Europe to face great changes due to its rulers

Nor have most members of governments and elites today done any military service or been with the boy scouts or girl scouts. Every scouts and military leader or officer knows that one should NEVER claim any special treatment under hardship. Instead, one should suffer along with the rank and file. When they sleep rough, skip the comfort of a tent and sleep rough with them. When they have less to eat, do not binge yourself. These rules are very simple. They are to be found in every military handbook published in Europe since the printing press was invented. Marshall Chuikov, the highly effective and popular Soviet commander, reiterated these rules in his memoirs, thus joining such famous military leaders as Maréchal de Saxe, Montecuccoli and others. If one ignores these rules, one's authority will evaporate and can never be recuperated.

Therefore, from the behaviour of Europe's leaders and elites today, one may conclude they are not well-read (despite their academic titles), have no moral decency, and no values (despite their assertions as to the contrary). In other words, they are stupid, no matter how shrewd they might be. I am afraid there is no other word to describe them.

Now I must confess I am indeed quite worried. In times of crisis, the more stupid the leaders, the worse the effects of the crisis will be. Yet there may be a way to mitigate the crisis: the current leaders need to be forced out of office as soon as possible and replaced by responsible ones who truly represent the voters.