Barbarians at the Gate: Europe Faces Russian Ambitions

The Russians have rejected the ambivalent attempts at Trans-Nationalism that has so characterized Europe since the end of World War II.  The Russians have many of the same problems as the rest of Europe but they’ve found in Vladimir Putin a strongman who is evocative of their self image and ambitions in the world. They have a demographic crisis, like the rest of Europe, but they also have a national leader who has the force of will to deal with the issue and restore Russia to superpower status. Russia has no intentions of self immolation in favor of a shared regional identity but seeks to rebuild the Soviet Empire with itself as the center of a New Russian Empire.  Mr. Putin will doubtless embrace the best of both capitalism and socialism and organized crime. Life in Russia is still more elemental then the western Europeans who have been made soft and helpless by their many luxuries. Russia has in Vladimir Putin a reason for hope and inspiration which is far beyond what Western Europe has dreamt of in decades.  The Russians will not submit to the stifling of all national ambition lest the demon of war emerge unbidden and bring eternal night to Europe. The Russians don’t have the luxury or the time to be afraid of what the implications might be they just want to have a direction that’s meaningful again. Vladimir Putin has restored an authoritarianism that seems to be welcomed by the Russian people. Russia is raising Cain with their neighbors again, cutting off oil and gas and trade if the neighbors don’t play ball and once again they are as happy as a pig in mud. Nothing wakes up a national identity as much as intimidating your neighbors and resuming cold war air patrols! Russia looks at Europe and sees a people who have the courage to protest air pollution and rally against Islamophobia but little else.  The World is Russia’s Oyster: America is on the verge of an economic meltdown and the Europeans are weak and spineless and even now the Russians make plans to regain their rightful place in the world.   

 

 

 

 

With life and spunk returning to the Russian Bear Europe finds itself in need of a savior who will do what the various national leaders have failed to do: Unite Europe financially, culturally, politically, and militarily.  It seems difficult to think of the Europe of today becoming a true player on the world stage but the Bible assures us that some version of the Roman Empire will rise again.  The man who finishes half hearted unification of Europe will return Europe to a stature it hasn’t enjoyed since the conclusion of World War II.  He will have to be a very dynamic, charismatic, messianic, (Like Obama I mean!) kind of guy to banish the malaise of Europe and give it a sense of purpose again. When was the last time that Europe found inspiration in one of its leaders instead of a worldly scorn and sullen contempt?  They say that nature abhors a vacuum and with America facing an economic tsunami Europe might want to get off its butt and prepare for the dynamic leader that will rescue them from their own post nationalist depression and give them a shot of regional Prozac.  Something has to change for this vision to come true and I suspect it is the end of the American era.  Europe will rise when it’s forced to and I fear that time is coming soon.  Who will be the European Savior who will manage an economic crisis of global proportions, create a European government instead of the remains of the nation states? Who will raise a European Army very quickly to doubtless protect them from the Russians?  Your guess is as good as mine.  His coming has been foretold and he will solve a lot of intractable problems in the beginning…..  And create a lot of problems in the end. Who is he? I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough. 

Europe is in need of a leader who can consolidate the gains made toward a European identity but instill the people with a purpose and will that the national leaders used to do.  Europe is caught between nationalism and regionalism and the world is still a very dangerous place. This is even more imperative if the United States is destroyed by a currency collapse and the sheer weight of all its debt.  If the United States were removed from the equation and NATO was no more what would the Europeans do with an ambitions strong Russia on its borders? Europe may have the financial power of being the next reserve currency but they will have a bunch of segmented, conscripted separate armies instead of a single integrated European Armed Forces.  In a world without America they need a European Army not the French army, the German army, the British army, the Italian army and so on.  Anything short of a European Army won’t get the job done and once you have a true European Army then you’re going to need a “European” Leader to wield it.  The Europeans are still stuck between two worlds: the nationalism of the past and the regionalism of the future.

 

With life and spunk returning to the Russian Bear Europe finds itself in need of a savior who will do what the various national leaders have failed to do: Unite Europe financially, culturally, politically, and militarily.  It seems difficult to think of the Europe of today becoming a true player on the world stage but the Bible assures us that some version of the Roman Empire will rise again.  The man who finishes half hearted unification of Europe will return Europe to a stature it hasn’t enjoyed since the conclusion of World War II.  He will have to be a very dynamic, charismatic, messianic, (Like Obama I mean!) kind of guy to banish the malaise of Europe and give it a sense of purpose again. When was the last time that Europe found inspiration in one of its leaders instead of a worldly scorn and sullen contempt?  They say that nature abhors a vacuum and with America facing an economic tsunami Europe might want to get off its butt and prepare for the dynamic leader that will rescue them from their own post nationalist depression and give them a shot of regional Prozac.  Something has to change for this vision to come true and I suspect it is the end of the American era.  Europe will rise when it’s forced to and I fear that time is coming soon.  Who will be the European Savior who will manage an economic crisis of global proportions, create a European government instead of the remains of the nation states? Who will raise a European Army very quickly to doubtless protect them from the Russians?  Your guess is as good as mine.  His coming has been foretold and he will solve a lot of intractable problems in the beginning…..  And create a lot of problems in the end. Who is he? I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough.  

