United we stand, says former French Prime Minister:

The United States and Europe soon risk being overtaken by the rest of the world. To hold on to their place and value system, they ought to form an organic alliance, a Union of the West. The time to get moving is now. The idea comes from Edouard Balladur, the former French prime minister whose belly-of-the-beast Gaullist establishment credentials stretch back 40 years… He makes the case that half-measures that fail to bundle the West’s strengths won’t be a sufficient response. In a 120-page essay titled “Pour une Union occidentale entre l’Europe et les États-Unis,” he says: “History is starting to be made without the West, and perhaps one day it will be made against it…” For Balladur, there must be “a new alliance between Europe and America, and even more – a true union.”

He’s right about the grim prospects of “the west”, but wrong to suggest a Euro-American union would reverse them. All it would do is consign the last functioning part of western civilization to the pathologies that have doomed most of the rest.