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Polls Show Europe Wants War

The latest polling from Europe exposes the hypocrisy behind the entire war campaign. Europeans have been frightened into supporting larger military budgets, common European debt, weapons for Ukraine, and an EU defense structure, but when they are asked whether they would personally pick up a rifle, the enthusiasm suddenly disappears. They support war in theory as long as Ukrainians, professional soldiers, or somebody else’s children are forced to die for it.

The European Council on Foreign Relations surveyed 19,481 adults across 15 European countries in May 2026. The results were presented under the absurdly triumphant title “Europeans are ready to defend themselves,” yet the underlying figures tell a far more complicated story. Europeans may be prepared to borrow money and purchase weapons, but most are not prepared to bear the physical cost of the policies they endorse.

The EU’s Spring 2026 Eurobarometer found that 81% support a common European defense and security policy, while 76% believe Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens EU security. Another 76% said the EU should continue supporting Ukraine until a “just and lasting peace” is achieved. Those phrases are deliberately vague.

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The biological risks of the European Union’s migration policies

Recent events in the Spanish city of Ceuta, where tens of thousands of migrants from African countries flocked in late July 2026, have starkly highlighted the problem of the biological risks posed by uncontrolled migration. Currently, the European Union has a population of approximately 451 million. Until now, the majority of the population has been of Caucasian descent. However, according to a report published by the Center for Migration Research and Analysis at Berlin Regional University, the number of migrants living in the European Union in 2026 reached a record high of 64.2 million people, which is approximately 2.1 million more than the previous year. In 2025, the total number of asylum applications filed by migrants in the EU was 669,365. Most of them are Muslims and come from countries in Africa and the Middle East. In 2026, the name Muhammad ranked first among babies born in England and Wales for the third consecutive year. Nearly 6,000 boys were given this name that year, a 4% increase from the previous year.

Migration flows within the bloc are uneven. According to Reuters, nearly three-quarters of all asylum applications from migrants were filed in countries such as Spain, Italy, France, and Germany. At the same time, Germany remains the bloc’s largest host country for foreigners, with a population of nearly 18 million, 72% of whom are of working age, while Spain has seen the fastest growth, increasing its foreign population by approximately 700,000 over the past year, bringing the total to 9.5 million. Luxembourg, Malta, and Cyprus also have a higher proportion of immigrants relative to their total population.

The national composition of migrants arriving in the European Union is extremely diverse. The largest numbers come from Afghanistan, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and most African countries.

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Trump Will Demand Repayment From the EU Over Biden’s Massive Military Aid to Ukraine

Rather belatedly, but it will be demanded.

In the context of a social media burn against ‘SCUM’ journalists who are suggesting that the missile and ammo stockpiles would be dangerously low, President Donald J. Trump suggested that the European Union should repay the US for the untold billions that creepy Joe Biden’s administration sent to Ukraine.

Le Monde reported (translated from the French):

“Donald Trump on Thursday criticized his predecessor, Joe Biden, for providing Ukraine with hundreds of billions of dollars in aid and ammunition for free, believing that the Europeans should have borne the cost and announcing his intention to ask them for the money.

‘Hundreds of billions of dollars have been given for free to Ukraine and NATO, money that Europe would have paid if it had just been asked, but we will claim this money, even if it’s a little late!’ the US president wrote on Truth Social.”

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Trump Administration To Spend $4 Million on European Rightwing Media

The US will help Europeans free themselves from the yoke of their Leftist-Globalist elites.

Euro-Globalists are in a panic over the news that the US Donald J. Trump’s administration will reportedly spend $4 million to bolster right-wing media in ‌Europe.

This is said to be part of a package of at least $25 million for civil society groups working on conservative causes in the region.

What these sons of George Soros do not seem to understand is that this is a core Trump policy: ‘Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.’

2025 US National Security Strategy:

“American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.

