By: Jože Biščak
A young Ukrainian girl with a lollipop in her mouth and a rifle in her hands was sitting on a windowsill with her hair in national colours. The photo, which circulated on social media, became cult in an instant. She reminded me of the patriotic and inspiring thought of Oriana Fallaci, one of the most famous Italian journalists: “I have always loved life. He who loves life never knows how to adapt, submit, be patient. (…) He who loves life always stands with a rifle at the window to defend it.”
Slovenians used to have it the same. Belgrade wanted to prevent us from sovereignty with military force and sent tanks over us. That is why we understand and support the land of the great wheat plain in Eastern Europe to the best of our ability. It is clear who is the victim and who is the attacker. The latter sits in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin never wanted peace with his neighbours, the communist hawks never got over the fact that the nations occupied by the Red Army became independent.
It is obvious that he will not stop. At the moment all the countries bordering Russia are under threat. So, the question is whether we will calmly wait for the conquest march to continue, and hope that he will satisfy his sick appetites, or whether we will act until it is too late. When such a threat rises above our heads, such communist thinking with colossal propaganda that ultimately brings only death, poverty, and misery – can we even sleep peacefully? The Slovenian left can. It is apparently waiting for Putin to “liberate” it; otherwise, their opposition to the government’s policy towards Ukraine cannot be explained. There are certain historical lessons that clearly point to this. Although the demon from the Kremlin has exposed himself, Slovenian Russophiles want to disguise him in everything they want, except in a madman who is already threatening with nuclear weapons. Understandably, because they carry the same demon within them. Their first task is to deny its existence more easily. One war just hides another. And the latter is being fought by Slovenian leftists together with Brussels against everything that smells of normalcy, of conservatism, of the right-wing worldview.
Last week we witnessed a disgrace like the old continent has not seen in a long time. While the EU is hesitant to ban the import of Russian oil and gas, which would also stop Putin’s funding of the military force of evil, 478 useful idiots in the European Parliament (including six Slovenians) voted for economic sanctions against Hungary and Poland. The rule of law is allegedly in jeopardy in the countries led by Viktor Orbán and Mateusz Morawiecki. Presumably because democracy and freedom are in very good shape in these two countries, the main reason is that the countries are conservative and reject the imposed agenda of Soros’s liberal democracy.
The shame and hypocrisy on steroids are all the greater because it is at this moment that Poles and Hungarians directly bordering Ukraine are most generous in accepting real refugees fleeing a real war – Ukrainian women and children. Now, leftists and Vaseline rightists rubbing the floor of a glass palace next to Brussels’ city park would punish them for this; meanwhile, European superpowers (France and Germany) are still happily trading with Putin’s oligarchs, and Commissioner Věra Jourová (known to Slovenes from the chase against Janez Janša) is orgasming due to the Netflix ban in Russia. A ban on the online platform and bureaucrats will stop the Russians? Are you kidding? Poles and Hungarians would be put in need, and Putin would be “deprived” of his favourite series. And the war will be over? The abomination of the decadent Brussels elite without precedent.
The war in Ukraine is the biggest problem today, but we need to monitor what the elite is doing to not wake up one fine day and find that globalists with their sinister plans are even further than they were. You know, we humans are a wonderful but strange creation. We are capable of extraordinary achievements, but because we do not look ahead, we break our noses when we run into a concrete wall. So do not let yourself be fooled and directed. And do not look for their moments of normalcy and honesty. There are not any. They never were. Rather, take another look at a photo of a young Ukrainian girl loving the soul of her homeland.
Jože Biščak is the editor-in-chief of the conservative magazine Demokracija, president of the Slovenian Association of Patriotic Journalists and author of the books Zgodbe iz Kavarne Hayek, Zapisi konservativnega liberalca, and Potovati z Orwellom.