[Menes]

Yes, this disease is very rampant over here.

You know what I consider strange? Even those nations of Western Europe, which were on the winning side in WW 2, have been affected, and those which were neutral as well.

I am unable to make heads or tails of the whole situation. Perhaps you could help me, as you know most European countries much better than I do🙂

With the former Eastern bloc, I have a theory: they had to live with the utterly pernicious effects of leftism for four decades. Thus, they recognize the enemy when they see it - once bitten, twice shy, as the saying goes.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

By “Europe being captured,” I was less specific than I should have been. Europe's political “elite” and some state-owned and state-controlled media and academics who rely on state funding. But I see a process occurring in which alternative media — the new bugaboo for then corrupt elite — are multiplying. Time will show both the likes of the AfD and DSW finding they use different political vocabulary to say quite the same thing. Ditto with the latest parliamentary vote toppling Bernier in France. Ditto with the rank-and-file in Britain as we watch Labour voters becoming very angry with Starmer. Of course Meloni, Orbán and others are also “irritants” to the the corrupt EU “management,” I'd say the “European project” is unwinding.

Some of our old friends and neighbors in Germany are "waking" too, as correspondence shows us. That "rules-based order" is coming undone in slo-mo, but it is coming undone. Draghi's "debt harmonization" ploy will fan the flames too. Stay well.

[DiogenesLamp]

With the former Eastern bloc, I have a theory: they had to live with the utterly pernicious effects of leftism for four decades. Thus, they recognize the enemy when they see it - once bitten, twice shy, as the saying goes.

That has long been my theory too. The Eastern bloc nations know where the Western bloc nations are going, and they want no part of it.