Europe dying

In the last commentary, we discussed how Europe is melting down: its supra-national government (the organs of the tyrannical EU) is corrupt and growing more so. The EU’s 27 national governments and the half-dozen or so independent nations (such as Norway, Switzerland, and a few others) are also largely corrupt and face the same demographic dooms that the EU’s members do.

But the EU’s current, Tranzi powers-that-be seemingly ignore those approaching dooms, apparently lulled by the vast wealth they are harvesting from the people of their nations. And driven by their hatred of the US and Russia. And indifference to China, India, and much of the world. But their hatred is particularly directed to DC. And not just to DC, but to virtually every American State. Not because we are so much “freer” than they are (we are not), not because we are so much wealthier (again, we are not), but because we(the Americas) are an alternative.

Especially if Europe melts all the way down in the next decade or so, as it seems intent on doing.

Where do the people of Europe go if European nations die? Certainly not to the Middle East, North (or the rest of) Africa. Or to Russia. No, they will do what the people of Europe have done for over 500 years for the most part: flee to the Americas and to Oceania. And the elites of Europe hate such an escape route. Just as they hate the economic power of the Americas: Not just the US but Brazil, Mexico, even Canada and Argentina and Chile. So they hate the ideas that (however imperfectly) formed these “new” nations.

European rulers want to cut the United States, in particular DC, out of the loop. (Well, it is hard to blame them: many in the Dakotas, Wyoming, upper New England, and elsewhere would like to cut DC out of our lives, too!)

And in particular, they really, really dislike the fact that the US Navy (and its allied fleets of the United Kingdom, the Japanese Empire, and several of the Commonwealth nations) have secured the trade routes across the oceans and seas of the globe.

That galls them as much as the preeminence of American (or American-based and -heritage) business and finance (read, New York City). So Europeans are trying to build trade systems that will exclude the USA. (And, of course, Russia. No doubt, they figure China is not as much a threat way over there in Eastasia.) And they understand, at least have a gut feeling, that their socialist-wrecked economies have made it impossible for the nations of Europe to develop the will, and the industrial might, necessary to secure the freedom of the seas to protect the trade on which the continent depends.

As geopolitical analyst Peter Ziehan and others have pointed out, those European efforts to build trade systems without the U.S. are inherently flawed. The worldwide trade routes and freedom of the seas are, of course, a big part of it. When they cut the US out, or when the US decides to stop doing all that global policing, Europe will be limited in how far its trade network can extend. The EU is incredibly protectionist (industrially, agriculturally, and culturally). And of course, therefore very opposed to free trade to any meaningful degree. So trade agreements will be tough to draw up, and then, (see the above organization of the EU and the lip service they pay to their members’ national governemnts), all those agreements will be very slow and difficult to get through Europe’s complex ratification process. An example Peter points out: The latest agreement with Australia will likely face a similar fate to the Mercosur and Canada deals, which took decades to finalize. Best case, this deal will take full effect around 2040…

We have no doubt he is right. But only IF Europe has that much time left.

As Peter himself has pointed out (one of the first to do so), Europe has a major demographic problem. Actually, two.

The first is that the indigenous people of Europe are dying out. German, Greek, French, Spanish, etc. They are not reproducing: each generation is smaller, much smaller, than the last.

But the second demographic problem is tied to the first: European nations’ populations are stable or growing only because the Czechs, Portuguese, Italians, etc. that are not being born are being replaced. And mostly by massive immigration from Africa (both North and the rest) and the Middle East. But even from the rest of South Asia. People unwilling, and sometimes unable, to accept the fundamentals of liberty. Let alone the so-called “liberalism” of the Reformation, the Renaissance, the various Revolutions, much less the so-called Reforms of the last half-century and more.

For Europe, evil days are coming. We don’t think that they are ready. We think that Europe, as we know it, is galloping to an end. Your thoughts, dear readers?

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