A surprisingly lucid article for such a dubious publication. Although this article gives more credit to the so-called “populist” right than it deserves, the main point it makes is more or less what i’ve been saying as well, namely that due to the profoundly undemocratic nature of the EU and the iron institutional and ideological grip of the liberal Atlanticist establishment on all EU institutions and most European governments, not much will change in the broader picture as a result of these most recent elections.

We may see some minor changes on the local level, in some places for the worse, in others hopefully for the better, but the overall trajectory of Europe remains the same. It seems no political force at the moment, either on the right or the left, has found any way out of the predicament we are in. The EU is a prison of nations, it is unreformable and there is no way forward as long as we are stuck in it. So the outlook is bleak: deindustrialization, austerity, permanent US vassalage, global irrelevancy, war.

Or if i may use another metaphor: we are locked in a vehicle heading for a cliff, the steering wheel is stuck, and the driver refuses to take their foot off the gas.