Pax Europa

Eu flag, by Christian Wiediger

Pax Europa |
Wednesday – December 10, 2025

In my posts about the ongoing war in Ukraine, that you can read here and here, I made it clear that I see no way forward for a continued war in Ukraine, at least no way forward that can be described as sustainable, and this is true for both Ukraine and Russia, and this fact means that in soon enough time some kind of peace will be reached, or at least some kind of ceasefire will be reached, because it's clear that Russia is losing too many men in this war, but it's also clear that whatever leverage Ukraine may or may not have in this situation, it's not that much. Yes, I know that some observers will point to the fact that the Ukrainian army, for a brief time, occupied some border regions within Russia, but since these regions hardly contain anything of value, I don't believe that you can call these gains any kind of real leverage, at least not in the long run. Yes, it may be that the Ukrainians could use this as leverage in the short term, but again I don't see this working in the long term. No, I don't believe that a continued war in Ukraine serves the interests, in this case material, of the people of Ukraine, and I don't believe that a war in Ukraine serves the interest of Europe on a wider scale either. In fact, I do believe that the only way forward for a tired, sick, and really dying continent such as Europe is a sustained peace, something like a Pax Europa, but this would take real initiative, and at the moment it seems quite clear to me that this is not happening.

    I do also want to just add as a note that many people seem to regard the EU (the European Union) as some kind of nation-state, some kind of federation, and from both a legal and a historical point of view this just isn't the case: the EU is not and was never intended to be a federation, yet plenty of people allow themselves to become very agitated by the slow and bureaucratic process of the EU, as if the EU should serve a purpose that it was never intended to serve. Well, in that case I have this suggestion: leave the EU and form a new EU that can become a federation. Now, for the people of Europe, which includes far more countries and peoples than the mere 27 member states that constitute the EU, this would be a mistake, because Europe is not one and should not become one nation. Tell me, what is a European? I don't know, but I am sure that most people can tell me what a German, a Russian, a Dane, and what a Pole is. I reject this vague and abstract notion of Europeans. Who are these Europeans that everyone keeps talking about, because I don't believe I ever met one when I was in the world. I also want to add this about the EU: it's clear that the boundaries, the legal boundaries of the EU, have become very stretched, and actually it does seem to me that the EU-court perhaps more than any other institution have stretched these limits. No, I do not believe in a federated or united Europe, and especially not in that rude and ugly American fashion. The last thing I will add on this note is also that I reject the nationhood of all European people's: I regard the formation of the nation-state and the destruction of feudalism as really a historical tragedy.

    But how could a long lasting peace look in Europe? Well, to begin with, Europe is a place that has been riddled with war, and really one can only say that peace is and has been a historical parenthesis in Europe, and it's really very rude and stupid to expect anything else than war, but what is new is the scale of modern warfare: modern wars completely ruin whole civilizations, and they are all fought for material concerns. You may very well criticize wars of the remote past, but they were not fought over for merely material reasons, even though that played a large role, but more importantly they did not involve mass mobilized mobs of savage fanatics that have been riled up in war and nationalist fever; no, those wars were fought by highly professional warriors that had a warriors sense of morality and boundary, they were truly men of ascendant rank. After all, what army and what war can you expect when your so-called warriors consist of the lowest and most brutish elements of the plebeian hordes, men who have nothing to live for and nothing to die for, men who have embraced the willing chaos? No, egalitarianism is really a crude and mendacious falsehood that will bring our world to its knees at the close of the Kali Yuga.

    No, none of this is sane. None of this is good. Europe needs peace and it needs stability if it intends to carry on whatever is left of it's old and tired civilization, but material interests are to vast, and in the end I don't see a Pax Europa unfolding, and this is why I call for any young man that still lives in Europe to embrace the light and to retire from the world—seek meaning beyond the material and beyond the immediate, become one with the whole world.

Reginald Drax – December 10, 2025.