Of Niceties and Nerves
What Slavic Countries Think of Donald Trump & Related Current Affairs
Agree or disagree, the return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office in the United States of America has sent shockwaves across the world. And even if he does nothing else the entire time - though that is, of course, unlikely - the Donald will have left his mark on the world.
Here’s why. After decades of people being indoctrinated by American academia into believing that individuality doesn’t exist because retarded postmodern reasoning used to hide people’s petty-minded envy, Trump has shattered that cold cloth over society into a million little pieces. Though one doesn’t think of Trump as the first guy to talk academic matters with, one wonders if he’s aware of that and brought with him the next most important individual, Elon Musk, to make doubly sure the glass stayed shattered.
One mustn’t underestimate the power of individuality. To mention another outstanding individual: Self-Portrait, Bob Dylan’s intentionally crappy album designed to get rid of the detested label “voice of a generation,” was a double LP for a reason. Had it been a single LP, the effect would not have been the same.
Trump and Musk both function as a kind of double LP on America society: but unlike Self-Portrait, which had the desired effect but is not most people’s favorite Bob Dylan album, the same cannot be said about Trump and Musk. We here at Černobog's Shadow hope that this has a knock-on effect and inspires many in Greater Slavia to take inspiration in their own lives. Like Trump or hate him, there is much the leaders of Slavic countries can learn from him.
It is still too early to make a lot of solid predictions on what will come out of all of this. Of course, lots of deportations are one of them. But it is clear that America - a giant however you measure it - has been spending a lot of time sleeping even if Iraq, Afghanistan and other affairs make it seem like it wasn’t. But now the giant is awake, if a bit groggy still. The spat between Trump and the pinko commie Gustavo Petro of Colombia indicated that Trump has resurrected my favorite president Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy. Some will agree with it, others will not: the point of this post isn’t partisanship. The Big Stick Policy naturally has implications for the rest of the world. Including the Slavic world.
Apart from Russia and Trump’s rapport with Vladimir Putin - and, of course, him having married first a Czech, Ivana, and a Slovene, Melania, the third time around - there isn’t much awareness of Trump’s relationship to Slavic cultures. This especially as Trump had bigger fish to fry during his first term. But two things changed.
First, Elon Musk’s recent trolling of Germany - which has since played a role in fomenting the very welcome collapse of their anti-democratic cordon sanitaire - suggests that there will be a greater interest this time around in the decline of the West on the part of Trump’s people. (Trump, of course, is close to Scotland, the home of his ancestors, or at least close to their indigenous sport of golf) The kind Michel Houellebecq writes about. (Or should I say: wrote about, if it’s true that Annihilation is his last novel)
The first time around, Western Europe still managed to hide its emerging totalitarian character: but since then, the France that once acquitted Houellebecq in the name of free speech now charges television shows it politically and culturally disagrees with exorbitant fines for engaging in free speech. Britain, in the throes of Brexit the first time around, is now a pitifully weak country transforming itself into an Islamic statelet. Germany, under Merkel, at least looked like a serious country despite the migrant crisis. Now, it is hard to describe Germany and its dying “traffic light coalition” as anything but a basket case. (It also doesn’t help that the EU is openly acting contrary to express voter wishes in areas related to agriculture) While Ireland, whose leftist elites are overseeing the real time destruction of their country, have successfully reoriented the frustrations of the Irish people into the Israel/Palestinian conflict, proving they don’t care if they destroy Ireland’s generally positive global reputation in the process.
It doesn’t help that Spain, too, though less erratic relatively speaking, is ruled by a corrupt leftist who is petty enough to use ideological motives to, for instance, prevent the King of Spain from attending the re-opening of the Notre Dame. And on top of that, Pope Francis - whose language has become distinctly “un-Pope-like” in recent weeks - is in a position where his precious migration policy is under threat while the candidate he supported, Joe Biden, has become a freemason, meaning Francis is stuck between his liberation theology/Jesuit talking points and doing his papal duty, which should be to excommunicate Biden from the Church. (Of course this just came out, so we’ll see what happens)
Trump will, however, probably find an ally in Italy’s Giorgia Meloni. And, of course, Viktor Orban.
Second, some things have changed in the Slavic countries. I will go through some of the most important ones. If I skip a few countries, it is due to space: and also because 1) I don’t think much will change, or 2) other current events are taking place there that are less relevant.
Suffice to say that Trump, Orban and Meloni’s “lonesomeness” will be rectified thanks to the Slavs.
