Europe

O dear Jack, I'm so sorry about your lovely wife! I didn't know her personally, but as I did from your e-mails. I hope that you are holding up and that health keeps you well. Eyes problems can be nasty but I hope you will keep your healt in that regard as well, as much as possible. We are all aging, and time is passing by so fast, isn't it? I am 56 now! Yes, I moved from Croatia, lived in United kingdom for couple of years, and then moved to Slovenia after my sister's husband's death, it wasn't planned, but it just happened to be this way due to my health complicatiins and surgery that followed plus smaller working dissabilities caused by really painful calcifications and bones erosions in arms and finger joints . I have apartment here in Slovenia where I live in really cool part of the city with lot of natural surroundings, very close to ski centre, and my sister is in few minutes of car driving distance, she lives there with her daughter that is 25 now. I have plans to buy property in Croatia for my sister and me to live together there, and sell my flat out in Slovenia, or maybe buy small studio for that money in Slovenia and buy small house in Croatia for rest of money. I still have to think everything through before I act. So Slovenia for now. While you left teaching because of your eye problem, teaching is what I do for past 5 years, and I must say, I love it. I'm teaching languages, mostly Slovenian, for contractors from Slovenia and abroad, so I am quite independent and luckily so far with steady income. As you know I am journalist, however, in Slovenia leftists, or let's name them with proper name - transitional communists - which are on power for last 28 years out of 33 since independence of country, have practically destroyed democratic institutions in this country and we practically live in soft dictature here. For me personally this is really hard to accept. As you know, I was born and bread in dictature, and this current government in Slovenia lead by Robert Golob is practically reinstalling communism in country again. Country is under control of old communist elite lead by last chief of communist party before independence of Slovenia, who was later also "elected" as first president of Slovenia, I say "elected" because his opponent that had over 80 % of support in people was assasined just days before elections. That old communist elite consists also from people under political influence and control of Serbian president Vucic, because of which slovenian candidate for EU comisdioner was removed over night to be replaced by person that Vucic wanted in EU parliament. Slovenia is partly controlled by Serbia and partly by ex communist elite with goal to reinstall communism in Slovenia under mask of so called "democratic socialism" to make it more acceptable for European Union. Since these forces support same progressivist ideas that EU does, EU leadership just turns eyes blind . We have effective crush down of media freedom in Slovenia with 95 % of media under control of communistswhile the opposition media are being constantly investigated and tortured by current political option. With new media law that is in preparation, they plan to fully control and limit free speech even on social media, in feer to loose next elections. Main opposition leader that was put in jail just before elections in 2014 in ridiculous politically constructed accussation (later rejected by Constitutional court) is under new politically constructed process with goal to be put in jail before new upcoming elections. It is bad. And it would be worse if between Slovenia and Serbia wouldn't be democratic Croatia, messing up with serbian and pro-rusdian apetites in Slovenia. One of the reasons why I want to move back in Croatia - many business owners from Slovenia are moving their business and residence in much more normal, politicall stabile and economically growing Croatia, is because Croatia is democratic countrym while Slovenia drowns deeper and deeper into totalitarian state. In Slovenia, communist elite controls 95 % of media, whole judiciary system, police, educational system, energetic system, and what is left from state owned banks and companies. If they will be successful with new media law, they will practically bring Slovenia back in the communist 80ies and re-instal so called "verbal delict", complete supression of free speech, because of which my dad was jailed twice in communist Yugoslavia. So much about domestic situation here. Europe will have to wake up from it's dream and stop it's woke and progressive madness, or face consequences. I understand what is Trump saying and I think that new American administration is corect in it's warnings to EU to cut with politics and practices that lead to disaster. This also means very unpleasant realisatiin for us Europeans, and that is that Putin is OUR, not American problem. Our own which we should be solving, not the USA with it's money. I'm affraid that EU elites will stay inactive regarding this problem, as they were in Balkan wars, and that Putin problem together with crazy immigrant politics will crash Europe out. Destroy it. If we don't crush leftists - and all of them are neomarxist parties, we are no longer talking about leftists as about social democratic movements of Genscher type in Europe, social democracy in Europe is dead for good decade now - if we don't deal with these neomarxist parties, then I don't even dare to thing about what will this bring to Europe not in near future, but even in next crucial 5 years. Things have to change and hopefully Trump's administration to which Europe isn't priority right now, will continue with strong support to traditionalist forces in Europe. Support to what leftists call "extreme right", which is joke, political parties like Orban's, Meloni's, La Penn's or Plenkovic's in Croatia etc., are perfectly normal democratic political parties defending national states, rule of law on national and EU borders, and keeping EU administration powers back in it's constitutiinal role. Now EU administration disciplibes state members and is interferring in inner affairs of and punishing sovereign national member states, for which EU administratiin is NOT authorised by EU constitution. Trump did put foot in big shoes, but someone had to after Democrats partically destroyed country. Will he suceed? If he will be successful only in destroying wokeism and it's suppression of free speech, and if he will be successful in destroying gender identity policies, I will call his administratiin a massive global success. Wokeist ideology is a totalitarian cancer that needs to go for good. This is from my perspective, from perspective of average American families depending on jobs and lower taxes, expectations from Trump's era might be really too high. But let us wait and see how Trump spins that wheel. Whatever comes from his administration is 1000 x better from what was there since Obama and especially Kamalas of this world took over. Apologies for misspells and typos, I have no time to correct them right nowm so I will ask for your patience and forgiveness.