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[Anonymous No.23194509]

Is Europe dead? Lags behind USA economically and technologically, losing ground to China fast and even Russia seems to position itself better geopolitically than Europe lately. Aging population, immigration, disappearing middle class, expensive wnd bloated bureaucracy with no clear strategy, property neofeudalism with people being priced out of owning homes unless they inherit them.

Books on the decline of Europe?

[Anonymous No.23194529]

>>23194509
They're has-beens. They got too complacent due to comfy material conditions so their cultures stagnated.

[Anonymous No.23194538]

>>23194529
It's becoming pretty bad. You can tell by more "extreme" parties gaining votes everywhere, growing discontent and protests. However it is imo still pretty far from any major cataclism. It will probably just slowly fade into obscurity gradually and become a third rate center of cheap african labor with a small corporate elite, and an open museum for Chinese tourists. The comfy middle class existence is obviously finished

[Anonymous No.23194541]

>>23194509
>Russia seems to position itself better geopolitically than Europe lately.
Yeah, they're doing great...

[Anonymous No.23194548]

>>23194538
The younger generations have no political will. Most either live with parents and/or wait to inherit property while they rent a small room, most subscribe to the idea of doing the least acceptable level at work and place more emphasis on personal enjoyment like travel and lifestyle. Which makes sense because social mobility is poor enough that working harder doesn't yield tangible results. Sedated by social media, it is obvious there is zero revolutionary feeling among European youth. Few have kids and that desire seems mostly to be disappearing too.

[Anonymous No.23194550]

>>23194541
Kek they assaulted a sovereign nation on European soil and nobody in the West can do anything about it. It is a total embarrassment of Western world order and a clear sigal of western impotence in practice.

[Anonymous No.23195348]

Not literature related, pol is that way >>/pol/

[Anonymous No.23195368]

>>23194509
It's over.

[Anonymous No.23195385]

>>23194550
Some sort of German/Russian union is I think inevitable. A number of German politicians were already shifting toward this before the Ukraine war made it politically unpalatable, but I think with enough time it's inevitable anyhow. Russia has access to cheap fuel and material resources to keep Europe a competitive player globally, and the capacity for projecting force internationally, which essentially no European country save maybe France is capable of today. What the Russians don't have is expertise for high tech or precision manufacturing, which Europe does and is unfortunately being wasted on their commitments to international partners that hate them (The US). Just the fact that the US would consider it acceptable to bomb Nordstream (we all know they did it) and deprive Europeans of their manufacturing capacity by endangering their fuel access should go to show the US acts actively contrary to European interests. This is not to mention the US NGO's which actively support mass migration, and discredit any government which might go so far as to suggest Europe is for Europeans (You can look at how the US has tried dealing with Orban)

[Anonymous No.23195389]

>>23194509

[Anonymous No.23195399]

>>23195385
/pol/kid from the discord tier opinion.
extreme cringe thread full of russians and underaged /pol/kids, possibly pajeets even...

[Anonymous No.23195404]

>>23194509
>Aging population, immigration, disappearing middle class, expensive wnd bloated bureaucracy with no clear strategy, property neofeudalism with people being priced out of owning homes unless they inherit them
Same here
t. American

[Anonymous No.23195409]

>>23195399
Do you have any counterpoints or just ad hominens?

[Anonymous No.23195413]

>>23195409
not that anon but you don't deserve any counterpoints since this whole thread is completely off topic and just shitting this board

[Anonymous No.23195415]

>>23195413
Fair enough.

[Anonymous No.23195427]

The problem with high-tech advantage is that you can copy/learn high-tech but you can't copy natural resources. At the base level it is all just about resources. That is why imperialism is reliant on resource extraction or diplomatic/economic/military subjugation of resource-rich areas/states. China already figured this out and for whatever reason has the conditions to take advantage of it, but some large areas like South America are cucked to USA. Europe is fucked anyways ever since they lost their colonial empires. They also don't have any soft power over anyone. Europe is geopolitically irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.23195436]

>>23195427
This is why closer ties with the Russians is inevitable.

[Anonymous No.23195469]

>>23195436
That would be just subjugating yourself from USA to Russia. Obviously a significant downgrade

[Anonymous No.23195633]

>>23194538
Jews and minorities are the worms festering off the corpse of the western man. What constitutes culture is merely nothing more than the trembling contractions and moans of his decomposing corpse. He can either be reborn as a burning phoenix, instantly reducing to ash all the vermin around him, or he can decay into the soil, fertilising the earth for some unknown man who yet lives; his cultural heritage, though defiled through decades of capitalistic deterioration, will invigorate the new, becoming man, and he will be the beacon of hope that illuminates the world.

[Anonymous No.23195646]

>>23194509
Western society is dead, anon. Everything is dead. Capitalism has ruined life, this is good if you're fine with being enslaved to progress.