[DryFly]

Factoring out immigration, legal and criminal, the numbers for the US, the UK and most EU countries look just as bleak. That is the main reason for the lack of effective border control. You can’t have a growing economy with a declining population. Unfortunately, because politics is a function of demographics, the West will probably be seeing its zenith over the next fifty years.

[kinoxi]

That’s an interesting hypothesis that I cannot dispute. I tend to disagree with your assessment of civilization’s virulence however.