The Clash of Civilizations Restarts History - Western globalists won’t last long.

American Thinker ^ | 25 Feb, 2026 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

hirty-five years ago, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama made a name for himself by advancing the proposition that the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union promised the ascendency and universalization of so-called Western liberal democracy. As a Marxist-Hegelian who saw the progression of history as an evolutionary process with a natural and predetermined conclusion, Fukuyama envisioned Western-styled liberalism as both “the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution” and “the final form of human government.” Expecting all human struggles to barrel toward a state of imminent equilibrium and future peace, Fukuyama stated out loud what many other late-twentieth century thinkers also believed: Humanity had reached the end of history.

After the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks in the United States, two decades of the “Global War on Terrorism,” communist China’s expansive “Belt and Road Initiative,” immigration-fueled social strife, the collapse of public trust in government institutions, the prevalence of pre-civil war conditions across Europe, the rise of Indian economic power, the emergence of Donald Trump’s nationalism as a counterbalance to the World Economic Forum’s vaunted globalism, the return of the Russian Federation as a major source of European angst, the growth of “multiculturalism” and its attendant fracturing of national unity, the “great powers” competition for hydrocarbon energies and other natural resources, the new geopolitical race to project strength in the Arctic, and the ever-present discussion of an impending World War III — just to name a few of the numerous global conflicts of the first quarter of the present century — Fukuyama’s “end of history” argument has probably reached the end of its usefulness.

Before the curse of humanity’s short memory stores Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis in the cupboard until it can be retrieved, dusted off, and recycled for practical use next century

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: americanstinker; americanthinker; civilization; globalism; jbshurk; putinthewarpig; russiansuicide; vladtheimploder

[MtnClimber]

It seems that islam will be at war with the rest of the world for a long, long time.

[AZJeep]

The “end of history” has a long history!

[Tench_Coxe]

"Western globalists who refuse to learn the basics won’t long last. From the Arctic to the Antarctic, battle lines are being drawn and redrawn everywhere. The past informs the present. The present informs the future."

IMHO, its why Brussels desperately wants an EU army, and Carney wants foreign mercenaries in Canada. Not to fight external threats, but the 'threats' to their 'rule'.

[dljordan]

“It seems that islam will be at war with the rest of the world for a long, long time.”

I for one promote cousin marriage for Muslims. Give them a few generations.

[bk1000]

“ It seems that islam will be at war with the rest of the world for a long, long time.”

Perhaps when (if) the rest of the world decides to fight back…

[I-ambush]

“It seems that islam will be at war with the rest of the world for a long, long time.”
Marxism and Islam are just 2 different fronts in the war against Christendom; that’s why we see “trans-women” wearing hijabs and campus radicals waving Palestinian flags. They’re allies.

[Zionist Conspirator]

As a Marxist-Hegelian who saw the progression of history as an evolutionary process with a natural and predetermined conclusion

I wish someone would tell us just Who these atheist materialists believe predetermined it?

[curious7]

Or until it’s eliminated.

[Migraine]

Prophecy about Ishmael (ancestor of Arabs):

Genesis 16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

That prophecy is about 4000 years old. Things don’t change much in that part of the world.