade deal with the European Union late on Sunday, avoiding a trade war with the US’s largest trading partner and marking his biggest deal so far in his attempt to remake the global trading system through higher tariffs for U.S. trading partners.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Trump: immigration is ‘killing Europe’

President Trump said immigration is “killing Europe” as he arrived in Scotland at the start of a four-day visit.

Speaking to reporters after landing at Prestwick airport on Friday evening, Trump said: “On immigration, you better get your act together or you’re not going to have Europe anymore. You got to get your act together.

“You know, last month, we had nobody entering our country. Nobody. Shut it down.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, Europe, Europe - demographic suicide, European Union, President Trump

EU Climate Goals: Pure Placebo Politics

Europe’s economy is buckling under the pressure of climate regulation. Now the European Commission has signaled it may gradually revise its targets.

The industrial math in Germany is unforgiving. Electricity prices for industry are up to 300 percent higher than in the United States. Even France, with its nuclear-backed energy mix, faces double the industrial electricity costs compared to American competitors.

The economic pain is reflected in the data. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the construction sector in the eurozone — an early indicator of economic sentiment — fell to 45.6 in May. The PMI for manufacturing dropped to 49.5 in June. Any figure below 50 signals contraction.

Climate change deindustrialization will bankrupt Europe — and not actually impact climate change. – Small wonder Carney wants closer ties to the EU.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", European Union

Putin knows we are spreadsheet warriors and Europe is in no position to fight

The European Union has experienced quite a few shocks over the past two decades. The most significant one was not Covid, or Brexit, or the Ukraine war. It was the sovereign debt crisis. The fairytale story is that Mario Draghi single-handedly ended the crisis when he told the world that he would do “whatever it takes” to save the euro. He was the president of the European Central Bank when he announced a backstop. It is a convenient explanation because it assumes that the crisis is over.

I am going to put my head on the block to predict that this crisis could come back sooner than we think. Last time, it was the southern Europeans who triggered it. This time, it is the northern Europeans with their relentless push for an increase in defence spending to 5% of GDP.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Europe, European Union, NATO, Russia