US imperialism has also instigated imperialist wars in Africa and the Asia-Pacific, the destabilization of the Sahel and Horn of Africa and the militarization of the South China Sea and the Pacific. Its military industrial complex has been on a feeding frenzy, offering the lives of millions of innocent people as collateral damage in conflicts not of their own making.

Europe’s deafening silence, their failure to  condemn the on-going genocide and the atrocities and their explicit support points to their complicity in these unjust wars. Sovereign nations, like Cyprus, have been turned into occupied territories and into launchpads for war, surveillance, and repression. The entire EU bureaucracy, in complete alignment with US imperialism, now openly declares a “war economy.”

Bowing to US pressure, Europe has agreed to increase its military spending to 5% of GDP to bankroll US-led wars. Across the continent, military bases are multiplying. While billions in public funds are being poured into weapons and war preparations reaping windfall profits for the arms industry and fossil fuel corporations, budgets for social services, healthcare, education and climate action are being gutted. In addition, privatization, austerity, and inflation have driven millions of the working class into poverty.

Furthermore, state repression is intensifying. Militant trade unions, anti-imperialist organizations, migrant associations, and activists are being surveilled, banned, or criminalized under so-called “anti-terror” and “terror financing” laws. The police and military apparatus are being strengthened to crush dissent while fascist movements are emboldened to attack progressives, migrants, and the poor with impunity. Migrants and refugees who have been displaced by the very wars waged by the US and EU, are exploited for cheap labor and turned into scapegoats through racist propaganda and fascist manipulation. This criminalization of dissent and the undermining of hard-won democratic rights and basic freedoms exposes the true nature of a moribund global economic system whose main goal is war and profit over peoples’ welfare.

But the peoples of Europe are resisting. They are resisting in every country, striking against austerity, asserting their rights to organize, dissent and hold power to account, mobilizing against US warmongering, against military occupation, calling for an end to all US-led wars of aggresion and for just peace and building solidarity with liberation movements worldwide. Workers, peasants, women, youth, migrants, and progressive intellectuals are forming alliances that reject the imperialist narrative and expose the real roots of the crisis: the capitalist system and its endless wars.

The growing solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Venezuela, Iran and Rojava, as seen in the recent mass demonstrations and occupations of the streets and public spaces that have erupted across Europe, reflects the rising consciousness of the masses that the fight against imperialism and Zionism are inseparable from their own struggle for just peace, genuine democracy and peoples’ liberation. Solidarity movements in Europe are also emerging in support of other national liberation struggles in the Global South. From the Philippines to Western Sahara, from Kurdistan to the Congo, the people are fighting back against imperialist domination.