Reforming (and Replacing) the European Union for Nationalist Purposes (Part 1)

By James K.

In the last week Elon Musk has kicked off an astonishing row over the European Union issuing a fine to X and himself. The fine is clearly politically motivated. The European elite want to silence critics of their project and especially do away with criticism of multiculturalism, secularism, and the great plethora of other post-war progressive dogmas that define their crumbling worldview. Don’t believe me? The European Union has pushed for years to pass “chat control“ legislation that would allow EU and subsidiary national authorities to scan your private texts, including encrypted texts, as well as scan all of the photos on your phone.

Significantly and perhaps purposefully, Musk’s call to abolish the European Union comes on the heels of the Trump administration’s newly released national security strategy. The new strategy essentially called the European Union a failed project which had led to economic sclerosis and demographic disaster. The administration’s interpretation of this is correct, perhaps even more than they realize. West of what used to be the Iron Curtain Europe is failing Europeans quite substantially and in almost every way. Economies are de-industrializing, energy is remarkably expensive, housing is scare, and migration levels are sky high despite the European public constantly begging their national and EU officials to stop the inflow of strangers.

The ideological pro-EU opposition will and does point out that much of what Musk is saying is in pursuit of his business interests and that he does not care about Europeans, perhaps this is true, and perhaps it isn’t, but that does not spare the European Union from deserved criticism any more than the rampant accusations of “Russian disinformation” spare the Democrats in America from massive unpopularity.

Then, on December 11^th 2025, a leaked classified, leaked, version of the US national security strategy went wide on the internet. Reported by The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and other outlets, the leaked version of the American plan purportedly shows that the United States plans to pull Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland away from the European Union and into a new “patriotic” orbit that remains aligned with pro-American interests. It’s abundantly clear that the United States views the European Union as a serious threat to Western civilization and to its long-term strategic interests on the European side of the Atlantic. The American document floated the idea of creating a forum type organization (like the G7 etc.) where these countries would cooperate with the United States, but I can tell you now this will be woefully insufficient.

Western political discourse is entering a time of reevaluation of the core concepts and institutions that have ruled us since the 1950s. The European Union is not above this kind of reevaluation and the ideological battles over its nature and future are not going to abate any time soon. These ideological battles over the success or failure of the European project specifically have led to the emergence of three distinct camps of commentators:

1. Europhiles/EU Shills
2. Euroskeptics/Reformists
3. EU abolitionists

The first camp is entirely self-explanatory. EU shills are blindly dedicated to the European project as created by Jean Monnet and his various vassals such as Paul-Henri Spaak. Today’s Europhiles believe that the European project is wildly successful and ignore all evidence to the contrary and never almost never address the concerns of their skeptics. I have noticed that most EU shills are not particularly upset about the Trump administration calling out the economic and defense failures of their project and this is because Europhiles have long chased and are still chasing grand ideas about a single European economy and a European Union army to enforce the will of an increasingly imperious Brussels via the barrel of a gun.

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