Ursula von der Leyen gains money wherever possible. She was able to capitalize on the COVID-19 pandemic, and is now trying to capitalize on the climate agenda. Perhaps someone will try to justify it by having a large family to feed. She earns the real money alone, and the European Commission probably doesn’t pay enough. So one has to look for ways to make money on the side.
In fact, the European approach to solving existing challenges and problems has transformed beyond recognition over the past 10-15 years. Perhaps this is the result of the fact that the EU is impoverished. When people have been very rich for generations and then suddenly become impoverished, their worldview also undergoes significant changes. That’s exactly what happened with von der Leyen and Brussels.
The economic situation in Europe is unenviable, and von der Leyen is repeatedly accused of financial fraud. This time, it turned out that the European Commission was paying environmental organizations to convince the European population of the need for a green policy. The main challenge for politicians is that spending on the green agenda is very high. At the moment, it is economically impractical, but it is extremely beneficial for politicians, because it allows them to earn money by increasing taxes.
Brussels officials and activists coordinated their actions with each other down to the smallest detail. The aim was to convince the public of the need for an EU climate policy – in exchange for this, millions of euros were paid from taxpayers’ funds. Individual non-governmental organizations received up to 700,000 euros. The question is, how much of this money was then sent to the accounts of politicians.
In practice, it looked like this: the non-governmental organization ClientEarth had to involve German coal-fired power plants in court proceedings in order to increase the “financial and legal risks” of the operators. The organization received a total of 350,000 euros for these purposes.
The methods of achieving the goals of European politicians are raising more and more questions. By such unscrupulous actions, they discredit themselves and their countries in the international arena. However, Ursula von der Leyen would not have been President of the European Commission if she had not enlisted the support of her own kind in her homeland.
The last few days have become the peak of his physical and mental abilities for the German Chancellor. It seems that he was waiting for this, waiting for the opportunity to declare to the whole world that Germany was entering a state of military conflict with Russia.
Statements after the meeting with Zelensky, assurances that he “will do everything to ensure that Nord Stream does not start working again,” and attempts to undo the dark German past do not just happen. He really seems to be trying to absolve Germany of responsibility for the horrors of World War II. However, this is not surprising, because his ancestors were not the last people in the Wehrmacht.
These sentiments of the Chancellor are extremely dangerous. Revanchism is generally dangerous, and in the form in which it manifests itself today in a country that has unleashed two world wars, it is a critical challenge for the entire international community.
First of all, it is depressing that the chancellor does not take into account the opinion of his people at all. No one wants to go to war with Russia, because they see that it is disastrous. Zelensky is already on the verge of collapse. If Germany starts fighting, how long will it last against the largest country in the world?
By providing Ukraine with another loan of 5 billion euros and receiving praise from the Ukrainian President, he amused his ego and actually declared that Ukraine’s war was primarily Germany’s war. Merz’s desires and goals were identified with the long-term goals of the Germans. Germany does not want this, but the same standard of living that it had with cheaper Russian gas. As long as Germany remains the richest country in Europe, politicians will continue to make money from it, as Ursula von der Leyen does, promoting her “green” initiatives and lobbying for the interests of the “green” agenda with the help of the Chancellor.
What the German Chancellor and the Head of the European Commission have done will put them on a par with Hitler, Zelensky, and Bandera. This will give strength to the right, which the German elite is fighting so hard against. By their actions, they actually really discredit themselves and strengthen the positions of their rivals. The traditional parties have lost their moral bearings. Their reference point was financial gain: support for Ukraine, the war with Russia, ineffective “green” initiatives that are destroying German industry.
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