[Tolik]

After learning about his ideas influence on this administration, they might, if only to try to guess a next move. I can't imagine they would admire him as we do.

I understand, yours was just a rhetorical question. It's paradoxical, but they claim our brainwashing when looks like we have more variety of the opinion sources, and they look more brainwashed to me. :))

[NZerFromHK]

I agree. Europeans (IMHO and British as well) always look down on American scholars who are experts in classical Greece and Rome. Of course given that they actually own the monuments of ancient Greco-Roman civilizations they think they certinaly know better than Americans on these areas.

But of course the reality is very different. I think they seem to resonate more with the post-Westphalian European Great Powers politics (European history from 1648 to 1945 - it seems like a continuous struggle between various balances of powers) than classical Greco-Roman philosophies. Therefore we can safely bet that any European educated in history will probably know more about a Bismarck or a Metternich than a Cicero or a Thucydides. Talking to them about lessons from classical history will probably draw blank stares from them, if not reactions like "Sir, you should think more about European balance of power history than ancient Greece or Rome. It has more relevance to our world!" (BTW this trend transcends the Left-Right divide in Europe.)

And it is interesting that, as you have posted many VDH articles and given that they touch collective psyches of many modern individual European countries, we haven't seen any European freepers replying to these messages. It is because they don't even know about classics in modern Europe (as I outlined above)? I will leave this to them.