Ghost of Truth

This flag is the symbol of clumsy bureaucracy, paternalism, corruption, and anti-republican spirit. The consequence of Brussels' degeneration into a vulgar socialist power clique: a civilizational rupture, warmongering as a last resort to cover up the debt collapse, the collapse of the economy—and as revenge, the hated population is forced into a digital censorship gulag, while European traditions and national dignity are hammered down with the most terrible invasion policy. Brussels is the nucleus of the European cancer. #EU #Brussels #WEF #Trump #Globalists #Migration #Merz #Ukraine

Back in Málaga, thank God. Climate change has pushed temperatures down to one or two degrees in Germany.

Advertising to build up the #wareconomy is in full swing. Found at Weeze Airport. I'm curious to see how they plan to fill the empty capacity in industry, which currently employs around 8,000 people in #Germany.

Just a reminder: this is exactly what debt spirals look like, illustrated here using the example of the crisis-stricken city of Munich. It is a symbol of what is currently happening across the country. Germany will no longer be able to escape the debt spiral. #Germany #Merz #debtcrisis #EU #socialism #Klingbeil #Munich

These statistics do not take into account the fact that in Germany, half of the entire social welfare system is also financed through labor. In net terms, this leaves much less. But in Germany, the state does a lot for its huge raid in terms of internal security, education, and the cityscape. This enormous achievement by Germany's huge bureaucracy should be worth something to the people there, shouldn't it? #germany #socialism #eu #taxes #taxesaretheft #freedom

...and so they created the holy church of #co2!

This is fuel looking for its rocket. #btc

Collapse of the Social Machine Social insurance is the crown jewel of Germany’s welfare-state engineers and statists. With its hypertrophic bureaucracy, it forms the power base of the party-state. It’s also the recruitment machine for ever more citizens bound into dependency—citizens who, much like the tens of thousands of Green Deal subsidy entrepreneurs, quietly submit to the country’s cartel of silence. Incentives rule... And now, this gigantic bureaucratic power apparatus is crumbling before our eyes. Aging demographics, social migration, and the deindustrialization forced by aggressive ecological ideology are all eroding the levers of redistribution built into this dull, unreformable machine. The number of people making a productive contribution to Germany’s economy is shrinking, while the ranks of those living parasitically continue to swell. A quick look at the numbers: this year, the pension system alone will require at least €123 billion in tax subsidies. Health insurance needs roughly €14 billion, and long-term care insurance another €1.7 billion. The collective deficit of Germany’s social funds will explode exponentially once the prolonged recession starts depressing tax revenues—something that’s all but inevitable. Germany today is no longer the country I knew as a child in the 1980s. We’re witnessing a society coming apart at the seams—internally fractured, drifting away from bourgeois-meritocratic values, abandoning Western traditions and the cultural heritage of its forebears. And it no longer seems capable of repairing the damage it has inflicted upon itself. Germany has been harvested to the bone, scarred by wind turbines, intellectually dumbed down, and turned wild in its urban spaces. The circus of the globalists moves on—and few even notice. #Germany #EU #WesternCivilization #Socialism #WEF

A nice democratic simulation of the #EU Commission. Here, citizens can have their say on the speed at which their jobs are being destroyed by the CO2 mania. #climatescam

