Monday’s meeting in Downing Street should have been a display of authority. Instead, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, and Volodymyr Zelensky sat there like four confused teenagers collapsing into a sofa.
Not a trace of discipline.
Not a hint of command.
Not an ounce of masculine presence.
Backs bent, shoulders drooping, bodies folded like they were waiting for someone to bring them hot chocolate. These are supposed to be the West’s great statesmen. Yet they couldn’t even manage the basic posture of a confident man.
A leader sits tall.
A leader holds the room.
A leader projects strength before he even speaks.
But Starmer, Macron, Merz, and Zelensky projected only weakness ; the posture of men unsure of themselves, unsure of their authority, unsure of their own relevance.
Their body language said it all:
Hollow leaders. Soft posture. Soft politics. Soft men.
And if they can’t even sit like men, why should anyone expect them to lead like men?
Europe doesn’t have a crisis of leadership. It has a crisis of masculinity at the top.
