They say it’s to “counter Russian and Chinese narratives.” But in practice, it’s a system for policing speech, memory, and dissent, dressed up as “resilience.” It will monitor journalists, influencers, even ordinary citizens, deciding what qualifies as truth.

They call it “resilience,” but it’s really fragility disguised as virtue, the fear that one alternative idea, one historical interpretation, one article that doesn’t toe the Atlanticist line could puncture the entire illusion. So they create a pan‑European fact‑checking guild and a network of state‑approved influencers to “raise awareness.” You won’t need to burn books when you can just throttle their reach.

The EU’s logic is Orwellian to the letter: War is peace. (They call censorship “protection.”) Freedom is slavery. (They call propaganda “resilience.”) Ignorance is strength. (They call obedience “unity.”)

The timing tells the story. Brussels is losing control, over its economic narrative, over its citizens, over the war narrative it sold as salvation. As dissent spreads from Paris to Prague, they’re not debating ideas and encouraging debate, they’re outlawing them. A bureaucratic empire that no longer commands belief now seeks to manufacture it by decree. [Edit to add: Gee, that sounds familiar!]

And here’s the real danger: once “truth” becomes a state‑licensed product, everything else becomes contraband. Today it’s Russia. Tomorrow it’s anyone who asks the wrong question about migration, energy, or NATO. Europe’s new “democracy shield” isn’t protecting democracy, it’s armoring tyranny with moralistic language.

What began as a union of nations has metastasized into an ideological commissariat, determined to dictate what is real, what is history, and what may be said aloud. The ghosts of the 20th century must be howling.

1984 wasn’t supposed to be a blueprint. Brussels just made it a policy paper. Can we please make 1984 a cautionary work of fiction again?