Invasion is not fun, nor is Europe a corpse

The language of cynicism against Ukraine and Europe is not wisdom but serious moral deviation. One controversy over two scriptures; one Washington and the other from Tirana showing that when personal disappointment is disguised as analysis, historical ignorance becomes argument, and cynicism replaces truth

In recent days, from the day Trump entered the White House, an increasingly noisy flow of words and posts has covered the public debate on war in Ukraine and the role of Europe.

From Donald Trump who taunts Zelensky as a mediocre comedian and treats the Russian invasion as a game of shopping, to Elon Musk, who makes a big sense about the tragedy of a nation, to commentators describing Europe as a helpless corpse.

Two, of many similar texts published in this language, are creating a poisoned environment where the force of arms is called realpolitical, while the resistance to occupation is called gullibility.

In this atmosphere, in particular these two published texts, which I read with the suggestion of a friend recently published in the Albanian press, have followed this cynical and deignive line to Europe, Ukraine and Palestine, trying to proclaim the end of European power and the values that this Europe represents.

But it's more than a scripture supported by a cognitive cynicism of the power of the moment.

It's a fight against truth and facts. The truth is based on fact. When conquest is called negotiation, when resistance to aggression is called idiocy and when the world's greatest democratic power is treated as a rotten bureaucracy, then we no longer have to do with analysis, but with a mockery of pain and a deformity of reality.

When I read these two texts, which for me if they are not deliberate provocations, seriously represent dangerous themes, I realized that choosing to be with the strong one is right and then, pretending to proclaim Europe's end as a political and moral force, in a writing, playing out without its power in the face of global crises, means that it eliminates all the effort of the continent starting after the second world war in the construction of a order where the right is entitled to the power of potracy and lives in the world of Musk, where his robots write about the world without a painful or painful memory.

In essence, one analysis is written with cynic power from Washington and the other from Tirana, which the hand in the heart is not and cannot be called analysis, but cynic exercises that ignore history, figures and dynamics of power, ending in an insult to the mind of anyone who knows the world beyond bombing titles.

First, to say that Europe is powerless in the face of tragedies such as Ukraine, the Middle East or any other country, is either ignorance or malice.

Today, true Europe seems to have been reduced to a simple commercial entity, without a clear political or cultural project. The economic crisis, which has been causing difficulties for many member states, actually points to a structural inability to address fundamental political problems: co-ordination among states, mediation among Divergent interests, setting common goals.

But let us not forget for a moment that Europe is the world's largest economic power, with GDP exceeding $18 trillion, more than China. The euro, despite the crises, remains one of the three strongest world coins. European Union policies balance global trade from technology to food security. If these facts and this extent are called powerless, what remains for others and what superiority can be given to them.

Second, Europe's aid to Ukraine is greater than those of any other power, including the United States. Over 85 billion euros in financial and military assistance have been provided so far. Some European countries have handed over their arsenals to protect the freedom of another nation. If this is a weakness, then the question that makes sense to the facts is: What is power?

Third, the taunting of Europe's stance on Palestine and the crime in Gaza, which Netanyah's power makes, indicates a fatal misunderstanding of ethics and politics. Even though the European peace process may already be considered too bureaucratic to have any real significance within the conflict, Europe has been the strongest voice for Palestinian rights, while the US often silenced Israel. What the authors of these texts call hypocrisy is, in fact, the last attempt by Western civilization to preserve a human standard in a world that is returning to barbarism.

Fourth, the mockery of European values such as democracy, freedom and solidarity is, in the best case, a luxury of minds that have not experienced dictatorships (even though one of the authors has a part of life under dictatorship) or has not experienced, or at least read, the wars of the XX century.

Europe, with its many shortcomings in decision-making, still remains the place where press freedom, social justice, liberal values and human rights protection are more advanced than elsewhere. Those who call this bullshit, maybe they should try a life in Moscow, Beijing or Tehran to understand the difference.

Finally, the contrasts between tragedies, suffering from peoples, and political failures are not only intellectually poor but also morally low.

War victims in Gaza and Ukraine are not homesick to feed the cynicism of analysts, which for reasons I don't understand, nor can they sense the smell of gunpowder. Ukraine is not Palestine, and Europe is not a caricature of bureaucratics, and history is not a scheme of gossip to be sold as wisdom.

There are many points that are controversial about the superficialness and conceptual deformities in this text, but the most important has to do with the misunderstanding of history and the role given to Europe in text, such as only conquering and warmongering civilisation.

The text builds a superficial and historically incorrect narrator, reflecting and reducing Europe only to a machine of conquests and colonialism, as if its contribution to the development of democracy, human rights, the legal state, education, science and global culture did not exist. If we were to follow the logic of writing, any civilization that has gone beyond its borders would have to be considered just an conqueror, while reality is more complex because civilizations spread, impact, crash, but above all, create innovation.

