Posted on 11/30/2004 6:55:18 AM PST by jb6
WE ALL KNOW what the Axis of Weasels has done. They have bent over backwards to arm, finance and provide diplomatic cover for Americas enemies in the War on Terror. The question is why have they done it?
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E-mail Article Many theories abound. Some say its about money lucrative corporate contracts and euros-for-oil deals with Middle Eastern despots. Money surely plays a role. Yet the hatred many Europeans harbor toward America appears to transcend greed. Its roots lie deep in the fascist ideology which, in large measure, seems to drive the European Union.
With no America to hate, Europeans would have few compelling reasons to unite. And so the lords of Brussels must keep the bonfires of anti-Americanism burning just as their predecessors, Hitler and Mussolini, did.
The writings of Baron Julius Evola (1898 - 1974) lay bare the resentments smoldering in many European hearts. An Italian Fascist and one of Mussolini's leading intellectual defenders, Evola called for a united Europe in his 1972 book Men Among the Ruins. He stated plainly what many Europeans feel but dare not say.
Evola lamented the fact that the fortunes of war had reduced Europe "from its role as a great subject in world politics" to a mere "object conditioned by foreign interests and influences." (1)
"Today Europe has to live between two superpowers struggling for control of the world (USA and USSR)," wrote Evola a condition he likened to "slavery." (2)
Evola looked back fondly on the days when Hitler's Third Reich united Europe in a common cause. "Before 1945," he wrote, "we could at least witness the wonderful sight of the principle of a supernational European Army, and the legionary spirit of volunteers from many nations who, having been organized in several divisions, fought on the Eastern front against the Soviets; at that time the foundation was the Third Reich." (3)
Only through unification could Europe recover its former glory, said Evola. He prescribed the following steps many of which will look eerily familiar to those who have followed the march toward European unification.
Step 1: ESTABLISH AN ELITE ORDER
Evola recommended forming, "an Order, whose members would act in the various nations, doing what they can to promote an eventual European unity..." This Order would be built around "members of ancient European families" who still possessed "something in the blood" that lent them a "warrior character," wrote Evola. (4)
Step 2: LIQUIDATE EUROPE'S "POLITICAL CLASS"
"One must first get rid of the political class, which holds the power in almost all European countries in this time of interregnum and European slavery," Evola wrote. (5)
Step 3: ERADICATE NATIONALISM
Evola called upon Europeans to cultivate an "inner readiness" to put aside their own national loyalties and embrace the superstate of Europe -- to cross "from the national level to the supernational..." as Evola put it. (6) The "nationalist hubris" or "pride of nations" must be broken, Evola declared. (7) In the process, European peoples would have to abandon many aspects of their individual cultures and embrace a new "common European culture." (8) Evola called explicitly for the abolition of "nationalism," "imperialism" and "chauvinism." (9)
Step 4: BUILD A EUROPEAN EMPIRE
Europe should then be united "into a single bloc," wrote Evola. (10) Paradoxically, while Evola denounced "imperialism," he called for the formation of a "European Empire," in which peoples and nations would be "arranged hierarchically, " with superior nations lording it over inferior ones. (11)
Step 5: ABOLISH REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
The European Empire would be ruled by aristocratic elites, who would replace the bickering parliaments of yesteryear. Evola called for a "general anti-democratic cleansing." (12)
Step 6: PHASE OUT CHRISTIANITY
The New Europe would need a spiritual belief system. But Christianity would not do. Modern Christianity had degenerated into something "weak, insubstantial and formless," Evola complained. Worse, it was "not specifically European and not liable to be monopolized for European civilization alone: after all, even American blacks are Christians," Evola wrote. (13)
Step 7: DRIVE RUSSIA AND THE USA OUT OF EUROPE
Ultimately, Europeans would be called upon to make their move -- to confront Europe's foreign oppressors and, in Evola's words, "to become emancipated in every aspect and in equal measure from both the United States and the USSR." (14)
Many and varied are the partisans of European unification, among whom communists lie down with capitalists. Few would recognize Evolas name and fewer still would praise him. Yet, when Europeans close their eyes at night, it is Evolas dream they dream. When they burn with hatred for America, it is Evolas hate that possesses their souls.
_________________________________ 1. Julius Evola, Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist, (trans. Guido Stucco, ed. Michael Moynihan), Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, 2002 (first edition, Edizioni Mediteranee, 1972), page 274. 2. Ibid. 274 3. ibid. 283 4. Ibid. 284 5. Ibid. 285 6. Ibid. 285 7. ibid. 277 8. ibid. 280 9. ibid. 276 10. ibid. 286 11. ibid. 277 12. ibid. 278 13. ibid. 279 14. ibid. 275
That step 3 is going to cause America to find a strong ally in the Scottish.
National pride is fanatical there.
Could such ridiculous mental meanderings possibly shape political thought?
You bet - Europeans have no aristocracy - only political power wannabees.
Ah yes, the latent EVOLA virus - afflicting the likes of Chirac and his ilk.
Yesterday's warlords and scoundrals are today's aristocrats and nova rich.
And there are people over there who would welcome it. I talked to a lady in Leipzig in 2000 who was still angry at Americans for fire bombing that happened in WWII. She said many people long for the old days when they got free tickets to the opera house, they can't afford to go now. Drove ME crazy just listening to her, cursing USA and longing for Communism/Nazism.
I've always noted about the EU, what war (Hilter, Napolean) couldn't do, money/economics did...
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What Hitler and Stalin brought to the party was resolute toughness. You had pioneer youth organizations, paramilitary organizations, contempt for civilized softness.
I don't see any of that in Europe today. They have the same political drive toward unrepresentative, totalitarian regimes that microregulate behavior, but without the drive to arm themselves or to fight.
Maybe that could change. But meantime, most of the European military are a bunch of blow-dried hippies who would be useless in a fight. The only exceptions are the British and, to a certain extent, the French. And, of course, such Eastern European nations as the Poles, who, however, don't fit in very comfortably with the Schroeder/Chirac crowd.
Actually if you do a search on google, Poland EU, you'll find a host of articles where they are kissing up to France and Germany. This probably has a lot to do with the reason they are leaving Iraq.
They don't have to anymore. They can just subvert. Unless they're stopped.
And this ties into the situation in Ukraine. The candidate favored by the EU, Poland, and Soros - Yushchenko - wants to pull Ukraine's troops from Iraq. Yanukovich wants to keep their troops in.
It also ties into the spread of the EU. Watch how they've spread. Those nations whom they couldn't directly bribe they gave revolutions or civil wars to, makes it easier to collect up the pieces into the maw of the iron fanged beast. They don't even pretend to want to stay just in Europe anymore. Now they claim Georgia, Armenia, Azerbajan and Turkey too. Once they have control of those, they can put direct pressure on the Gulf States and control the Gibraltor straits, choking US oil commerse. They will also choke westward US-Russian oil commerce.
As long as America is hip deep in Iraq, all it can do is sit and watch passively as the Reich rises up. This time there are not partisans in the hills to slow the Reich down. If the EU wants a strong military to match ours, they can build one in under 10 years, while we are leveraged to the hilt and sending all our industry to China.
I don't think the psyche of Chirac and his minions is to have military power - they just want to weaken the USA and Russia. They will attempt to do it economically.
i.e. oil, food production, raw materials and technology.
It won't work in the long term - Europe doesn't have the cohones. The current overpriced EURO against the dollar is just a glimpse of what Chirac wants, but it's temporary.
Only thing we have to fear is our own complacency.
It's already there
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