The Soft Western Civil War

   December 26, 2025  Leave a Comment on The Soft Western Civil War  Posted in Imported News

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The United States has been sparring publicly with its “European partners” more now than at any time since the end of the Second World War. There are sharp differences over trade, the war in Ukraine, and defense spending, but these pale in comparison to questions of free speech, immigration, and race.

The United States recently shocked European elites and their allies in the press by banning travel to the US by five officials who claim to fight online “hate.” The State Department says they censor Americans. Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, co-CEO of HateAid, praised censorship on 60 Minutes: “Free speech needs boundaries and in the case of Germany these boundaries are part of our constitution.” Josephine Ballon, her co-CEO, also cannot travel to the US.

Clare Melford runs the Global Disinformation Index, which the New York Times says “provides risk ratings to advertising firms to help them avoid advertising on websites seen as spreading disinformation and harmful content” — so “seen” by her and her group, of course. Imran Ahmed’s Center for Countering Digital Hate reportedly boasted that its plans include “killing Musk’s Twitter.” Thierry Breton, a former European commissioner, frequently clashed with Elon Musk, who now celebrates his visa ban. Mr. Musk, now that he has reconciled with President Trump, may have pushed for the bans.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained the bans:

“The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose,” said Secretary Rubio. “These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states — in each case targeting American speakers and American companies.”

Mr. Rubio noted that this could be just the beginning:

For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship. Today, @StateDept will take steps to bar leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States. We stand ready and willing to expand this list if others do not reverse course.

The European Union is enraged, but this comes just weeks after the United States warned it would strike back after what it called “discrimination” against American service providers, including a fine of $140 million on Elon Musk’s X.

Those opposing the American decision make an argument that sounds strange to those of us who have fought censorship for years. They deny any censorship at all. “Freedom of expression is a fundamental right in Europe and a shared core value with the United States across the democratic world,” said a European Commission spokesman. This is news to European dissidents who are fined, arrested, and prosecuted for opposing the Continent’s demographic transformation. Thierry Breton even told Americans this was McCarthyism, and that we are the censors. He told us this on X, a platform that many of us were banned from until recently.

Martin Sellner mocked the EU:

The New York Times favors the European Union. This is not surprising. If the First Amendment is mutilated to suppress “disinformation” and “online hate,” legacy media will get their near monopoly back.

Of course, even more than journalists, NGOs who claim the right to label speech “hate” or “disinformation” will decide who can be online. The New York Times article quoted one Nina Jankowicz, “the head of the American Sunlight Project, an advocacy group that fights online disinformation.” “They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them,” she said. The New York Times did not mention that for three weeks, she ran the Department of Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Governance Board.” Its job, under President Joe Biden, included pressuring social media to take down people it didn’t like. Miss Jankowicz herself was spreading disinformation in 2020 when she dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as a Trump campaign trick.

We are seeing a conflict of two ways of viewing democracy. The Trump Administration, and presumably any GOP successor, is a populist, nationalist government that believes in personal leadership and an elected leader putting his stamp on the bureaucracy and directing its priorities. The EU trusts experts and credentialing institutions, most of them unelected. The Trump Administration thinks in terms of friends and enemies, while the European Union’s apparatchiks think about protection and safety. Its approach may be more durable. Westerners are immunized against strong, executive leadership, but will tolerate abuses of power if they come from mild-mannered bureaucrats with modest titles.

This is not a conflict between Europe and America. The Biden Administration was like the European Union. The Trump Administration also has allies in Europe, some of whom carry out Trumpist policies more effectively than President Trump himself, especially in Hungary. There is increasing unity on the transatlantic right, with the so-called far-right AfD building strong ties with the Administration and with American patriots. President Trump’s Administration has warned that Europe risks “civilizational erasure” through immigration and that it is turning European politics into a confrontation between the radical left and the nationalist right, with no center.

Many European conservatives and nationalists believe, accurately, that America helped force mass migration on the Continent. Now, despite Donald Trump, the European Union seems committed to it, in the face of rising opposition. Both American and European nationalists should beware. Even as they grow closer, they will suffer together if the Trump Administration loses the midterms and Democrats take the White House in 2028. A new administration will impose “European” speech regulation, and Elon Musk will suffer personally.

What is emerging is a desperate struggle over to control social media platforms while there is still time to stop and reverse demographic replacement. Both the United States and Europe could become more “closed,” with travel bans, restrictions on NGOs, and social media censorship changing according to the whims of whoever is in power. The free speech Westerners took for granted could be utterly lost. This is because the stakes are so high. Whoever controls powerful states could determine the future of the West. In the near term, we could even get an EU dominated by populist, right-wing parties that are at least implicitly pro-white, while explicitly anti-white socialists take power in the United States.

For now, white advocates can take some pleasure. For the first time, advocates of censorship face government action, and many European voters welcome this. With Labour in the UK, Emmanuel Macron in France, and the German governing coalition all down in the polls, Europe’s rulers will not be able to appeal to credentials and respectability much longer. Nationalists of the sort NGOs used to have banned from social media could soon be running governments on the continent. The question is who will be in the White House: someone who will continue President Trump’s legacy or a Democrat will try to destroy it by any available means. We could see this same story about social media in just a few years, but with the sides reversed.

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