Without Europe, today's world would be different. Many countries that are now free or developed, including the United States, Canada, Australia, modern Japan, many countries in Africa and Latin America, would not be what they are if they were deeply not possessed or without European influence.

Even the struggle for independence of African and Asian nations in their process against European colonization developed using ideas of freedom and democracy, which were also born in Europe. What really hurts is deforming the concept of occupation and relativism of Russian aggression.

More serious than anything else, the text makes an effort to relativize the Russian invasion of Ukraine, presenting Europe as a historical killer as Russia appears to be a power that has freed and has not conquered. This is a dangerous game of truth.

Russia did not free Europe from Nazism and then went home, as the text says. The Soviet Union occupied and oppressed half of Europe for nearly five decades, established dictatorial regimes in the East of Europe, and fed civil wars and oppression in many lands. Finally, he maintained the Assad regime and in the name of geopoliticals supports North Korea as well.

Ukraine is not a place that put Europe on fire, but a sovereign country that was brutally attacked by Russia in 2014 with the crime annexation and then in 2022 on a full scale. War is not the product of any European incentive, but of the neo-imperial ambition of the Kremlin.

The invasion is not a symbolic game or a historical reshuffle. The invasion is murder, rape, destruction and ethnic cleansing. The words relating this violence are violence.

What about the insults and habitulation of human tragedies? They're shocking as words and as concepts.

The text does not hesitate to use a language limited to ridicule Ukraine, Europe, and even immigrants.

African and Asian immigrants appear to be a mob waiting to break Europe's glass to destroy it by using racist and frightening sentences, as if people fleeing poverty or war were a barbarian army that requires only destruction.

Europeans are called disgusting idiots, an outright insult that has no analytical value and brings down debate on a personal and vulgar level.

Finally, this text is not an analysis. It is an emotional outburst filled with inaccuracies and cynicism that seeks to sell personal disappointment as political wisdom. But to reduce Europe's history to a cartoon of a bankrupt conqueror, to make fun of the Ukrainian war, to go back to apologists of Russian violence, and to proclaim immigrants as enemies, is to renounce the truth and human dignity.

That is the account cynicism does not put on scales. Thus, mankind progresses with the right to avoid being conquered, with the right to avoid being killed, and with the right to avoid being offended simply because it requires a better life.

These rights, ironically, are born just where today the author sees only the ruins that have come from Europe.

Europe, which in Greek mythology is a beautiful Phoenician princess and whose legend shows that Zeus, the father of all the gods, fell in love with him, took him and led him to Crete, where he seduced him.

Ironically, those who declare Europe dead are often the ones who benefit most from it, whether it be for freedom of speech that allows them to write down confusion or for the security that enables them to live without fear of tanks or fears on their heads. After 55 million people killed in the accounts of World War II, Europe marked the resumption of a free and united continent, a secular utopia dating back to the Greek and Roman era, which spans history into modern times.

Today, beyond half a billion Europeans live in peace and freedom.

And this in a world where, around us, there are about forty armed conflicts, which cost the lives of more than 170 thousand people every year.

This is Europe's true power. She doesn't need to scream to prove her strength.

And for that reason, her survival is much safer than the careers of those who try to bury her with letters. Albania and Albanians would not exist today without those values.

Hence, the world does not heal with scriptures that respond to the present political conjuctures. Trump power, even Musk's money.

Today's Cynics, who despise Ukraine, ridicule Europe and relativize conquests, will change the word tomorrow once another wind blows from Washington or Moscow. Such attitudes are short - lived because they do not rely on anything lasting.

But the real world is not a scene of ironic statements and posts. The real world is in Bucha, where the bodies of the victims were found bound hands and feet.

The real world is in Gaza, where children number thousands dead.

The real world is at Poland's borders, where refugees seek escape from war.

The true world is freedom of peoples, and the right to be not conquered.

Europe is not consistent, but it still represents what Cynics do not want to understand, the ongoing struggle for justice and peace.

And in the end, this very long, stubborn and sometimes slow effort is what makes Europe stronger than all the thieves that are being empowered by Trump's language and Vance's cynicism in Munich.

I only remember Hoisberg's tears in Munich, when with a broken heart, he said that the voice of Zv. The American president shares European and American values.

Because the truth of the tears of that day is more stable than any cynicism and that conquest is never a joke, especially when it comes from dictatorial madness like Putin's.

If that is not understood, then all that the letters represent by reasoning these conjuctures are letters that do not represent the human and civilization that Europe knows.