A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #207 - A proposal to save the European Union (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The European Union's profound silence regarding international political 
events, especially regarding the two major wars underway worldwide, is 
plain for all to see. This lack of positioning is increasingly met with 
relief, knowing we are being spared the colossal blunders of Ursula von 
der Stupid and Kaja Kretina Kallas, two individuals totally unsuited to 
their roles . The same is true of the rest of the EU's staff, both at 
the level of the Presidency of the European Parliament and the entire 
Commission. They are not even supported by the quality of the members of 
the European Council, which comprises the heads of state and government, 
the true holders of power. The reason is simple: just consult their CVs 
online and you can see that they were all born from the same type of 
brood, having gained their experience in large US multinationals, where 
they were raised, pampered, and trained to manage Europe on behalf of 
their masters, deluding themselves that they would thereby be co-opted 
into the global governing elite. If this were the only problem, the 
solution would be simple, because a selective virus would be enough to 
wipe out this group of supporters in one fell swoop, given that their 
elimination through elections is slow and arduous, especially because 
those positioned in the second, third, and fourth rows to take their 
place are their identical pair: the infection has transcended the 
so-called political alignments and, with rare exceptions, affects 
everyone within the establishment . A growing share of voters in every 
country has understood this, and this is one of the reasons they have 
lost all faith in the effectiveness of voting and are abstaining.
However, the dismay stems not only from this, but from the awareness 
that there is something else, which must be sought in the structure and 
power relations that have been built over the years, in the political 
choices adopted which, as has been said, are the fruit of a relationship 
of vassalage to the masters, but also the result of a selective thought 
process, made up of ignorance, stupidity, and servility, which makes 
these people corrupt as Vilfredo Pareto said and Alessandro Orsini 
tirelessly repeats that is, individuals who have never had an 
understanding of their mission, or when they did have it, they betrayed it.
Since there is little that can be done about subjective qualities, one 
possible option is to work on structures and institutions, with the 
expectation that these will influence the actions of those called to 
fill the various roles.

The structural problem

A first structural problem for the European Union is the collection of 
states that have gradually joined it through co-optation. The 
organization initially emerged as a coalition of European states 
devastated by two world wars that had resulted in as many as 80 million 
deaths in Europe. The founders of the European Union believed the damage 
had been so severe that war should never again take place in Europe: 
this could only be achieved by uniting the various nations that had been 
at the center of the conflicts, united by a mutual interest in progress, 
development, and peace. And it was here, due to the contingent political 
situation namely, the immediate outbreak of the Cold War, which led to 
the formation of the two opposing blocs of East and West that the first 
flaw in the project arose. All states were invited to join the Union, 
except Russia, the very state that had been a major player in both wars 
and had suffered the greatest number of deaths, more than a quarter of 
the total.
Obviously, we don't want to discuss here what might have happened if 
things had gone differently, but we must acknowledge a factual 
situation: the causes of the conflict had not been eliminated, but 
merely postponed. Western European states confederated under the wing of 
one of the two victors of the conflict, the United States, becoming a 
province of the empire and part of the Pax Americana, an instrument of 
its competition with Soviet Russia and its associated states. It must be 
acknowledged that the politicians of the time addressed the problem of 
overcoming this situation by resorting to international cooperation, as 
showcased in the Helsinki Accords, to promote peaceful coexistence in 
Europe. This arrangement ended on November 9, 1989, emblematically with 
the fall of the Berlin Wall: the West was convinced it could take 
advantage of this situation and turn Russia into a hunting ground for 
easy profits, through the institutional fragmentation of those 
territories into many small entities that could be absorbed over time 
one by one by the European Union and exploited by the collective West 
(the Brzezinski project ).
This strategy seemed to be successful in the initial phase, promoting 
the dissolution manu militari.The former Yugoslavia, a federal country 
that, due to its structure and its status as a leader in the Non-Aligned 
Movement, could have constituted an attractive alternative to the 
European Union, was followed by a grouping of other countries, not only 
in the Balkans but also in Eastern Europe, without, in reality, this 
accession being accompanied by a full sharing of the founding values of 
the original convergence of interests. The apparent success of the 
assimilation of the new Eastern European countries actually pushed 
Europe, and especially Britain, linked by a privileged relationship with 
the United States and plagued by nostalgia for the lost empire, to 
pursue a policy of dismembering Russia, which had meanwhile rebuilt its 
state structure.
The first step was Britain's disengagement from the European Union, at 
the initiative of the British Conservatives, who established a "working 
group" within NATO that would lead to Britain's Brexit from the EU, 
allowing it to act more freely as an autonomous entity. This 
institutional disengagement, but not too much, was intended with the 
prospect of being able to reestablish organic relations in the future, 
if necessary, after having guided the Union's foreign policy from the 
outside (as demonstrated by the establishment of the "willing" group). 
Meanwhile, destabilization began in the East, culminating in the Maidan 
crisis in 2014 and the outbreak of civil war in Ukraine. By exploiting 
the xenophobic and sovereignist nationalism of a right-wing political 
faction historically present in those territories, rooted in principles 
bordering on Aryanism and Nazism and preying on anti-Russian sentiment, 
it was now necessary to dismantle the other option that had until then 
guided the European Union: a partnership with Russia for the sake of 
energy, raw materials, industrial products, and development.
This strategy envisioned attacking Ukraine's Russian-speaking 
minorities, a prerequisite for undermining the country's neutrality and 
the balance between the country's diverse ethnic groups. The 
implementation of this destabilization plan prompted Russia's 
intervention, which deluded itself into believing it could control the 
situation in Ukraine with a "police operation," underestimating the 
degree and depth of NATO's penetration of the country over the years and 
the potential of Ukrainian nationalism.
The outbreak of war with Ukraine allowed British intelligence services 
and their US allies to sever the essential umbilical cord that enabled 
the policy of cooperation developed until then, particularly by Germany, 
and to destroy Nord Stream Two, attributing its authorship to Ukraine. 
This policy characterized the entire war in Ukraine, which was aimed at 
destroying energy ties between Russia and EU countries, masochistically 
induced to support its main enemies. The subsequent termination of oil 
and gas supply contracts resulting from sanctions against Russia is 
merely the logical development of this policy.
With the Trump administration, the attack on Europe's development fully 
assumed the objective of acquiring control of the international oil and 
energy market, through the attack on Venezuela and Iran: the strategic 
objective was the destruction of the European welfare system, since the 
savings of the European peoples must be channeled through private 
insurance and pension funds managed by large US giants to drain 
resources and replenish a financial market, the US one, asphyxiated, 
devoid of capital, characterized by a deindustrialization of the US 
territory that American capitalism itself has stubbornly pursued in the 
search for maximum profit and the reduction of labor costs, 
externalizing production and transforming the entire US economy into a 
voracious financial instrument that lives off the exploitation and rents 
of subjugated economies and bets on the technological leap constituted 
by artificial intelligence and the financial bubble built on this 
hypothesis.
In this scenario, Europe is destined to lose inexorably, prisoner of its 
own cumbersome and slow decision-making processes, due to a lack of 
strategic vision, a complete ignorance of its own interests, a lack of 
political autonomy, and an inability to adopt and implement an energy 
supply policy that would protect it from the attack on its people, their 
economy, and their well-being.

