First, we create the hunter, then we will kill the bear.

"It's now or never."

Slovenia and the European Union are at a crossroads. One path leads to historical obscurity, the other may awaken the sleeping giant within us. Our prosperity, our peace, our liberty, and democracy depend on the decisions we make today.

In the coming months, we will mainly be fighting against ourselves. Our greatest weakness will not be a lack of people, innovation, or natural resources—although we recklessly and cheaply surrender much of that to others—but rather a lack of political courage for change.

The birds on the wires are chirping about what needs to be done. We must increase the military budget, empower our DOGE, limit public spending, remove socialists and their "woke" NGO political commissars from positions of influence, stop mass migration, abandon harmful energy and spatial (radical green!) policies, and establish a united front against Putin’s Russia.

Without whining, we must accept the justified criticism of our former allies, while at the same time rejecting a dysfunctional "peace" plan that would foolishly expose our best military units and equipment in Ukraine without the protection of NATO’s Article 5. This plan would carve up and loot Ukraine, preventing it from developing its own defense capabilities and rebuilding itself. Moreover, it would impose elections to remove the disobedient Zelensky and delegitimize Ukraine’s government in territories occupied by Putin’s Russia, where people would not be voting.

If this is a peace plan, then it is better to have war with Russia now—when they are exhausted and we are unprepared—rather than in five years when they have rebuilt their army and their economy has recovered, while we, in the meantime, have not prepared for war but have been dreaming of peace.

Slovenia cannot be the first to cast stones, for we share in the sins. Since joining the EU, we have abandoned our own visions and become a kind of microcosm of Brussels. Because we have obediently accepted every foolish decision from there, we must now reform together with them. Our first goal must be to remove the socialist regime of Robert Golob, and instead of bringing in yet another new popularity-seekers, we must bring reformers to power.

And then, step by step, together- first, we create the hunter, and then we kill the bear.

Slovenia Intelligence Report, Februar 16th 2025

The multipolar world that is coming brings significant changes. What seemed like science fiction yesterday will be reality tomorrow.

The immediate, short-term consequences in the region will be that Kosovo will almost certainly be reintegrated into Serbia, as no one has an interest in defending it. In the medium term, Slovenia will fall into one of the spheres of influence and lose its political independence. If it ends up in the wrong sphere, this will also mean the end of democracy.

This is why next year's elections will be critical. If the socialist scenario from the previous elections repeats itself, it will be disastrous for our nation. In the times ahead, the country cannot be led by influencers nor can the Ministry of Defense be run by a real estate dealer (or a civilian, as has been the tradition so far). Instead, it must be led by the most experienced soldier in the country. Developing nuclear weapons might still seem crazy—but in reality, this is already a topic of secret discussions at the highest levels of several mid-sized European nations.

To those who still do not understand why the European leadership is so concerned- these changes are not just a passing trend caused by Trump but a long-term shift that Trump only accelerated. This trend—already two decades old—is American isolationism."America First" is an ideological victory for the Russian model of a multipolar world. It means that the U.S. will now focus on its primary interests—its own continent (Canada), its immediate surroundings (Greenland), and the Pacific—while leaving Europe to fend for itself. And when the world divides into three or four spheres of influence, if we persist in our current approach, we will be absorbed into one of them—or worse, into two— instead of establishing our own.

This leads to the most far-reaching transformation. The entire European welfare model is built on U.S. security guarantees. When the U.S. relocates its military capabilities away from Europe, we will be defenseless, vulnerable, and blind. And whoever we turn to for protection will provide it at a much lower quality and a much higher cost. No one will pamper us anymore, and defense spending will no longer be diverted into social programs. This means a radical reform of the European welfare state—or, in other words, the death of the European welfare model as we know it.