How do we Europoors cope? What went so wrong for us?

I dunno how to describe the upper part, but as for the bottom:
>"These men are not made of the same stuff as the Francis Drakes and the other magnificent adventurers who created the empire. These, after all, are the tired sons of a long line of rich men, and they will lose their empire."
- Bentio Mussolini


Remarks to Count Ciano (11 January 1939) after meeting Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge (ed.), Ciano's Diary, 1939–1943 (1947), pp. 9–10

The multipolar world order is here and it's beautiful.