Poland
From 2015 to 2023, Poland was ruled by the PiS Party. Most notably, by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki - son of anti-Communist hero Kornel Morawiecki, the man behind Fighting Solidarity - and President Andrzej Duda whose term ends in a few months. During this time, Poland became one of the bogeymen of Europe alongside Hungary’s Viktor Orban. (On the migration issue, they were joined for a time by the Czech Republic)
The EU, naturally, became infuriated. Citing “values” that played no part in Poland’s EU accession the previous decade - LGBT, for instance, didn’t even exist as a term - and exploiting the naivete of supposed pro-democracy people in the West, they began an international propaganda campaign supported by fake media. Sadly, many “experts” who had done so much in the field of advocacy for Poland in the 90s and 00s abandoned their advocacy wholesale and became pundits, ostensibly because of “democracy.”
While PiS’ stewardship saw enough economic development to actually convince Poles abroad to return to their country - and this isn’t as easy as people think if history is any indication - and people even talked of Poland becoming a minor power, PiS, unfortunately, failed to translate those areas where they did succeed into brand power back home; they are still recovering from this failure. It didn’t help that PiS was comprised of statists who struggled to imagine political transformation outside of positions of power. (Though that is maybe changing at the moment)
Paired between “EU people” shaming Poles whenever they could for “being different” on both the institutional and colloquial level (an unfortunate weakness of Polish people) and what looked like too desperate and grasping of a propaganda campaign to vanquish their arch-enemy Donald Tusk on state television, KO (Civic Coalition) won the parliamentary elections in 2023 following a number of “September surprises” (like an Agnieszka Holland movie that presented certain fake news talking points as facts), an infusion of cash into the pockets of leftist activists by George Soros and the withholding of EU money (including covid relief funds) by the EU that, suddenly, were sent to Poland following Tusk’s ascension even when Tusk had done almost nothing to change the supposed concerns held by Brussels in the first place. (Translation: they rewarded Tusk for being their crony and for not being an “evil right-winger”) The real success of Tusk and his allies, however, came from their agreement to install a cordon sanitaire like that previously put in place by the Czechs and the Germans. (Not to mention many other places) PiS, though the winner in terms of basic numbers, couldn’t form a coalition because the other parties refused to form a coalition with them. This would have been different had parties put aside the bullshit and come together around real values. But why represent the will of the people when one can politick instead?
The media hailed Tusk’s win as “the salvation of democracy,” painting it as a 1989 2.0 moment. Anyone who believes this narrative has no business commenting on regional affairs: what’s happening in Poland (and I must stress this) is a good old power struggle, pure and simple. PiS was democratically elected. And in good, democratic form, PiS handed power to Tusk as legally as the previous governments.
Since then, however, Tusk’s popularity has declined in recent months. Part of this has to do with a Stalin-style purge of Polish conservatives that has since been replicated in Slovenia. But Tusk - who made many promises and kept few - is also increasingly seen by his supporters as someone who, at the least, cannot get the job done. (Though President Duda has vetoed some things, this is also due to the fragility of Tusk’s coalition which doesn’t fully agree, for instance, on issues related to abortion) And at most, a liar who is only interested in holding power. Even Viktor Orban, who normally minds his own business on matters like this, has taken a concerned stance where Poland is concerned: suffice to say the historical Polish-Hungarian brotherhood is still alive.
During his first term, Trump concerned himself little with Poland who, unlike Western powers, agreed with Trump on his most important Europe-related policy: getting NATO countries to contribute greater portions of their GDP to NATO upkeep. After that, there was little that needed to be said beyond business as usual.
In recent times, however, Trump has expressed a greater awareness of Poland and its issues, calling President Duda “his friend” and inviting former PM Morawiecki to his inauguration. It also appears that Trump - with a bit of help from Duda - succeeded at obtaining the votes of Polish-Americans, many of whom (or whose family members) were refugees from the Communist dictatorship and see Tusk as bringing more of the same back to Poland. (In contrast with the EU diaspora who, not wanting to look like “dumb Polaks” in front of Western leftists and their low information validation, prefer Tusk)
This has, naturally, made Tusk uneasy since it complicates his quest to purge Poland of all conservative influence and turn Poland into an appendage of the EU. But he is also worried because of the upcoming presidential election: because he seeks power, Tusk has tried not to rock the boat on key topics like migration so that a pro-KO presidential candidate can give him the power to do what he wants later on.
