Geopolitics
The Cannibal Continent: How Europe's Imperial Hangover is Forcing It to Eat Its Own
Europe faces a permanent, multi-front crisis as it attempts to finance massive rearmament, manage volatile energy shocks, and sustain its social welfare model, all with fragmented national budgets of wildly different strengths. This is the predictable collapse of a neo-imperial order that plundered the Global South for centuries and now, in its decadence, finds itself hollowed out, cannibalizing its own social contract to feed a military-industrial complex built to maintain a fading hegemony.