- As Europe wanes, the distance between it and America grows
...But Trump neither created European or transatlantic crises nor can be of much help in solving them. In part, they are Western in origin and to a degree shared by all Western allies, but mostly they are innate to Europe and self-induced.
...the global influence of Europe continues to wane, at least as defined by demographic robustness, technological innovation, the quality of higher education, and the ability to defend its interests.
Its aristocratic elite classes are currently under constant challenge from populist reformers....Some of Europe’s current problems, of course, are ancestral and have never been adequately solved.
The great curse — and boon — of Europe has always been traced to its diversity.
The continent is about the same size as the United States, but Europe currently is divided among some 44 nations.
...The dream of all strongmen, from Julius Caesar and Augustus, Napoleon, and Hitler to the supposedly enlightened European Union, has been to unite and thereby magnify Europe under one government, one culture, and one economy, by an imposed nationalist rule (Roman, French, or German) and, most recently, by a pan-European elite.
The problem, however, with all these one-government schemes is that they have inevitably required a level of coercion..."
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