The possible solution

The possible solution is inextricably linked to the rediscovery of 
international community law and, above all, respect for the principle of 
" Pacta sut servanda, " repeatedly violated by the United States. The 
European Union, in the name of defending the peoples of Europe, should 
immediately cease all support for Ukraine unless it adapts its 
structures and legal system to community principles, given that its 
demands include membership in the Union. This means that this country, 
by accepting the principle of self-determination of peoples, transforms 
itself into a federal state of autonomy that recognizes equal rights and 
duties to all ethnic groups and peoples within it, to all linguistic 
groups, to all religious groups, enshrining in law the pluralism of the 
legal system, in conformity with the Community legal system that ensures 
linguistic autonomy, religious freedom, the secular nature of the state, 
and respect for ethnic belonging. Likewise, the Union should review the 
application of these principles in its various member states and 
sanction those systems that violate them, first and foremost the Baltic 
States. The Ukrainian state should be given the choice between accepting 
these conditions or being left to wage war alone against Russia, without 
any assistance, military aid, or financial support.
This choice would not only allow for immediate peace but, if accompanied 
by the simultaneous signing of a cooperative relationship with Russia 
based on mutual interest and the restoration of economic and trade 
exchanges, sanctioned by appropriate treaties and agreements, also for 
economic recovery throughout the EU. The result would be an undeniable 
mutual benefit, allowing Europe to confront and counter the strategy of 
disintegrating its economy and well-being implemented by the United 
States and other international competitors . While this path may seem 
utopian at the moment, it is the only one that allows Europe to be among 
the major international competitors
and thus the emergence of a new multipolar balance between the different 
regions of the world. Everything tells us that the imperial order 
established by the United States is over, that the "American century" is 
now behind us, and that new international players such as China and 
India, as well as the BRICS countries, are asserting themselves on the 
global stage.
The creaking sounds are growing louder: on March 23, the United States 
government declared its insolvency based on the consolidated financial 
statements of the Treasury Department., for the 2025 fiscal year, albeit 
with almost total silence from the media, denouncing $6.06 trillion in 
total assets versus $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 
30, 2025, a sign that the entire world is no longer willing to allow 
Americans to live beyond their means. And it's no coincidence that the 
Iranians have made transit through the Strait of Hormuz conditional on 
the payment of a toll and the sale of gas and oil in euros or renminbi 
(the yuan is the unit of measurement). This is the first step in 
dismantling the petrodollar system and with it marking the end of the 
US's vested interest on all transactions.
It is precisely the mounting crisis of the US empire that is offering a 
glimmer of hope to Europe, which must thank Iran's heroic resistance. 
Iran, beyond the deep criticism of its social governance, is teaching 
the United States a strategic lesson, forcing it to prioritize defending 
Israel, even over its bases in the Middle East. This is thus 
discrediting the protective umbrella it offered the Gulf States at such 
a high price. It is also selecting targets to attack, starting with 
helium production and data centers located in the Gulf, to exploit their 
energy reserves. This calls into question the stability of the economic 
bubble built by the US on investments in artificial intelligence, due to 
soaring costs and the shortage of essential components. All of this, it 
should be noted, benefits China, which has also invested in artificial 
intelligence but has already integrated its benefits with a 
groundbreaking that impacts and strengthens supply chains and production 
processes.
All of this tells us that now is the time for Europe to do everything it 
can to end the war in Ukraine and restore its partnership with Russia. 
But this is a completely utopian expectation and hope, given the 
composition of the European Union's ruling class. And by drawing on its 
history, Europe would have a shining example of what to do: it would be 
enough to recall the Defenestration of Prague (1618) and replay its 
dynamics from the finally-open windows of the Berlaymont building in 
Brussels, the seat of the Commission.

Gianni Cimbalo

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/04/19/una-proposta-per-salvare-lunione-europea/
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