 

 

Post Christian Europe: Their New God is Socialism

Some 21% of Europeans think religion is very important while in France the number is 10% and includes mostly old people.  The new religion of Europe is a mix of hedonism, nihilism, socialism, feminism, and new age; best summed up as a sort of sweltering, self loathing costumed as sophistication and worldliness.  If anyone can put lipstick and a dress on a pig and call it Marilyn Monroe surly the Europeans can.  Religion, and even manhood itself, has been feminized into non existence; and what has emerged is a society that is powerless, faithless, and being sold to Muslim immigrants at no charge. The symbols of Christianity are everywhere in Europe but the Gospel has largely been rejected by the sophisticated Europeans in favor of Spiritual prostitution and cultural suicide.  Europeans complain constantly about the Americans who protect them but continue to suckle the American taxpayer for its defense because they lack the will to defend themselves. To say that Europe is weak is an understatement of epic proportions: Europe is dying because it lacks the will to make babies and the courage to have faith in anything, especially its Christian heritage.  Europe’s Christian heritage has been replaced with a sullen, adolescent sniveling that has given rise to cultureless surfs who are too impotent to reproduce, and too worldly to reclaim faith and meaning in life.It seems that the Europe of today can imagine nothing bigger then itself as it sneers at the church going Americans, even while America succumbs to the same spiritual malaise that has nearly proved fatal in Europe. Mistaking liberty for license has been the vogue in Europe since the end of World War II as they adopted socialism and a hedonist, to create a multicultural utopia that only a demented feminist professor could concoct.  Individual freedoms and democracy is thought to include a right to legal clean hookers, drugs, euthanasia, abortion, free health care, decent housing, jobs, education, entertainment, and free porn on television, US Tax Dollars for defense, and a 4 day work week.  The Europe of Today has cast off all semblance of personal responsibility, and, like the American Baby-boomers who idolize them, will discover that they either change their act and shape up; or they prepare to embrace the dustbin of history.  Europe has so embraced the rejection of morality, the family, and personal responsibility in general, and Christianity in particular; that they can’t find the moral courage to protest their own extinction. A continent of insipid navel gazers whose concept of right and wrong comes from the whims of the moment can only find destruction and pain in the wholesale rejection of Christian Values and the adoption of hedonism and relativism. 

 

 

The European of today has rejected religion for humanism and God for socialism. They’ve become a sulking, suicidal culture that’s about to find itself the custodian of the world’s new reserve currency.  This influx of pure power and wealth will change  Europe overnight and what will emerge from the weak Europe of today is a humanism worshiping, pragmatic entity for which values are relative and truth elusive.  It is they who will deal with emerging nations like China and criminal nations like Russia, who will compete with them for global dominance.  Perhaps the real difference between Europeans and Americans is that, when I think of such a scenario, it tends to drive me to church and to prayer; while I suspect it drives the Europeans to very expensive long held fantasy of their role in the world.  Europe has something to prove, and the European wimps of today will be replaced by the humanist evangelists of Europeanism. Europe will again strive for power and control on the world stage and they will preach a new form of warm and fuzzy humanism and a social pragmatism that will enslave humanities soul. Talk about fertile ground for an Anti Christ! What kind of leaders will thrive in a God rejecting Europe who’s been thrust into world leadership by the economic destruction of the United States?  They will claim that the new Europe is much different and wiser than the old Europe?  For a time that may be so.  A leopard doesn’t change his spots and in the end, I don’t think Europe will either.

Perhaps the ascendance of the Euro in coming years, as the reserve currency of the world, will give the perpetually morose Europeans a shot in the arm.  Since World War II the Europeans have surrendered defense to the United States, rational, logic and critical thinking to socialist professors, manhood and the will to succeed to a toxic feminization of their culture; and perhaps all they really wanted was to matter again.  When the Euro becomes the supreme currency in the world the Europeans will matter again as they trade soulless socialism for regional fascism and start having babies again.  The world will mistake the fall of America as the triumph of Europe. Thebreath of fresh air that the world press has been pining forwill become the chill wind of reality as the Valueless, Pleasure loving Europeans of today assume the mantle of world leadership. The need to worship is inherent in human beings and the search for god is part of the human condition.  What will our European friends worship in the post American world?  What will Europe seek and substitute for religion and God in the Post American world ?  They ‘ll have to grow up  and come up with a European defense plan and of some kind of European armed forces if they want the opportunity for real influence on the problems of the 21^st century. Unfettered by oppressive religions systems like Christianity they will be free to worship pragmatism and regional self interest as God.