Josep Borrell is a Spanish socialist who held several high-ranking positions in the European Union. Until 2024, he was a vice-president of the European Commission and the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy. In that capacity, he ran Europe’s External Action Service, which is the diplomatic body that executes Europe’s foreign policy decisions around the world. He remains a man with a great deal of influence over European perspectives.
Eurocrats such as Borrell believed they could reconstitute European centrality in the world by constructing a “rules-based international order” and forcing every other nation in the world to bend to Europe’s will. Brussels has long desired to rule the world through rule-making.
It turns out that depending on the United States for security, the Russian Federation for energy, and communist China for critical imports is not a blueprint for European strength. To his credit, Borrell understands Europe’s dilemma. He knows that the European Union “was not designed for the world in which we live today.” Forced to watch President Trump remake the world without showing any deference to Europe’s globalist prerogatives, Borrell openly laments, “We are not very relevant to international politics.”
Borrell finally realizes, however, that Europe survives only because the rest of the world permits it to endure. When you depend upon the United States, Japan, India, China, Russia, and the Middle East to produce everything that Europe’s dying empire needs, then you have no leverage or real power in the world. European imperialism is dead because Europe has no armies or navies to enforce its “rules-based” edicts. European imperialism is dead because sane nations refuse to impoverish themselves in the name of carbon credit tyranny. European imperialism is dead because Europe opened its doors to an Islamic invasion.
