Strategic Culture – July 18, 2026
The European Union has officially joined the war effort against Russia. This week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen signed a “historic pact” with Ukraine to integrate the production of combat drones to strike Russia.
According to Euronews reporting, the pact also envisages the joint production of ballistic missiles.
This scaled-up war effort will be funded by the €90 billion loan that the EU is releasing to Ukraine. A bill that will be paid for by generations of European taxpayers.
Von der Leyen was greeted in Kiev by Ukraine’s unelected martial-law president, Vladimir Zelensky. That makes two people who do not have a democratic mandate making decisions that are driving Europe to all-out war with Russia. Von der Leyen is a political appointee. She is not elected by popular ballot. Formerly, she was Germany’s Minister of Defense, and not a particularly bright one either. Dogged by corruption scandals and abuse of power over procuring Covid-19 vaccines from Big Pharma, von der Leyen is an exemplar of “failing upwards.”
On her 11th visit to Kiev since the conflict escalated in February 2022, von der Leyen declared that the “tide is turning” in the NATO proxy war against Russia. She was referring to the increase in long-range air strikes on Russian territory and the release of €90 bn to fund the war.
In a public speech, she brazenly announced that the European Union was explicitly allied with Ukraine as a participant in the war.
“In Europe, we already have huge technological and industrial capacity that can be deployed. And we have safe and secure production sites that can help to scale up,” von der Leyen said.
She added: “But we do not have that battle-tested knowledge and expertise that Ukraine has forged. So the point I am making is that we need to combine our strengths. Together, we can work on joint production.”
The innovation, which von der Leyen and her NATO planners presumably think is ever-so smart, is that European countries will produce munitions that are “safe” from Russian retaliatory strikes. The drones and missiles will be transported to Ukraine, from where they can be launched to hit deep into Russian territory to target the capital, Moscow, and take out oil industrial facilities all over the country. In recent months, NATO-backed Ukrainian drones have killed hundreds of Russian civilians. Von der Leyen’s pact with Ukraine is giving a green light to intensify this terror campaign.
But it’s von der Leyen’s arrogant sense of impunity that is astounding and should be viewed as deeply disturbing. She apparently assumes that European countries can serve as an arsenal of weapons for Ukraine to attack Russia. Yet, in her view, Russia is not permitted to take retaliatory action against the EU (and NATO) as a participant in the war. This is insanely reckless and stupid.
Of course, the European Union, NATO, and the United States have been participants in the proxy war against Russia since their coup in Kiev in 2014 to install and weaponize a NeoNazi regime. That background of weaponization and ideological programming culminated in war erupting in 2022. The Collective West has supplied an estimated $400 billion to prop up the regime since 2022, has supplied NATO mercenaries and advisors, as well as providing targeting logistics and operational expertise for long-range missiles.
Ukraine has also signed bilateral military pacts with individual EU countries, such as Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway. Britain has signed a One Hundred Year Defense Pact. All of these arrangements provide weapons, warplanes, drones, and missiles.
However, the EU support that von der Leyen unveiled this week is a commitment from the entire 27-nation EU bloc to join the war on an industrial scale.
In April this year, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a list of European companies and their locations that it said were partners in Ukraine’s war effort. Russia said that these sites could henceforth be considered legitimate targets for retaliation. So far, Russia has refrained from directly striking any EU or NATO state. But how long this Russian restraint will last is a pressing question in the light of increasing provocation by the EU and NATO.
Von der Leyen has taken to describing the Ukrainian regime as a “net provider of security for Europe.” This is to supposedly justify European citizens enduring economic hardship as public monies are funnelled to the corrupt regime.
This week, on cue for the drone deal and fusing of the EU and Ukrainian economies, Zelensky reshuffled his Cabinet for the second time in only a matter of months in an attempt to give the impression that he was cleaning up notorious corruption. Prime Minister Yulia Syrvydenko was sacked because she was close to Zelensky’s former Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak, who was forced to quit owing to a massive corruption scandal involving military procurement. In his latest clean-up act, Zelensky made the mistake of sacking Defense Minister Myhailo Federov, sparking public protests in Kiev and other cities. Federov, who had only been in the job for six months, was seen as an earnest reformer. His efforts riled military commanders, such as Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, who want the graft gravy train to continue running. No surprise that Zelensky backed the old guard to stay in place, especially as the €90 bn EU freight car is soon to arrive in Kiev.
Indeed, the tide is turning, but not in the way that delusional von der Leyen imagines. Russian forces on the ground are wearing down the last NATO-backed Ukrainian defenses while ramped-up Russian air strikes are destroying drone-making centers in Kiev and other cities.
That is why the EU and NATO are innovating a new tactic of removing drone production sites from Ukraine and seemingly out of Russia’s reach by stationing these sites in European nations. The implicit idea is that the EU can scale up the war effort safely without suffering any consequences.
The Russophobic EU leadership is driving Europe to war against Russia, as Professor Richard Sakwa commented this week in an interview with Glenn Diesen. The decisions are being made autocratically without any democratic mandate. Effectively, the EU has become a dictatorship for war. Another manifestation of this was seen at the Bastille Day parade in Paris on July 14, when NATO troops joined French and Ukrainian regiments in a unified show of belligerence towards Russia.
