RE REAL BLUNDERSHIP AND OTHER ISSUES OF DECLINE OF WEST

Here is  a reference I picked up, rereading The Anglo-American Establishment:

Alfred Zimmern: Europe In Convalescence, 1922. You can read it at Archive.org

Of course, it turned out hardly to be a mere convalescence........

Wilsonian blundership, and the blunders of the so called parvenu, Lloyd George, among others.

It is also a wonderful account of the foibles of politics, and how it was transformed in the 19th and into the 20th century, of the problems of industrialization, academic specialization industrialization, the decline of the integrity of the Press, the industrialization commercialization cooptation and compartmentalization of university systems everywhere, and other things.