Putin, Groypers, Islam, and Christ: What yoke will Europe choose to pull her into the future ?
By Charles Coulombe
Crisis Magazine
March 6, 2026
As Lent of 2026 goes on, Europe, the Mother Continent, is actually at war-not on one but at least four different fronts. There is, of course, the actual shooting war in Ukraine, which has gone on for four years in its current form and almost eleven in terms of guerilla fighting. This pits Russia against Ukraine, the latter supported by the European Union and the United States.
While President Zelenskyy and his cronies are hardly the stuff of heroes, neither is Putin, who declared in his Tucker Carlson interview that he did not see the hand of God in Man's affairs-so revealing his deep kinship ideologically to the Western leadership he affects to despise. Meanwhile, Ukrainians and Russians continue to die. Ukrainian cities are continuing to be attacked-and, every now and then, the odd Russian one. What is all this bloodshed really for in the end ? Certainly, as things stand, it looks as though both Russia and the West will gladly fight to the last Ukrainian.
For some in Europe, if Putin wins this war, he will eventually seize all of Europe, and initiate the same sort of tyranny they accuse him of instituting at home. Certainly, his opponents often don't fare well, although there is still nothing like the whole Gulag system-despite the government putting out red flags again and raising statues of Lenin. But most European governments are beating the drum that he is the ultimate dictator and enemy of freedom and must be stopped.
Now while that is quite possibly true, the difficulty is that most European governments and the European Union's Brussels bureaucracy are no friends of freedom and decency either-and this is Europe's second battlefront. For years, these regimes have been encouraging gender confusion and infanticide; in the name of climate change, they are waging war on their farmers; in more recent times, they have encouraged mass immigration from the Muslim and third world countries. Once these waves of newcomers have arrived, a number flit into crimes of various kinds, while the "Islamists" among them establish "no go zones" allegedly governed under sharia law.
I say allegedly because thieves and murderers are not de-handed and beheaded, as under real sharia law. The internet is filled routinely with tales of their depredations, which primarily go unreported by the media. As with the primarily Pakistani groomer gangs in Britain, which police often fear to prosecute for fear of "inflaming racial hatred," it is a situation in large part created by the European governments themselves.
To safeguard this situation, they resort to what has been called "two-tier" policing, with light sentences for Muslim or foreign offenders but draconian punishments for natives who even protest the situation online. It would be odd, indeed, if this situation did not breed a reaction; and so it has. The rise of the so-called "Extreme Right" in recent years has been meteoric, fed both by the rising violence just referred to and-ironically-the numerous bending and breaking of the law by the current regimes in their attempts to stop the "Extreme Right's" progress.
In addition, they have witnessed all of the "mainstream" parties-conservative, Christian democrat, Gaullist, liberal, socialist, and green-form rainbow coalitions of one kind or another for the sole purpose of keeping them out of power. Since only the left-wing members of these groupings have any real agenda (the other being primarily employment agencies for higher government jobs) their policies become ever more grotesque, exacerbating the situation further. Said governments' appeals to their populace to support the great crusade against Russia falls on deaf ears as a result, often enough.
Certainly, the so-called Far Right are not supporters of the War in Ukraine, not least because they believe their countries are being ruined and enslaved by the very people calling for blood and treasure to be spent in Ukraine. Such displays as the murder of Quentin Deranque by Antifa continue to erode any lingering belief in the system on the part of the "Far Right's" leadership-and to expand their numbers. This is a dynamic which is lost on the current ruling classes in Europe.
But who are the "Far Right," really ? Are they the Nazi enthusiasts or pro-Russian demagogues of the elite's troubled imagination ? Yes and no. That there are, in their number, a few real National Socialists and Fascists, as well as a great many youths driven in that direction by teachers and professors who equated normality with those two political viewpoints is absolutely true. The same dynamic has created a number or pro-Russians, or, at least, people who feel Putin can't be worse than what they already have. But such folk are a minority.
What you find in far larger numbers are people who love their national traditions very much and, often enough, a greater European whole, which they also love. They tend to vehemently oppose both Zionism and Islamism, which puts them in a strange category. A great many of them are devout Christians-be they Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant; in the first and third cases, very often of a Traditionalist mindset. A small minority, sadly, are neo-pagans; a great many more claim to believe in "Christian values," without holding "Christian beliefs."
In a word, you have here a very mixed bag, to say the least. What they might be like in power is anyone's guess; what is certain is that the longer they are kept out of power by trickery-such as voiding elections that give the wrong result (as far as the current rulership are concerned), the more radical they shall be when they finally attain it. Given human nature, they would have to be saints not to be tempted to use the same kind of dishonesty toward their foes once they are in the driver's seat.
Europe's third battlefront is, of course, Islamism itself. The "Far Right's" most draconian answer is "Remigration": send them all home. Now, while that is a simple answer, and not without a certain utility, the mechanics thereof would be a bit difficult. There are an awful lot of them-and a great many will not want to go. But if the effort is made to force them out-or else they stay and the radical elements make war on the native population, one is left with the horrible denouement of Enoch Powell's 1968 speech:
...the immigrant communities can organise to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."