And brain-dead bureaucrats like Ursula von der Leyen on her €400,ooo a-year salary are happily painting target signs across European nations.
This is not sleepwalking into war. The European elites’ eyes are wide open and crazed.
the European Union
is owned and run by the jewish bankers
its for their benefit not ours and it is them that have flooded europe with the pople they do not want in the Midle east
Moshe Solomons said in his radio adress last week
we must take the israeli threats to Trump very seriously
he has hedged and fudged on taking Turkey for the jews
if he lets israel down
he will not be the first to be killed by israel by any means
“The European Union has officially joined the war effort against Russia.” — but only faggots, turd world slime and “wimins” will join up to die for the jew pervert Zelensky!
> Von der Leyen paints target signs on Europe with Ukraine drone pact
Good.
> The EU elites are setting Europe up to be hit by Russian missiles with plans for the joint production of missiles and drones with Ukraine
They aren’t “elites”. They’re cunts.
Where are the jewkraine supposed to have gotten all those missiles and drones before? How many times has jewlensky said “we want more missiles”? And did he, like every other nation on Earth, suddenly discover how to make “drones”? Not to mention data centres and biolabs. Every bomb they’ve set off came from other countries.
Ask yourself this: Why doesn’t pootin close that fucking great river that runs down the centre of the jewkraine? He controls the end of it completely. So why not choke off the jewkraine money supply so they can’t buy any more bombs? Could it possibly be because…
Apart from them silly buggers, (or is just one silly bugger) who thinks it’s all a hoax, and Iran and Israel and U.S and Russia and Germany and U.K and two dozen other countries are all on the same side, and are really all at war with their own people who have elected them, I say really?
I admit, our governments are trying to remove free-speech and are ignoring International Law. That’s because of a small clique of billionaire Jews and Zionists who want to continue to genocide anyone and everyone who gets in their way.
Unfortunately most Western governments are Zionist. The many countries Western governments are picking fights with are not.
Are Western people Zionist. Hopefully we are not united behind Zionism as much as the Zionists would like us to be…
It would be interesting to know if the European people are behind Ursula von der Leyon?
Surely her star can’t still be rising…
This repulsive woman has all the hallmarks of evil & intolerable privileges : a default to gravitate towards the current centres of power and autocracy by her family who followed the geist whatever it was. Fervent supporters of Imperial Germany, opportunistic in Weimar times, money-makers in the Hitler era, dutiful democrats during the ‘economic miracle’ making a fortune, now rabid war monger as head of the EU and its NATO war machine.
She also raked in a considerable sum during her time as ‘defence’ minister no doubt via contract fine-print and later from Pfizer during the mass drugging orgy. Rebukes from faux regulatory bodies of the EU were swept aside. It seems she has had a very long career at this kind of thing, not only bred to it via family expectation (like that other EU warwhore Kaja Kallas whose family have always been at the top in Pestonia whatever the ‘govt’… ) but groomed too . Ursula was living in hiding in London under MI5 protection during her student years out of fear that Baader-Meinhof/RAF factions would assassinate or kidnap her. Just like any other young student-girl of the late 1970s eh? Too bad … The young worm survived and grew into a deadly serpent fastening onto power and spreading the venom of war.
These people at Europe’s tip of the turd, really do admire ultra authoritarian methods be it STASI style surveillance and pedantic persecution or the new ‘Western’ styled perversion of democracy. Where there is no choice nor ‘diversity’ in politics between any party- there is just the ruling party, end. Nor is it a surprise that the Dwarf of Kiev, the wholesale extortionist and crime boss Z is their poster-boy and conduit for mass money laundering, theft of national assets and guarantor of war and misery for the masses, exponential power and riches for Those In Power. After all, Z is simply a latter day version of Enver Hoxha Albanian dictator or Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania- both of whom were lauded by the West as defying Russia, the later got a Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, he also got something else from his people…. And now you have von Der Leyen, Mertz , Macron etc drooling over the Dwarf, the ikon of death. Most recently, a vicious little weasel Starmer was simpering in Kiev, hand holding with his bestie and tearfully saying we are yours forever. How low can you go? Let’s see, over to you Andy Burn’em…
In July 1914 the leaders of Europe and their handlers went into an overdrive for war and destruction out of arrogance, greed and myopia. Their hyper activity saw two assassinations as fuses for war out of the need for a ‘moral’ response. Trusting to diplomats and other ‘experts’. The one in Sarajevo is well-known and gave Austria-Hungary (what the EU is actually like today, bloated, self referential, corrupt and weak) the excuse for war with foolish guarantees from its German neighbour. The other less well known is the scandals and political murder in Paris in that July of socialist leader Jaures leading to political anarchy in France. War became an antidote to chaos……
In July 2026 we have some similar conditions afoot. Arrogant and utterly inept politicians trying to stir war for their own gain, belligerence as a virtue backed by ‘experts’, think tanks and a captive media amplifying it. Instability in European governments and a great disdain and pessimism of their populace , hence corral them into the war stockade and they’ll comply. All that’s needed is lighting a fuse and assassination is always a good bet. Some over monied imbecile Royal would be ideal and what better than one from Britain? Naturally Russia is behind it or has radicalised some loner. Popular revulsion, national pride threatened! And or you could have a ‘radicalized’ far right plot to destabilise European governance by popping off a key EU politico and generating ‘crisis’ . Russia behind this one too. Novichok all round. War will sort it out.
