Ursula von der Lawless. Cartoon of 13/03/2026 in CTXT
"Europe can no longer be the custodian of the old world order. For a world that is gone and will not return. We will always defend and support the rules-based system we helped build with our allies, but we can no longer rely on it as the only way to defend our interests, nor assume that its rules will protect us from the complex threats we face.
So said Ursula Von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. The lady believes that the EU can no longer rely on a rules-based system alone in a clear allusion (but without daring to say so) to the impunity and arbitrariness with which Donald Trump and his genocidal partner are acting in the Iran war (which I don't know why they keep calling it "Iran's war" and not "Trump and Netanyahu's war" as they do "Putin's war").
What exactly is Ursula proposing - a mixed system based on rules but defending it as before only with chest-thumping and simple posturing statements in the morning and decreeing the law of the jungle in the afternoon? An official declaration of the nightly purge? Perhaps she suggests normalising and institutionalising war crimes and genocides that are not only not prevented, but also financed?
The commission came out and said as usual that Von der Leyen's words were misinterpreted. Whenever this excuse is used, it is always just blurted out and never clarified as to how it was supposed to be interpreted. That justification/excuse is an insult in itself. It is telling everyone to their face that they are idiots and that they don't understand anything they are told.
The puddle of shit in which he wallowed ended up making such a splash that he had to backtrack two days later. He did so in the plenary session of the European Parliament at the start of the parliamentary debate on the situation in Iran:
"Seeing the world as it is in no way diminishes our determination to fight for the world we want. The EU was founded as a peace project. Our unwavering commitment to peace, the principles of the UN Charter and international law are as central today as they were at our creation. We will always defend these principles.
Groucho Marx would laugh at this version of his statement of changing principles depending on which way the winds of war are blowing.
