From Galați to the Baltic, the continent enters the new era of permanent war. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su by Pino Cabras Drones, escalation, and rearmament: the model tested in Ukraine becomes a continental paradigm. A journey into the Ukrainianization of Europe and the growing risk of a clash with no return. On the night between 28 and 29 May, a drone struck an apartment building in Galați, southeastern Romania, injuring two people. A Russian Shahed drone, say officials in Bucharest. False, Moscow replies. The script is familiar. But this time something has irrevocably changed, and the newspapers and the organic intellectuals of the Rearmament Party pretend not to see it.
Like every major war in recent years, this one too is reorganizing itself around the drone. Not so much as an ancillary weapon, but as a gravitational system around which tactics, strategies, logistics, chains of command, and even international law are being reshaped. The problem is no longer whether a drone crosses a border, but who manages to impose the political interpretation of the event. And for years, that political interpretation has been imposed by NATO, with the enthusiastic complicity of prime ministerial butlers, servile presidents of the republic, and a media system that gapes at the Galați drone while keeping its eyes carefully shut on the systematic, large-scale war crimes of the Epstein coalition, from Gaza to Rafah, from the mass killing of civilians to the massacres of journalists and humanitarian workers.
The Baltic case is revealing. In Latvia, two Ukrainian drones had struck oil facilities in the country, causing the fall of the Siliņa government. The Baltic authorities chose a formula of double truth: attributing the episode to the consequences of Russia’s war, while avoiding placing at the center the macroscopic operational responsibility of Ukraine. A state lie, accepted without batting an eyelid by the Atlanticist press. Von der Leyen and Metsola turned out-of-control Ukrainian drones into proof of the “Russian threat.” Analisi Difesa, one of the few sites that still practices journalism, called this performance by the name it deserves: a circus. The same von der Leyen who screamed over the 4 deaths from Russia’s retaliatory strike systematically omitted—in good company with almost all Western media outlets—even mentioning the Starobelsk massacre, the dozens of students slaughtered by Kiev itself. Three waves, with 16 drones striking the same site. It was therefore not an accident, but a horrible, criminal, and deliberate provocation. For Ursula, everything is in order.
But Russia has stopped playing the part of the patient observer. NATO is no longer the “hinterland” of the conflict: it is an attack corridor, an AI supervisor, a provider of strategic targeting, a belligerent in all but name. If Moscow makes it clear that the Baltic space has become an operational channel for Ukrainian incursions, it could react with tools consistent with its tradition of graduated pressure, up to and including mirror incidents useful for sending a message without formally crossing the threshold of open war with the Alliance. And after Galați, that moment has drawn closer still.
The cost of this process has so far been paid by Ukraine, catastrophically above all since 2014: its population nearly halved, any intermediate body that sought to preserve the old plural post-Soviet fabric marginalized, the state core transformed into a military platform specialized in warfare against Russia. The Zelenskysphere is in fact a “super-Gladio”: a structure sustained by international money flows, bureaucratic solidarity, and consolidated organizational networks, capable of surviving even the destruction of the state that formally hosts it. A parasitic and hyper-corrupt model presented as heroic resistance. In reality: the laboratory for the new form of military reorganization of Europe. That is why I often speak, with good reason, of the Ukrainianization of Europe.
And now that laboratory wants to expand. Entire European political classes are sacrificing energy security, decades-old manufacturing, constitutional rights, and social budgets on the altar of military adventurism. Germany, which after the Cold War had received European funds to convert its military industry to civilian purposes, is now doing exactly the reverse, dragging the continent along with it. Merz, Von der Leyen, Kallas: a triumvirate—or triumvirage—that does not know, or pretends not to know, what crossing the nuclear threshold means.
There is also a lesson that none of these figures seems to have absorbed: that of Iran. When a power perceives an existential threat, there are no longer any taboo military bases. There is no longer any “allied soil” that matters. Iranian attacks have shown that the doctrine of asymmetric response can strike where and how it wants, bypassing every deterrence system designed for another era. Applying this lesson to Russia—a nuclear power with vastly superior delivery capabilities—means understanding that escalation is not a chessboard on which controllable pieces are moved. It is a slippery slope toward the abyss.
Jeffrey Sachs has written to Chancellor Merz listing three decades of errors: NATO enlargement, support for the ruling class that marginalized half of Ukraine’s political population, the rigged Minsk negotiations used only to rearm Kiev. His conclusion: time has run out entirely. Whoever can stop the war now is Germany, but it is precisely Germany that wants it most. The only hope, for Sachs, is that the prospect of a sufficiently traumatic clash might trigger an emergency brake before there is no longer any brake left to pull.
That is why I invite everyone to sign the proposed law aimed at transforming the Italian Republic into a neutral country that refuses the automatic mechanisms that could incinerate it.
In the meantime, the drones fly. Over Galați, over the Baltic, over the narcotized conscience of a continent that has delegated its future to butlers who ignore history, geography, and the true balance of power.
Original article: megachip.globalist.it