Nearly sudden collapse
2010-05-03
Patrick Buchanan says in "Churchill, Hitler and the 'Unnecessary
War'" that Britain lost its empire in WWII, and the West lost the
world. Mark Steyn noted in "Tattered Liberty" that the baton of
global leadership was passed between Britain and the U.S.
precisely in the middle of 1943. Like Niall Ferguson, Steyn
expects the final shift away from U.S. dominance to come
suddenly. Ferguson speaks of "sudden collapse" and says that a
seemingly random piece of bad news could be the trigger that
disrupts the apparent equilibrium. At one point, it looked like it
might be Greece. The way governments mishandled the oil spill
in the Gulf of Mexico, the eruption in Iceland and the swine-flu
outbreak also gave cause for concern about the vulnerability of
the West to sudden collapse. Czech officials, as mere onlookers
in most of this, can take pride that their incompetencies are
rather inconsequential in comparison.
[Czech Republic World War II Second coast United States of
America United Kingdom UK]
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