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2018-07-17 Europe

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Europe Gets No Respect

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Posted by 746 2018-07-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Is it just me or do the three Americans on the Thalys train in 2015 symbolize the entire issue?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2018-07-17 00:31|| 2018-07-17 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 A thirty something still living in his mother's basement demands respect! Meanwhile has the bro's over, scores some pot, and trolls the net. Haven't we seen this story before?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-17 02:51|| 2018-07-17 02:51|| Front Page Top

#3 A continental ethos of agnosticism, state dependency, childlessness, and multiculturalism leaves Europe especially vulnerable to both the foreign challenges of a dangerous neighborhood, and massive influxes of mostly Muslim immigrants,

But if the peasants will reproduce, this is the plan that must be undertaken to ensure the survival of the tax schemes and ruling oligarchy.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-17 03:36|| 2018-07-17 03:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I won't claim to have respect for EUrope, but I do consider them very, very dangerous.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-17 04:13|| 2018-07-17 04:13|| Front Page Top

#5 They're SO used to coasting on unearned respect. Now that it's come to an end, they're reacting poorly. Not surprising. Spoiled adult children don't take it well when Dad kicks them out of the house at age 30.

It's really rather cruel when you think about it. Why didn't Dad do this long ago?

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-07-17 07:34|| 2018-07-17 07:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Is it just me or do the three Americans on the Thalys train in 2015 symbolize the entire issue?
This. They were all descendants of Europe which has lost its brightest, bravest and best to US immigration and war.

Posted by regular joe 2018-07-17 12:08|| 2018-07-17 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Trump is readier to give a pass to countries that pose a real threat to Western values and security than to America’s traditional allies.

I can't think of anything that poses a greater threat to Western values and security than opening Europe's borders to barbarians from the Middle East.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-07-17 12:16|| 2018-07-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Western Values?

The new ones are nihilism and globalism. The old ones like classical liberalism, they killed a couple generations ago. There's nothing to defend.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-17 16:06|| 2018-07-17 16:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Europe died at Verdun and the Somme. They were rescued by the US and Russians in the '40s but they really had nothing left.

Posted by AlanC 2018-07-17 16:55|| 2018-07-17 16:55|| Front Page Top

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