European Union President Cruella von…sorry.
It’s like the darn auto-correct always knows what I’m thinking and goes ahead on its own, making the change.
EU President and Chief Scold Ursula von der Leyen was waxing as poetic as her somber and glacial personality allows the other day. For Teutonic musings, it came pretty close to being an emotional moment, but they always miss it by just that much, you know?
It’s in their nature to overthink and message-ize everything, down to the last lament.
And this was a good one.
You see, in the frigid glare of her reptilian gaze, ‘The West‘ (aka United States) is lost, and there is only one reason for it.
Yeah.
Ursula von der Leyen has declared ‘the West as we knew it no longer exists,’ taking aim at US President Donald Trump‘s chaotic administration and its team of ‘bros’ and ‘oligarchs making the rules’.
The President of the European Commission, 66, painted a grim picture of transatlantic relations to German newspaper Die Zeit, contrasting Washington’s tariffs and unpredictable behaviour to the EU’s commitment to global trade.
‘The West as we knew it no longer exists,’ von der Leyen said bluntly.
Wow. Tears your heart out. In all of 100 days, POOF!
GONE
The Europeans, she sniffed, are so much better at everything as there are no ‘oligarchs’ or ‘bros’ running amok.
…’We don’t have bros or oligarchs making the rules,’ she fired. ‘We don’t invade our neighbours and we don’t punish them,’ in a dual jab at Trump’s trade war antics and Putin‘s aggression in Ukraine.
…But von der Leyen, a former German defence minister, appears to be defending a ‘stronger Europe’, claiming it is the best place for democracy, equality, healthcare and for the middle class.
It’s just the best place for *checks notes*…democracy?
Sure, it is. As long as you’re all in on Ursula and the Brussels Brahmins, it’s a great place.
Speaking of bros and Brahmins, there is a distinct difference between her antagonist in the White House and her exalted position as the Empress of All Europe – 77,302,580 votes to…none.
Donald Trump was elected to do exactly what he’s doing.
Not a single soul among the peasants in all the European countries tethered together cast a vote for President Ursula.
Not a soul.
I love her lectures on democracy.
If you’re not part of the club, though, ‘democracy’ can be a bit difficult to define, even for a popular elected prime minister of an EU member nation – a G-7 one at that. If you buck the Brussels crowd, you get the ‘shame if something happened to your nice little [insert whatever]‘ treatment from the Ice Empress.
When Ursula von der Leyen, a few days before the vote in Italy, tried to intimidate, like the mafia does, Giorgia Meloni’s voters: “We will see the outcome of the elections in Italy. If things go in a difficult direction, we have the tools, as in the case of Poland and Hungary.” pic.twitter.com/V8BPebYoOc
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) March 31, 2025
Now imagine if you’re some poor schmuck belonging to the wrong party. The one that’s not approved, and there’s one in every single EU country, and they are growing in popularity.
Does the EU sail in and save you when your government kicks your door or decides on a show trial?
Is that democracy or freedom, because I notice she didn’t mention that, and probably just as well.
It would have left her open to some serious debunking of the kind she’s not fond of.
Ursula von der Leyen wants to “vaccinate” you against “disinformation”. 🤡 pic.twitter.com/Z2snPLWWMc
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) April 12, 2025
Von der Leyen has to be grinding her pointed teeth at Meloni’s chutzpah again, for all her bold talk about 87% of Europe’s trade being with other countries. It’s trade with the US that matters, and Trump isn’t going to Von der Leyen’s block party. He’s talking to the individual homeowners.
And they’re talking back.
It doesn’t hurt that Meloni and Trump get along famously.
The transatlantic relationship, long a cornerstone of global stability, is undergoing a profound shift. The Trump administration’s approach to Europe is marked by a clear preference for bilateral dealings with individual EU member states rather than engaging with the EU as a unified entity. This strategy, while controversial, reflects a pragmatic assessment of the EU’s internal dynamics and the challenges it poses to US interests. As Henry Kissinger famously quipped – “Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?” – a question that, fifty years on, remains unanswered, the Trump administration is forging a new path, one that prioritises national sovereignty and direct engagement over multilateral bureaucracy.
