As a European, it actually pains me to say this.

We love talking about innovation, green transition, and “strategic autonomy”. Our politicians fly to Davos, deliver virtuous speeches, and compete to be best in class on climate targets.

Yet when it actually matters, we consistently choose the safe, comfortable, and heavily regulated path over real competition.

Take nuclear power as an example. Several European countries were so eager to phase out fossil fuels that they not only shut down functioning nuclear plants — they demolished them. The result? Large parts of Europe now suffer from insufficient, expensive energy.

The same pattern repeats itself with the EU AI Act. Instead of racing to build the best artificial intelligence, Europe chose to regulate it heavily before it was even properly born.

Just like we did with American ETFs — superior products with lower fees and better liquidity that we simply banned or heavily restricted for European investors.

This is classic modern Europe:
We want the moral praise for being green and responsible.
But we also want the tax revenue and economic growth that comes from the old, “dirty” economy that actually funds it all.

It’s a perfect Catch-22.

We’re not losing because we’re less intelligent.
We’re losing because we’ve become too comfortable to compete — and too hypocritical to admit it.

I’m European. I want Europe to succeed.

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In 1964, Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson launched America’s ambitious “War on Poverty.”

More than six decades later, two economists — Kevin Corinth from the Heritage Foundation and Richard Burkhauser from Cornell University — have published a study suggesting that the war may have helped create a permanent underclass.

According to journalist Kevin Stocklin’s article in The Daily Signal (March 13, 2026), the massive expansion of welfare programs has largely replaced market incomes for many Americans, trapping generations in dependency on government transfers rather than work.

This isn’t just an American story. The same pattern is visible across much of the Western world.

The study doesn’t claim the original intentions were evil. But the results speak for themselves.

As the old proverb goes:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

We’ve spent trillions on fish.
Maybe it’s time to teach people how to fish again.

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I’m so damn tired of hearing people lecture about “inflation” as if they understand what they’re talking about.

There are two completely different things hiding behind that word. Most commentators and politicians either don’t know the difference — or conveniently pretend it doesn’t exist.

Javier Milei does know. And that’s exactly why he stands out.

He correctly identified that Argentina’s economic hell was driven by monetary inflation — decades of politicians printing money to buy votes and cling to power. So he did what almost no modern leader has the balls to do: he turned off the printing press, slashed public spending, and took the brutal short-term pain.

The result?
Poverty has dropped from a catastrophic ~53% peak to ~28% in roughly 18 months. Real wages are recovering. The economy is slowly clawing its way back.

Of course it hurt. Of course people suffered. But Milei chose reality over popularity — something extremely rare in politics.

And yet… the international media and chattering class barely give him credit. Why? Because admitting that this “far-right libertarian madman” was right would force them to question everything they’ve been preaching for generations.

In a world drowning in loud, half-informed voices, that kind of intellectual honesty and backbone isn’t just impressive.

It’s damn near revolutionary.

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Fredrik Hjelm, founder of Voi, dared to say in a podcast that the Sweden Democrats had been right about immigration early on. The reaction was immediate, brutal, and ongoing: headlines, moral condemnation, and “tech bro gone rogue” narratives. How dare he say something positive about the wrong party?

Meanwhile, Peter Carlsson of Northvolt has been given a remarkably soft landing after his company’s spectacular collapse. He’s been allowed to criticize the current government extensively in SVT, DN, Aftonbladet and elsewhere — with sympathetic framing as the “disappointed entrepreneur who speaks out”.
No character assassination, no “tech bro” smears, and no difficult questions about Swedish taxpayers’ pension money.

Keep in mind that the first company pays huge amounts of tax — while the second received massive subsidies from those same taxpayers.

One entrepreneur praises the “wrong” side and gets punished.
The other criticizes the government from the “right” green angle and gets platform after platform.

This isn’t journalism. It’s narrative enforcement.

Legacy media is clearly in full campaign mode for the opposition.

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