By Markus Willinger:
The Ukraine crisis has not only shown that the old conflict between America and Russia still exists. It has also made it clear that Europe is still the locus of this conflict, but without any independent power of its own to affect the outcome. The Russians and the Americans argue about redrawing borders within Europe, and they don’t care what we Europeans think about it. They don’t care because they don’t need to care. “Fuck the EU” sums it up quite well. “Don’t listen to the Europeans. All they can do is talk. They don’t matter.”
And because Europe has no power of its own, Ukraine has only two options: it can either be part of the Russian or the American zones of influence. To be part of Europe was never an option for Ukraine. It could not become so, because an independent Europe does not exist.
How did it come to pass, that nobody needs to care about us Europeans? The EU nations combined have an army that is twice the size of the Russian army, and they have a stronger economy than does the US. Nevertheless we are still completely dominated by these foreign powers. This begs the question: do we need a different form for the organization of Europe? Yes we do!
We need an independent Europe. We should not believe that the Russians or the Americans will ever respect us. And why should they? It is our job to protect our continent. And it is their job to take care of their countries. They just see that we don’t do it.
Today we Europeans are vassals of the US. That is the reality.
If we want to be free again, if we want to be independent, if we want to be able to make our own decisions about what happens in Europe, if we want to stop being the laughingstock of other powers, we must find a way to reorganize the strengths that Europe actually has.
Why a European State Cannot Work
I’ll be honest. I strongly reject the idea of a European superstate. For several reasons, I do not believe that a European state would work, or would even be desirable.
Empires and superstates have never been formed without violence. To do so, one needs force (a lot of force) to suppress any rebellious groups that arise, calling for independence within the various regions of which they are comprised. This would especially be true if one tried to unite more than 20 nations in one state. The reason why there is no European state today is because no region of Europe has ever had enough power to force the construction of such a state. The Habsburgs, Napoleon, and even the Germans were not powerful enough to defeat all their enemies in Europe.
You need force to form an empire. Even the “democratic” European Union has realized that. This is why we Europeans are not allowed to vote concerning “European questions.” If the peoples of Europe had been consulted, there would be no euro or “Treaty of Lisbon,” and the Eastern European countries surely would not be part of the EU.
Modern democracy and the nation-state appeared in history together. They did so because modern democracy requires a nation. The dream of a democratic European state is a chimera. If we ever see a European state, it could only be a dictatorship (though it might call itself “democratic”) and it would be destroyed as soon as the people got their power back.
If one is not satisfied with modern liberal democracy but is in favour of the Swiss model of “direct democracy,” as I am, one must necessarily reject the idea of a European state.
There is a reason why there are so many nations in Europe. It’s because we Europeans love our freedom. And it’s because every region of our continent has always defended its independence. The day these nations give up their freedom to be part of one great empire will be the day that Europe ceases to exist and turns into Western Asia.
A Europe of Nations
I am not a nationalist. I am a convinced European, and because I am, I must accept that Europe is nothing without its nations. If we want to reorganize Europe, we must acknowledge that Europe is different from the US or China. And because it is so unique it also needs to find its own unique method of self-organization.
The European Union obviously does not work. It tells us every day what to do and how to live, but it is not able to unite the Europeans or to defend their interests against foreign powers. The European Union has completely failed. It took our freedom, and in return we do not even get to enjoy the benefits that a united European power would bring.
I want to go in the other direction. I want a Europe that is united in the face of foreign powers, but which does not try to make its nations equal. Europe does not need a common currency. It needs no universal regulations and no stupid EU laws. It needs a military alliance, a common border protection, and it needs to defend the Mediterranean against African invaders (which the media prefers to call “asylum seekers”).
A European military alliance is needed to replace NATO. During the Cold War, we Europeans needed the US to defend us against a possible Russian invasion. Today we don´t need the Americans to defend ourselves, so there is no longer any reason for us to participate in any wars perpetrated by America. A European military alliance is necessary to form a strong European army, which would combine the advantages of all its nations. Who on Earth could have better winter soldiers than the Scandinavians? Who could build better tanks than the Germans? Who could build better ships than the British? Together, we Europeans are strong, and there’s no need for us to fear any foreign power.
We should not fear that such a new European power would be used to start unnecessary wars, because I want the peoples of Europe to have a much larger influence on the foreign policies of their own nations. We Europeans need an institution where our nations come together to discuss and decide how they want to act in the world. The European parliament might be useful for that, especially as, in my vision, it would have lost its powers to regulate the daily lives of the peoples it governs. In the EU elections, the peoples of Europe could then decide directly whether or not they agree with the foreign policies being pursued by Europe, or if they want some other faction to determine them. That would give us the possibility to vote once for our domestic politics through the national elections, and once for foreign policy through the European elections. We, the peoples of Europe, would therefore be much better able to determine what we want our politicians to do.
