Is she just stupid or manipulative?
Simplicius notes:
Today’s leaders disconnect themselves from historical record, and rely entirely on appeals to limbic instincts and knee jerk passions.
Just observe the EU apparat’s current cast of uncharismatic minstrels, who brazenly dismiss objective historical realities in angling their cheap narratives. Coming to mind is Kaja Kallas’s recent affected disbelief at the idea that Russia defeated the Nazis in WWII in a lazy attempt to perpetuate the image of Russia as ancestral ‘Other’ to the West.
[Kaja Kallas is an Estonian politician and diplomat. She was the first female prime minister of Estonia, a role she held from 2021 until 2024, when she resigned in advance of her appointment as High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Since 2024, she has served in that role as well as Vice-President of the European Commission in the second von der Leyen Commission.]
Her mistress von der Leyen likewise weaves historical incongruities into her statements with equal impunity because the content itself no longer rules the message, rather just the presentation, the spectacle of it all carries the essence: what matters is what kind of emotional charge the leading headline can drive in a nugget-sized PR blurb.
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