The EU has become a body that exacts compliance in word and deed from its member nations. From Hugo Dionisio at strategic-culture.su:
Faced with the more-than-announced collapse of the Kiev regime and everything it stands for; the EU is facing a challenge to survive.
The European Union shows all the symptoms of a structure in deep crisis. Like other organizations in the past, the more it tries to convey an image of internal cohesion, the greater the fissures it creates, based on the increasingly rigid demand for compliance with the rules that this appearance of cohesion requires.
In order to assert its political power, Brussels is presented as a power that is as distant as it is unattainable, so superior that everything it has is unquestionable. Placing itself on such a pedestal, Brussels arrogates to itself a presumed wisdom and omniscience, relying on a very well-constructed communication process, based on the idea of a power above all others, above the elected powers, above the “people’s governments”: “The EU said that…”; “the EU says you can’t…”; “the government asked the EU to…”; “the EU warned that…”; “the government was forced by the EU to…”. One gets all this, without question, criticism or reflection. A sort of European extension of the “one indispensable nation” theory.
If, until a certain point, we were faced with a power that was self-imposed, self-sufficient, whose unattainability was enough to discourage any contradictory idea, given the monumentality of the task that consisted of facing not one government, but “the government of all governments”; today, Brussels is no longer content with this ontological superiority and demands an unequivocal proof of loyalty.
This means that adhering or not to the “narrative” presented by the European bureaucracy has long since ceased to be a voluntary act. Loyalty is now demonstrated by the vigor and rigor with which the EU’s ideology is internalized — in my opinion, it is more like an idolatry. There was a moment that acted as a signal for the activation of mechanisms to conform opinions to the “narrative” emanating from the Union. That moment was 25/02/2022. Even with Covid, although there was already an iron grip on the circulation of information that questioned the vaccines, methods and policies being developed, in Europe we have not seen the current use of direct coercive means to silence
Der Friedensstifter 