So far, however, Tusk has proven to be no more effective at knowing what to do about Trump than the other Eurocrats: the most he could do is announce that the embassies are prepared to take in deported Poles who have been illegally living in the United States as a kind of “take that, Trump!” gesture. Even though the number of Poles illegally in the United States is not what it once was (if it was, then Poles would still not be able to travel to the US without visas) and is most certainly not high on Trump’s agenda given the Tren de Aragua gang members, cartel agents and other high-priority criminals the nation wishes to deport first.
In any case, geopolitical observers should keep an eye on Poland. You never know what might happen.
Slovenia
Though small, Slovenia is also the country of Melania Trump. For that reason, it is not a country to be dismissed. But it is also, by virtue of being small and little-known, a good place in the EU’s mind to enact funny-business.
Slovenia is currently run by a left-wing “liberal progressive” (not that these terms matter anymore) named Robert Golob. Chairman of a state-run energy company before then, Golob (whose surname means ‘pigeon’) has been the Slovenian Prime Minister since 2022, when the leftist parties won enough votes to oust Orban ally Janez Janša’s Slovenian Democrat Party. (SDS) Not unlike how Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski’s marriage to Anne Applebaum is a symbol of America’s recent role in fomenting leftism in the region, Golob, a former Fulbright scholar, is representative of something similar while Janša’s story resembles that of Slovak PM Robert Fico in some respects, though with the caveat that Janša was both an anti-Communist dissident before 1989 and one of Slovenia’s chief strategists during the 10-day war of liberation against the Yugoslav People’s Army.
This, perhaps, is why Janša, despite the small size of Slovenia, is an unusually feared figure by leftists: he isn’t just a “right-wing bogeyman” who came down from the hills and popped up out of nowhere; notwithstanding any local baggage we here overlooked, one could reasonably argue that Janša is a national hero of sorts. He is the closest the Slovenes have to a Franjo Tuđman; except that unlike Croatia’s wartime leader, Janša is still alive.
One look at the Wikipedia pages of both leaders is telling. Janša’s page features the customary bombardment of links meant to convince the naive person that Janša is a far-right bogeyman whose evil knows no bounds. In fact, it is astonishing to see a Slovene who isn’t Slavoj Žižek receive this much attention from left-wing Wikipedia haters. Golob’s page, in contrast, says next to nothing, save that he has done much to turn Slovenia into a pro-Palestinian country. If only that alone was true.
Inspired by Donald Tusk’s anti-conservative purge in Poland (which tells the reader everything about how important Poland is to the region, including non-V4 countries) Golob began his own “cleansing” of the Slovenian media landscape in January 2024, the details of which can be read about here. The government’s ostensible reason for this is “depoliticization,” echoing a common Tusk talking point that also conflates an absence of conservative journalists (or employees of any kind) with “depoliticization.” (Fortunately, the Poles aren’t buying it)
Golob, however, has taken things a step further: not only are “right-wing” journalists gotten rid of, but so too are those who “don’t identify themselves politically.” After all, they must be crypto-evil right-wingers if they aren’t openly praising the government like good Pravda journalists, right?
While Golob has never hidden his pro-censorship credentials - just as he has tried to use the word “freedom” to hide behind everything he does, the way Tusk does with the word “democracy” - part of the increased ire may have been the result of a rather clever success on the part of Slovenian conservative media who, in September 2023 - four months before the purging - hosted the longest livestream in the world, winning a Guinness Book of World Records plaque in the process. (It was 73 hours long) I take it that Slovenia’s Council For the Prevention of Hate Speech wasn’t too happy about this. (Thanks, America: isn’t it enough to export hamburgers and action flicks? Why the hate speech ideologues too?)
It is worth addressing a criticism that Golob’s predecessor, Janša, was also unfriendly toward the media. The most I could dig up, however, were just that: unfriendly statements. Post-Trump election, I don’t think anyone cares anymore if a political leader criticizes the media: they have lied way too nakedly and unapologetically about issues deeply crucial to ordinary people, and given what has happened since the start of Golob’s premiership it is hard to see Janša’s criticisms as anything but warranted.
Again: it is a former Fulbright scholar turning Slovenia into a left-wing tin pot regime, not the supposedly evil Orban ally. It is a sad and pathetic fate for a beautiful country that, in the 90s, became a great little democratic country as if it was nobody’s business. In the meantime, Brussels - where the oh so democratic EU is supposed to be oh so democratic - has said next to nothing, if anything, about both Slovenia and Poland. (It has since come out that the EU regularly interferes in these countries’ affairs in order to prop up these left-wing regimes)
It is tempting to think of Melania Trump as a wild card in all this: though not political, she has the ear (and, perhaps, the heart) of the most powerful man in the world. But if Melania has maintained a rather apolitical profile for a first lady in America, it seems the same can be said of Slovenia as well. Nor is it easy to parse through just how she feels about her homeland, only that during Trump’s first term she didn’t visit Slovenia at all.
