Europe and Ukraine: Fear Lurks at the Root of Madness

Why are European politicians so doggedly clinging to Ukraine? The mystery grows deeper by the day, as the economic consequences deeply entrench societies and the political and fiscal crises grow larger – even if Germany, compared to Great Britain and France, still seems almost a bastion of stability.

It seems bizarre when they throw themselves in with zeal as soon as there is a danger that the war in Ukraine could end, writes Dagmar Henn .

How they go to war with utterly illusory demands when it comes to Russia, but display the tenacity of an amoeba when the opposing party is the United States. Yes, even to the point of being willing to destroy even the last shred of economic hope with punitive tariffs against India and China.

Not that it wouldn’t be noticed. In the latest study from the Institute of German Economics, which focuses on exports to the US and the associated dependencies on the American side, Ms. von der Leyen’s peculiar leniency is also explained this way: by the fear that, if a conflict were to arise with the US, it might withdraw from NATO and, likewise, from Ukraine.

Well, you might think, that wouldn’t be so bad. On the contrary, the money could finally be used to solve domestic problems again, instead of disappearing into the black hole of Kiev, and NATO is precisely the aggressive bureaucracy to which we owe this whole mess. It would be nice to be rid of it.

But at NATO and the EU, the evil bureaucratic twin in Brussels, it’s easy to explain why they’re clinging to this project. The EU commissioners finally want to truly govern, no longer with borrowed power, and in doing so, they’re returning to a recipe that worked as early as 1871, when Bismarck used a war with France to finally force the small German states into an empire (which the Bavarians responded to for the next century with the term “Saupreißn”). The governments of the individual EU member states are currently like Ludwig II, shortly before his deposition, and, insofar as they’re unwilling to arm themselves, from Brussels’ perspective, also shortly before their drowning in Lake Starnberg.

That’s repulsive and far from desirable, but at least somehow logically understandable. Good old lust for power, plain and simple. Like in the Middle Ages, when the Bishop of Rome at some point placed himself above all other bishops. Ursula von der Leyen as a little empress in a rebirth of the Holy Roman Empire—you can even imagine the fantasies that haunt that tousled head.

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But what about all those heads of state, ministers, and parliamentarians who watch everything collapse beneath them and yet cannot stop, even though they must know, at least to a considerable extent, that the war in Ukraine is lost and that the great spoils of Russia, which many seemed to hope for, will not come?

Perhaps we should take some of the assumptions made in recent years more seriously.

The Pfizer text messages and the German face mask scandal were likely just a fraction of the events. Little by little, slowly, over the years, it’s become clear that the entire vaccination campaign was a scam, and that those responsible knew it. It’s also revealed that side effects were concealed. So, it really was as dirty and corrupt as some feared even during the campaign.

What about Ukraine? That’s probably not all, the infamous ten percent “for the big man.” What if there are many more repayments than currently assumed? What if, of all the payments going to Kyiv, a portion flows back to local decision-makers, i.e., is privatized from the state budget via Kyiv?

Or perhaps we should turn the idea around. Would the behavior of the European political elite fit the hypothesis that they were all afraid of what would come to light if they were no longer in power? Or were they not afraid of what would come to light, but of the reaction to it, or even of the criminal consequences?

It’s interesting when you stumble over small things along the way. Like the fact that there’s a new mask scandal going on in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which isn’t actually about masks, but about the fact that the state bought them for the districts, but two officials never billed them. So far, it seems to be established that it wasn’t careless.

But somehow, you start to suspect. Was it about favoring districts with a “benevolent” district administrator, thus a matter of political intrigue? Or was it, in a slightly more complicated way, about transferring money from public to private funds? Somehow, the whole story feels like the tip of the iceberg; every instinct screams that there’s much, much more beneath the surface…

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And so much is in the pipeline, in swampy, unclear situations. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, and certainly since the influx of refugees in 2015. Which, given the planned armaments, recalls that at least half of all corruption scandals in the former Federal Republic were related to arms trafficking, including the suitcase of money that a certain Mr. Kohl allegedly received.

And one thing is clear: the coronavirus crisis has cost lives; that was no joke. The doubts back then were already being met with fear. There were two options: let the doubts linger and later bring both parties back together, or shake off all the doubters and instead strengthen the loyalty of the remaining loyal supporters.

It’s abundantly clear that option two was chosen. The fragile collaboration with a segment of the population was compensated for by working even more intensively on the believers, by no longer interspersing propaganda, but by adopting the entire program. This is a strategy that can even work for a while – after all, one fanatic replaces several people who aren’t entirely convinced. But in this way, a temporary disagreement becomes a permanent rift. Under normal circumstances, this happens almost like a law of physics: as the pressure to submit increases, the group shrinks further.

Therein lies the second part of the problem. What hasn’t been expected from Ukraine, because the angry Russian is at our door? What else is expected? And what if all that fails, if it all turns out to be lies, if even the faithful realize they’ve been misled by charlatans? Something like these demonstrations against the right not only serve to mobilize the remaining supporters, but also to reassure themselves that there are still people who will keep the presumed mob at bay, for now. But what if they lose their faith?

Not only have they invested so much money in Ukraine (and possibly gotten some of it back), they have not only linked their hostile political plans to it with as much zeal as they did to the coronavirus, they have chained their entire credibility to the clown from Kiev with their incessant propaganda and now watch in horror as he hangs by his fingernails on the edge of the abyss.

They fear that his fall could take them down with it – and they are rightly afraid.

That might even explain why there’s so much sympathy for a criminal like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s not just ideological, no matter how it’s spun. There’s also a sense of identification—after all, the man is trying by any means necessary, even genocide, to avoid going to prison, which is understandable. That evokes compassion. Perhaps that’s the ultimate nightmare that haunts them all—that the moment their power ends, the handcuffs will click.

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That’s not an easy thought, because you always want to convince yourself that it can’t be a widespread phenomenon. After all, in the US, there’s also Nancy Pelosi, who made millions from insider trading. But you don’t want to attribute that to the Germans. Of course, von der Leyen, and also Jens Spahn with his villa – but to explain the behavior of almost the entire political class, there have to be many more.

People tend to hide behind Hanlon’s razor: don’t attribute anything to malice that can be explained by stupidity. And sure, there are some record-breakingly stupid individuals in this caste, German or Estonian, but still—stupidity would ultimately lead to decisions being divided in probability. Such closed cohorts can’t be the result of stupidity. Or at least not solely of stupidity. So, fear after all.

Yes, it’s important to know what you’re dealing with. Because if the assumption is correct that fear is the decisive factor, fear of what will happen if you lose control, then you can’t expect compromise or reason. Then material reality, reason, and insight no longer play a role in decisions, because the course has already been set, without any possibility of deviation.

Frightening, isn’t it? And I still don’t want to believe it. But with every step I can only consider insane and self-destructive, the suspicion grows stronger that this is precisely the reason that binds them all to these plans.

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