Battle for Free Speech: EU-Europe Deploys Its Artillery In the struggle for narrative dominance and interpretive control, EU-Europe is pursuing a hard and consistent line. Dissenting voices and a growing opposition are met with narrowing discursive spaces. The new German government is also aligning with the Brussels chorus. One thing cannot be said about Brussels and its national subsidiaries: inconsistency. Once a shared agenda is agreed upon and a procedural consensus is found, institutional and media-based defense mechanisms are built in parallel. These serve to immunize and narratively shield the actors, institutions, and beneficiaries involved in the machinery that transforms political will into reality. SLAPP Lawsuits as Smokescreen This is the context in which the German government is now operating. Chancellor Merz’s administration is preparing the national implementation of a largely underreported EU directive. It concerns so-called SLAPP lawsuits — Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation — legal intimidation tools used by powerful actors to silence critics, journalists, or whistleblowers through financially exhausting court proceedings. These lawsuits aim not at legal victory, but at creating pressure, fear, and ultimately bankrupting the opposing side. The EU directive, officially framed as a protection mechanism for critical voices, gives national legislators wide leeway in interpretation and application. While Brussels speaks of “protection against intimidation,” Berlin is using the blueprint to expand judicial intervention rights and grant courts the power to determine what constitutes an “obviously unfounded” case. The real target isn’t mainstream disinformation, but rather effective disciplining of critics of the government and the EU. As a wave of substantive opposition to Brussels’ centralism mounts, a legal early-warning system is being formed, disguised as a protection for press freedom. The legislative process is currently in inter-ministerial coordination. After cabinet approval, it will move to the parliamentary stage. If the federal government has its way, the law will come into effect this year — a striking example of how efficiently politics can work when it curtails individual freedom. Climate of Suppression Let us condense the Brussels agenda into its core elements: centralized capital allocation in sectors like energy; the introduction of digital control currency; the erosion of national cultures through mass migration; and the suppression of secessionist tendencies. In short, further power is to be funneled quietly and systematically from the regions into the Brussels center. The symptoms of this centralism — economic and cultural decline, uncontrolled migration, and a looming debt crisis — are drawing public attention to foundational questions about the EU’s future. Dissatisfaction with climate ideology and government overreach is also showing at the ballot box. A rising conservative right, embodied by figures like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, is finding common ground in opposition to EU centralism. A consolidation of this movement is likely, and it’s triggering defensive reflexes in Brussels and national capitals. This awakening opposition has exposed the various immune systems protecting the regime: NGOs, state-funded media, subsidized business leaders, and a captured academic class dominate public discourse. Together, they set the narrative, isolate dissenters, and — where these defenses fail — seek to sterilize political opposition through media mechanisms. Firewalls in party politics, climate hysteria, and the borderless migration policy are the most visible front lines in this battle for narrative control. Vectors of Centralized Attack A visible rupture appeared with Elon Musk’s takeover of X. His multi-billion-dollar investment could mark a turning point in the history of postmodern democracy. With around 600 million users and the spread of sovereignty-enabling technologies like VPNs, the decentralized author ecosystem of X has stabilized and expanded. That success has triggered fierce retaliation. Brussels is now pushing measures like criminal liability reversal, mandatory identity verification, and invasive surveillance software — classic tools of a control regime blind to the growing public backlash it now faces. Free media have made the problem of centralized power visible, and people are quietly withdrawing their consent. Yet the EU persists, levying grotesque multimillion-euro fines on U.S. media companies. The battle lines are drawn: the EU versus a rising domestic liberty movement, increasingly backed by America’s renewed push for sovereignty. Mounting Costs, Dwindling Control Alongside these attacks, EU member governments are scrambling to subsidize their collapsing media ecosystems with taxpayer money. But this is a doomed effort: once dissenters find safe harbor, they rarely return to the island of curated, state-managed thought. The exponential cost spiral of this asymmetric fight remains misunderstood by its protagonists. In trying to keep a failing eco-socialist narrative alive, governments are burning public money — and revealing the political-media cartel defending it. This paternalistic overreach is backfiring, fueling public rejection. Greta Thunberg’s endless moral performances — from climate marches to Palestinian solidarity rallies — have become a symbol of a system that proclaims its moral superiority more desperately the more it loses its grip on the public narrative. That the EU and its national arms are now rolling out their heavy guns in the information war — like the SLAPP directive — is deeply concerning. We learned from the COVID protests in Europe and Canada that the state is willing to use police force and underhanded methods to protect its power. But this escalation reveals a deeper truth: the media consensus between rulers and ruled has broken down. Political messaging and its execution increasingly diverge from the people’s will, and manifest in polarized parliaments and a more unified opposition. The debate space is heating up. And the battle lines are now crystal clear. #eu #socialism #freedom

