Post #2664450

From the automated video transcript: DIESEN: Where does this leave Europe in a very big very difficult very bad situation overall? MERCOURIS: Um Europe has become very accustomed not just in the 20th century and the 19th century but basically for hundreds of years as being the cockpit of humanity. The major place where human progress takes place, where uh living standards are highest, where economic change is most dynamic, where science and technology are promoted uh most vigorously, where philosophical thought and culture and art are at their most vital. And now what we are facing is the real possibility that we might become a backwater. And that is something that is very very alarming and very disturbing not just for European elites but I suspect deep down for many much of the wider European population which is probably starting to sense this which also explains some of this legitimacy issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjb4vFK37t0 #europe