>>520975079
On this website, you can see maps of Europe at each centurial turning point, i.e. as the countries of Europe existed in 1400, 1500, 1600 etc.
It looks like the process of European civilization took until roughly AD 1900 to get right, then, after 1918, when a bunch of new nation-statelets were born in Europe, mainly in the East and in the Balkans, and the map of Europe changed radically, Europe's continental peak, which took a thousand years to achieve after the birth of modern Europe's nations during the Dark Age following Rome's collapse in Europe circa AD 500 to AD 1000, had passed and Europe had now entered its decline, or the phase that is the converse of continental development but instead which should be regarded as continental decay or disintegration.
The division of Europe into countries, i.e. states governing population groups typically along more or less ethnic lines, achieved the best possible distribution of Europe into distinct countries during the late 1800s and early 1900s (the era of colonialism before World War I, which was also the era of Europe's greatest ever geopolitical and economic and cultural power as the European empires literally carved up most of the planet, even Antarctica in a rudimentary way that was meant to serve as the template for later economic activity in Antarctica according to which countries had which claims over the region).
Can Europe ever regain the national rationality depicted on a map of Europe as Europe was divided into separate countries circa 1900, or is Europe doomed to be a national mess from her on out, where out means until European civilization ends and it replaced by a recognizably different civilization?

>>520388465
Britain lasted as an empire for several hundred years, really from about 1607 with the founding of Jamestown until the 1960s when decolonization all but concluded, but the time period when Britain was the global hegemon or the top world power, who set the terms of international relations and was acknowledged by all the other powers to be the rightful leader of the world, only lasted from 1815 until 1914 (the Pax Britannica), beginning with the Coalition victory at Waterloo and, with it, the subjugation of the French Empire under the British, and ending with the outbreak of World War I, after which there was no clear world leader, though Britain maintained a lot of prestige anyway.
America's time of global hegemony, or the Pax Americana, began in 1945 and is now 80 years old. In the cycle of European empires that began with Portugal in the 1400s through the expeditions around the continent of Africa to reach India and establish trading ports (like Goa), on through the Spanish Empire, then the Dutch Republic's short time at the top, then the hegemony of the French from about the time of Louis XIV's young adulthood until the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, and then the Pax Britannica, and finally today's Pax Americana, each empire of this cycle of Western empires carrying on the legacy of Western world-rule, has lasted roughly a century, just like with Britain's period as top dog.
There have been a few "interregnums" when no clear imperial hegemon dominated all the rest, but instead the Great Powers of Europe vied for a few decades before the proper successor empire became clear, like in the early 1600s when the Spanish Empire was in decline but before the French Empire was recognized by all the Great Powers as the proper ruler of Europe and, through Europe, the proper ruler of the world (since Europe, or now the West in general, has dominated the world since the 1500s), and also the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period of 1789 to 1815

I have wondered for years why Europeans, and the British most of all, have a wild hate boner for Russia, until the other day when I heard the only plausible reason I have ever encountered: European countries are afraid of losing their relevance in the world, and nowhere is this more true than in Britain, which had the world's biggest empire ever just 100 years ago. Russia remains a major power while all of Europe is sinking into irrelevance. In another generation, people will look to China and even India as greater powers, politically and economically, than all of non-Russian Europe combined.
Britain is arguably the hardest hit country in recent times. Quality of life there is becoming unbearable due to oppressive government and endless migration of Muslims who want to take over the culture and society and Indians who also wish to rule from high positions in business and politics.
And, of course, this is a horrible fate. What's happening to Europeans is inhumane. They are being genocided with the participation of their own governments and are not allowed to fight back against their extermination.
In a way, I am more patriotic about and loyal to Europe than to America, even though I am a burger. My ancestry is European (entirely German) and I know our entire civilization is the creation of Europeans and their labors over the centuries. Britain, France, Germany, and Italy have probably done more to shape the world than any other places on earth, with the USA being a heavy hitter but too recent to rank alongside these countries, and Greece being close to the greatness list.
Britain might have the strongest claim of any country to being the most influential society in world history, though the competition with France, Germany, and Italy is fierce.

So, how can we make Europe great again, and I mean truly great? Great enough to rule the world again. And particularly, how do we fix the UK, which is in the midst of utter collapse?

An empire, by definition, is when one ethnic group rules at least one other ethnic group. The ethnic groups can be of different races or the same race, but they have different cultures.
When different groups of people are in proximity to each other, they mix together sexually because the libido is so strong that people, inevitably, will forget whatever taboos there are against mixing just for the chance to have a twenty second orgasm. Ergo, every time different groups live side by side or together, they mix together. No matter how strong the taboo or law against mixing it, the mixing remains inevitable.
Look at the antebellum South, where white masters mixed with slave women, or at the South under Jim Crow, where race mixing still occurred. The sex drive overpowers any taboo or law.
The only way to maintain ethnic, including racial, homogeneity is to remain isolated geographically and cut off from other groups. Living together means mixing together, and since empires bring together different ethnicities or nations in a single overarching political entity, this means empires necessarily become mixed, ethnically.
The original race of any empire is bound to become mixed and bound to disappear. It happened to the Athenians and Romans, not to mention their Bronze Age forebears in the Near East like the Babylonians and Akkadians. It is happening, now, to the British, French, Americans etc.: the modern European empires.
The wages of sin is death. Imperialism is a crime, a sin, and nature punishes it with the death of the original ethnicity that founded the empire.