Europe’s Anti-Civilizational Drive: Why And How

Silly anti-civilizational propaganda claims that tariffs and blockade could persuade a death cult like the Shia to suddenly turn reasonable and friendly to democracy. Seducing the Shia was tried for 47 years, and by the best and brightest, and it did not work: there were bombs in Paris (the French president then prevented the media from saying the bombing plots originated in Iran), hundreds of French and US troops were killed in mass bombings (1983), etc. Iran financed massively terrrorist groups in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq, etc. And harbors Al Qaeda…

The Shia’s obsession is to surprise the West with nuclear 9/11s, and, after nuclear bombings some cities in the West, they would be elated to die as martyrs: the religion the Shia believe in, a hard core variant of Islam, tells them that killing all the Jews and dying as martyrs fighting for their God are the highest calling.

Bombing the Shia into the Stone Age is entirely feasible, safe and effective to prevent them from committing mass murder with nuclear weapons.

Aerial bombing was even done to Nazi Germany, and destroyed it as a functioning country… Although at the time, bombs were extremely inaccurate.

With the Shia, there is no alternative. The aim is not to destroy the missiles outright because they are the pretext for extending the bombing campaign until the true objectives are achieved.

The real aim of the bombing campaign is to destroy the Shia Defense Industrial Base. And if that is not enough to persuade them, then the DIL, Dual Industrial Base (not just the defense factories and steel mills, but also the power infrastructure).

This is also a warning to Chinese dictator Xi to stop his aggression in the South China Sea and threats against Taiwan. 

The sweet and soft method was tried by Obama with the Shia. Obama even gave them 50 billion dollars. It did not work. The Shia went on with a massive, state of the art, nuclear war preparation program.

The Shia even developed some weapons no other power has. And those weapons work: consider the destruction of that AWACS E3 plane on a distant taxiway (localized by Putin’s forces), or the double tap (second projectile in the hole made by the first) at the US embassy in Riyadh.

As with Shia ally Putin, only ultimate strength works.. This is more of a world war than anything else.

European leadership, which was pro-Putin for 23 years, is now showing its true color: betraying the civilizational heritage so that the greedsters presently in power can stay so indefinitely.

So far, in the last three decades, European leadership has betrayed Europe. Now European leadership insists on betraying the USA. It will not have any luck, because that would require too much of an assault against rationality. But the plutocratic propagandists are trying.

In the latest news from France the anti-civilizational government is putting professional anthropologists, philosophers (Michel Onfray), C News (French most watched media), and Charles Darwin on trial (for saying man was a great ape), while loudly propagandizing for… Islam (a reference to interior minister Nunez declarations in April 2026 which were as explicit as possible).

One may wonder how come the European leadership became so keen on devolution. The answer is simple: Europe was defeated in the Second World War, by the USA and its proxy, the USSR (to whom half of Europe was given at Yalta before going to make a deal with the Saudis at the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt).

A defeatist mentality was installed in Europe to make this submission easier and more permanent (The Absurd, so-called “Existentialism”, Pedocriminality, so-called French Theory). European plutocracy thrived under the US Plutocratic Deep State.

Then came Putin, who extracted wealth from Russia, sending it to European plutocratic oligarchic colleagues, and providing energy (energy procurement was outlawed or discouraged in Europe, to accelerate deindustrialization). 

An anecdotal demonstration of this: even after Putin started to invade Ukraine in 2014, France sent crucial military equipment for the Russian air force, missile and aircraft (while Trump was sending Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine…)

The European elite has been used to living with Putin, welcoming his money, oil and gas, and hiding it in plain sight. Now they have a problem, because Ukraine, flush initially with US weapons (initially sent by Trump I), resisted Putin. The treacherous European leadership has now to do as if they resisted Putin: appearances are everything.

Meanwhile the European left realized that more and more of the electorate had enough with their masquerade (superficial socialism over-taxing the middle class while profiting the hyper wealthy). So they made an alliance with (pseudo-) Greens and Islamists. And here we are.

Deindustrialization is nothing new: the Roman Republic died that way. Right, it was mostly agriculture, but there was great replacement of Roman independent little farmers, the backbone of Rome, by giant agribusinesses manned by armies of slaves (one latifundia could have ten thousand slaves). That broke the back of the Roman middle class, which was the spine of the Republic. It was also a conspiracy and a plot, because, starting with Tiberius Gracchus, the full theory of what was going on was exposed. And there was deliberate will, on the part of the self-described “Optimates” (they were “optimal”) to destroy the middle class and the Centuriate Assembly (Rome’s direct democracy voting assembly). Actually the rage of the Senate against Caesar was caused by him overriding the Senate (where the Optimates ruled) to go directly to the Assembly when he was Consul in 59 BCE, and do what the Gracchi and their thousands of followers, over generations, could not do: redistribution of land.

