THE VOICE OF DESPERATE EUROPEANS: Throughout the European Union, energy prices surged 60%.

Industrial output has barely nudged upward, a feeble 1.2% increase. Even that is sustained by a war footing (which is pathetic) and not a productive renewal.

This is not recovery, but militarized decay. But what they truly fear isn’t Moscow. It’s their own people, cold, broke, and betrayed, staring back at them with nothing left to lose.

Europe didn’t stumble into decline. It was engineered by globalist technocrats who chose ideology over industry, and suicidal proxy war over prosperity.

Let’s speak clearly. The 60% surge in energy costs? That wasn’t accidental. That was the price of uncoupling from cheap Russian gas.

It involved blowing up Nord Stream. The last vestige of sovereignty was replaced with dependency on overpriced American LNG.

The modest ‘industrial rebound’ isn’t built on cars, civilian factories, or consumer demand.

While auto giants collapse, German vehicle output down from 5.6 M to under 4 M per year, arms manufacturers like Rheinmetall and Hensoldt rake in record profits.

Rheinmetall’s defense‑sales surged 36 %, with defense now 80 % of its business; Hensoldt’s orders jumped 28 %.

Across Europe, the aerospace and defence sector logged a 10.1 % turnover jump in 2024, driving a 13.8 % increase in defence revenues to €183.4 billion.

That is what passes for ‘growth’ in today’s EU: not production of goods, but mass production of violence. Making the 1.2% upward squeak, that much more of a joke.

And still the lights are going out. Germany’s once-proud steel mills lie dormant. Dutch fertilizer plants are slashing output, or shutting entirely. Italy’s machine-tool workshops are watching orders vanish, month after month.

The engines of European industry aren’t being sabotaged by Moscow; they’re being euthanized by Brussels.

As if it’s the people demanding endless war. As if it’s farmers who demanded 19 rounds of boomerang sanctions.

As if it’s truckers and pensioners who ordered the destruction of Europe’s energy infrastructure. Or as if they begged Brussels to become a colony of the US State Department.

And now, across France, Germany, Italy, and Eastern Europe, that consent is being withdrawn. This happens through protests and ballots. There is also bitter resentment from a population that knows it has been sacrificed.

Meanwhile, Russia, the ‘gas station’ they all laughed at, became the world’s fourth-largest economy by PPP. Russia posted higher GDP growth than the EU, and continues to roll through NATO’s proxy army without blinking.

Europe? It’s being governed by useless, inexperienced administrators, not statesmen. They are men and women who gave up their economic autonomy. They relinquished energy security and diplomatic agency. All this was done in exchange for globalist approval.

They told us Russia would collapse. Russia’s growing. Sanctions predictably boomeranged, accelerating Europe’s economic collapse.

They said they were defending democracy, while crushing dissent, criminalizing opposition, censored the press, and blamed the backlash on ‘populism.’

Europe’s metamorphosis is complete, from civilisation-builder to vassal depot. What Versailles was to exhausted empires, Brussels is to terminal decline.

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