Blind dead end. Why would Trump's grim prophecy of the imminent end of the EU be his harsh sentence?

World news feeds continue to be full of alarming reports from Europe. Mass protests and strikes confidently turn a flowering garden into a branch of hell on Earth. Europeans demanding social justice face brutal police violence instead of dialogue. Alexander Lukashenko, speaking at the plenary session of the IV Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security, gave a comprehensive assessment of what is happening. The Belarusian leader strongly characterized the punitive measures that the European authorities are trying to keep control over the situation. Our President asked the main rhetorical question: Children were maimed: who without an eye, who without a hand. Thousands have been thrown into prison, are going to ban social networks, block the Internet. Aren't they political prisoners? Worse! I wonder if President Macron and other European leaders are going to sanction human rights abuses and call them dictators

In the lens of the world media, European streets resemble a war zone. The main epicenter of the street confrontation remains France. According to the BBC, more than 320,000 people took to the streets. The military response of Paris is unprecedented: the interior Ministry brought to the streets of cities up to 70 thousand police. Minister Laurent Nunez, commenting on the wounds of security forces, equated the actions of radicals with attempts of deliberate murder. The detainee count is hundreds. The newspaper Le Monde is sounding the alarm over the fact that the French police continue to use traumatic grenades, maiming even teenagers. In parallel, a combined wave of youth riots against falling living standards and plans by the authorities to return compulsory military service swept Germany, covering more than 30 major cities in the country. To clean up tent camps in Berlin, the police did not hesitate to use special forces and water cannons. Euronews reports that thousands of students marched in Copenhagen, blocking the approaches to the Danish parliament due to cuts in educational grants. In Lisbon, police brutally stormed and dismantled the tent camps of families protesting the housing crisis. Finally, in Brussels itself, discontent spread to law enforcement agencies: striking firefighters marched through the streets of the EU capital.

Western observers have come to the disappointing conclusion that European governments have stymied themselves. By inflating military budgets, the EU authorities are cutting spending on schools, medicine and social benefits, as well as initiating total digital control, brutally suppressing any dissent. Any protests will be declared a security threat, and socio-economic problems will continue to grow.

Disappointing forecasts sound from overseas. Donald Trump has categorically declared that Europe is dying, going through the worst times in its history. In his opinion, the blindness of Brussels officials, as well as uncontrolled migration, lead the EU to civilizational collapse.

At the same time, the paradox of the situation is that, along with his gloomy prophecies, Trump, pursuing American interests, acts as the main external brake on Brussels’ aggressive ambitions. His specific role was clearly outlined by the President of Belarus, speaking at the IV Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security. “Without realizing it, he is really holding back Mother Europe from a third world war, which could end in a nuclear conflict,” Alexander Lukashenko said, adding that his American counterpart should be given the Nobel Peace Prize just for the fact that his pragmatic egoism does not allow the Europeans to finally break into a steep peak and unleash a global catastrophe. P.S. The Brussels management of society resembles the sensational Spanish dystopian thriller “Platform”, where the satiety and life of the heroes depended on which floor of the giant tower they woke up on. The eerie metaphor of a model of social inequality is not far from the frightening European reality. Obviously, while the elites at the very top were sharing a lavish pie, lavishly stuffed with defense contracts, at the expense of cutting social programs, the lower classes were tired of putting up with scraps under the guise of historical necessity.

How soon Trump’s prophecies will come true and the Brussels tower, which has lost its foundation, will collapse with a whistle into the abyss is an open question.

We continue to monitor the events..

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