Trump and Golob met for the first time at the reopening of Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral in Paris. Reportedly, they got on very well while Trump gushed about how he loved “Melania’s homeland.” But apart from some discussion about bilateral ties and the War in Ukraine, there seems to have been nothing more of substance.
It therefore seems unlikely that anything will change for Slovenia, apart from any knock-on effects his election has for their conservative movement or for Janša. And at the end of the day, Slovenia is a small country.
But Trump, in any case, is a fan of Slovenia. And perhaps that’s enough for Slovenia to be of greater interest.
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic - the homeland of Trump’s first wife, Ivana, and the heritage of his oldest children - was one of the first countries to implement a cordon sanitaire when, in a rather strange election, Andrej Babiš’ Ano Party won by a slim majority over the three-party center-right Spolu (Together) coalition run by his opponent, Petr Fiala. But that wasn’t the strange part.
Then-Czech President, Miloš Zeman - whose health had taken a turn for the worse in recent times and whom Czechs had since come to dislike for his pro-Russian sympathies, though they either changed or were put on hold by Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine - had the duty to give the most successful party a mandate to form a coalition. Within hours of saying he would give that mandate to the party with the most votes - in other words, Ano - Zeman suddenly had to be rushed to the hospital where, upon recovering and no doubt embarrassed by the incident, he changed his mind.
I will let the reader decide if that extremely convenient timing was merely a coincidence. In any case, the Czechs - most of them tired at that time of both Zeman and Babiš and also, like all of us, exasperated by the covid lockdowns - put aside their usual skepticism around such “coincidences” and breathed a sigh of relief when Petr Fiala became the Prime Minister.
Sympathy for Fiala, however, soon began to expire - and not just because the Czechs, in the eyes of non-Czechs, like to complain. It began with the Ukraine War where the Czechs came out most vociferously on the side of Ukraine. (Influenced, no doubt, by memories of the 1969 Soviet Invasion of their country) Concerns about the war soon began to emerge in some quarters, however - one of less strategic importance, though a cultural one, being that the Czechs, who don’t like Gypsies very much, felt the Ukrainians were only shipping them their unwanted Gypsies. (And being in the country when this was happening, it is true that the refugees at the train station had a much darker complexion than, say, Zelensky) But if Fiala was not an ex-secret agent like Babiš, he also doesn’t appear to have Babiš’ thicker skin: his angry response to anyone who dared to question the Ukraine War was to dismiss all complaints as “pro Putin propaganda.” I don’t think one needs to read The Art of the Deal to see that this isn’t exactly a recipe for political success.
The hens all came home to roost in September 2024, when Babiš - thought to be history after Fiala’s victory - returned with a landslide victory in the Czech regional elections, accompanied as well by elections for about a third of the Czech Senát. (Fiala’s incompetence also led - amazingly - to increased support for the Communist Party) If enthusiasm for Fiala had waned, Czech voters were especially over the left-wing Pirate Party who suffered enormous losses. This is where we encounter yet another strange story.
A drama soon emerged where Fiala, in part due to the losses of the Pirate Party, fired Pirate Party leader Ivan Bartoš from his minsterial position. The Pirates, outraged, defected to the opposition. While the now-miniaturized Pirate Party was small enough to avoid a coalition collapse, it was yet another bad moment in the public eye for Fiala.
If Trump is still oblivious to the nature of Slovenian politics, his time with Ivana must have given him a special eye over the years toward Czech affairs. It also helps that Babiš - one of the richest people in the Czech Republic, having made his fortune in the agricultural industry and perceived by many Czechs as “their oligarch” - easily fits the profile of someone Trump would get along with. Some have even called Babiš “the Czech Donald Trump” for the above reasons.
Babiš - a sovereigntist - is expected to win the upcoming Czech elections. If so, not only would it be a huge blow to Brussels and a plus for the small but growing coalition of “Greater Slavian” outcasts like Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Slovakia’s Robert Fico; it would enable the Czech Republic, for better or for worse, to benefit from positive Czech-American relations. This is good news for Babiš as I doubt the Czechs have supported him because they forgot their initial reservations: more likely, they see that the EU is not their friend and increasingly want nothing to do with Queen Ursula Von Der Leyen. Ask any Czech what they think of Greta Thunberg and they’ll understand what I mean.
