It's all gas

We need a real policy, but that's a lot. It sucks.

How did we get here? How can it happen in the 21st century that the vice-president of the European Commission, who has never been able to show visible performance in anything, advises 450 million EU citizens to

"they can also do something so that less money goes into Putin's pocket. Of course, they can also choose to do nothing, but they can also decide to heat less, go by bike instead of by car, take a shorter shower to air out their clothes instead of washing them."

If we could only have heard this one similarly absurd statement in recent years, we could see it as an anomaly, but unfortunately the situation is much more serious than that. Mr. Timmermans' slap-in-the-face proposal is not the only one that sharply highlights the fatal incompetence of the Brussels leadership. I note that for some reason such virtuoso public educators are never in a hurry to demonstrate the effectiveness of their own ideas, even though I would love to see a committee meeting where the participants decide on the fate of unijó in 19 degrees, in ice cream shorts and fur panties, and thanks to the body parts washing quota, they are dirty, but at least in ventilated clothes . Of course, Mr. Timmermans and his colleagues are among those who "do nothing".

And then there is Ursula, the "close it, but not then and not like that" bureaucrat, the president of the European Commission, who says that Gazprom's announcement that it will stop gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria,

"unjustified and unacceptable, it represents another attempt at blackmail on the part of Russia."

Unreasonable. Of course. Almost since the beginning of the war, they have been applying collective punishment against all Russians, regardless of where they live in the West, they have been hitting Russia with resounding sanctions - which are now boomeranging - since 2014, they are pouring weapons into Ukraine, but the response is unjustified. Obviously, what could be other than unreasonable. It's unacceptable. Because only blackmail from Brussels is acceptable, what's more, desirable, and blackmail from elsewhere is unacceptable. But it's okay, solidarity will certainly help, it's used to heat public buildings and apartments, and it's also how the economy works. Or not, and Poland continues to use Russian gas , only now it buys it from the Germans, who with their super-green morality filter it into a fine, democratic one.

And what would it be that is really unreasonable? The pride! That little big hubris, which today, in the age of small characters, has turned into a parody of itself. The Brussels elite's production under the title of crisis management, from migration to covid, was bankruptcy itself, the capital failure.

As for Europe's "own moral instincts", Robert C. Castel summed it up the other day with a precise description:

"the postmodern international took advantage of the American hegemony and geopolitical "summer break" to build a Patyomkin world village of its own dreams. This is the European Union today. This false postmodern self-awareness is not the ideology of the member states that make up the union, but of the international elites. So Europe is not the victim in this morality play, but an accomplice, an accomplice, the avatar of the American progressive elites."

The leadership in Brussels is more and more reminiscent of a festering boil on the body of Europe, and today we are at a point where it is not simply making the host body sick, but has set itself the grotesque goal of destroying it. For the American dream, not a single Ukrainian life and not a single European existence is a loss. Except for the elite ones.

In the meantime, Russia is doing its thing, whether the Brussels elite take it as a bad name, that, unlike them, Putin has a strategy or not, for example, during the two months of the war, he almost doubled his income from fossil fuels sold to the EU . It is true that the quantities sold decreased somewhat, but the price increase resulted in a significant jump in revenues overall.

It is naive to expect a solution from those who caused the problem, it is naive to believe that if the Brussels leaders have only been able to make loud declarations, now they will suddenly put aside their feelings, delve into their thoughts, and then return to real politics. I'm not sure they have viable thoughts.

It is reassuring, however, that the liberal media predictably takes its usual form, and the vanguards of "what is reality for us" continue to build their utopia like diligent little ants.

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