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QUO VADIS, EUROPA

Quo vadis, Europa?

Forward .... not back.

Into the century that calls your name

with the urgency of unfinished history.

 

Quo vadis, Europa?

Toward the weight you have denied,

the strength you have scattered,

the courage you have outsourced

to distant shores.

 

Quo vadis, Europa?

Into the hard light

where markets become muscle,

where borders become resolve,

where treaties become steel.

 

Quo vadis, Europa?

Toward the day you stop trembling

at the growl of the Bear,

the coil of the Dragon,

and remember that you

.... old continent, flinty mother ....

have buried worse.

 

Quo vadis, Europa?

Toward cohesion.

Toward will.

Toward the unborrowed fire

that has waited in your marrow

since Charlemagne, since 1848,

since every moment you mistook patience

for peace.

 

Quo vadis, Europa?

Toward power ....

not as conquest,

but as survival.

Not as empire,

but as adulthood.

 

Quo vadis, Europa?

Forward.

Only forward.

For the century has already chosen you.

Now choose yourself.

 

SHE CHOOSES POWER!

 

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15 February 2026

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Written by
marshal-gebbie
81 / M / Australian
Published
Feb 14
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Casting aside the mantle of foreboding,

Europe girds herself for the century ahead.

She gathers her flinty skirts,

calls her juniors to discipline,

gnashes her ancient teeth,

and steps into the confrontation

with strength she has not yet spent,

with courage she has not yet claimed,

 

- QUO VADIS -

Forward .... only forward.

The century has chosen you.

Now choose yourself.

 

The Die is Cast!

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