France's Fiscal Reckoning: Is The Eurozone's Second Giant Next In Line? France is caught in a debt spiral. Now the president of the French Court of Auditors is warning of the consequences of political inaction. Pierre Moscovici has served as president of the French Court of Auditors for five years, overseeing regular audits of the nation's public finances. From 2012 to 2014, he was France’s finance minister and then spent five years as EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs. The man knows his way around empty coffers. On Wednesday, Moscovici called on Prime Minister François Bayrou to take urgent steps to consolidate public finances. France’s budgetary situation, he said, has spun out of control, especially in 2023 and 2024. If a turnaround is not achieved soon, the capital markets will force one. “We can still act voluntarily,” he warned the government, “but tomorrow, the markets may impose austerity.” For Now, Calm in the Bond Markets Once the dominoes start falling, it goes fast. Investors dump French government bonds en masse. Yields spike, prices plummet, and refinancing the country’s massive debt becomes even more costly. Already, interest payments consume 10.6% of France’s state budget—roughly the same as education spending. As debt levels rise, fiscal maneuvering space shrinks. With sovereign debt at 114% of GDP, the trap could snap shut unexpectedly. For now, European officials still point fingers at the U.S., whose debt ratios are similar. But no one can say how long that deflection tactic will work. Credit risk materializes suddenly—usually without warning. Point of No Return What we do know is this: historically, a debt ratio above 100% of GDP is already considered critical. At that point, even ambitious reform efforts are rarely enough to grow out of the mess. And unless the indebted country happens to issue the world’s reserve currency, capital markets will deliver their verdict—as we saw during the Eurozone debt crisis fifteen years ago. What follows is familiar: central bank intervention to keep government finances liquid by running the printing presses—transferring the bill to citizens through inflation. France has never been known for fiscal conservatism. Years of political stalemate, shifting majorities, and unstable coalitions have pushed annual deficits far beyond the Maastricht 3% threshold. In 2024, the deficit reached 5.8% of GDP. Even with early consolidation steps, it is expected to remain at 5.5% this year—far above the target. No Economic Comeback in Sight If French policymakers are banking on a comeback in economic growth, they may be disappointed. In May, the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for manufacturing came in at 48.1 and for services at 49.6—both in contraction territory. PMIs reflect business sentiment, with readings above 50 indicating growth and below 50 signaling decline. They are considered early indicators of economic and industrial trends. In other words: despite—or perhaps because of—massive government spending, the French economy is stuck in recession. Contagion Risk France’s brewing fiscal crisis is more than a national tragedy. Alongside Germany and Italy, France is under close scrutiny from analysts and investors worldwide. Can Paris pull off fiscal consolidation? Confidence in France’s creditworthiness has been shaky for years. In 2023, Moody’s was the last major rating agency to downgrade France’s AAA status, assigning a negative outlook. If capital markets further downgrade French debt, the consequences would spill across the Eurozone. Here, the old rule applies: hang together, or hang separately. Bond markets tend to move from one weak link to the next, rigorously reassessing creditworthiness in crisis situations. Those who falter pay higher interest—or lose market access altogether. Moscovici knows this. The pressure is mounting on national governments: either push through tough budget reforms or increase the tax burden on citizens. The French Exception France is a special case. With a government spending ratio of 57.3% of GDP, it ranks among the top welfare states in the world. Accordingly, the overall tax burden has risen to 45.6%—well above the EU average of around 40%. Citizens are already surrendering nearly half their income to maintain Paris’s welfare illusions. Social peace is being purchased with money that no longer exists—financed by debt and propped up by the illusion of fiscal sovereignty. When even the nation’s top auditor demands consolidation, one thing is clear: it’s about to get serious. The social budget—the bedrock of the political quiet pact keeping unrest in the banlieues at bay—is at stake. History teaches us: when governments cut social programs in France, social peace crumbles. Then the suburbs—from Paris to Marseille to Lyon—go up in flames.

