Posted on 12/17/2025 4:30:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
If Europe’s elites want war, they should pick up a rifle and fight.
After the European Commission levied a several-hundred-million-dollar fine on Elon Musk and his social media platform X earlier this month, journalist Michael Shellenberger wrote a damning post in which he excoriated Europe’s rank censorship and state-sponsored propaganda. He accused the commission of engaging “in a deception campaign aimed at confusing” Europeans and Americans into thinking that European elites’ “goal” is anything other than “to censor the American people.”
Shellenberger pointed out that Musk’s fine came while European governments are demanding backdoor access to all private text messages (under the pretense of combatting the transmission of child pornography) and creating a so-called “Democracy Shield” of government-funded “fact-checkers” that enables “censorship by proxy.” He also noted that the European Commission announced the fine to coincide with the rollout of the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy, in which President Trump makes this promise: “We will oppose elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, and the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies.”
Shellenberger put two and two together to make a provocative observation: “The EU is now in direct violation of the NATO Treaty,” which “requires member states to have free speech and free and fair elections. France and Germany are actively and illegally preventing political candidates from running for office for ideological reasons, namely their opposition to mass migration. And the Romanian high court, with the support of the European Commission, nullified election results under the thin and unproven pretext of Russian interference, after a nationalist and populist presidential candidate won.”
As a parting shot, Shellenberger accused the European political class of betraying its own constitution, a document that purports to protect free speech: “Everyone has the right to freedom of expression.
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I agree. European leftist elites should be on the front lines.
Yes. You’re a peon. I’m proud to be an American.
Should go on every Zeeper thread. I noticed they quit using the 'saving democracy' trope a while ago.
We shouldn't worry about the EU. We've got enough problems of our own.
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Nobody in Germany, France or England will fight for the current regimes. The locals know the 3 Stooges in charge hate them and the feeling is mutual.
We sure as hell are not willing to sacrifice more of our country’s blood and treasure for something that is not and never was vital to our national security ie eastern Ukraine.
Let all those loudmouths in Europe pick up their rifles if they’re so eager.
Only American Zeepers.
“Only American Zeepers.”
Where are they on this thread? After all, their entire reason for existence is centered on going to war against Russia, just like their friends leading Europe. Why are they so quiet here? Maybe they haven’t been activated for this topic?
The VERY last.
There was an article recently that claimed 65% of British men would not fight for the United Kingdom in a world war. The citizens have given up on their country and would care if they were conquered by an enemy.
NOT care if they were conquered by an enemy.
Better Putin than Von Der Leyen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eD6X_4XikM
French general says country must ‘prepare to lose its children’
About 120 years too late, but better late than never.
“Better Putin than Von Der Leyen.”
I have said before that the reason the Obama-Biden administrations and the EU tyrants hate Putin is simple. Sometime in the past, whether he is believable or not, he made the statement that “Russia is a Christian country.” This drives the afore-mentioned satan lovers completely berserk. And not in a good way.
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