Rome died of the deindustrialization. First the army got professional, then took power after horrendous civil wars. Then the decimated population got replaced by more placid middle easterners. In the end much of everything Roman collapsed and the Barbarians took over (fortunately the Franks had been prepared as a second foundation of Rome; yes they were armed farmers, like the original Rome, and they had learned to speak Latin).

The plutocrats though were happy: many of them stayed in power for centuries, even millennia. In the present Europe, many families in power have been that way for centuries. Paradoxically that system installed in its latest version by the USA after 1945, has now turned against the US, which needs an ally and discovers that Europe has LOST AGENCY.

Stay tuned, this is only beginning…

Patrice Ayme

"I begin with the view that, and I put it very crudely, in Britain we have to learn to grow our own green beans. In Britain, we expect to have fresh green beans on our tables every day of the year, and we expect to draw down Kenya’s water table and exploit its cheap labor so that we can have green beans every day of the year. That has to end. We’ve got to learn to grow our own green beans. We can’t prey upon the assets of others for our own economic well-being.

At the same time, I want to be very clear, I am not a nationalist. I believe it must be possible for a government to respond to its electorate and act in their interests. For me, that’s democracy. At the same time, I don’t believe we can achieve that degree of autonomy without internationalism. We can only do it by actually cooperating. I’m arguing that there must be a much greater emphasis on environmental self-sufficiency. However, that is not nationalism, that is internationalism in my view. That is saying that we want to cooperate with our friends and partners across the world. We don’t want to exploit and extract assets from them. It’s as simple as that.

What always strikes me about the great financial crisis of 2007–9 was that the Left didn’t know it was coming (...) People talked about globalization as if it was a given. And then when it blew up, there was no plan B. We didn’t even know it could happen. We were as stupid as the chair of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan. The Left was as stupid as Greenspan, who said he didn’t believe it could happen.

Meanwhile, Wall Street couldn’t believe its luck because it then consolidated itself and became stronger than it had ever been. Before the financial crisis, it could go bust. Since the financial crisis, no Wall Street bank can go bust anymore."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/global-financial-system-deindustrialization-climate/

#Deindustrialization #Financialization #ClimateChange #Globalization #Debt #Capitalism

"A cursory glance at the economic and social development of service-oriented economies dampens any such optimism. There is a reason why manufacturing jobs occupy such a central place in contemporary populist rhetoric. As a rule, they generate significantly higher value added per employee and per hour than jobs in the service sector. In countries such as Germany and the UK, this difference is typically 15 to 40 percent. In addition, around 70 percent of all private investment in research and development in Germany comes from the production sector. An economy that allows an uncontrolled decline in its industrial production willingly accepts a future of stagnating productivity growth and declining real wage growth. This would be no different in Germany.

Britain is the prime example of a country that, despite a large service sector with highly productive services (such as IT, consulting, and finance), is trapped in a vicious cycle of low investment, productivity, and real wage growth as well as high inequality. This reflects that the so-called “productive” services are accompanied by high exploitative rents (from capital income) that inhibit economic activity in other areas while driving up asset prices.

The UK economy is paradigmatic of the “dual” or permanently “K-shaped” type of economy, in which income gains benefit the top 20 to 30 percent (but especially the top 10 percent) while the rest stagnate or shrink in the face of rising living costs. While Germany has not been exempt from these trends (inequality has been increasing and wealth disparities are anomalously high), a UK-ification of its economy would worsen them.

The relative indifference to deindustrialization from the liberal center can hardly be justified."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/germany-deindustrialization-trade-green-elite

#Germany #Deindustrialization #Manufacturing #Economy #EU

The Silent Erosion: Europe Economic Decline in 2025

Europe Economic Decline 2025: GDP Stagnation, Deindustrialization, and Agricultural Woes Exposed

In the shadow of its storied past as the cradle of innovation and prosperity, Europe in 2025 grapples with an undeniable Europe economic decline. Once the envy of the world with its robust industrial base and fertile farmlands, the European Union now stares down a trajectory of stagnation that threatens to impoverish entire nations.

GDP growth hovers at a meager 1.2% for the year, according to the latest KPMG European Economic Outlook, a far cry from the dynamism needed to counter rising energy costs, geopolitical tensions, and climate shocks. This isn’t mere rhetoric; it’s etched in the empirical data from sources like Trading Economics and Eurostat, where industrial production dips and agricultural yields falter, painting a picture of a continent hollowing out from within.

The first 100 days of 2025 have only amplified this Europe economic decline, with quarterly GDP edging up just 0.2% in Q3, per the European Central Bank’s bulletin. Unemployment lingers at 6.3%, masking deeper youth joblessness at 14.4%, while wages inch forward at 3.7%—barely keeping pace with inflation’s bite. As factories relocate to cheaper shores and droughts scorch fields, the EU’s 27 member states face not just economic headwinds but a slow erosion of living standards. This article dissects the data, from deindustrialization’s job-killing march to the quiet destruction of agriculture, revealing how policies and global shifts are accelerating the Europe economic decline. Backed by verifiable metrics, it’s a call to confront the truths behind the numbers.

