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EUROPE IN THE BALANCE?

Victor Davis Hanson | Townhall.com | 8-28-25
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Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and
Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant --
often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for
the same crime -- surfaces.

Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to either
ignore such news or accuse those who clamored for tighter borders,
more police protection, and stiffer penalties of being "racists" or
"xenophobes."

_Until recently, that is._

Mass protests are now common in Britain against the Labour Party's
open borders policies and generous welfare entitlements for immigrants
who arrive illegally and without authentic "political refugee" status.

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Greek officials, also swamped by illegal immigration, now cite
President Donald Trump's secure border policies as new models for
their own.

The majority of European immigrants now come from majority-Muslim
countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet many arrivals seem
angrier at their newfound liberal hosts than at the dictatorships they
fled back home.

Europe's immigration policies will not work in a multi-ethnic
democracy.

Too many immigrants are arriving too quickly, without sufficient
diversity, language fluency, skills, or familiarity with the customs
and culture of their host nations. They often enter with separatist
religious and cultural values antithetical to the very place they seek
refuge.

Yet, there is no European plan of civic education to assimilate
immigrants and teach them the rules, laws, and culture of their hosts.

It is then no surprise that what follows is ghettoization, resentment,
and loud attacks on the very nation in which they seek sanctuary,
denouncing it as decadent and godless.

In the past, Europe's anemic military budgets, reliance on borrowed
money, socialism, and a once-strong economy papered over these
existential challenges of illegal immigration.

Or, as left-wing former German chancellor Angela Merkel once inanely
said of massive illegal influxes into Europe, "Wir schaffen das" ("We
can do this").

But, of course, Merkel could not.

She offered zero plans on how to integrate, assimilate, and
acculturate millions of Europe's illegal aliens. Now, some 15 percent
of Germany's population are foreign nationals.

Unfortunately, the statist economies of high-cost Europe are
stagnating.

Massive welfare outlays, coupled with a shrinking and aging native
population -- with a birth rate sinking below 1.4 -- are finally
slowing economic growth.

Current German Chancellor Friedrich Merz put the dilemma bluntly: "The
welfare state as we have it today can no longer be financed with what
we can economically afford."

Yet the more socialism ossifies, the more popular culture still
demands free benefits that a shrinking number of taxpayers can no
longer provide.

The United States is finally taking the opposite approach of cracking
down on illegal immigration, deregulating the economy, and unleashing
high technology to fast-track new frontiers of artificial
intelligence, robotics, cryptocurrency, and genetic engineering.

Often, Europe's best and brightest -- and frustrated -- are migrating
to greater opportunities and freedom in the U.S., further hampering
European research and development.

Europe foolishly adopted a self-defeating energy policy to achieve
net-zero emissions by subsidizing inefficient wind and solar power
while ignoring or shutting down far cheaper natural gas, nuclear, and
coal-powered electrical generation.

Meanwhile, China, grinning like a Cheshire cat and caring little about
its carbon footprint, is eagerly exporting wind and solar systems to
the suicidal West.

Yet China itself is busy building about two massive coal-fired plants
a month, and the largest and most environmentally disruptive
hydroelectric projects in the world.

No wonder average European electricity costs are even steeper than
those in failing California. European consumers often cannot afford to
turn their heaters and air conditioners on, while businesses cannot
compete with industries abroad that enjoy far cheaper power.

Trump has declared that the 80-year postwar order is calcified and
that the U.S. will no longer run huge trading deficits with European
Union nations. Instead, it will demand symmetrical tariffs, further
challenging past European mercantile profitability.

The days of Europe disarming and relying on the United States for
defense are also over, given that Russian leader Vladimir Putin, for
the third time in 15 years, invaded a neighboring country.

Yet Ukraine is not Chechnya or Georgia, but instead on the doorstep of
Europe.

So in panic, a perennially delinquent NATO is not only promising to
spend the required 2 percent of GDP on defense but also increasing
arms budgets to 5% of GDP, a higher rate even than that of the U.S.

No one knows how Europeans will afford such massive rearmament.

To do so would require opening up their economies, adopting far more
flexible and traditional energy policies, securing their borders,
ending illegal immigration, pruning the welfare state, increasing
their fertility rates, and dropping the DEI salad bowl while
re-embracing the melting pot of integration and acculturation.

We will soon see whether Europeans can adopt such needed reforms, or
find the necessary medicine worse than their current crippling
continental disease.

 

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