IN THE first part of this essay I showed that Europe is in a state of prolonged and worsening civilisational decline – economically, militarily, culturally and politically.
….restructuring of American priorities has been the drastic decline of the European nations, including Britain, which have failed to retain their strategic relevance in this shifting global landscape.
The West has invested a huge amount of capital – political, economic and strategic – in the fight against Russia, and it has failed. Trump knows that and so he’s ending the war: if that means insulting Volodymyr Zelensky, parroting Russian talking points and playing nice with Putin, so be it.
IT WAS appropriate that Vice President JD Vance executed his ambush of the Munich ‘security conference’ on the 96th anniversary of the Valentine’s Day Massacre. The new Veep’s version was, all things considered, a pretty gentle tribute to Al Capone’s original, which is great as it means that there are survivors who will continue to feel its stinging reproach. Quite possibly for ever.
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