Germany’s Pension Ponzi on the Brink If you’ve ever wanted to witness the slow-motion collapse of a Ponzi scheme, you might want to keep an eye on Germany’s public pension system. Rhetorically and politically sugar-coated as a “pay-as-you-go” system — where today’s workers finance the retirement of yesterday’s — this bureaucratic redistribution leviathan is utterly dependent on an ever-growing pool of contributors. Problem is: Germany is aging, shrinking, and losing its industrial base. Just in time for this demographic crunch — declining birth rates, increasing life expectancy, and longer pension payout durations — policymakers have decided to torch what’s left of the country’s industrial foundation in a green frenzy. Year after year, around €70 billion in value creation is being sent up the chimney, while more than half a million jobs have disappeared in recent years. That’s half a million fewer contributors to the pension Ponzi. Tax Payer´s Money To Maintain The Illusion To keep the locomotive rolling — even as it barrels in the wrong direction — the federal government now plugs the pension system’s gaping cash hole with roughly €123 billion annually from the general budget. In other words: workers pay a second time, in the form of taxes, to support the same unsustainable system they already fund through record-high payroll deductions. With a government spending ratio now exceeding 50% of GDP, Germany has erected a full-scale hyperstate. Attached to its bloated bureaucracy are ever-growing administrative tentacles: layers of social insurance agencies and subsidized institutions now serving as the domestic enforcement arm of Brussels’ self-destructive Green Deal. The coming deep economic depression, which has been foreshadowed by three years of quasi-permanent recession, will test just how resilient — and solvent — the savings and wealth accumulation of past generations truly are. It may be their prudence that softens the blow of the present generation’s green delirium. Trapped in the Logic of a Ponzi Scheme and Keynesian Voodoo Economics Entirely captive to the logic of Ponzi finance and Keynesian voodoo economics, Germany’s new federal government now plans its grand escape from all woes. With a debt hammer of one trillion euros over the coming years, it aims to wipe away every problem while putting the economy back on track. Broadly speaking, the money is supposed to raise the defense budget to 5% of GDP, as demanded by the latest NATO summit, pour into the country’s crumbling infrastructure, and plug countless holes in the overstrained welfare apparatus. We don’t need to go into detail here to recall that such stimulus-fueled bonfires leave behind nothing but more debt and inflation, misallocating printed capital into sectors with little or no real demand. It would suffice if politicians had even a passing familiarity with recent economic history — they’d realize they are once again slamming their heads against the very same wall as in decades past. Socialists Debate Higher Contribution Meanwhile, the SPD — junior coalition partner to Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU-led government — is currently debating raising the pension contribution ceiling by €500 to €8,050 monthly salary. This increase would translate to an additional yearly burden of over €1,116 for anyone earning that amount. In other words, those who already carry the lion’s share of the country’s fiscal load as the last remaining productive pillars of society would be hit with yet another surcharge. The welfare state and social peace, they argue, are worth this sacrifice. The coalition partner CDU’s reaction was not long in coming. There was unanimous rejection of the SPD proposal to once again burden the country’s top earners. Wolfgang Steiger, Secretary General of the CDU’s Economic Council, stated: “We strictly oppose the move to raise the contribution ceiling in statutory health insurance. It would further increase the cost of labor.” That sounds good at first and has its merits. After all, it’s about time fiscal policy wielded the Milei chainsaw instead of continuing with the socialist cornucopia. Yet recent history has shown us that the CDU flips positions faster than expected. It is, not least, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s fault that trust in his party has hit rock bottom. After multiple broken campaign promises — like cutting the electricity tax or securing the country’s external borders once and for all — no one believes his party anymore. After all, the community, acting as a global social welfare office, also needs to provide compensatory payments across other social insurance branches — which, thanks to successful recruitment efforts related to illegal migration, are facing significant special financing needs. Germany is the Victim of Its Own Success Two successful postwar generations built the capital and economic foundation on which the neo-socialist aberration could flourish — manifesting itself in an overgrown welfare system. At the root of the problem lies not only the crushing tax and contribution burden in Germany but also its stagnating productivity, which together make rapid private capital formation nearly impossible for large parts of the population. Even though politicians occasionally flirt with the idea of introducing elements of a capital-funded pension system, such proposals are a suicide mission in light of the sheer weight of the public pay-as-you-go system. Germans hold almost exclusively cash-based savings, which makes them highly vulnerable whenever the state — in concert with the ECB — fires up the inflation engine. On top of that, they remain deeply risk-averse investors, culturally and historically allergic to equity markets or private pension schemes. Powerful Voting Block The pension insurance provides the perfect case study. With over 21 million pension recipients, every reform attempt at the expense of this group faces a homogeneous voting block. Germany could raise the retirement age, which it is attempting to do to 67 years. It could reduce benefits, which it does not. Pensions are tied to inflation and productivity growth in the economy. Politicians could reject the green-socialist agenda and return to the economic rationality of the free market to expand the contributor base and attract investment. They do not. The bureaucracy — the political front organization — is simply too powerful. Regulation is its product, and additional welfare recipients are its customers. The path of least resistance will be taken: further increasing contribution rates for the productive pillars. Federal subsidies from the tax pool will supplement this to ease the pressure. But due to demographic development and the destructive economic policies in the EU, especially in Germany, the Ponzi scheme is steering toward an abyss. #germany #eu #fiatponzi

