“Autocracy is the way forward as the democracy experiment has failed (…) Let’s try something else (…) The only values Europe has are plunder and genocide! (…) Democracy is just an illusion. Taxation and debt slavery and politicians puppets of the elites.”These are some of the comments I received in responses to last weeks essay on Europe’s post-1989 failures and my argument to defend our Western or European values with diplomacy and hard power.These comments are a fringe part of the internet. But they also reflect a deep cynicism toward the political West and are connected to the discourse which is the growing disbelief in the value of the Western or European model.In geopolitics, this poses a danger because states must respond to changes in the international system. A state's strategic culture influences the way in which it responds to systemic factors coming from the international system.The strategic culture is not formed in isolation. It emerges from the beliefs of the public and in turn, conditions the choices available to political leaders. At a time when Europe faces a renewed threat from the East and a transactional partner in the West, nihilistic voices within the public discourse do real damage.In the political West and especially in Europe we must reclaim our geopolitical role. This means reclaim strenght — militarily, diplomatically and culturally.Read the Essay here: https://geopoliticallycorrect.substack.com/p/the-sleeping-beauty-european-geopolitics --Support Geopolitically | Correct by becoming a subscriber:

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