The decline of the West is due to the fact that we have yet to throw off the inbred maniacs at the top. European royalty and aristocracy are full of genetic diseases due to inbreeding. From the Habsburg jaw, porphyria variegata, hemophilia, etc. All from inbreeding to keep wealth concentrated in c train families. The French were not entirely wrong to savage their aristocracy during their revolution
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Europe threw off its royalty and aristocrats after World War One.
Today's globalists and oligarchs might also be inbred. But they're not the Old Guard.