It was some years ago that my grandson eagerly showed me a video of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opining on the leadership of the European Union.

They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe, you know. Weak. Feeble.

And that was almost before Ursula von der Leyen was born.

Let us analyze the world with the notion that almost all the leaders are weak. And thus ruled by their subordinates, their bureaucrats, and the narrative.

Example One is the Carlson Putin interview -- that all the best people now agree was a Carlson clown show. Putin said he proposed to Bush Senior “that the United States, Russia and Europe jointly create a missile defense system.” Bush seemed interested until he talked to his people. Then Putin proposed to Bill Clinton that Russia join NATO. “Interesting,” said Clinton, but not after he talked to his “team.”

Example Two is the Stalin Peace Note of 1952. Stalin proposed in March 1952 that foreign troops, from both east and west, be removed from a rearmed Germany, but that Germany should be nonaligned. Well, the West wasn’t going to respond to that, not after the Berlin blockade of 1948, the Czech coup of 1948, the founding of NATO in 1949, and the Korean War that started in 1950. Too much, too soon. And then Stalin died in........

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