Can Europe Become Western Again? - Victor Davis Hanson

Can Europe Become Western Again? - Victor Davis Hanson - American Greatness

"For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large...

• It redefined itself as a postmodern, pacifist, socialist utopian project—most recently predicated on redistributionist entitlements, open borders, and radical green policies that have all inevitably ensured European decline...

And the result is that both Europe at large and its NATO members cannot defend their continent without the assistance of the United States...

The other half of the West is in little better condition.

• The United States is reeling under $33 in national debt.
• After embracing various bankrupt academic critical legal “theories,” major American cities are unsafe, unhealthy, and unsightly. 
• The American southern border is wide open. Eight million illegal aliens have poured in just since January 2021, many of them hostile to the United States.
• America is increasingly politically, racially, and tribally divided. 
• It has mysteriously determined not to fully utilize its vast natural resources, especially gas, oil, and rare earth metals.

In this vacuum, the enemies of the West see only opportunity.

• Russia invaded European Ukraine. Its ongoing aggression still terrifies frontline NATO nations.
• China threatens periodically to storm Taiwan, as it bullies it neighbors, buzzes U.S. ships and planes, and manipulates currency, markets, and trade.
• Iran has armed to the teeth anti-Western terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas...

In sum, the world is safe only when a strong America, along side its European partner, secure their borders, protect the world’s sea- and air spaces, support constitutional and pro-Western nations, and deter thuggish belligerents...