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EU Commandos Board 6th Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tanker After Putin Threatened Reverse Action

Another Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker has been boarded by European forces – and this time the provocative action took place in Mediterranean waters. In a Monday post on X, Kaja Kallas announced the action by troops under the EU’s Operation Irini. They boarded the MV Sun tanker for “flag verification,” following suspicions that the vessel was in violation of international law.

“Illegal oil sales from shadow fleet ships are a critical lifeline for Russia’s war in Ukraine, and we’ll continue to cut them off,” Kallas wrote of what marks the sixth shadow fleet ship to be boarded in recent months. Most of these have happened in northern European waters, with Mediterranean incidents being more rare.

It was specifically the Italian Defense Ministry that carried out the EU action, with Italian navy’s Thaon di Revel ship conducting the boarding which occurred to the west of the island of Pantelleria as the targeted vessel was progressing from the port of Cotonou in Benin to Istanbul.

Russian President Vladimir Putin just a little over two weeks ago threatened to do the same in reverse, after the past year saw several examples of EU intercept action, sometimes involving French or Swedish commandos descending onto a tanker’s deck from helicopters and arresting crew members. The seized vessels are then typically taken to nearby European ports.

The latest European Union sanctions package passed last month stipulates that EU members can sell the oil or any seized cargo obtained from these ‘shadow fleet’ vessels.

Putin has reiterated Kremlin outrage at this scheme, condemning it as “piracy and banditry”. This also after Sweden has lately declared its intent to hand seized Russian grain over to Ukraine.

“We will be forced to respond in kind,” Putin said in mid-August. Russian forces will act “wherever we ourselves deem necessary and appropriate — anywhere,” he added.

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RFK Jr. Exposes the Ugly Reason America Fell Behind Europe in Restricting the Transing of Kids

For years, the transgender lobby sold the world on a lie: give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and eventually surgery, and everything will be fine. Europe swallowed that lie first. Now Europe is spitting it back out. So why is the United States only now catching up?

European countries like Sweden, Finland, and even the United Kingdom once led the charge in normalizing these barbaric procedures on minors. They built the clinics, wrote the guidelines, and exported the ideology to the rest of the Western world. In recent years, though, those same countries have slammed the brakes. In 2021, Sweden’s Karolinska Institute stopped prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors. In 2022, the NHS shut down the Tavistock Clinic, the UK’s only child gender identity clinic, and later banned the use of puberty blockers in most cases. Finland moved to prioritize psychotherapy over medical transition. And Britain’s Cass Review, the most comprehensive scientific study of its kind, found that the evidence behind these interventions was “remarkably weak.”

Fox News’s Kayleigh McEnany pressed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on exactly this disconnect during Fox News’s Saturday in America town hall, asking him why the United States had fallen so far behind Europe on the issue. Kennedy didn’t hesitate to name the real motive.

“I think it was politicized issue and there were people making huge amounts of money,” Kennedy told her. “A lot of the medical centers were making billions and billions of dollars on these surgeries, and they were falsifying the science and making it look like there was some benefit over the long term.”

Kennedy pointed directly to the Cass Review as the turning point Americans were never allowed to have. “The Cass report, which came out in Britain and was the first really comprehensive scientific study, showed that the benefits were minimal and the cost, the people who were getting these surgeries, that it was often catastrophic for them, that in terms of suicide, suicidal ideation, that those numbers went up,” he said. He added that HHS has now “essentially replicated” those findings.

Kennedy said his department is using every tool available, including Medicaid and Medicare funding, to discourage medical centers from performing these procedures on adolescents. This is the kind of common sense that used to be uncontroversial: kids whose brains, hormones, and judgment are still developing shouldn’t be making irreversible, life-altering decisions.

The Trump administration is finally doing what Europe already figured out: treating this as a medical scandal instead of a civil rights crusade. I blame the Biden administration for the United States falling behind. Europe led the way in normalizing this evil. Now it’s leading the way out of it. The only question left is how much damage was done to American kids while Washington finally caught up.

