Europeans sat aghast after Vice-President J.D. Vance dared to suggest that their socialist democracies had become illiberal, intolerant, authoritarian—and on the wrong side of global populism.
Like some addict who knows his habit is killing him, and yet who cannot resist another fix, so the Euros war on fossil fuels and hollow out their middle classes.
They keep borders open to massive, illiberal illegal immigration. Yet they know the result bankrupts social services, spike crime, and turn “diversity” into dangerous ethnic and religious chauvinism and contempt for generous host countries.
The recent Euro Ministers in Vance’s audience both publicly and to their left-wing monopolistic media complained bitterly about the Americans’ “interference” in their internal affairs.
How odd!—given that this comes from Europe and the UK that saw ads for British Laborites to fly to America to interfere in our recent American elections, and lying British subject Christopher Steele’s pathetic dossier that sought to warp the 2016 election and subvert the ensuing Trump presidency.
In 2016 the Ukraine sought to interfere in the U.S. election and its ambassador wrote a pro-Hillary Clinton op-ed opposing Trump.
Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss routinely bankrolls leftist U.S. candidates and causes—as the E.U. targets U.S. tech companies to censor any content they find antithetical to their leftist agendas.
Similar to their hysterical, out-of-power and impotent Democrat counterparts here at home, the Euros’ strategy of regaining global influence and power is not to become introspective, self-critical and open to reform.
They prefer instead to scream, stonewall, and threaten—in hopes of damaging what they feel is the malign influence of the Trump colossus.
Yet the more outraged at critics, at home and abroad, the European ruling elite becomes, the more the European Union’s wealth, authority, and power decline on the world stage.
And rather than open up their societies and economies while closing their borders to illegal immigrants, the embittered EU apparatchiks can only gnash their teeth at the U.S. in general. And in particular it rages at the Trump administration for offering it reality bites after experiencing and then terminating the disastrous Biden four-year European mimicry.
Still, Europe should heed Vance’s constructive criticism—or, alternatively, look carefully at its current relationship with the U.S.
The more the European Union grew (from its 1997 six-member union to its current twenty-seven members), the more, paradoxically, its aggregate GDP fell behind that of the U.S.—which now has 1.5 times the European gross domestic product.
Europe is committing slow-motion energy suicide, led mostly by Germany (Vance’s most severe critic).
Germany’s energy is about four times as costly as the U.S. average.
Its foreign-born are now 16 percent of the population (greater even than the U.S. record high). And its calcified fertility rate hovers below 1.5.
Eleven years after NATO members promised to spend 2 percent of their respective GDP on defense, nine of NATO’s thirty-two nations still balk—despite the 3-year horrific Ukrainian war on Europe’s border and the prior four-year haranguing from Donald Trump.
Germany still leads the holdouts. It spends only 1.5 percent of its GDP, which has essentially been either negative or flat the last two years.
Because of the European elite’s growing rejection of horizontal drilling, fracking, and offshore drilling (their prior mantra was to let the Russians do such dirty business in Russia, and then sell Europe the gas and oil cheaply), the EU will now become increasingly dependent on U.S. and Middle-East imported natural gas.
Or it will have to repair Ukraine’s destruction of the Nord Stream II pipeline and resume business with its hated energy benefactor Vladimir Putin.
The EU’s increasingly asymmetrical and protectionist tariffs result in a $235 billion annual trade surplus with the U.S.—inching up to China’s $295 billion.
Add it all up. One would think that the EU ministers would welcome polite criticism.
Instead, their contempt for the U.S. is unwise—given they still won’t meet their NATO obligations.
They depend for their security on the U.S. military.
They run massive trade deficits with the U.S. due to one-sided tariffs. They need American energy. They are shrinking in population, inert in economic growth.
But they will find no cure by increasingly and loudly expressing their bitter anti-Americanism under the convenient fig leaf of hating Trump.