The Stagnant Heart: GDP and the Broader Europe Economic Decline

At the core of the Europe economic decline lies a GDP that’s grown anemically, failing to ignite the engines of recovery post-pandemic. The Eurozone’s full-year projection for 2025 stands at 1.2%, a slight uptick from 0.9% in 2024 but still below the 2% threshold that economists deem necessary for sustainable expansion, as outlined in the OECD’s Interim Report from September 2025. This sluggishness isn’t isolated; it’s symptomatic of structural frailties exacerbated by high energy prices—lingering from the Ukraine crisis—and a trade imbalance that’s swung from surplus to near-deficit, with August 2025’s balance plummeting to €986 million from €12.7 billion the prior month, per Trading Economics.

Consider the quarterly cadence: Q1 saw a tepid 0.3% rise, Q2 a mere 0.1%, and Q3 rebounding marginally to 0.2%, according to Eurostat’s flash estimates. Annualized, this translates to a Europe economic decline in momentum, where even Germany’s vaunted export machine contracted by 0.2% overall in 2024, dragging the bloc. The IMF echoes this in its World Economic Outlook updates, forecasting EU-wide growth at 1.5% for 2026—optimistic, yet insufficient against a backdrop of aging populations and fiscal austerity.

To visualize this stagnation, examine the trend in EU GDP growth rates from 2020 onward. The sharp rebound of 2021 gave way to volatility, but by 2025, the line flattens perilously close to zero, underscoring the Europe economic decline’s persistence.

This chart, drawn from aggregated Eurostat and ECB data, highlights how the post-COVID spike dissipated into the current Europe economic decline, with projections from BusinessEurope’s Spring Outlook warning of further deceleration to 1% in 2026 absent policy shifts. The human toll? Per capita GDP in the EU trailed the U.S. by 30% in 2024, a gap widening as American growth surges past 2.5%. Nations like Italy and Spain, already burdened by debt exceeding 140% of GDP, see their youth emigration rates climb, siphoning talent and perpetuating the cycle of impoverishment.

Deindustrialization: The Hollowing Out of Europe’s Industrial Core

No facet of the Europe economic decline is more visceral than deindustrialization, the relentless offshoring and contraction that’s gutted manufacturing heartlands. In June 2025 alone, EU industrial production tumbled 1% month-over-month, with the Eurozone faring worse at 1.3%, as reported by Global Tribune. Year-over-year, August’s 1.1% gain masks a broader trend: a 2.4% quarterly drop in April, per Eurostat, signaling contraction in key sectors like chemicals and machinery.

Germany, Europe’s industrial powerhouse, exemplifies this decay. Its manufacturing workforce shrank by 120,000 in 2024, leaving 6.67 million jobs by early 2025, according to Energy News Beat. GDP contracted 0.2% last year, with deindustrialization blamed on net-zero policies inflating energy costs—up 50% since 2021—and competition from subsidized Chinese exports. The Federal Statistical Office notes a 5% decline in industrial output since 2022, fueling a Europe economic decline that’s cost 1.5 million jobs bloc-wide over three years.

Trading Economics data reinforces this: Industrial production’s month-on-month dip to -1.2% in August 2025 reflects supply chain snarls and tariff threats from across the Atlantic. Oliver Wyman’s 2025 report on the European industrial goods sector predicts moderate revenue declines of 3-9% annually for many firms, with stronger performers stagnating at ±2%. This isn’t hyperbole; it’s the data-driven reality of a continent where manufacturing’s share of GDP fell from 20% in 2000 to 15% in 2025, per ETUI’s Benchmarking Working Europe.

A bar chart of industrial production indices across major EU economies illustrates the uneven but pervasive Europe economic decline in this sector.

Sourced from Trading Economics, this visualization shows Italy’s steeper slide amid its automotive woes, while even “resilient” Spain barely offsets the bloc’s drag. The GIS Reports warn that without aggressive reindustrialization—like the EU’s modest Green Deal investments—dependencies on imports for critical tech will deepen, accelerating the Europe economic decline into outright recession by decade’s end.

The Barren Fields: Destruction of EU Agriculture Amid Climate and Policy Pressures

Parallel to factories’ fade, Europe’s farmlands wither, marking another pillar of the Europe economic decline through agricultural devastation. EU output value dipped to €531.9 billion in 2024 from €536.7 billion in 2023—a 0.9% drop, as Cyprus Mail reported in November 2025—continuing a two-year slide fueled by droughts, soil degradation, and regulatory overreach.

