Von Der Leyen to Italy: 'We Have Tools' to Deal With You and Your Elections
As Vladimir Putin prepares to activate another 300,000 conscripts to help him escalate his war on Ukraine, EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen, who seems to believe she is now the de facto emperor of all of Europe, is more concerned about what she calls a “difficult” potential outcome in Italy’s elections:
“We have tools” to deal with a “difficult” outcome in Italy, she says. You know, Hitler had “tools,” too. So did Stalin. So did Italy’s own Mussolini, come to think of it.
This is the language of despotism: Offensive, aggressive and threatening. It’s the language of an unelected technocrat who has been systematically usurping powers from the EU’s various national governments and gathering them unto herself and her central socialist quasi-government apparatus. Her problem, though, is that, lacking any military or armed policing at her disposal, her “tools” are somewhat limited.
Her other big problem is the ongoing insistence of most of the EU’s member nations to continue to hold these inconvenient things the commoners refer to as “elections,” and the uncertain results that tend to result from them. This is a process from which Ms. von der Leyen has been spared during her career, as she has simply been appointed and/or approved by committees to hold the technocratic positions to which she has steadily ascended.