Ursula von der Leyen may be the absolute worst...

Editor's note: ...head of state in modern history with the EU "guaranteeing its own destruction." The EU could have survived - with Russia. Instead, the EU is literally "strangling itself." It doesn't take a lot of brain power to figure out the faster the EU under von der Leyen collapses the more desperate the terrorists in Kiev are going to get:

Ukrainian attacks on civilians in Donbass reflect Kiev's desperation

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Stalin of the EU: How the unelected Queen of the Union plans to keep her grip on power

If Brussels followed its professed ideals, the European Commission and its head would fall

By Tarik Cyril Amar | July 2025

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission that runs the EU is finally facing a long overdue no-confidence vote. Its chances of success, all observers agree, are very small. And yet, this is an important moment.

That's because the single most powerful politician in the EU is not, for instance, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz or French President Emmanuel Macron (notwithstanding their own delusions of grandeur), but Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU Commission. Because in NATO-EU Europe, the true measure of power now is the ability to spoil whatever sorry remnants of democracy are still standing. And in spite of very tough competition, von der Leyen is the worst, most corrupting spoiler of them all.

This is due to three facts. The first is structural: The EU was designed not to be a 'democracy' - however flawed - but one big, entrenched, and growing 'democracy deficit'. Its purpose has never been to shaft the US, even if American President Donald Trump can't stop whining about that. The EU's real core function is to extinguish democracy in Europe by shifting genuine power from nation-states with some, if already meagre, popular participation in political decision-making to an unelected bureaucracy, of which the Commission is the center and top.

The second fact is a matter of individual character and hence responsibility: Ursula von der Leyen is the embodiment of an insatiable lust for personal, unaccountable power. She won't admit it, of course, but her behavior speaks volumes: Von der Leyen does not see herself as a public servant but firmly believes that it is the public that must serve her.

Think of these two factors - the structural and the individual - if you wish, as broadly similar to what happened during the rise of Joseph Stalin in the former Soviet Union: Like the EU, the post-revolutionary Communist party was built to restrict political decision-making to a small and self-selecting group of true believers. And only those confessing the correct "values" were even offered a chance to join. Like von der Leyen, Stalin managed to turn this deliberately created "democracy deficit" to his own advantage by basing his personal despotism on it.

If you think that analogy is far-fetched, consider that in both cases, the rise of the Soviet despot and that of the European Commission president, real power has been concentrated in an overbearing and invasive bureaucracy that, formally, should only be an executive organ. There is a reason why, if you take one tiny step back, "general secretary" sounds rather similar to "commission president."

And then there is the third fact that has facilitated von der Leyen's performance as NATO-EU's top spoiler. In this respect, she certainly does not resemble Stalin at all, but rather one of the many Eastern European satraps of Cold War Eastern Europe. Like trusty Walter Ulbricht of early East Germany or Poland's Boleslaw Bierut who suffered a heart attack when Khruschev made Stalin the fall guy, von der Leyen is a vassal leader, just working for another outside empire. So obviously, so shamelessly that even Politico has - rightly - labeled her the EU's "American president."

The charges that her political opponents in the EU parliament have just used to initiate the current no-confidence vote are less fundamental - while still reflecting stunning misbehavior - and more specific, as they have to be.

In essence, they target von der Leyen's - and the whole Commission's - scandalous handling of the Covid-19 crisis (scandalous by the way from any angle, whether you approve or disapprove of vaccines); her subsequent and illegal refusal to provide key information on what she and the CEO of big pharma company Pfizer were up to during that period in messages that were private but should not have been; waste (to say the least) in the handling of a 650 billion-euro post-Corona crisis recovery fund; the misuse of a legal loophole to boost armaments spending via the EU; and last but not least, the weaponization of digital legislation to interfere in the recent Romanian, as well as German elections.

What all these transgressions have in common is not only that they may very well be criminal. They are also all variants of the same, fundamentally simple ruse: the manipulation or even fabrication of "emergencies" that are then exploited as cover for constantly escalating abuses of power. If there is one main principle of von der Leyen's power grab, this is it. Again, Stalin knew a thing or two about that trick.

In sum, the sponsors of the no-confidence vote conclude:

"The Commission led by President Ursula von der Leyen no longer commands the confidence of Parliament to uphold the principles of transparency, accountability, and good governance essential to a democratic Union. We call on the Commission to resign due to repeated failures to ensure transparency and to its persistent disregard for democratic oversight and the rule of law within the Union."

And they are obviously right. If the EU was a halfway lawful, honest, and sensible organization, this should be a slam-dunk case of no confidence, and the Commission, with Ursula von der Leyen at its head, should fall. There is a precedent, too: In 1999, an entire EU Commission did resign, even without a no-confidence vote. A devastating report on corruption, fraud, nepotism, and mismanagement was enough.

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While the "massively corrupt" EU continues to back these terrorists in Kiev:

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