The globally recognised historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd predicts the final decline of the Western world.
He bases this on its cultural and religious decline, which goes hand in hand with an economic downturn. While the implosion of the Soviet Union initially plunged Russia into a deep crisis, the resulting vacuum eventually also sucked the USA and the West into its wake. A paradoxical development set in: a conquering expansion of the West, which at the same time was atrophying internally.
atrophied at home. Russia, on the other hand, was able to stabilise itself.