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Europe doesn't have "a problem". It has THREE problems: 3 European nations are suffering from a severe "post-imperial hangover". First, there is the United Kingdom, a nation that voted for Brexit to "take back control" only to realize it has completely forgotten how to drive. The British identity crisis is like watching a retired lion try to adopt a vegan diet. They traded imperial confidence for an HR department’s sensitivity training. The land of Churchill is now governed by a sprawling "nanny state" bureaucracy that is more terrified of offending someone on X than it is of actual decline. The British police, once the envy of the world, now seem to spend more resources investigating "non-crime hate incidents" and painting their patrol cars in rainbow colors than solving burglaries. It is a nation desperately clinging to the aesthetics of tradition—the Royals, the pomp, the tea—while its institutions have been hollowed out by a progressive rot that makes a California university campus look conservative. They want the swagger of the 19th century but are paralyzed by the emotional fragility of the 21st. Then there is France, the angry, chain-smoking aunt of Europe who refuses to admit she’s been unemployed for decades. France’s hangover manifests as a permanent state of insurrection masquerading as "civic engagement." Their identity is split between a delusional elite who still think Paris is the capital of the universe and a populace that expresses its "joie de vivre" by burning down bus stops every Thursday. The French suffer from a Napoleonic complex without a Napoleon; they demand the living standards of a conquering empire while working a 35-hour week and retiring at an age when most Americans are just hitting their stride. They preach "Republican values" and aggressive secularism, yet the state has lost control over vast swathes of its own suburbs. France is essentially a beautiful, open-air museum where the curators are on strike, the guards are afraid of the visitors, and the management is busy lecturing the rest of the world on "grandeur" while the electricity bill goes unpaid. Finally, we have Germany, the neurotic giant that has decided the only way to atone for its history is to commit slow-motion industrial suicide. Germany’s post-imperial hangover is a moral autoimmune disease: the country is so terrified of its own shadow that it has replaced national pride with aggressive self-flagellation and recycling regulations. Their identity is built on being the "Moral Superpower," which practically translates to shutting down their perfectly functional nuclear power plants to burn dirty coal, all while lecturing their neighbors on carbon footprints. It is a nation of engineers who have engineered a society that doesn't work. The German spirit, once defined by efficiency and discipline, has mutated into a paralyzed bureaucracy where filling out the correct form is more important than the outcome. They are so desperate to avoid being "threatening" that they’ve become essentially a large NGO with an army that has broomsticks for rifles, terrified that showing any backbone might be interpreted as a relapse.

Ist den Leuten klar, dass Israel – wenn es tatsächlich einen Völkermord begehen würde – einfach alle Versorgungsleitungen abschalten könnte? Doch das tun sie nicht. Warum ist das so? Israel versorgt den Gazastreifen über drei Pipelines mit 18 Milliarden Litern Wasser pro Jahr. Nicht, weil sie es müssen, sondern weil sie es wollen. Zudem begann Israel damit, täglich fast 60.000 Liter Diesel auf eigene Kosten nach Gaza zu transportieren, um die Generatoren in Betrieb zu halten. Bis Juli 2024 hatte Israel seit Kriegsbeginn 40.035 Tonnen Wasser direkt nach Gaza geliefert. Im selben Monat schloss Israel eine von UNICEF verwaltete Entsalzungsanlage in Khan Younis an sein eigenes Stromnetz an, die täglich 20.000 Kubikmeter Trinkwasser für fast zwei Millionen Menschen produziert. Im November 2024 wurde auch das Werk in Deir el-Balah wieder vollständig an die israelische Stromversorgung angeschlossen; es lief rund um die Uhr und produzierte 16.000 bis 20.000 Kubikmeter Wasser pro Tag für über 600.000 Palästinenser. Während des gesamten Krieges hat Israel die Stromzufuhr in das Westjordanland nie gedrosselt – über 1.300 Megawatt fließen täglich ohne Unterbrechung an dieselbe Bevölkerung, an der angeblich ein Völkermord begangen wird. So sähe ein Völkermord eigentlich aus: Man hört einfach auf. Ein Klick – und alles ist aus. Man verbindet die Entsalzungsanlagen seines Feindes nicht mit dem eigenen Stromnetz. Man liefert keinen Diesel auf eigene Kosten. Und man produziert kein Trinkwasser für zwei Millionen Menschen, die man angeblich vernichten will. Das Wort Völkermord hat eine rechtliche Definition: die Absicht, eine Gruppe ganz oder teilweise zu zerstören. Was Israel vorzuweisen hat, ist eine dokumentierte Bilanz darüber, dass Menschen während eines Krieges am Leben erhalten werden – eines Krieges, der von den Leuten begonnen wurde, die Israel vernichten wollen. Das ist nicht dasselbe. Nicht einmal annähernd. Von Kile B. Jones auf FB