Posted on 08/14/2016 10:10:41 PM PDT by pboyington
You’re welcome. The media and governments are keeping as much of the turmoil in Europe as quiet as possible.
I agree with you but I think it’s worse than you think. Look at the crashing birthrate.
I’m not a Europe expert by any means, but I’ve always thought that World War II is what did them in. I think that the defeat, the destruction of their cities, the wholesale deaths of millions, the evils that were done in their name, it was all just so overwhelming that their collective soul was simply crushed.
Thus, those who physically survived reverted to the simple pleasures of childhood, leaving the adult responsibilities of defense to the United States. I don’t think they can even bring themselves to believe that the societies they created are worth defending. Indeed, they probably think that the Muslim invasion is karma, against themselves. In their minds, they’re getting what they deserve.
Anyone with some on-the-ground knowledge of the European mind care to comment on this?
That picture (the real one, not with Merkel and the noose inserted) seems to me to be a good illustration of what’s happening in Europe right now. You have the train station representing modern Europe: modern, glitzy, but with no real substance. You have the cathedral representing the foundation of European culture: beautiful, intricate, and rooted in tradition, but cold, dark, and unused now. And you have the Muslim crowd: the invaders at the door, about to take over and destroy it all.
It really saddens me, to see what is happening to what was once the greatest civilization in the world. And I fear that we’re not too far behind them.
This author has a very good understanding of the European psyche. If you have never been to Europe try to visualize a continent entirely populated by millennials. Almost no individualism. Totally conformist. They are not like us at all.
They are like our siblings who have nothing in common with us except for hair and eye color.
There’s still hope for Eastern Europe
The old guys from the WWII generation in Germany had more fight in them at 65 and 70 then a young German today.
I am not familiar with France and the Low Countries, but deeply familiar with the Countries of the Alpine Region ( Southern Germany, Austria, Northern Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland ). Any talk of crisis in these areas is simply silly. With the exception of tiny Slovenia (2 million people), the economies are ticking along quite nicely, there is a labor shortage, governments balance their budgets and have little debt, crime is essentially non-existent, quality of life is off the charts, and ordinary workers take their families on 2 weeks vacation to Thailand.
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