To simultaneously obliterate Germany’s nuclear sector and to cut off energy ties with Russia wasn’t simply foolish—it was self-sabotage of the highest and most unforgivable order.
Decline is not an act of nature. Civilisations lose influence when they abandon the principles that once sustained them—initiative, productive investment, innovation and a belief that the future can be better than the present.
The EU cannot claim to be reducing dependency while reinforcing structural reliance on the very systems that underpin security, technology, and capital flows.
While the Commission claims it does not want to swap one dependency for another, it is helping entrench a more expensive energy model increasingly controlled from Washington.
