Europe - The Idolized Self Shifts Its Worship, Revealing the Emptiness of Its Belief

Event Baseline: A new generation of European far-right politicians is distancing itself from Vladimir Putin and turning support towards Ukraine, breaking with the older far-right's admiration for the Russian leader.

The far-right self does not care for truth; it craves a strong leader to reflect its own desire for power. For years, Putin was that idol, an image of authority. Now that image has cracked, and so the tribe shifts to a new object of worship. The underlying psychology is unchanged: the self is empty, so it must attach to an external symbol of strength. This is pure mechanical thought. The abandonment of Putin is not a moment of clarity but a tactical recalibration. The division remains; only the flag has changed. The self is still identified with a tribe against another. The belief in the nation, the border, the superiority over the other, persists. The far-right will find a new enemy, a new cause, because it cannot exist without one. This shift is not evolution; it is a lateral move in the same prison. Until the whole structure of identification dissolves, Europe will swing from one authoritarian savior to the next, forever chained to the illusion of security through idolatry.