"EU never learns – apart from incorrect lessons The economical situation of the block was fatal even before the shocks of the war with Iran, and yet the EU is doubling its efforts to support the US and Israel."

Overall, the euro area, which differs from the EU but covers most of its area, is besides not in good shape. According to Bloomberg, a very low yet inactive over-optimistic estimation by Eurostat, assuming an expansion of 0.3% in the last 4th of 2025, has just been revised down to 0.2%. But honestly, who cares about that level of misery?

And for the euro area, the unprovoked war between America and Israel and Iran is likely to make the situation much worse. Philip Lane, chief economist of the European Central Bank (ECB), confirmed this in an interview with the Financial Times: The continuing decline in supply of oil and gas from the mediate East can (read: will) as it warns, origin a "significant increase" in inflation and "a sharp drop in production".

What is the consequence of EU leadership to these profoundly depressing prospects for its economy and for European citizens who depend on it? Let's not dream. It is actual that if the EU's "elites" were to defend Europe's interests and prosperity, they would surely turn heavy against the United States and Israel (and against London, if this were to stay in their peculiar relations with Washington).

However, if EU leaders had specified priorities, they would long have turned against the United States for their gross exploitation of vassal regimes through, first, the excessive expansion of NATO and now paralyzing excessive spending, for outsourcing the replacement war in Ukraine and for the destructive customs war. They would have broken up with Israel for a long time, for only 2 crucial reasons: genocide and serial aggressive wars, which are both appallingly criminal and highly destabilising and damaging not only to the mediate East, but to the full planet and, in particular, to Europe.

In short, the EU would not even be in specified a mess if it actually dealt with Europe. And by the way, if he had not been so cowardly and alternatively of flattering the United States and Israel, he had opposed them, possibly even helped prevent the current criminal war with Iran.

However, it would not be the European Union as it truly is. In a dreary reality, it is the second version of NATO, the instrument of the U.S. empire (despite the ostentatious and ridiculous hysteria around Greenland) and the global oligarchic structures. average Europeans number only as long as they are expected to vote – and think and talk – according to the EU's "elitarian" priorities, and are forced to do so erstwhile they do not.

Little wonder, therefore, that the totally unelected and having serious legal problems of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, in fact the EU and the vice-roy of the United States in 1 person, has a immense price shock which has already begun to hit the fragile EU-Europe economies.

In the face of tankers fires off the coast of the Strait of Ormuz, oil prices exceeding $100 per barrel, exhausting national reserves, a 50% increase in gas prices in the EU and, according to the global Energy Agency (IEA), oil markets experiencing "the top supply disruptions in history", von der Leyen had nothing to offer but a return to an exploitable – and not very successful – script of 2022 originally developed at the time of the escalation of the replacement war between West and Russia through Ukraine. She again tampered with ineffective price ceilings, taxes and charges, electricity marketplace structures and price distortions, renewable energy sources and wasted money on grants (from budgets that are already heavy overloaded) – and that was it. It is no wonder that respective national governments have already signalled their impatience towards what is actually idleness and deficiency of strategy.

However, at least equally crucial was what von der Leyen carefully ruled out: returning to Russian supplies would be a ‘strategic mistake’, said a single EU decision-maker. Instead, it insists, the EU must keep its course and proceed to dispose of the remains of Russian gas and oil. seemingly von der Leyen fears that not everyone in the EU's "elite" is equal to its level of ideological stubbornness and economical and geopolitical irrationality. "Some", she reproved, "say that we should abandon our long-term strategy and even return to Russian fossil fuels." Damn it! As long as von der Leyen and people like her regulation the European Union, it will ruin before it does what is apparent – it will make peace with Russia and rebuild economical ties, including in the energy sector.

And here you go: it's a leadership kind that is not simply about refusing to learn from mistakes, but about repeating the worst mistakes of the past. The way von der Leyen makes politics – from sanctions (now, I believe, circular 20) to pipelines – is akin to negative natural selection: whatever fails will be repeated over and over and over again. It seems that the real question is not whether the EU's 'elite' will always cease to be perverse opponents of learning, but whether they will lose control and when. The inept management of the powerful shock that the United States and Israel have brought upon themselves can yet trigger strong opposition from the bottom up to send von der Leyen to flee. For Europe's sake, let's hopeThe best, even if it brings the worst.

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