I have a supreme political challenge for Der Ahhnuuld ...
Go back to Austria. Assume the same role as General Monck did for Charles II of England.
That is, kingmaker for a Hapsburg restoration!
(Please pause at this point to locate a recording of the “Radetzky March.” Listen to it all the way through. Listen to it again.)
The Hapsburgs had their ups and downs over 500 years, but they ended up the longest-running act in European monarchy.
They would be going still if it hadn’t been for those upstart Hohenzollerns.
The Hapsburgs certainly knew what to do about their Muslim problem. Check out the Siege of Vienna in 1683, followed by Prinz Eugen’s many successful Balkan campaigns against the Turks.
My personal favorite was Zenta, 1697, which was your classic one-sided comeuppance for the the throat-slitting forces of the religion of evil.
For what it’s worth, I have come to believe that constitutional monarchy is the only answer for a rejuvenated Europe.
People are lost without their traditions. Should it be any wonder that the Left, in its ruthless search for power for power’s sake, seeks to smash family, church, civil society.
Devotion to a supra-national monarchy — of which the old “Ramshackle Empire” was the best example — is about the only way of counteracting Europe’s centuries-old ethnic hatreds. A beloved imperial father figure like Franz Josef stood above such tawdry business, lending stability to the nation.
Or to put it simply — American patriotism starts with our devotion to our Constitution; European patriotism starts with devotion to legitimate monarchies that embody centuries of tradition in the persons of a royal family that is above dirty partisan politics.