Much of that European reversal happened while Joe Biden sat in the Oval Office. While European doctors and regulators were quietly admitting they’d made a catastrophic mistake, the Biden administration was doubling down. It pushed to expand access to these procedures, fought state laws that tried to restrict them, and treated anyone who raised concerns as a bigot.

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A New Threat Resurfaces as Europe Battles Wildfires and Droughts: Buried Active Bombs from WWI and WWII

Buried dangers have a way of resurfacing.

We have been reporting here on TGP that Europe is facing a hot summer, leading to major wildfires and severe droughts in its most vital rivers.

From the bottom of the river beds, military vehicles and weapons from the WW2 are resurfacing: German warships, Wehrmacht motorbikes, and bombs.

At the same time, during the battle against the wildfires, a deadly new threat is increasing the danger: unexploded ordnance from WWI and WWII.

Euronews reported:

“Fires have burned through huge areas of land in western Europe in recent months as the continent has battled scorching temperatures and droughts, and firefighters have faced the additional threat of exploding shells.

The fires and droughts are unburying and reactivating what was previously stable.

“One fire close to the city of Bordeaux in southwestern France has revealed a hoard of what is thought to be World War II-era ammunition, while in the province of Liège in eastern Belgium, local governor Hervé Jamar said emergency services were adapting to account for munitions buried in a fire area and that ‘a few sporadic detonations’ had been heard recently.”

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Beyond the Ukraine War, NATO and Europe Are Still Dependent on the US

The Ukraine war has underscored NATO and Europe’s continued reliance on the United States for defense. Ukraine’s air defense is running short of Patriot interceptors, and Europe has not been able to close the gap on its own. President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters that Ukraine has only about a tenth of the interceptors it needs from the United States.

The Chatham House reports that the Ukraine Contact Group of European states pledged $4 billion for Ukrainian air defense in June 2026, including more than $1 billion earmarked for Patriots, but notes that it remains doubtful the United States will supply the missiles. Europe does not build the Patriot system itself, and Ukrainian-made Patriots are not a near-term solution. Analysts cited by Chatham House estimate it would take 18 to 24 months just to establish a pilot production line domestically.

European governments have responded by purchasing American-made systems for Ukraine rather than replacing them with European production. Germany pledged more than $2 billion in military aid, including Patriot interceptors, while Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, and Sweden joined the fast-track purchasing program. However, the arrangement still relies on American manufacturing capacity rather than an independent European supply.

Four years into the war, Europe has not built the domestic capacity to cover its own air defense needs, let alone Ukraine’s, leaving Kyiv’s interceptor stocks dependent on U.S.-made weapons.

Beneath the missile shortfall sits a deeper dependency: NATO lacks sufficient independent capacity in satellite intelligence and reconnaissance, strategic airlift, air-to-air refueling, command-and-control infrastructure, and nuclear deterrence, relying heavily on the United States for all five. The NATO Intelligence Fusion Centre, based at RAF Molesworth in the UK, brings together NATO and partner-nation analysts to produce shared intelligence assessments on military threats and terrorism for the alliance as a whole.

Though housed in Britain, the Fusion Centre was established with the United States as the “framework nation,” meaning American intelligence architecture and staffing underpin an institution that operates as a multinational NATO body. The Supreme Allied Commander Europe, who oversees NATO’s intelligence and surveillance forces, has by convention always been an American general.

A Kiel Institute report, produced with Bruegel, states that Europe depends heavily on the US not only for deployable troops but also for ‘strategic enablers,’ pointing to continued reliance on American systems for critical modern military capabilities even as European defense budgets have surged. Sven Biscop of the Egmont Royal Institute told Defense News that Europe is “almost completely dependent” on U.S. intelligence for satellite capability and everything that goes with it, adding that closing the gap will take time. The United States operated 246 military satellites as of 2023, compared with 49 for all of European NATO combined, led by France with 15, according to the same reporting.

