Riots in the Streets, Repression in the Markets: Europe’s Collapse Enters Its Next Phase
Every empire dies the same way: slowly, then all at once, and always while its institutions insist all is well.
Rome’s senators kept debating procedure while the granaries emptied. The British aristocracy kept dressing for dinner while the Raj slipped away. And today, European finance ministers keep issuing communiqués about “resilience” and “strategic autonomy” while the economies supporting these parasites fail in real time.
The math is simple.
Debt-service costs now compete with defence and healthcare for the marginal euro and pound. Energy costs have made whole industries uncompetitive…
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