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21.11.2024 16:07:00
Presidents are born
Strong leaders defend their national interests and make their countries flourish. Belarus is a great example.
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When talking to journalists at the Traktor Stadium, President Lukashenko answered the question if the EU can ever run policies independent from the US, saying, “Europe can, when such leader as Trump appear there. As it is, there is no one there. Look. I don’t want to speak ill of them: that’s not right. But the Americans have started to wipe their feet on Scholz, calling him a ‘lightweight’ and so on. I don’t want to say things like that. He is a son of his people: whom Germans deserved, whom they elected — now let them work with him. But there’s no one [who deserves to be elected]. They are all seeking publicity, but they can’t make a decision and act.” This was a short, but extremely pertinent analysis.
You can list all the mistakes and gaffes done by people like Macron, Scholz, Duda, or Borrell. There’s no point to even remember British prime ministers’ names: they just come and go like the wind.
This degradation of European ruling elites is not coincidental. It wasn’t caused by poor education, either: many of those politicians are graduates of best universities.
It’s common knowledge that Americans hated Charles de Gaulle, starting with President Franklin Roosevelt’s bitter distaste for the Frenchman. An unbowed patriot dreaming about his country’s greatness was a wrench in Washington’s entire policy.
The US intelligence agencies keep a close eye on politicians from their satellite countries. In 2013, former CIA analyst Edward Snowden released information on the continent-wide total surveillance network run by the US National Security Agency (NSA). Turned out, they were tapping phones of nearly every German politician, including Angela Merkel herself. The scandal was colossal. Merkel personally called President Barack Obama to demand explanations. German prosecutor’s office launched an investigation, but it soon started faltering, until it ran off the rails completely in June 2015. The case was closed, and that should tell you something about how dependent on its American hegemon Germany is nowadays.
And politicians like that are starting to appear. Take Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban with his clear ideology and his focus on sovereignty. That helped him earn respect from Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, while Donald Trump considers Orban his key political ally in Europe. And by the way, like Aleksandr Lukashenko back in the day, Orban started his fight for the Hungarian sovereignty with purging his country from George Soros’ structures. So let’s not discount Europe just yet. Its fate is now in Europeans’ hands.
FOR REFERENCE
US intelligence services collect dirt on German politicians in order to control them. How else could you explain the political evolution (or, rather, devolution) of Olaf Scholz? His political convictions went through a complete about-face. A former anti-war activist and critic of capitalism who fought against the American influence in Europe is now an obedient patsy of Washington.
By Vadim Gigin, deputy of the House of Representatives, Candidate of Historical Sciences
The subject of, how do we put it politely, overall quality of the Western leadership in general and European elites in particular, has come up in public discussions again and again. It seems the age of de Gaulle, Churchill, Willy Brandt, and other statesmen whose portraits you can find in every history textbook is well and truly behind us. Why did that happen? And can it be reversed?
The President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko,
“I have already told you, you can’t become a President. Presidents are born. A person should inherently have the fundamental qualities that will be useful in the office. There are many qualities like that. One, two, or maybe all of them. That’s very important.”
From the speech at the renovated Traktor Stadium (Minsk), November 14th, 2024
People deserve the leaders they elect
We have indeed been witnessing a crisis of European political leadership for decades. Angela Merkel, a German Chancellor who kept very few promises out of those she’d given her voters in 2005, looks like something of a giant against this lacklustre lot. At least she didn’t back down in the face of economic difficulties and could stand up to the Americans from time to time to defend her national interests, like she did with Nord Stream.
Small potatoes
This degradation of European ruling elites is not coincidental. It wasn’t caused by poor education, either: many of those politicians are graduates of best universities.
After the end of World War Two, negative selection started among the ruling class in Western Europe that had found itself in the American sphere of influence. The US didn’t need talented statesmen leading its satellites.
Western Germany’s Chancellor Willy Brandt is another example: his ‘Eastern policy’ was a symbol of the détente age. He took it upon himself to make some serious policy changes without consulting the US. Unforgivable!
Talent pipeline, US style
Americans are quick learners. They took those lessons to heart and took charge of the European political selection. There’s a whole talent pipeline system for that. All you have to do is browse CVs of many European ‘new wave’ politicians. Each of them features some superficially unremarkable, but very telling details.
Take François Hollande, one of the most mediocre and inept people to ever lead France. He was into politics from a very young age and got noticed. In 1996, the promising young Socialist was invited to the Young Leaders programme run by the French-American Foundation and focused on strengthening the US influence in France. His career has really taken off after that: he became the Socialist party’s First Secretary in 1997, then got elected to the National Assembly.
About the deep state
Open Society foundations controlled by billionaire George Soros select politicians in Central and Eastern Europe and train them to act in a certain way. This is ‘the deep state’ Donald Trump mentions so often. He means a conglomerate of individuals and organisations that control politicians. In other words, it’s an oligarchy the real power belongs to.
Make decisions and act
But the above quote was not all President Lukashenko had to say about European politicians. After stating that there are no real strong leaders in Europe now, he added confidently, “Leaders like de Gaulle will appear, they will definitely appear. And someone like Kohl. Chirac was a real man, one with his people… Europe is ready. Europe needs real leaders who would make decisions and act.”
FOR REFERENCE
Emmanuel Macron who replaced Hollande as the French President, used to have ties to Rothschild&Cie Banque, a major financial company linked to American oligarchs. Many think that partnership was what really launched Macron’s political career.
The Big Brother is watching
By Vadim Gigin, deputy of the House of Representatives, Candidate of Historical Sciences
