The Culture War Threatens Western Power - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The current Western worldview has slowly relapsed back to the cozy “rules-based international order” shared by the intelligentsia of the Great Powers before 1914 .

Anglazar: The Western liberal-democratic outlook is the wrong way to view interactions between nations.

The idea has been disproven by the rise of China ; the endurance of authoritarianism in Eastern Europe , Asia , and Africa ; and the abject failure of nation-building virtually everywhere.

Anglan: The more liberal democracy doubles down on promoting gender ideology, feminism, and other divisive left-linked theories, the more it will alienate those.

History teaches us that alliances always take long to build but only days to end — along with the ultimate loss of influence. Peter J. Sandys was born and brought up in Hungary , where he was briefly imprisoned for attempting to escape from the country in 1963 . After successfully defecting to the West, he held engineering and project management positions, mostly in the aerospace industry. Sandys is the author of The Waning of the West: An Inconvenient Truism and Not All Quiet Before the Storm: A Political Study of the West. Retired, he lives in Germany ..