Brussels: Is the Capital of Europe Crumbling Before Our Eyes?
by Drieu Godefridi • January 22, 2025 at 5:00 am
Brussels has entered a wild-west era of "every man for himself," in which people try to protect themselves as best they can without relying on the failing "authorities."
Brussels' financial situation is also alarming.
[Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration] Nicole de Moor... did acknowledge the problem of the high number of Palestinian asylum-seekers in Belgium, and that they had already been recognized elsewhere in Europe. Nevertheless, they demand to come to Belgium: it guarantees them more than any other country in Europe.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the streets and media of Brussels have witnessed the normalization of unabashed Islamist discourse and Jew-hatred -- less and less hidden behind the pretext of "the fight against Zionism."
When President Donald Trump compared Brussels, Belgium to a "hellhole" in 2016, the statement caused quite a stir, especially in Europe, and was treated with that mixture of contempt, ignorance and denial of reality typical of a certain "elite" in the European Union. Trump had made these remarks in the context of discussions on immigration and security, and suggested that Brussels had changed for the worse over the years, mainly as a result of uncontrolled lawless migratory submersion.
While the facts proved him right at the time, it might be said in 2025 that the Lebanonization of Brussels shows that his judgment was visionary.
Crime explosion
