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>>520833993
700 years ago Europe was a backwater compared to China. 1000 years ago Europe was a backwater compared to the Islamic World. 1800 years ago southern Europe, i.e. the Roman Empire, surpassed even Han China.
Times change, and just because India is shit today and the West remains desirable, does not mean that in, say, 200 years, the situation will remain this way. The only constant is change.
Europe is rapidly losing its luster and going from a moderately wealthy region to a middle income region comparable to Mexico today or to the Czech Republic in 1994.
It won't always be the case that poor people wish to migrate to the West, especially Europe, because Europe's material standard of life is in inexorable decline and cannot be salvaged nor prevented from much deeper decline. The continent is in enormous, unrepayable debt, atop having a dying native population, etc. etc.
America will remain attractive for longer than Europe will, but our fate is sealed as well. We have squandered our national treasure, our military morale and dominance, our reputation for invincibility along with our reputation for freedom, through decades of insane politics, needless warmongering, weaponizing the terms of trade, committing human rights abuses that America in the old days said it would never condone like torture, and so on and so on.
Thus America will remain an attractive destination for Indians and Africans for some decades more, and for a longer future horizon than Europe will, but America's luster is, likewise, fading.

And for this: we have the Two World Wars to thank. The belligerents on each side, first the Allies and the Central Powers, then the Allies and the Axis Powers, are to blame, for they were all fanatics spoiling for a fight over domination of Europe while presuming Europe would remain preeminent in the world no matter how much destruction they wreaked. Foolish pride before the downfall, the Hubris that summons the cosmic justice of Nemesis.
>>516043298
One of the problems with national socialism is that there is no clear sense of honor.. it's like other socialist countries. In socialist countries, many millions tend to die, and one reason is you get this revolutionary cadre with absolute power that has no legitimacy at all. Kaiser Wilhelm or the British parliament have legitimacy, due to the traditions. What the West should try to avoid having is a revolutionary socialist bloodbath. Instead, it should have a rightwing conservative military coup, especially one with a hereditary monarchy so lines of succession are clear.
>>515152422
As Kipling says, the savages and barbarians are "half devil and half child," and, just as with children, they need the rod and an education, to tame their devilish side and bring forth the good represented in the child but for now only as potential, as it has not yet been realized. Proper training will civilize the beasts and draw out their potential to become better.
Soft power is the key to winning and holding an empire
Soft power does more of the heavy lifting of empire than hard power does.

Think of Rome at its peak. It still could not have fought and conquered all its enemies at once, despite its massive military advantages.

What gets most people to go along with the empire is what the empire can offer them in terms of progress. In other words, they consent to be governed by the empire because life under the empire is better than the alternative.

Now, life under the US Empire isn't looking too hot, but under the rival Chinese power bloc it looks quite a bit brighter.

Whether this remains the case, who can say?
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Covenant the most Important One bridging the gap between the two is always left out. When you spot this or know what I'm talking about.
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Soft power is the key to winning and holding an empire
Soft power does more of the heavy lifting of empire than hard power does.

Think of Rome at its peak. It still could not have fought and conquered all its enemies at once, despite its massive military advantages.

What gets most people to go along with the empire is what the empire can offer them in terms of progress. In other words, they consent to be governed by the empire because life under the empire is better than the alternative.

Now, life under the US Empire isn't looking too hot, but under the rival Chinese power bloc it looks quite a bit brighter.

Whether this remains the case, who can say?
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