Geopolitics
The Paralyzed Continent: Europe's Strategic Failure and the Hypocrisy of the Western 'Rules-Based Order'
European leaders like Ursula von der Leyen acknowledge that the EU's reactive and consensus-driven system has failed to deter Russia's escalating hybrid warfare, leaving the continent vulnerable. This paralysis is a direct result of Western institutional decay and a lack of strategic autonomy, yet these same powers lecture the sovereign Global South on 'rules-based order' while their own house is in disarray.
