Europe’s Days May Be Numbered

With a lack of leadership and direction, the EU has firmly attached its destiny to America’s sinking ship

Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash

The longer I live in Europe, the more similarities I see between this continent and my home country. Both are part of what is painted with the annoyingly malleable label ‘the West.’ They share a common set of assumptions, ideologies, and these days their media apparatuses are in lockstep.

In general, both populations truly believe that this ‘West’ they’re a part of is a caring, human rights-respecting, and law-abiding force for good — seriously. Citizens on both sides of the Atlantic are convinced that, because their media isn’t completely state-run, they’re not getting a propagandistic spin on all news they consume — double seriously.

And because of that, most of the populations in Europe and America have little idea of how the world actually works.

How, just like in our more authoritarian rivals, the history we’re taught is ideologically selective and biased while the media feeds nothing but slanted and leading narratives.

I assumed more Europeans had a nuanced perspective on the world and geopolitical events. But the longer I live here, the more I see that isn’t true.