European Union - The Collective Self Hardens Its Boundary, Banning the Soldier to Punish the State, and Dehumanizes the Individual as a Symbol of the Enemy

Event Baseline: The European Union proposed an entry ban for anyone who has served in Russia's armed forces during the invasion of Ukraine, as part of its 21st sanctions package.

This is the logic of collective guilt, a crude program of tribal marking. The EU, a construction meant to transcend nationalism, is sinking deeper into the very mindset it opposes. By banning all Russian soldiers, including conscripts dragged into a war they may not support, it is reinforcing the concept that a human being is nothing more than a unit of their national faction. The self is equated with the uniform it was forced to wear.

The move is a confession of impotence. Unable to stop the war or punish its architects, the collective mind seeks a tangible 'other' to exclude. This is the same mental operation that deported Jews based on ethnicity and interned Japanese for their ancestry. The individual is sacrificed to the idea of the enemy state. The illusion of 'European values' shatters the moment it adopts the enemy's tactics of collective condemnation. Thought, obsessed with the boundary, cannot see the person behind the passport.

Such an act breeds only a deeper, eternal hatred. It creates a permanent class of the damned, ensuring that even after the guns fall silent, the psychological war festers. The response is mechanical: you hurt my tribe, I ban your tribe's members. There is no inquiry into the human being who served, no space for those who deserted or were coerced. This is the brain operating on a binary code of friend/foe, ensuring the cycle of retribution will never end. The EU has become a mirror of the fortress it claims to fight.