In 2006, the brilliant geopolitical scholar Mark Steyn wrote a depressively prescient book about the imminent fate of the Western world, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Steyn posited that Europe would collapse from three main causes: Islamic domination, an unsustainable welfare state, and anti-spiritual solipsism. He added that the United States would be the last nation standing as a majority united Christianist country with the will to power. And that America’s very rejection of the leftist hive mentality would draw the ire of its diminishing allies across the pond.
Soon, American men won’t have to listen to the shrieking of uglified green-haired women. Neither will European men. Their women will all be in hijabs.
“There may be many things wrong with the United States,” wrote Steyn. “But only a blind fool who hasn’t been paying attention for the last 20 years would hold up Europe as the alternative.” It took almost 20 years for his assessment to be proven right.
First came the electoral landslide of Donald Trump and J. D. Vance. Followed by European leaders’ handwringing last month over Vance’s denouncement of their free speech censorship. But their outrage after Trump and Vance’s public dismissal of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by U.S. President Trump and Vice President Vance was all the evidence required. There’s no need to review what the whole world witnessed last Friday in the Oval Office, only the subsequent European reaction.
Many of the leaders pledged to increase America-less financial support for Ukraine, ironically a condition the Trump Administration had been pushing for. While most of them declined to directly criticize Trump, several were less diplomatic.
“The scenes from the White House are shocking,” X-posted Johann Wadephul, Deputy of the party of incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “How can you stab the president of an invaded country in the back like this? Free Europe will not betray Ukraine!” “What we saw from the White House today is serious and disheartening,” said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr. “That Trump accuses Zelenskyy of gambling with World War III is deeply unreasonable and a statement I distance myself from.” Norway went even farther last weekend, or, as some American observers declared, over the line.
Norwegian petrol giant Haltbakk Bunkers threatened it would stop providing fuel to all American forces in Norway. “No fuel to Americans!” declared a company spokesman, sounding like the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld. That the American forces are in Norway protecting it from a Russian military invasion was a cold logic lost on the refusers. Although not on the wiser Oslo government officials.
On Sunday, Defense Minister Tore Sandvik affirmed that Norway will continue supplying U.S. Navy ships with fuel, taking a side shot at Haltbakk Bunkers. “We have seen reports raising concerns about support for U.S. Navy vessels in Norway,” said Sandvik. “This is not in line with the Norwegian government’s policy.”
It might have been, were someone other than Donald Trump occupying the White House. The only reason Europe was able to indulge its welfare fantasies is because previous U.S. presidents continued to defend it. And this was long after one of them, Ronald Reagan, helped to free half the continent by vanquishing the enslaver.
Since then, many of the western European countries have embraced the Marxist policies he crushed, including speech repression and political tyranny. Vice President Vance last month also condemned the cancellation of the Romanian election last December because the conservative candidate was about to win. The candidate, Calin Georgescu, was subsequently detained by police and is facing criminal charges, a treatment similar to that of the current American President.
Because Europe is dying, as Mark Steyn noted, of self-inflicted wounds. His three causes are already taking their toll. Take the first one, Muslim dominance. While the continent’s white birth rate has stalled, Muslim reproduction is expected to increase from 26 million in 2016 to 36 million in 2050. This doesn’t factor in the millions now pouring undeterred into Great Britain, France, Germany, and other countries.
Or the fact that the new immigrants are hostile to the Western traditions they’re replacing. Yet when people in the UK voted to stop the inflow, the Conservative government continued it. The current Labour government has only increased the number of immigrants. Worse, the police now harass citizens for protesting not only the Islamists but such leftist sacred cows as abortion, or even for praying for the unborn. Vance slammed that too.
America was on an equally suicidal course under Joe Biden. Biden and Kamala Harris insisted they needed a Congressional bill to reduce the illegal crossings. Trump promised to close the southern border without one. Last week, single-day border apprehensions hit a 15-year low.
Furthermore, as Steyn predicted, America is rejecting the leftist ideologies that have doomed Europe, such as feminism. A new analysis by the Institute of Family Studies found that only 12 percent of liberal women age 18-40 said they were satisfied with life. In contrast, 37 percent of conservative women said they were.
Soon, American men won’t have to listen to the shrieking of uglified green-haired women. Neither will European men. Their women will all be in hijabs.
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