IMO another contributing factor why the european leaders might behave like they do is the history of NAZI germany in the sense that a bunch of the current puppet leaders in Germany for example are probably direct descendants of real NAZIS and their worldview in their families in which Russia/Russians seemed to be the actual and primary enemies all along. Many of those leaders cloak that deep seated animosity and hatred for all things Russian behind a very liberal/free/nice/green facade while in reality an almost instinctive hatred is driving them for generations. The NAZI disease IMO carried on in many families after WW2, especially in powerful ones, behind the scenes, for generations, and not only in Germany but many western or western oriented powerful circles. Among other things because a significant number of real and very ruthless NAZIS were imported in projects like “Paperclip“ into positions of great power and influence in western countries.
I think you may be right and Laura discussed this in connection with Łobaczewski's findings, which describe the case of Germany during and after the reign of Wilhelm II. I feel that certain dark forces in Germany are trying to find a replacement for the US domination in Europe and are trying to take their place as a dominant force, entitled from above to dominate and subjugate the rest of the weaker countries through economic dependence within the EU. It is an indisputable fact that, for example, the Polish economy is approximately 60% dependent on the German economy, being a subcontractor for German corporations, producing small parts or acting as an assembly plant for automotive corporations. The entire Polish household chemicals, sugar, construction and many other industries were taken over by German corporations, and industries such as tractors, cars and many others were destroyed as their competition and ceased to exist. The famous Polish researcher Magdalena Ziętek Wielomska, a famous social cyberneticist, philosopher, who lived in Germany for 10 years, claims directly that the Germans are internally convinced that they simply deserve the role of the leader of Europe, and the rest of the smaller countries play the role of vassals to Germany, which will naturally submit to them as the natural heir to the Roman Empire. This conviction of their own chosenness, of primacy over other nations, of the need to control others under their leadership is nothing more than a continuation of the policy of the Third Reich, which allegedly needed "lebensraum" or living space, and in reality perceived other nations as slaves that should be subordinated to Germany. Imitation of Germany's policy is currently visible in France and Great Britain, hence the desire to continue the war in Ukraine and strong opposition to Trump's policy, but I think it is temporary and ineffective.[in my opinion]
[...“A fairly well-documented example of a characteropathic personality that had an impact on a macro-social and political scale was the last German emperor, Wilhelm II. He suffered a birth brain injury. Throughout his youth and then his reign, [and afterwards,] his physical and mental disabilities were hidden from the public. The motor skills of the left upper body were impaired. As a boy, he had difficulty learning grammar, geometry, and drawing, which is a typical triad of school difficulties caused by milder brain tissue damage. He developed a personality with features of infantilism and insufficient control of affect, as well as a tendency to paralogical thinking, which easily bypassed uncomfortable aspects of certain important issues, thus avoiding problems...]
[Łobaczewski explains: The experiences of people with such anomalies arise from the world of ordinary human affairs, to which they belong by nature. Their changed way of thinking, emotional violence and egotism are therefore relatively easily embedded in the minds of other people and are perceived in terms of a natural worldview. Such an impact of characteropathic personalities traumatizes the feelings and minds of other people, gradually depriving them of the ability to use common sense. Despite resistance and critical reactions, people acquire rigid habits of pathological thinking and experiencing. In young people, this causes permanent distortions of personality development. These are therefore factors of ponerogenesis, which act insidiously and easily initiate new elements in the eternal processes of the genesis of evil. This opens the way for the later activation of other pathological factors ... which then take over first fiddle. […][The impact of Wilhelm II's personality] gradually deprived many Germans of their ability to use common sense, as a result of being bombarded with characteropathic psychological material, because ordinary people tend to identify with the emperor …]
“A new generation was growing up with distortions in their perception and understanding of moral, psychological, social and political reality. It became very characteristic that in many German families, where there was some mentally not entirely normal member, hiding this from the opinion of the environment, and even from the consciousness of the closest, became a matter of honour (worthy of even vile conduct). Wide swaths of people absorbed the pathologically changed psychological material together with an unrealistic way of thinking, in which a phrase gains the power of argument, and inconvenient premises are subconsciously selected.“This happened at a time when a wave of hysterics with a tendency to dominate emotions and a component of acting in human behaviour was growing throughout Europe. […] This radiated to the three empires and other countries of Europe."To what extent did Wilhelm II and the other two emperors, whose minds did not reach the essential issues of history and power, contribute to this? To what extent was this the result of the increasing hysterics during their reign? This remains an interesting topic for discussion between historians and ponerologists.International tensions were growing; Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. However, neither the German emperor nor any other center of power in his country had political common sense (which was the result of the aforementioned negative selection process). Wilhelm's emotional attitudes and previously created stereotypes of thinking and acting made themselves known. War broke out. The previously prepared plans of war operations, outdated in the circumstances, developed as if on staff maneuvers. Historians, even those who know the genesis and character of the Prussian state with its ideological tradition of bloody expansionism, see in those cases the action of some incomprehensible fate that eludes analysis of historical causality.
"This was happening at a time when a wave of hysterics with a tendency to dominate emotions and a component of acting in human behavior was growing throughout Europe. […] This radiated to the three empires and other countries of Europe."To what extent did Wilhelm II contribute to this, as well as two other emperors, whose minds did not reach the important issues of history and power?
To what extent was this a result of the intensification of hysterics during their reign? This remains an interesting topic for discussion between historians and ponerologists.International tensions were growing; Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. However, neither the German emperor nor any other center of power in his country had political common sense (which was the result of the aforementioned negative selection process). Wilhelm's emotional attitudes and previously created stereotypes of thinking and acting made themselves felt. War broke out. The previously prepared plans of war operations, outdated in the circumstances, were developing as if on staff maneuvers. Historians, even those who are well acquainted with the origins and character of the Prussian state with its ideological tradition of bloody expansionism, see in those events the workings of some incomprehensible fate that defies analysis of historical causality.
Many thinking people still ask themselves the disturbing question: How could it happen that the German nation chose as its Fuehrer a psychopathic buffoon who did not hide his pathological vision of the power of superhumans? Under his leadership, the Germans unleashed the Second World War – criminal and politically absurd. When the war was already drawing to a close, educated commanders honorably carried out criminal orders, militarily and politically absurd, issued by a man whose mental state already met the standard criteria for compulsory psychiatric hospitalization.Every attempt to satisfactorily explain these events from the first half of the last century using categories accepted in historical sciences gives a sense of tormenting inadequacy. Only a ponerological approach can compensate for this deficit, which examines the roles of various pathological factors on every social scale without prejudice.The German nation, fed for generations with pathologically changed psychic material, has reached a state similar to that which we encounter in individual people raised by people who display characteropathic and hysterical traits to an equal extent. Psychologists’ experience shows that these people then often commit acts that harm others […]
The above translation from Polish comes from here and belongs to Laura:
Dmitry Medvedev on the scandal 
️ The Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, responding to questions from a Russian news agency:
EU Foreign Minister Kallas expressed the opinion that “the free world needs a new leader”. Is he really needed?
He is needed, and he already exists. His name is Vladimir Putin.
