Ko iščem razlago za evropski gospodarski samomor, še vedno niham med neumnostjo in med načrtno sabotažo. Preveč sem racionalen za teorije zarote, da bi se nagnil v smer načrtne sabotaže, toda tudi neumnost ne more biti tako globoka in tako široko razpredena. Ko vidiš, da sedanje energetske in podnebne politike vodijo v tvojo lastno gospodarsko razgradnjo, razgradnjo temelja evropske blaginje, medtem ko koristijo tvojima največjima konkurentoma (Kitajski in ZDA), ko vidiš, da sankcije škodijo samo tebi, koristijo pa Rusiji, Kitajski in ZDA, potem je težko zagovarjati, da gre samo za navadno neumnost. Tako neumen, da načrtno uničuješ samega sebe, leto za letom, in da končno tega ne sprevidiš  in ne prenehaš to početi, je preprosto težko biti.

Europe just became the only region on Earth planning to use less natural gas — not because it “went green,” but because its industries are dying. The Green New Deal didn’t decarbonize Europe… it de-industrialized it. And the elites still call this “a success.”

Every region rises. North America up.

Asia up. Middle East up. Africa up.

Eurasia stable and expanding. Only Europe collapses double digits.

This isn’t climate leadership. It’s the unmistakable signature of a project that was never about saving the planet, but about dismantling Europe’s industrial capacity, one sanction package and one ideological decree at a time.

The moment Europe cut itself off from cheap Russian pipeline gas, the clock started ticking. What followed was not an energy transition but an energy suicide pact. The continent that once powered global manufacturing now runs on wishful thinking, imported LNG priced like liquid gold, and punitive regulations written by people who’ve never worked a day in a factory.

Germany, the engine of Europe, was chosen as the sacrificial lamb. The one country whose industrial base made the EU viable was the first one thrown onto the altar of geopolitical obedience.

• Chemical giants relocating to China and America
• Steel and aluminum plants shutting down
• Foundries cold
• Auto parts supply chains disintegrating
• Energy-intensive SMEs dying in silence

This wasn’t an accident. This was the cost of pledging allegiance to the sanctions crusade, even when it meant torching your own prosperity. The same politicians who imposed 19 rounds of sanctions on Russia told their own citizens that “freedom” meant paying triple for heat and watching their employers flee overseas.

And here’s the part Europe’s elites will never say aloud: Russia didn’t just survive, it surged. The same sanctions that hollowed out Europe forced Moscow to build, expand, innovate, diversify. Eurasian production is rising. Russian gas is flowing east. BRICS demand is increasing. Power is shifting, not abstractly, but materially, in pipelines, factories, and trade flows.

Europe, meanwhile, brags about cutting gas consumption by 11%, as if shuttered factories are some kind of environmental milestone.

The tragedy is that Europeans were told this was necessary, moral, even noble. That destroying the industrial heart of Germany, crushing Europe’s middle class, and outsourcing production to Asia was part of some grand civilizational pivot. But the truth is simpler and far uglier.

A continent cannot lead a green transition when it can no longer power its own economy. A continent cannot call itself sovereign when its energy lifeline depends on tanker arrivals from across the Atlantic.

A continent cannot preach competitiveness when it has priced itself out of its own markets.

Europe isn’t transitioning. Europe is being de-industrialized according to plan. Pacified. Locked into imported energy dependence. Locked out of the Eurasian century.

The elites call it progress. The statistics call it decline. And the working Europeans paying the bill know exactly what it is…

 A controlled demolition dressed up as a virtue signal, with Germany, once again, sacrificed first.

Vir:  The Islander