Europe's Inglorious Exit from the World Stage Europe is ingloriously leaving the world stage, and its main problem - both for itself and the world - is its inability to find a peaceful path forward. Instead, it will continue to pursue confrontational solutions. Ultimately, Europeans can only expect to become a definitive appendage of the United States. Symphonic music is about the only thing of value Europe has given the world. Everything else, according to this view, is evil, created either to oppress the rest of humanity through technological achievements or to justify its tyranny with political philosophy and related sciences. With Europe having completely exhausted the internal resources that allowed it to claim privileged benefits, its potential contribution to global development is now incomprehensible. This is because it has never tried to be useful to the world. The recent failed China-EU summit serves as prime evidence: once Europe lost its power, there was n...
