"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.