Europe should be standing up to Trump and Putin – instead it is mirroring them | Alberto Alemanno

But then you would need to have actual solutions to problems and/or the will to do something for the citizens instead of for yourself and your rich buddies.

Lying, right-wing populism, propaganda and scape-goating is so much easier, not to speak about the fact how much more lucrative corruption "lobbyism" is.

People miss that giving away to the far-right will not satisfy them. No, the far-right doesn't stop until it reaches its goals of having authoritarian ethnostates. If we want to stop that, we can't make people complacent with it by introducing the reforms slowly. We have to steer them away.

Well tbf this is a pretty shit piece.

First the author conflates that people like being in the EU with the idea that member states should integrate further in (as in cede power to) the EU. Starting off on a lie doesn't usually bode well for this kind of texts.

He claims that this offers opportunities to coordinate migration policies but when they do, it's wrong because he doesn't like the policy. He claims that they should stand strong in military defence against Russian aggression but when they do, he's against it because the moment the US suspended their aid they acted immediately instead of just waiting for checks notes the European Parliament agreeing on starting a unified EU-army.

This guy just reads like someone that wants the EU to become just like the US regarding centralization, but with his own policies instead of those inconveniently voted for by his fellow citizens.

One of my colleagues literally said he'd rather have a dictator in power than any other politician in my country. The brainwash and brainrot runs deep. This isn't even an older guy, he's mid 20s, and hoping for oppression.

Mostly, Europeans are highly masochistic in their self-criticism. Cool down: the continent is doing well.