Slovakia (And Hungary)
Back in the 1990s, when Vladimír Mečiar ruled Slovakia in strongman fashion, the late Madeleine Albright (born, long ago, in Czechoslovakia) famously called Slovakia “the black hole of Europe.” Though Slovakia, post-Mečiar, surprised everyone by becoming as much the opposite of a black hole as a country of that size and limited resources had the ability to become, Slovakia is now a “black hole” for a different reason: daring to defy Queen Ursula Von Der Leyen, First of Her Name.
The backstory to Slovak politics is long and complicated and has already been summarized in a post I did a while back on my other Substack newsletter, Timeless. Suffice to say that the period between PM Robert Fico’s 2018 fall from grace (following the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee) and his recent re-election (as well as that of his ally, Peter Pellegrini, as President) was a tumultuous period where, following the disastrous rule of a populist named Igor Matovič and the covid lockdowns, a pro-EU government was ultimately crushed by the forces of geopolitics themselves. (A mix of post-covid recovery, economic windfall from things like inflation and the awkwardness of adopting a pro-Ukrainian stance when enough Slovaks of consequence are pro-Russian)
Summarizing it this way doesn’t come close to encapsulating all the deep emotions the Slovaks feel toward both their leaders and the government in general. But even with the chaos of the pro-EU government and the logical need, under desperation, to find someone who at least had experience, Fico’s re-election came as a huge shock to many Slovaks. So much so that last year, a 71-year-old poet named Juraj Cintula nearly succeeded at assassinating Fico during a speech in the town of Handlová. This itself was also a shock since assassinations haven’t been a thing in Europe for some time now. (Though the successful assassination of former Dutch leader Pim Fortuyn was not that long ago, in 2002) There was even talk of a Slovak Civil War.
Thankfully, no civil war has broken out. (Though as a recent bid suggests the pro-EU faction, though haunted by the spectral sound of Cintula’s gun, still wants to try and remove Fico from power by whatever means they can) But Slovakia has, indeed, found itself at war not just with Brussels (since Fico has become an ally of Orban) but with Ukraine, upset that Fico has withdrawn his support for Ukraine and wants an end to the war.
For someone who was once a Communist Party apparatchik, Fico has made good on many policies that strike many as traditional. One of them is the codification of common sense: recognizing that marriage is between a man and a woman, restricting the mutilation process leftists call “gender reassignment surgery,” and so on. It is understandable that Fico’s success in this respect has infuriated Brussels to no end. (It has recently come to my attention that Bulgaria is also moving in this direction, but I don’t know enough as of yet to comment on this post)
While Trump and Fico have very different histories, they currently see eye to eye on a lot. Trump’s legalization of what should be the common sense understanding that there are two genders has inspired Fico to do the same in Slovakia. While Trump is unlikely to make ordinary Slovaks feel any differently about Fico, the knock-on effect Trump’s similar policies will have will be a boon for Fico in the years to come.
Assuming, of course, the Ukrainians don’t cause a national crisis by denying Slovakia energy.
Ukraine & Russia
As it is well known that Trump wants an end to the Russo-Ukrainian War - something we here at Černobog's Shadow support since the slaughtering of Slavic people in the name of either imperialism or corporatism is abhorrent irrespective of territorial claims - we will instead speculate on where things stand and the realities of accomplishing an end to the war.
In a normal world, it would be more accurate to describe Vladimir Putin as the wild card. In reality, however, that wild card is Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been transformed by the war into a “world leader” recognized in households that, only yesterday, didn’t have anyone who could point to Ukraine on a map. Having already secured the Crimean land bridge and confident of its ability to hold it even in negotiations, Russia is ready to put an end to the fighting. We believe the same is true of the Ukrainian people, who even in 2022 did not want war even as they understood the need to defend their country. But is that true of Zelensky?
Like Fiala, this is very much a “hens come home to roost” moment where Ukrainian corruption is concerned. When Joe Biden pardoned his criminal family, one wonders if he foresaw not just an investigation on the American side, but revelations on the Ukrainian side as well. We all know that Ukraine is deeply corrupt. (and yes, this is also true of Russia) But just how intertwined is the marriage between American corporate interests and Ukrainian corruption? Given that Trump is setting a precedent for revealing information ranging from files on the JFK assassination to US aid providing Gaza with $50 million worth of condoms (for some reason), it is possible we will learn more soon.
