But as World War II and the Cold War faded into memory, Europe did not snap back and assume its centuries-old role as a world leader and beacon of Western Civilization.

Instead, a weary Europe outsourced its security to the United States. It redefined itself as a postmodern, pacifist, socialist utopian project—most recently predicated on redistributionist entitlements, open borders, and radical green policies that have all inevitably ensured European decline.

Europeans grew louder and whinier the less relevant they became.

[Decline is a choice. So is a descent into barbarism, and that’s the choice that Americans have been making for the last several years, as Jazz also commented today. Instead of defending our shared Western heritage and legacy, we have been attempting to bury it to curry favor with other cultures eager to see the West disintegrate for their own purposes. — Ed]