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At present, some western voices already have spoken of obtaining protection from a third power against aggression in the next world conflict, if there is one; in this case the shield would be China. But I would not wish such an outcome to any country in the world.
First of all, it is again a doomed alliance with evil; also, it would grant the United States a respite, but when at a later date China with its billion people would turn around armed with American weapons, America itself would fall prey to a genocide similar to the one perpetrated in Cambodia in our days.

And yet - no weapons, no matter how powerful, can help the West until it overcomes its loss of willpower. In a state of psychological weakness, weapons become a burden for the capitulating side. To defend oneself, one must also be ready to die; there is little such readiness in a society raised in the cult of material well-being.

The above is nothing short of awesomely prophetic.

The West has been dying for five hundred years, heart-cut by the twin blows of schism and scientific "enlightenment". What we're hearing now (and are likely to hear for some time) are merely the death-rattles. Christendom was ther soul of the West, without it, the corpus began to fragment and decay. The triumph of atomistic individualism, empowered by the technology of materialist science, represents the victory of cell over organism -- in other words, disintegration. And, like cells cut off from the living organism, the death of the individual is the inevitable result. That the destruction of the dignity of the individual human person is the direct result of the "liberation" of the individual human person from the organic Body that gave it life is surely the ultimate irony of history.

And next? The realization of the Luciferic dream of biological immortality, the Satanic dream of ultimate Liberty, the apotheosis of fallen humanity: the Wellsian utopia, Men As Gods. A future dominated by fallen Man, bereft of the Natural Law and armed godlike with the power of life and death, is truly a vision of Hell.

The cure for our ailing civilization will not be found in politics, machinery, social programming, or plumbing the depths of personal hedonism. Only a Christian reconquista can save the West; only a true renaissance of overt and militant Christianity can bring the near-dead husk of our civilization back to life.

To be a Christian, one must "die to self", be buried in the water, fire, and desire of baptism, and be reborn as a Child of God. To live, the man-centered, materialist West of the so-called Enlightenment only has to die -- and be reborn as Christendom.

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." [St. John 12:22]