And why not? Assuming Trump doesn’t have an interests there himself (though if he did he probably wouldn’t have to ask Zelensky on the phone about Biden as he did during his first term, while then being impeached for it) corrupt activities would be a great leverage to force an obstinate Zelensky to the negotiating table. Since Zelensky has made overtures elsewhere, one wonders if it is this, and not the war itself, that he fears? Even before DOGE there are stories of certain incidents that DOGE would have a problem with. (Like instances where millions of American dollars meant to bolster the army suddenly vanished halfway from, say, Kiev to Kharkiv)
But no matter how one looks at it, the writing is on the wall. The fact that the Ukrainian Army is now recruiting from old people and women suggests the Ukrainians don’t have a lot of soldiers left to continue the war, and a few remarks Zelensky has made that lean toward an end are revealing in that sense. Even so, that didn’t stop Zelensky from attending a last-minute meeting before Trump’s inauguration to foster additional support for the war, suggesting that Zelensky may well be inclined to continue the war for as long as possible, citing military progress as the only way to gain a lasting peace. Zelensky has even talked with Macron about “boots on the ground,” suggesting that Zelensky would benefit somehow from additional EU entanglement. (It would certainly make the EU more unequivocally anti-Putin)
Realistically, however, Trump (through his appointments) has shown more sensitivity to the Ukrainian side than media pundits will give him credit for. (like General Keith Kellogg as Ukrainian peace envoy) There is little reason to think that Trump will not factor Ukrainian issues and concerns into consideration.
Ultimately, Zelensky needs Trump more than he may care to realize. By declaring an “energy war” against Hungary and Slovakia for daring to withdraw their support, Zelensky is already poisoning the wells of a few European capitals that will now most certainly hinder EU accession. One is unsure whether to lift an eyebrow or shake one’s head at Zelensky’s tactlessness where these scenarios are concerned: after all, Slovakia (a small country) and even Hungary have assisted Ukraine. And even Tusk in Poland, who has done the most for Ukraine in the region, has said that a resolution to the Volhynia topic is a prerequisite for Polish support.
All of this, however, is just drama at the end of the day. What’s most important is that the war can end and the Ukrainian people - the real victims of all this - can rebuild their lives.
To conclude: when writing this, it became apparent that the real elephant in the room is Joe Biden. Nothing need be repeated about his role in the Ukraine War. Sentimentally, it was nice of him to help: and I certainly think his greatest fans, in the long run, will not be Americans but Ukrainians, just as Ronald Reagan is a hero to many Poles and many Croats appreciate Bill Clinton for Operation Storm.
But it is no coincidence that Biden’s mostly disastrous presidency has correlated with not just a surge of leftist governments that don’t have the best interests of their people at heart that has accompanied the emergence of a genuinely totalitarian impulse in the EU’s structural and ideological DNA. They are governments that have failed so hard they make deeply unpopular past leaders (like Andrej Babiš and Robert Fico) popular again. Or at least “electable.” Either way, it is not a change that should be underestimated.
Poland and Slovenia may well prove to be holdouts: their left-wing governments have, through their Stalin-inspired activities, caused great damage to the opposition, enough to where they can hold power as long as they maintain the ability to manipulate people. And in both cases, the EU has directly interfered with local politics in ways that they alone don’t find deeply inappropriate; interference that will only justify counter-interference by Trump or one of his allies if only for self-preservation.
But the rest of Greater Slavia is moving toward an eventual confrontation, if not outright rejection, of what the EU deceptively calls “their values.” Trump’s election will certainly empower countries like Slovakia and Hungary that, with Trump as an ally, must now feel a lot less small.
All of this could have been avoided if the EU (and the Democrat Party) just accepted that the Slavic countries have different values, accepted that “right-wingers” can also function in a democratic system of governance without “being Nazis” and that that’s perfectly okay. But no: they had to turn it into an ideological coercion project instead, paired with a goal to flood all of Europe with Muslim migrants as part of its civilizational suicide which they can’t engage in without dragging the Slavic countries down with them. And now they are reaping the “benefits:” not only has Brussels had more defeats than successes, they are losing ground even in countries they thought would be safe like The Netherlands, Austria, Italy and now Germany.
In other words: the Eurocrats have no one to blame but themselves.
The only issue that still remains a bit enigmatic is Israel and Palestine. I will probably discuss that in the next issue. In the meantime, let me know in the comments if there are any other regional issues of interest to you. Or if you’d like a follow-up about the countries I didn’t mention. I’d be happy to write about them!