Europe: A tinder box waiting to explode

In the controversial French novel The Camp of the Saints published in 1973, a million-strong migrant flotilla arrives to France and the West, and unwilling to assimilate, bring the Western civilization to an end. Today, though, the new invaders come without weapons, knowing with certainty that the ruling classes will not only fail to resist them, but will put them up in fancy hotels, give them smartphones, and put them on the dole. Europe’s elites disguise civilizational surrender as humanitarian virtue. What was in 1973 dystopian speculative fiction is today the stuff of daily headlines. Europe is not quite over—but we can see its demise sailing over the horizon.