These are the people who rule over you, they want as many of you dead as is possible and feasible, one day very soon. Look carefully, they have form.
von der Lying , you multifertil deutsch mutter .
YOUR CHILDREN HAVE NO FUTURE
LIKE THE REST OF GERMANS !
even not as slaves of TalmudZionists !
‘This scaled-up war effort will be funded by the €90 billion loan that the EU is releasing to Ukraine. A bill that will be paid for by generations of European taxpayers.’
Not all of them:
‘Under enhanced cooperation (Article 20 of the Treaty on European Union) concerning the instrument based on Article 212 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, any mobilization of EU budget resources as a guarantee for this loan will not affect the financial obligations of the Czech Republic, Hungary, or Slovakia, the summit conclusions state.’
https://english.nv.ua/nation/hungary-czech-republic-slovakia-opt-out-of-eu-s-90b-loan-plan-to-support-ukraine-in-2026-2027-50569771.html
What is the matter with the other Europeans? Why are they letting this evil bitch von der Leyen fleece them like sheep? Have they forgotten that she has not yet accounted for her deals with Pfizer when she bought far too much Covid-19 ‘vaccine’, at a grossly inflated price, from Pfizer?
There is an odour of terrorism in all this. (‘Just saying’, as Alexander Mercouris might note.) Hungary’s ever-popular Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, who had served 16 terms, had blocked the EU’s €90 billion loan to Ukraine. That block was unmovable. He was unmovable.
Very unexpectedly, Orban lost the upcoming Hungarian elections, despite that JD Vance had come to Hungary to deliver Donald Trump’s fulsome support of Orban’s candidature.
His opponent, a lacklustre chap apparently without policies but promising to be a good EU member, won it.
It was to him that the EU conceded that the financial obligations that bear upon all EU countries do not bear upon Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the countries that had also blocked the €90 billion loan to Ukraine, if not as strenuously as Viktor Orban had done.
Orban disappeared from politics. Although threats against him had been perennial occurrences, this time they had encompassed his children and grandchildren. That might have been a convincing enough reason for his departure. But then how was he to know that those threats will not be carried out anyway? There was surely something else apart from this nasty threat.
And therein lies the stench of terrorism.
Ursula von der Leyen is clearly criminally insane and abjectly wicked. That festering shit-stain on the fabric of humanity should be dragged through the streets by her cankles, worked over with claw hammers, violently sodomized by nigger orcs soaked to the gills on cheap gin and viagra, her tongue riveted to her own chin, vigorously flogged, rolled in pig shit, then nailed to a tree and left to think about things.
The Jewropean Jewnion has been a disaster for actual Europeans, but has been a bonanza for slobbering bureaucrats and globalist xxxxx.
Then there’s the grifting sawed-off kike kunt actor Jewlensky, costumed in his “tac” pants and military green t-shirt…who would surely shit down both of his own legs if he was ever near the front facing hostile fire. But he sure has been making out like a bandit for playing his role in the rousing pantomime distractionary theatre production of Goys Must Go.
That Van der Lezzy broad makes me vomit!🤯
What an evil bitch.
I believe to have read somewhere that not one of the “leaders” who prove to be extraordinarily destructive have children of their own.
Someone can confirm/deny?
What a joy to run the EU [into the ground] when 90% of the citizenry swallow the ‘bad Russia’ narrative, hook, line and sinker.
Woo-hoo, we must have sanctions against Russia (thus cutting ourselves off from all viable, affordable, and reliable energy supplies); we must keep helping Ukraine with EUR 50 billion, then 90 billion, then another 50 billion (till there’s no money left for investment, let alone pensions or healthcare); on top of that, we must fight climate change by levying heavy taxes on driving, heating, flying, meat, coffee, breathing, you name it.
Don’t like it? Here’s a slew of brand-new legislation on assisted dying, so you can kick the bucket ‘with dignity’.
thank god starmer hs gone
i would have handed him over to umbra bellator
that would do it nicely
To J, re July 19, 2026 at 8:05 pm (above)
The obscenity von der Leyen has seven children.
https://civicuk.uk/tech/ursula-von-der-leyen-family-children/
I should be interested in knowing how they have benefited from their mother’s status in the EU. But I can find no information about them at all. (Of course, there is nothing wrong with this. But still…)
Russia needs to make an example – pick a drone factory in Germany for instance, and obliterate it. The problem is that the West isn’t governed by people who could take a hint – it’s governed by crazies who would escalate. Perhaps something more oblique – the next time a large Russian vessel is seized in the English channel, agree to everything demanded. Co-operate, sail it right up the Thames Estuary … and then scuttle it.