VDH: The Collapse of Europe’s Socialist Experiment
Europe is facing a perfect storm of crises:
uncontrolled illegal immigration
energy shortages
the collapse of the postwar order
Mass protests are erupting in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands over unchecked migration and crime.
Leaders like German Chancellor Friedrich Merz admit that their welfare states can no longer sustain massive entitlement spending for migrants who entered illegally.
Victor Davis Hanson lays out why Europe’s future hangs in the balance and what steps it must take to restore stability, security, and common sense on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“The whole socialist paradigm is not producing goods and service that allow such general entitlements.
“The borders are insecure. Illegal immigrants are not assimilated, acculturated, integrated into the German, French, European body politic.
“And they're gonna have a terrible time spending 5% of GDP to defend themselves.
“This is in addition to having to lower their $200 billion surplus with the United States.
“We know what Europe has to do…
“It has to return to commonsense energy policies; use their natural gas, use oil, to the extent they have it; build nuclear plants; be competitive on the world market, in terms of energy cost.
“They need to secure their borders.
“They need to have legal-only immigration.
“They need to prune back the state, the socialist state.
“Can they do it?”
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