Konstantin Kisin

To pretend that Americans can continue to enjoy unprecedented prosperity, security, and peace as their country completely withdraws from global affairs is to misunderstand the way the world works.

There's a strange irony here.

The two groups that have most celebrated the coming multipolar world are now also the ones complaining the most about its consequences.

And that is because, despite their good intentions, woke leftists and neo-isolationists have served as useful idiots to the people who are actually driving the multipolarity narrative, hostile foreign powers that feel it is their moment to end American hegemony.

China's economic growth and Russia's recovery from the collapse of the USSR occurred at precisely the same time as the collapse of the West's moral, economic, and military authority.

The shifting balance of power naturally produced a hunger for a different arrangement.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the terrorist attack of October 7, and China's increasingly open coveting of Taiwan are all signs of a deeper geopolitical realignment.

For the moment, the demographic and economic tide has swung powerfully against the West.

Our enemies are emboldened by their growing strength, encouraged by our weakness, and no longer constrained by international law, which was only ever worth the paper it was written on while the U.S.

was willing to act as the world's policeman.

Europe, and Britain especially, are particularly responsible for this sorry state of affairs.

We've degraded our militaries to the point where, despite our technological and scientific superiority, the courage of our soldiers, sailors, and airmen, and the rich military tradition Britain in particular can be so proud of, we are not a useful ally to the United States anymore.

The condition of armed forces is matched only by the degradation of our culture and the economic suicide we've committed over the last two decades.

Unprecedented, unwanted, and unassimilable levels of mass immigration have brought in millions of people who would never fight for our country, while at the same time creating an environment in which native young people understandably have little desire to fight for politicians who've betrayed the future they were owed.

Nowhere is this more true than the economy.

Unaffordable welfare spending has been paired with the purposeful destruction of our manufacturing and industrial base.

Our deluded attempt to save the planet has rightly been called net zero because it has produced zero growth for two decades.

Britain's GDP per capita is lower today than it was 20 years ago.

Germany, meanwhile, famously shut down its nuclear power plants for ideological reasons, making itself entirely reliant on Russian energy.

The result?