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A Question of Political Will: Europe Could Provide Ukraine With Air Defense Systems

Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine still cannot get enough Patriot interceptors. Europe’s 44 countries have more than double the population of the United States and roughly seventeen times the population of Ukraine, while their combined GDP is comparable to America’s.

Europe manufactures cars, machinery, chemicals, and electronics at industrial scale. There is no reason it cannot build enough air defense systems to prevent Ukraine from being blown off the map. It seems that Europe’s failure to help is a political choice.

Granted, missile production is difficult. It depends on a narrow set of specialized inputs, including solid rocket motors, energetic materials, seekers, guidance electronics, and fuses. Each has its own supplier and qualification chain. However, these are not insurmountable barriers. Complex industries routinely overcome such challenges through investment and commitment. What is more, the United States has already proven that it can be done.

Lockheed Martin increased annual production of the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE), the advanced interceptor used by the Patriot air-defense system, from about 300 missiles before 2022 to more than 600 in 2025. The U.S. government and Lockheed Martin have now agreed on a plan to increase annual production capacity to 2,000 interceptors. If a single American manufacturer can expand production on that scale, Europe has the industrial capacity to do the same if governments are willing to make the necessary investments and long-term commitments.

Germany has taken steps to expand the supply of Patriot interceptors. Berlin has sought U.S. approval for licensed production of PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors in Germany, while German manufacturer Diehl Defence and Lockheed Martin have agreed to expand the PAC-3 MSE supply chain in the country. In July 2026, Germany also joined the United States, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden in agreeing to explore the establishment of a PAC-3 maintenance facility in Europe.

Berlin secured an agreement to deliver 30 PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine, supplemented by five missiles from its own stockpiles, in one Ramstein-format round. Germany separately signed a contract for 600 interceptor missiles, although no delivery timeline was specified. Zelensky has described deliveries under a related IRIS-T supply plan as being spread over three years.

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‘Reckless’ 18,000 reduction in firefighters during worst year for wildfires

New EU data revealing a huge reduction in the number of firefighters during the worst year on record for wildfires highlights the need to end reckless cuts to our public services. 
 
Figures published today by Eurostat show that Europe had 372,400 professional firefighters in 2025 – down from 390,600 firefighters in 2024. See notes for national figures.

The reduction coincided with the most destructive year for wildfires on record, with more than a million hectares burned across the length and breadth of the EU. 

Austerity 

In response to a campaign by trade unions, the European Commission told member states in March to ensure their fire services are adequately staffed to deal with rising climate threats.

But some of the significant staff reductions came in countries which the Commission itself put under an ‘Excessive Deficit Procedure’ in 2024. For example, Poland lost 9,000 firefighters and France lost 4,100.  

That is why the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is calling for a revision of the EU’s economic governance rules to ensure all member states can invest in vital public services and their staff. 

ETUC General Secretary Esther Lynch said: 

“You could not design a more reckless policy if you tried: sending Europe’s fire services into its most dangerous wildfire season ever with 18,000 fewer firefighters. 

“This is austerity setting fire to common sense and putting lives, livelihoods and homes at risk. Nothing could demonstrate more clearly just how dangerous and self-defeating the EU’s economic rules are. 

“Failing to properly staff our fire services, which carry out crucial prevention work as well as tackling blazes when they occur, is a false economy at a time when the economic cost of wildfires is running into the billions.

“Europe is massively increasing spending on defence but letting our guard down against the most imminent and serious risk to people’s safety. We need a consistent approach to all of the challenges we are facing and that requires investment in our public services and their workforce.”


Jan Willem Goudriaan, General Secretary of the European Public Service Union, said: 

“The public services emergency is repeatedly showing us its dangers, yet the Commission is fiddling while Rome burns. 

“Wildfire seasons are becoming longer and more severe, while the number of firefighters is declining. 

“The Commission’s focus on deregulation and competitiveness does nothing to address people’s concerns nor does it strengthen preparedness. 

“We need to end austerity, focus on climate change and just transition – invest in firefighting and emergency services, hire more staff and protect the workers who protect us.”

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