The 2025 drought, one of the severest on record, ravaged potato and grain yields, per Potato News Today, with production forecasts slashed 8% for 2025/26 in specialized crops like olives, according to the European Commission’s short-term outlook. Climate Impact Lab’s June 2025 study, covered by Forbes, projects a staggering 40% drop in maize and wheat output across Europe by mid-century under current warming trajectories, but 2025’s extremes already hint at acceleration: 60% of EU soils degraded by intensive farming, per The Guardian, eroding fertility and boosting imports by 15% year-over-year.

Policy plays culprit too. The EU’s nitrate directives and livestock density caps, analyzed in a ScienceDirect study, could trim overall food production 5% by 2040, per the Joint Research Centre’s October 2025 report. Germany’s farm protests underscore the pain: Subsidies cut 20% under the Common Agricultural Policy reform, coinciding with a 30% “carbon sink” decline from wildfires and floods, as DW noted. Trading Economics lacks direct ag metrics, but Eurostat’s volume index shows a 2.1% contraction in 2024, with 2025 on track for worse.

This pie chart breaks down the drivers of agricultural decline, based on JRC and EC data, revealing climate’s outsized role in the Europe economic decline’s rural front.

With rural poverty at risk—social exclusion rates up 1.2% to 21.6% in 2024, per Eurostat—this sector’s unraveling impoverishes communities from Portugal’s vineyards to Poland’s plains, compounding the Europe economic decline.

Impoverishment’s Shadow: Unemployment, Wages, and Social Fractures

The Europe economic decline manifests starkly in human terms: Unemployment steady at 6.3% belies underemployment, with BusinessEurope forecasting a dip to 5.4% by 2026 only if growth materializes—which it won’t without reform. Wages grew 3.7% in June 2025, per Trading Economics, yet real terms lag as inflation nibbles 2.5% away, squeezing disposable income.

Poverty at-risk rates climbed to 16.5% in 2024, Eurostat data shows, with southern Europe hit hardest—Greece at 27%, Bulgaria 32%. This fosters a vicious cycle: Emigration of 500,000 skilled workers annually, per OECD, drains innovation, perpetuating the Europe economic decline.

In sum, 2025’s data from Trading Economics, ECB, and Eurostat lays bare a Europe economic decline that’s not inevitable but demands urgent reckoning. Reindustrialization funds and sustainable ag tech could stem the tide, but inaction risks a lost decade of prosperity.

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References:

• KPMG European Economic Outlook October 2025: https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/uk/pdf/2025/10/eu-economic-outlook-oct.pdf
• ECB Staff Macroeconomic Projections September 2025: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/projections/html/ecb.projections202509_ecbstaff~c0da697d54.en.html
• OECD Economic Outlook Interim Report September 2025: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2025/09/oecd-economic-outlook-interim-report-september-2025_ae3d418b/full-report.html
• Trading Economics Euro Area Indicators: https://tradingeconomics.com/euro-area/indicators
• Eurostat Industrial Production Data: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/4-13062025-ap
• Global Tribune on EU Industrial Decline: https://globaltribune.net/decline-in-industrial-production-in-the-european-union-are-there-risks-for-investors
• ETUI Benchmarking Working Europe 2025: https://www.etui.org/publications/benchmarking-working-europe-2025
• EC Short-Term Outlook EU Agricultural Markets July 2025: https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/media/news/short-term-outlook-eu-agricultural-markets-resilience-amid-geopolitical-instabilities-and-climatic-2025-07-28_en
• Forbes on Climate Impact Lab Study June 2025: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2025/06/18/us-and-europe-face-40-drop-in-food-production-scientists-warn/
• JRC EU Agriculture 2040 Report October 2025: https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-updates/eu-agriculture-2040-no-easy-fix-environmental-and-socio-economic-aspects-2025-10-27_en
• Cyprus Mail on EU Agricultural Output November 2025: https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/11/09/european-agricultural-output-drops-for-second-year-in-a-row

#deindustrialization #euAgriculture #euagriculture #europeEconomy #europeanUnion #europeeconomy

The Silent Erosion: Europe Economic Decline in 2025

As 2025 unfolds, Europe's economic decline deepens with GDP barely ticking up, factories shuttering, and farms faltering under climate and policy pressures. Backed by hard data from Trading Economics and Eurostat, this piece reveals the human cost of a continent losing its edge. What's next for the EU? #EuropeEconomy #Deindustrialization #EUAgriculture

https://dunapress.org/europe-economic-decline/

The image is a monochrome collage where people appear to walk through large vertical gaps in a textured concrete wall. The figures are semi-transparent, blending with the rough surface, as if merging with their surroundings.

https://johnunwinphotography.blog/2025/09/13/artistic-reflections-on-anonymity-and-urban-life/

#Art #Photography #Urban #Anonymity #Deindustrialization #Collage #Charcoal #Shadows