Best that we leave the current political mess out of it. As for the OP, I think it hits the mark dead on. That is a pretty astute observation of how potentially Western civilization could end. However, the one nit that I'll pick is that I don't it's entirely accurate to lump that many nations together under such a large umbrella.
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