With its public debt ratio of 63%, Germany might still have the chance to escape the debt spiral if it were to introduce radical reforms now, such as the dismantling of its sprawling state and social system. The country would have to reduce its public spending ratio from 50% to below 30% and gradually reintroduce the rules of the free market economy. In short, it would have to radically reject Brussels' eco-socialism. It is ethically irresponsible for the Green Fritz, together with 'debt Lars', to put together a coalition of losers and now lead the country into this very debt trap. It is kowtowing to the central body in Brussels to keep the highly indebted eurozone alive with fresh credit at the expense of the Germans. #eu #merz #germany #debtcrisis

I am not a fan of Bitcoin ETFs and only recommend holding BTC in self custody and cold storage. But the fact that Blackrock earns more with its Bitcoin ETF than with its S&P ETF shows which direction institutional capital has taken. The severe shocks in the traditional financial markets the over-indebted states the uncertainty in the bond market will measure the role of Bitcoin as a credit collateral and investment form without third party risk in a way that we can hardly estimate at this moment. #bitcoin

The US dollar on a dive. The low DXY will facilitate the refinancing of the dollar-indebted world and thus stabilize the dollar. The end of the dollar as a reserve currency is not in sight. #usd

Summer Season – Season of the Apocalyptic Cultists Summer is here—and with it, the degenerate climate brigades. Heat triggers them: panic-mongering hysterics, usually employed by state-funded institutions, state weather channels, or statist media pros. They're the annoying background noise of this beautiful season, lurking like ticks in tall grass, waiting to ruin your picnic in the park. Add to that the meteorological Picassos, forever painting the forecast in volcanic hues—the wet dream of postmodern apocalypse fetishists. A personal confession: I got rid of my TV a long time ago. But thanks to X and a few media platforms, I still keep up with the hysteria. Turns out, ditching the screen was one of my best decisions—an effective way to dodge the shrapnel of degenerate manipulators and profiteers feeding off the widespread intellectual rot. And yet, I can hardly believe that half the population still hasn’t built up immunity to this madness. The zeal with which they attempt to guilt us—as consumers and producers—for warm temperatures, dressed up in ridiculous climate jargon, reveals one thing: they know we’ve entered the final stage, the injury time of their dream—an all-encompassing control regime built around CO₂ emissions and climate regulation. But the final, decisive goal will be scored by the rational ones. The enlightened. The people who live ethically, who genuinely care about nature, yet clearly see that the climate panic is nothing but a narrative gateway into totalitarian control. When that goal hits the net, the parasites won’t be able to handle the celebration. #eu #climatescam #freedom

Defiant and Unteachable: The ECB Is Trapped EU-Europeans are a peculiar bunch. Despite repeated failures with centralist economic planning, they cling stubbornly—like children to a bowl of candy—to their ambition of transferring the most vital sectors of the economy into the hands of Brussels’ bureaucratic caste. Unpopular industries like automotive, chemicals, or aviation are smashed with a regulatory sledgehammer. The heart of the economy—the energy sector—is placed under direct state guardianship. The so-called Green Deal, a Keynesian-style centrally planned substitute economy, is meant to replace traditional energy sources. The results are predictable: deindustrialization and a massive exodus of investment to non-European countries. Always involved in this process: the European Central Bank. It’s expected to grease the wheels of Brussels’ colossal subsidy machine with artificially cheap credit. The fact that the ECB, after its eighth rate cut in record time, has once again pushed its key interest rate down to 2%—deep into negative real territory—doesn’t trouble the central planners in the Frankfurt Tower. ECB board member Joachim Nagel even claimed today that the “neutral rate” had been reached. In a sense, he’s right: after years of zero interest policy, the Eurozone economy has grown so dependent on cheap credit—sometimes outright subsidies—that it can no longer function or service its debt under conditions of real positive interest rates. That’s what economists call a “zombie economy.” The wave of bankruptcies, such as the recent collapse of battery cell manufacturer Northvolt, is the logical outcome of centrally planned industrial policy. Worse still for the central planners in Frankfurt and Brussels: their transatlantic counterpart, the Federal Reserve, is proving far more determined and resilient. It continues to hold its rates at 4.5%, embracing a real positive return on capital to allow market corrections to unfold. In the U.S., short-term pain is seen as the price of long-term health. Europe, by contrast, has grown addicted to its subsidy habit. It is ensnared in a hyper-statist welfare model, doing everything it can to defer both economic and social pain. How long that can go on is anyone’s guess. But one thing is certain: tensions are rising across the markets. The day is drawing near when these pressures will erupt in a seismic shock—and the tectonic plates of the economy will violently shift into a new configuration.