I believe this is the way we should go. I am certain that only such a “Europe of nations” (or a “Europe of fatherlands,” as we call it in Germany) could give us both freedom and power. Today we have neither. That is why we need to dissolve the European Union and attempt to found a united, and therefore independent, Europe.
We need to do this so that countries like Ukraine could one day say: we choose neither Moscow nor Washington.
We choose Europe.
By Markus Willinger © 2014 Original article published by Motpol # # # #
PharmaPhil
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I think EUSSR is a more accurate term.
I hate the EU but like Europe & want us to trade with them, allow travel but not the imbalance & exploitation that goes on now.
Bob
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Interesting that Sir Oswald Mosley used the slogan “Britain First in Europe a Nation” and “Europe for the Europeans” after the Brother’s War, when he formed the Union Movement and National Party of Europe. Francis Parker Yockey formed the European Liberation Front in 1949 and called for a United Fascist Europe for the Europeans.
Bill Baillie
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I support a united Europe independent of Russia and America. The nuts and bolts of federation will sort themselves out. The important thing is the will to unity. The gloom and doom mongers predicted that Europe would fall apart in 2008; but it didn’t. The UK, Europe and America are all recovering from the world recession and the surge of populism in Britain and France is nothing but a temporary setback. If the Tories ever get their in/out referendum the people will vote for the status quo. Do not be misled by the wishful thinking of the Daily Mail. The real threat facing us is uncontrolled Third World immigration – not Polish plumbers.
Max Musson
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Very true Bill, very true!
Shaun
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That is stating the obvious, but very true! Unless you’re a plumber and some Polish guy has taken your job. God … some of my father’s friends hate the Poles. They’re in the building trade — can you blame them for their so-called hatred?
PharmaPhil
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Their hatred would be better directed at the politicians who allowed this to happen, turning us into beggars in our own country.
Shaun
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A united Europe, in the context the author has written about it, would get my vote. What a wonderful idea….
SerpentSlayer
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I for one cannot agree that we need any form of democracy to govern Europe. I would happily see a return to more decentralised, agricultural states governed by Kings and Princes. The burden of government does not need to fall on the peasant classes of our race and from cradle to grave they should have no worries besides their own community and family lives.
The burden of leadership should fall to the natural aristocracy of Europe, the kind of “cultured thug” that Jonathan Bowden was so fond of. Lets restroe real freedom to Europe, the freedom to control our own food and water supply at the local level. To live happy lives free of fear of tyrannical self serving governments, fear of the banks taking their livelihoods away.
Let Kings worry about foreign policy and national alliances, let the aristocracy deal with small problems that occur here and there, we do not need an active national government in a world free from world Jewry and negative elements of our race.
A Europe of the Warrior-Farmer, whose destiny is entirely in its own hands and whose leadership comes from the best of its blood, the elect of Allfather.
MsBridgit
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I was mystified why the Ukraine Nationalist Party would want to join the EU, it does not make any sense. The first thing one loses is self rule. Evey Nationaist organisation that I know wants to escape the EU. Could be be the opportunity of obtaining a massive loan to kickstart their ailing economy, because a loan from the IMF or the European banks will be a “Greek Loan” in other words it comes complete with austerity measures along with control of their fiscal poliies.
Fionn Westron
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As the invasion and occupation forces become plantations and colonies, the idea of a Europe of anything becomes redundant.
The idea of enclaves becomes more real and urgent with every passing day. Talk of what kind of Europe we want is nice and for the day if and when we have enough of it back, but is very much part of the background philosophical hypothesis arena.
It is vital we stlll support and have every facet of resistance including political. But we seriously now need to start thinking and making provision for a Europe of enclaves.
PharmaPhil
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Markus Willinger says
“I am not a nationalist. I am a convinced European, and because I am….”
So I assume he means it to be a largely white Europe with proper Europeans in it?
If so I can live with that, even though the nation state is important to me.
Folk Didact
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After reading Imperium, by Yockey, I found myself challenged by his indictment of “petty-nationalism and petty-stateism”, and wondered whether a purely British ethno-nationalism was still viable. But I think the main thing that I took away from Yockey was that enthusiasm for European vitality is enthusiasm for the nations of Europe. I think, that although British ethnonationalism is one of the key building blocks for a Greater Europe, as is the nationalism of every country, we ought to be conscious that we are struggles are not unique to us, they are common to every nation of Europe, as we are members of the same civilisation, the same race, and the same cultural soul. That is one of the main reasons why I am no longer view exit from the EU as such as overwhelming priority, though still believe our participation in it can be harmful to our national interest.