There is so much wrong with Europe that it’s hard to pick one thing, one policy, or one country to focus on.
As the Trump administration outlined in its National Security Strategy, the entire continent is committing cultural suicide, and that is a disaster for the West and even the United States. As I wrote in my VIP piece earlier today, the National Security Strategy was unusually blunt but entirely accurate.
American officials have become used to thinking about European problems in terms of insufficient military spending and economic stagnation. There is truth to this, but Europe’s real problems are even deeper.
Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP—down from 25 percent in 1990 to 14 percent today—partly owing to national and transnational regulations that undermine creativity and industriousness.
But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.
Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.
I’m picking on Germany in particular today because it exemplifies so much of what is wrong with current European policies. Once the beating heart of the European economy, the country is deindustrializing to the point that it is in its second year of actually shrinking in output, and its criminal justice system is focused more on punishing speech than addressing exploding crime, just as the UK’s is.
As the German establishment keeps trying to ban the most popular political party in the country, the AfD, German politicians are sending the police after their critics. You can get arrested for calling a politician “fat”—no, really, you can—and the German Chancellor made a sport of reporting his critics as criminals.
The European Union is not the “good guy” in this fight.
The side that supports censorship and arresting people who publicly disagree with their elected leaders … historically those are the bad guys.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attacks anyone who insults him online. pic.twitter.com/GRqgL9Q0jy
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 6, 2025
On the other hand, the migrant crisis doubles as a crime crisis, with 2.5% of the population—migrants—committing 40% of the crimes, with rates of rape at 10x the native German level.
🚨🇩🇪 SYRIANS, AFGHANS, IRAQIS – NOW 40% OF ALL CRIME IN GERMANY
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police just released nationwide crime statistics by nationality for the first time.
The results aren’t a rounding error – they’re a Category 5 reality check.
The baseline: 163 violent… pic.twitter.com/mfiL86EgVE
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 8, 2025
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police just released nationwide crime statistics by nationality for the first time.
The results aren’t a rounding error – they’re a Category 5 reality check.
The baseline: 163 violent crime suspects per 100,000 German citizens.
Syrians: 1,740 per 100,000. That’s 10.7x higher.
Afghans: 1,722 per 100,000. Same story.
Non-German suspects now account for over 40% of all cases. Foreign convicts have grown past one-third of the total prison population.
In sexual offenses, Afghan men show up as suspects 11 times more often than German men.
Iraqi men: 10 times.
The raw volume? Syrians committed 135,668 crimes between 2015-2024.
1 every 39 minutes for a decade straight!
Afghans: 82,960 crimes. Iraqis: 69,946.
That’s 460,000+ crimes from the top 10 migrant source countries in 10 years.
In 2024 alone, Syrians were suspects in 12,512 violent crimes – the highest figure in the entire decade.
Rape and sexual assault cases involving Syrians jumped 60% since 2020.
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt’s response? “Tougher measures.”
The conservativce AfD’s calling for mass deportations, since this mess started.
Every major German city now has this data, and no amount of “but young men commit more crime” handwaving explains 10x differentials.
Where this goes: Either Germany implements the deportations the data screams for, or the political backlash gets uglier.
Half of German women already report feeling unsafe in public spaces.
These aren’t “isolated incidents” – this is systematic overrepresentation in every violent crime category.
The numbers don’t negotiate. And German voters can read spreadsheets.
Whether you call them ‘racist,’ or not.
Source: German Federal Criminal Police (BKA), Freilich,
Those aren’t numbers made up by conservatives trying to stir up trouble for innocent asylum seekers just trying to get by. They come straight from the German Federal Criminal Police.
Yet when you look into German crime across the web, the links point you elsewhere, including this worrisome report that “defamation” of politicians is surging.
Police in Germany are investigating a sudden swell of public insults, defamation and slander directed at the country’s politicians, according to latest statistics.
Last year, 4,439 such violations of the Criminal Code were recorded, a spokeswoman for the Federal Criminal Police Office told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper in comments published Saturday.
In 2023, there were significantly fewer violations at 2,598, compared with 1,404 in 2022.
Section 188 of the Criminal Code protects politicians from such impingements on their reputation, with violations punishable with imprisonment or a fine.
Gee, I wonder why people are so upset with their politicians.
Soon enough, the police will have to contend with citizens driving by the Bundestag shouting, “Retards!
