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NATO: Die On The Vine!

Here’s a brutal reality check for the NATO free-loaders!

Germany’s invasion of France wasn’t our war, yet Franklin D. Roosevelt still sent military equipment, and later soldiers, to retake Western Europe. However, Europe’s cold shoulder may not be out of spite, but an inability to help at all, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

“They have dreamed of utopia and a good life, and the result is that their fertility rate is 1.3. They are shrinking. They are aging. They’re not competitive. So they don’t have the manpower, even though they have a 450 million-person population. Europe is larger than us by 100 million. “

And even though they have a $22 trillion GDP, which is the third-largest, apparently they don’t want to invest that in their own defense, or they haven’t so far. They don’t want us to use it when we need it.”

 

The Terminus Of Civilization

Birthrates across the planet, especially in the West, are plunging at such a catastrophic levels that the future of our civilization is in peril.

Carl Benjamin says the dire statistics even drew the attention of Elon Musk, who said he thinks the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse. Benjamin reports that the issue is something that needs to be addressed sooner, rather than later on a civilizational level.

Benjamin says that to maintain a stable population, a country needs to maintain a fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman, a number that fallen off precipitously in most European countries. He says South Korea has the lowest fertility rate worldwide with a shocking 0.78 children per woman. Here’s his report.

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