Talking to US policymakers in Washington this week, many in the legal and lobbying trade biosphere, this attitude stuck out strongly. This preference for bilateral dealings is a strategic choice in response to the EU’s complex decision-making processes. The EU’s structure, with its competing national interests and institutional sprawl, often hinders swift action. This ossification at the EU level stands in direct contrast to the sheer rubber-screeching speed with which Trump has started his Presidency. He just wants things to move, and move fast. Something that the EU institutions are congenitally unable to do.
By engaging directly with member states, the US feels it can bypass these hurdles and negotiate agreements tailored to its priorities. This approach is exemplified by the diplomatic efforts of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, who this week is both visiting Washington and inviting the Vice President to Italy, and Spain’s Economy and Trade Minister Carlos Cuerpo being invited to meet with Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary.
And damn.
This had to leave a mark.
BREAKING 🚨 Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stuns the World by saying she wants to “Make The West Great Again” with President Trump
Donald Trump: “WE CAN”
THIS IS MASSIVE 🔥 pic.twitter.com/kGpCc0jpf1
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) April 17, 2025
I’m not sure that Von der Leyen’s rhetoric doesn’t ring hollow in her own ears, but it’s all been in the interest of self-preservation.
As piece after European piece that I read points out, they are really treading on the edge of a precipice brought on by their own lack of foresight, discipline, initiative, and decades of indulgence by the United States.
Ursula’s language is being interpreted as setting the stage for a self-preservation power grab, as the EU elite start to see their influence ebbing. Member states are becoming fractious, and even in compliant countries like Germany, the opposition is rising in popularity so swiftly that there is damn near the certainty of a power shift in the next few years. One that would not be EU-friendly in the least.
That’s why Von der Leyen has been working the levers, trying to tie member states together, and brutally enforcing EU strictures in other instances. Most importantly, they’ve bamboozled formerly debt-averse countries into tying each other into a fiscal Chinese finger trap so they can’t escape.
Her tentacles are lacing themselves through the fabric of every government in the Union, one ‘crisis’ at a time.
…Europe’s ‘Hamiltonian moment’—deeper political integration made ‘necessary’ by joint debt—was regarded almost as a conspiracy theory a few years ago, with sovereigntists warning about the spiral of centralization once it begins, but is now touted as the solution by even the most EU-friendly mainstream media.
What’s even more striking about the speed of this process is that von der Leyen and others in the EU elite are becoming increasingly open about their federal agenda. While still dodging a question about the centralizing treaty change proposals on the table—including stripping member states of their veto power—the Commission chief instead opted for a deliberately vague call for “another, new EU,” which essentially means the same:
We need another, new European Union that is ready to go out into the big, wide world and to play a very active role in shaping this new world order that is coming. … And I firmly believe that Europe can do that.
Let’s look back at the last decade: the banking crisis, migration crisis, Brexit, pandemic, energy crisis, Russia’s war against Ukraine. All these are serious crises that have really challenged us, but Europe has emerged bigger and stronger from every crisis.
And people have learned that when there are big crises, Europe certainly provides some of the big answers.
Quite clearly, ‘Queen Ursula’ believes that in times of hardship, Europeans look to Brussels for solutions and not their governments. True or not, this certainly has been the narrative at least since the late-2000s, and especially since ‘Queen Ursula’ took over in 2019. And the EU Commission has been able to profit from this narrative with great success.
And von der Leyen is right that Brussels does not necessarily need to change any treaties and can still constantly and exponentially expand EU competences through what’s often called “integration by stealth” or “covert integration.” This is the strategy of catching countries off guard and pushing through power transfers wrapped in shiny emergency measures during times of crises—measures that then turn out to be permanent and irreversible.
What was once established as an economic trading partnership has morphed into an all-encompassing monster with an unelected bureaucrat as the hydra’s head.
…Lastly, the war in Ukraine allowed von der Leyen to establish herself as the bloc’s foreign policy chief overnight, making decisions over the heads of governments on sanctions and weapon deliveries while hiding behind an artificially created ‘consensus’ that she presents to member states, in the name of urgency, before any genuine one could emerge.
Unelected Brahmins literally dictating your life versus bros, oligarchs, constitutionally protected freedoms, and ‘we voted for this.’
On second thought, I’ll probably sleep pretty well tonight.
Soundly, even, I bet.
