How tough guys came to rule the world is not how it had seemed to Western leaders to start, with the thin wedge of the Gandhi attack on liberalism from within.
But of course that is how it has ended.....
Monday, August 20, 2018
RE TIME MAGAZINE HOW TOUGH GUYS CAME TO RULE THE WORLD
I don't know what Bremmer thinks is the correct answer.
I am going to tell you the answer:
The liberal West dropped the imperial ball and allowed other civilizations' leaders to become dominant.
I am going to tell you the answer:
The liberal West dropped the imperial ball and allowed other civilizations' leaders to become dominant.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
SIR MICHAEL HOWARD THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION WAS REALLY AROUND 1776
The coup de grace was 1945:
"...The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt...." Sir Michael Howard
The universal empire of Western Civilization, in Quigley's terminology, was the British Empire, after 1763, not the Napoleonic, briefly, thereafter.
I would rather have had the Germans overrun Russia than for the Bolsheviks remain in power there after WWII.
I would rather have had the Germans overrun Russia than for the Bolsheviks remain in power there after WWII.
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