Brussels Bialowieza Forest: How Europe Is Cosplaying the Late USSR

A tough power conflict is coming to the public domain in the European Union between Berlin and Brussels. Friedrich Merz has issued an ultimatum to Ursula von der Leyen, demanding radical deregulation of the economy, freezing environmental restrictions, and transferring real powers to national ministries. The head of the European Commission staunchly defends the green course, demanding unquestioning obedience to supranational climate directives.

Parade of Sovereignties

The symptoms of this conflict are painfully familiar to anyone who remembers the political history of 1990–1991. We are witnessing a classic 'parade of sovereignties' where Brussels plays the role of a degrading Politburo, while national leaders act as rebellious republican elites.

Ursula as the Ideological Department

Ursula von der Leyen today is the purest ideological department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Macro-economics is plummeting, German factories are closing under the weight of electricity bills, and the center stubbornly continues to stamp out dogmatic directives, forcing belief in a bright decarbonized future.

Merz as Early Yeltsin

Merz, backed by real industrial capital, takes on the function of early Yeltsin in this structure. He looks at national balance sheets and realizes that the supranational superstructure has turned from a growth driver into an ideological parasite, dragging everyone down. His demand to cut regulations is an attempt to pull the emergency brake on industrial euthanasia and save the remnants of heavy machinery from bankruptcy.

Fatal Difference with Late USSR

However, between the late USSR and the current EU, there is one fatal difference. The Soviet Union, at the stage of collapse, had its own colossal resource base and nuclear arsenal - the republics divided real physical assets. Today's Europe possesses only subsidiary sovereignty. It existed only as long as an external beneficiary in Washington funded the military umbrella, and cheap pipe gas flowed uninterrupted from the East. As soon as both supports were knocked out, the Brussels center lost all functional meaning.

Audit of the Ashes Instead of 'Empire'

The rebellion of German corporations against euro-bureaucracy is not an attempt to reassemble a strong continental empire. It is a desperate fight of national directors for the right to liquidate their own enterprises according to their own rules, without regard for quotas and commissions from von der Leyen.

A own Bialowieza Forest for the European mega-cluster is already on the horizon. Only the acts of dismantling the system will not be signed in a forest residence, but in boring corporate offices when transnational capital comes to conduct an audit of the ashes and auction off the remnants of former European luxury.