“Old Europe died in WWI. Her empty shell has remained. Nazism inhabited her, but was thrown out. Communism was barred from entering. Islam is putting her on now.”

I almost agree. I would argue that Europe died when WW-II ended. The failure of European liberal democracy against totalitarian ideology set the stage for Europe’s eventual death.

Hang on, guys.
The Europeans over cerebralize everything and tend to live in mental projections of various types. They haven’t got enough common sense to come in out of the rain. If it’s not religion it’s monarchy or fascism that they march to.

Their mental projection that arguably started WWI was Prussian fascist militarism. Then towrds the end of WWI another mental projection came to power in Russia, Marxism. That laid the seeds for the death of 100 million people or so worldwide but was nothing but an intellectual wank, riddled with theories that didn’t work in practice (though Marxism probably helped humanize capitalism).
Then Mussolini’s fascism took over in Italy and Hitler’s fascism took over in Germany and it was on, a huge war between various authoritarian mental projections.
Marxism won over fascism. Twiddle de de over twiddle de dum.
Then the authoritarian empire vestiges disintegrated around the world and there was a struggle between marxist fascism and the Anglosphere (basically).
Modern technology and life generally fared better under decentralized capitalism than it did under an authoritarian centrally controlled economy.
When it became bloody obvious to everyone that Marxism could not compete and that it oppressed and impoverished the people it said it stood for it imploded.
Of course the Europeans then rejected religion which provided cultural cohesion in a lot of ways and there went the spiritual basis of western civilisation.
What is left is a travesty of humanity, the last French joke, postmodern secularism.
They are thinking themselves into the grave.
And I think Canada has started down that same path with Trudeau.
And now it looks like we could well have Obama…
I’m glad India and China exist. I wouldn’t want all our eggs in western civilisation’s basket.
The biggest difference between us and the Europeans is a bit of religion, a whole bunch of common sense and our guns. If we ever give them up we’ll soon afterwards be in the same boat as the Europeans. Subjects not citizens.