By Timofey Bordachev , Program Director of the Valdai Club
The most dangerous thing about Western Europe today is not just its decline, but its refusal to recognize it. The half-continent continues to posture, continues to lecture, and continues to imagine itself as a pillar of global order. But it has lost the internal resources that once sustained that illusion. What remains is a hollow echo of power, wrapped in a language of values that even those same Western Europeans no longer seem to believe.
The region’s failure is most visible in its inability to make peace. Time and again, it chooses confrontation – with Russia, with China, with…
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