Donald Trump’s strategic advisors are not the first people to warn that Europe risks what they call “civilisational erasure” – over a hundred years ago, another North American, Ezra Pound, lamented the carnage of what was then called the Great War in which “a myriad,” among them “the best”, had just died “for an old bitch gone in the teeth, a botched civilisation.” Europe never recovered from that catastrophe whose effects were compounded by the Second World War that soon followed and then by the disasters that were spawned by fascism and Communism, collectivist creeds that attracted many intelligent men and women who wanted to build a radical alternative to the traditional order that had failed to fulfil its promise.
Trump and the people surrounding him evidently think that Europe is on its deathbed and that unless they step in, it could soon go the way of so many other civilisations that once stood strong but are now of interest only to historians.
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