The power differential isn't there, though. So that 80% is not very useful- to put it mildly.
Those despairing about Europe forget it's 80% white still and immigrants isolated in urban areas. People change minds fast when can't ignore
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lol. They will be pretty useless like most people until their rice bowls are threatened.
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True, but another issue. The "west" simply lacks the technology and economic power differential it it used to have in past.
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Aircraft, missiles big differential to machine guns and grenades. Cost differential matters more. That and friendly popultn.
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Aren't you assuming that other non-western counties with equivalent tech would not intervene?
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Against Euro nations managing their internal affairs? Why would they intervene? Projecting force much harder than defending.
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Oil and gas + trade. The west is now more dependent on rest of world than vice-versa.
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Why would they risk everything to try to intervene in their best customers' countries?
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