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Can the West Be Saved? ‘Strange Death of Europe’ Author Douglas Murray Says It’s Not Too Late.
PJ Media ^ | 30 October 2026 | Aaron Hanscom

Posted on 10/31/2026 8:45:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Imagine visiting a democratic country where young people dressed in military clothes, carrying machine guns, and eager to defend their country are ubiquitous. There are also children everywhere, as it is the country with the highest birth rate in the developed world. The cities are vibrant, and everyone you meet tells you what a wonderful place it is to live.

Former Australian deputy prime minister John Anderson shared these impressions on his recent trip to Israel. He explained that his reason for the visit was that he despises racism, especially the oldest and most pernicious hatred, antisemitism. He also said that his history degree gave him enough knowledge to know that when you see a rise in antisemitism, worse trouble is always brewing.

Anderson interviewed Israeli national security expert Dan Schueftan in Tel Aviv to discuss the future of Israel and the West. Schueftan, whom Anderson praised for having a track record of calling things right since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, said that the essential question facing us today is, “Can civilized people defend themselves against barbarians even when the barbarians are defended by stupid people in the mainstream of Western civilization?”

Schueftan noted that the number of Israelis who prepare to qualify for a combat unit has more than doubled in the last three years. Anderson contrasted that with the situation in most Western countries, particularly America. He said:

Because in most Western countries, particularly in America, they’ve got a massively demoralized sort of young community that won’t have babies, that are having vasectomies because they don’t want to bring children into the world. And here you have, outwardly it appears to somebody looking in, a tough set of circumstances, a challenging set of circumstances...

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1 posted on 10/31/2026 8:45:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

only with lots of blood shed


2 posted on 10/31/2026 8:52:55 AM PDT by al baby (Sarcasm )
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To: Rummyfan

Israel is a great example of why you need a solid and righteous religion as the foundation for a country. The key here is a good religion The Hindu religion, while very stable, has produced a country overrun with trash. Islam is even worse.


3 posted on 10/31/2026 8:54:16 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Rummyfan

Nations have to stop allowing immigration.
Nations need to push assimilation for the people who aren’t going to be deported.

And nations have to make plans for how society will handle drastically lower populations. With AI and automation, the work will be done just fine with fewer people. We will have a swollen population of older people and a diminished population of younger workers. That can be uncomfortable, but if society plans and adjusts we can make it work.

I think the demographic path forward is inevitable. It is what it is. But if society does not plan for that future, then there will be trouble. The trouble really only comes if we close our eyes and don’t have a strategy.


4 posted on 10/31/2026 8:56:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Some people want to control their own life, others want to control the lives of others. )
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To: al baby

I believe we are at that point as well. The muslims are now entrenched. Demographically, they are quickly replacing the native populations. Culturally, they are parasitically destroying the remnants of the host nations. Soft-headed liberalism, particularly among women, permitted these invasions, and such thinking allows them to spread. Extracting them will take a fight.


5 posted on 10/31/2026 9:16:26 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: Rummyfan

The West cannot exist with Islam living in it. They are like cancer, you don’t remove 95% of it and leave 5%.


6 posted on 10/31/2026 9:33:07 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: Rummyfan

The West cannot exist with Islam living in it. They are like cancer, you don’t remove 95% of it and leave 5%.


7 posted on 10/31/2026 9:33:10 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: Rummyfan

The West cannot exist with Islam living in it. They are like cancer, you don’t remove 95% of it and leave 5%.


8 posted on 10/31/2026 9:33:13 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: Rummyfan

The West cannot exist with Islam living in it. They are like cancer, you don’t remove 95% of it and leave 5%.


9 posted on 10/31/2026 9:33:15 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: Rummyfan
Anderson interviewed Israeli national security expert Dan Schueftan in Tel Aviv to discuss the future of Israel and the West


10 posted on 10/31/2026 9:38:37 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et des phrases)
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To: Rummyfan

The EU’s New World Order and Canada’s Carney plans to run it and run the World into the ground and destroy it


11 posted on 10/31/2026 10:02:12 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Rummyfan

Europe would do well to pray. They have a solid foundation but it’s been abandoned

We at least sing God Bless America (written by Irving Berlin, an Eastern European legal refugee immigrant) at every weekend MLB game, and we don’t sanction abortion as a country (after that insanity).


12 posted on 10/31/2026 10:21:58 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Nateman

Exactly.


13 posted on 10/31/2026 11:23:29 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Mlheureux

That’s the absolute truth.


14 posted on 10/31/2026 11:24:02 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Mlheureux

That’s the absolute truth.


15 posted on 10/31/2026 11:24:02 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Rummyfan
The EU will collapse soon.

In 1989, nobody thought that the Soviet Union was going to collapse by 1991.

The signs are way more obvious with the EU right now in 2026 compared to the Soviet Union in 1989.

16 posted on 10/31/2026 11:26:49 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Rummyfan

I recommend reading Strange Death of Europe. I read it when it came out and still think about it probably once or twice a week. I read it when I finished Camp of the Saints. That one still freaks me out too.


17 posted on 10/31/2026 11:32:51 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: Rummyfan

The West can be saved, even Europe. But it will require the rise of a Napoleonic figure at this point.


18 posted on 10/31/2026 12:12:52 PM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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