Oil Price in a Tailspin – And With It, the Global Economy? Neither trade wars, nor threats to blockade global shipping bottlenecks, nor even hot wars seem capable of jolting oil prices out of their catatonic slumber. Forget “Drill, baby, drill” – U.S. shale needs higher prices to justify capital expenditure. Yes, the twelve-day conflict between Israel and Iran briefly pushed prices up by as much as 15%, but the rally quickly fizzled. Brent now wobbles well below the $67 per barrel mark. Dead calm, little motion. In the U.S., the rig count has dropped to just 432 – the lowest level since autumn 2021 and down 11% from last year. The message is loud and clear: prices are too low. Meanwhile, OPEC+ has announced an output increase and delivers now 411,000 barrels per day. At the same time, U.S. producers are shutting down rigs because prices no longer cover costs. So what’s keeping prices this low? A sluggish global economy? A flood of supply? Derivatives speculation? Likely a mix of all three. But one thing is certain: the weakening world economy, shrinking trade flows between the U.S. and China amid tariff tensions, and declining maritime traffic are increasingly mirrored in oil markets. The price tells the story. #oil #usa #opec

Canada Retreats on Digital Tax—Trump’s Tariff Whip Hits Its Mark That was fast. Just days after announcing a punitive digital tax aimed squarely at U.S. tech giants—and being promptly met with a tariff whip from Donald Trump—Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has tucked tail and pulled the plan. What we’re witnessing in Ottawa resembles the chaos in Brussels: a globalist outpost in full panic mode, lurching without strategy, caught off guard by geopolitical gravity. These erratic moves betray the same confusion spreading across the Western managerial class: they have no idea how to respond to America’s looming reshuffle of global trade. And more than that—they still don’t know what to do with the unruly figure of Donald Trump. His tariffs are real. As real as the quiet protectionism long practiced by the EU and Canada. Suddenly, the world isn't operating according to the neat prescriptions of the Eurocrat’s socialist playbook, where Brussels reigns without dissent. Still, nothing changes in Europe. Faced with the coming trade talks, the continent doesn’t budge an inch. Except for provocations—like Germany’s own Canada-style digital tax proposal targeting U.S. firms—there’s little but strategic inertia. Heads are buried in the sand. They’re running down the clock. Carney’s tax gambit was a second probe—a second attempt to goad Trump into a misstep. But Trump held the line. He knows exactly what he’s facing: a cartel of power that has never learned to lose. A bloc accustomed to issuing demands while giving no ground. The very hard nut Trump always said he would crack. Whether they like it or not, America is preparing to smash the protectionist cartel with sweeping tax reform, deregulation, and a fully national trade doctrine. And Trump will make sure realism returns to the world stage. He’ll expose the Europeans for what they are: protectionists dependent on trade and imported energy—still clinging to a postcolonial defiance, unwilling to accept that the world has turned. #usa #canada #eu #wef

March into Green Socialism It has become impossible to ignore: socialism is resurging—this time cloaked in green environmentalism—and has moved from an endemic condition to a proliferating phase. Numerous failures, such as the case of battery cell manufacturer Northvolt, offer critical insights into its current stage of development. For advocates of liberty, it is essential to dissect these cases, replay them publicly, and confront the overwhelming dominance of the statist media machine with facts and clarity. The Northvolt case reveals we are now in a late-stage form of socialism. Corporatist structures, combined with a sprawling web of subsidies and a cordon sanitaire of NGOs and state media, provide the bureaucratic state with formidable protection. Within it thrives a new functionary class, empowered to implement ideological experiments with little resistance. In the final phase of this socialist experiment, we should expect high levels of social and economic volatility—very much in line with the predictions made by the authors of The Fourth Turning. The absurd and grotesque will alternate with economic crises and violent clashes between state forces and fragmented social groups. The apparatus of the state will deliberately escalate its divisive agenda, seeking to distract from the true cause of decline: the collapse of the hyperstate. What follows remains uncertain. Two paths lie ahead. One leads—true to Europe’s historical tendencies—toward total control. This is the path actively pursued by the EU and Germany. The second path would require a European interpretation of liberty, similar in spirit to Argentina’s bold experiment under President Milei. Given current developments in Brussels, Berlin, and London, I am skeptical that the second path has any real chance of prevailing. #eu #climatescam #usa