Victor Davis Hanson: Can Europe Become Western Again?

American Greatness ^ | 22 Nov, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

[x]

The EU is genetically inferior as a result of losing the gene pool to two twentieth century wars.

Somebody always says that here, but it's nonsense. Not all the "fit" people were killed and plenty of the "unfit" were. Many of those who died had often already had children before or during the war. Primitive peoples around the world lose a higher percentage of their populations to warfare, but go on being warlike generation after generation.

[x]

Maybe what they are is what it now means to be “Western.” With luck and a lot of effort, they may be able to slow down immigration, but they are still going to consumerist and pacifist and irreligious.

[DavidThomas]

Eh, assuming the EU does have superior genetics, the post WWII population boom made up for the lives that were lost during the war.

[bert]

The warrior genes are gone. The remaining gene pool is inferior to what was. No warriors left

[PerConPat]

Increasingly, a lonely U.S. must face the fact that our deadliest enemies are now a part of our own body politic. Just as POGO once warned us...

Until the big, blue urban areas etc. are rolled out of their collectivist trances; Europe and its stupidity are not our biggest problem.