DISINFO: Führer Ursula von der Leyen is turning the EU into a bastion of liberal totalitarianism

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DISINFO: Führer Ursula von der Leyen is turning the EU into a bastion of liberal totalitarianism

SUMMARY

Europe is becoming a new bastion of liberal totalitarianism. There is a growing ideological split in Europe between the supporters of liberal totalitarianism and their opponents, who demand true freedom. While “Führer Ursula” is preparing the EU for mobilisation and militarisation to save the global liberal world order, there are increasing calls for EU reform from the dissident countries – Hungary and Slovakia. After the (temporary ?) loss of the USA, the Euro-Atlantic elite is trying to turn a “united Europe” into a bastion of liberalism, which provokes resistance from a part of the Europeans.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the EU aiming to present it as a decaying totalitarian Nazi/fascist society as well as a big conspiracy about the “globalist” elites dominating the world, presenting EU countries as their vassals.

This disinformation message appeared in context to the recent EU decision to allocate an additional 800 billion euros for defence needs. According to the words of Ursula von der Leyen, “Europe faces a clear and present danger on a scale that none of us has seen in our adult lifetime. ReArm Europe’ could mobilise close to 800 billion euros of defence expenditures for a safe and resilient Europe”.

See also the European Council conclusions on European defence, 6 March 2025 and our article’ Reminder: Russia wants war, not peace’.

The ongoing increase in defence spending across the EU is explained by the most aggressive Russian actions – annexation of Crimea, the War in Donbas and the 2022 large-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Read other disinformation cases claiming that Western ignorance of history leads to the resurgence of Nazism in Europe, that European Nazism is alive and it manifests itself in Russophobia, that Nazism has revived in Ukraine and actively cultivated by the West, that Zelenskyy is the heir of German Nazism, that West turned a blind eye to Nazism, that The US and Ukraine support NazismPoland, Ukraine, and the Baltic authorities associate themselves with Hitler.

Disclaimer

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