Friday, February 14, 2025

Vance, The Hammer | Constantin von Hoffmeister

JD Vance enters Munich like a Viking berserker in the heart of the Carolingian Empire, a man from the land of strip malls and cornfields, standing before the decaying architecture of European self-delusion. He does not ask for an audience with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, because why negotiate with a ghost? A specter, soon to be forgotten, entombed within his own failed Zeitenwende, the epochal shift that never shifted. The Americans, brash and uncaring, march forward; they see no need for polite fictions. “We don’t need to see him; he won’t be chancellor long.” The brutality of truth, spoken without the diplomatic perfume that once masked the rotting corpse of Western liberalism.

 » America is no longer the enforcer of European delusions. «

[...] The Americans are no longer selling security blankets and fairy tales; they are demanding a reckoning. Europe, that withered lion that still imagines herself the arbiter of moral order, will be told: halt the migration tide, recognize the uprising, and admit that the people — the real people, the Volk — are not to be feared but heeded. 
 
[...] This is not a conference. This is not a debate. This is the moment when the mask slips and the battle lines are drawn. Vance, The Hammer of the new era, makes it clear: America is no longer the enforcer of European delusions. The order of the past is crumbling, and in its place, something harder, something truer, something real is emerging. The Munich Security Conference will not be the same again. The age of illusions is over. The great confrontation has begun.



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了解你的敌人
Know your Enemies.