Most analysis of the decline of the West leave out the important fact that the seeds of its destruction were nurtured within Western Civilization itself. Marx didn’t emerge from the jungles of Borneo, he was part in parcel of 19th century Europe and the Industrial Revolution. Mao sprang more from the West than from Chinese culture which he worked diligently to destroy. Pol Pot adsorbed communism in Paris, not in Siam Reap.
A most astute and important observation.