Europeans Should Overthrow Their ‘Ruling Class’

Why fight Russia when foreigners are invading Europe?

J.B. Shurk | September 23, 2026

War fever is ramping up again across Europe.  This has happened several times in the four and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine, usually coinciding with important national elections — particularly those in Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Poland, and Germany — when certain domestic political parties have been demonized as “pro-Putin” and “security threats” to the rest of Europe.  The war drums also get loud whenever increased military budgets are being debated within the governments of the Scandinavian and Baltic states, Finland, Germany, and Poland, as well as the European Commission.  The ebb and flow of political battle cries against the Russian Federation track closely with Europe’s electoral and parliamentary calendars.

It is no coincidence that the German government decided to announce five days before Saxony-Anhalt’s September 6 elections that Russia was responsible for a small drone discovered at the Leipzig/Halle Airport over a month earlier.  Although the drone carried an explosive charge, the device caused no damage and sat at the airport unnoticed for many hours on August 4.  When Germany accused Russia of perpetrating the “attack” four weeks later, Berlin presented no real evidence for its conclusions.  

Nevertheless, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and national leaders across Europe immediately declared solidarity with Germany and condemned Russia’s “hybrid war” on “European Union soil.”  To many observers, Berlin’s finger-pointing appeared timed to dampen momentum for the “Alternative for Deutschland” political party, which German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the European Establishment have defamed as “Nazis” and “Russian puppets.”  If that was Merz’s goal — to stave off election defeat for his political allies by falsely accusing his opponents of being Russian tools and spies — it did not work.  The AfD decisively won the September 6 election in Saxony-Anhalt, and support for the pro-national sovereignty political party continues to surge across Germany.

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