With American reliability no longer a given, the world generations of Europeans have taken for granted has ended. In that sense, 2025 may come to be remembered as the year “the West” ceased to function as a meaningful political concept.
So whines Francis Dearnley in the Torygraph. And, to be fair, he is correct to be regretful. The problem of course is that it's hardly before time.
In reality the West died in 2002, when it failed to stand up to Saddam Hussein and enforce UNSCR 1441. But even then its death warrant had already been signed by the Blair government (or "the Blair Administration", as the scumbag would no doubt prefer his time in office to be remembered) with its single-minded assault on international law at every level: when it made the UK a pariah state with its horrific legalisation of human cloning in 2000; with Blair's enthusiastic personal support for the illegal attack on Serbia in 1999; and most shockingly of all with its violation of the most basic principle of international law, when it laid aside diplomatic immunity and Senator Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998.
It was under Blair then that we discovered that President Bush's New World Order was not to be. And of course the "joke" in retrospect is that for the globalist Left "international law" is both a Marxist shibboleth (because international courts can supposedly bring sovereign states to heel, etc.) and a means of getting their agenda codified in a way that will make it virtually impossible to repeal again (i.e. because once something's been written into some silly treaty it's very difficult to wriggle out of said "international agreement" without upsetting one's "international colleagues" - q.v. all the gnashing and wailing over Brexit!).
The answer to the riddle of why a man like Blair - a barrister by training and a devout "internationalist" by conviction - should have been frankly so cavalier about international law of course comes down fundamentally to the deep, dark Marxism at the heart of his political identity. For all his trappings of respectability (from "New" Labour right up to literally being a Knight of the Garter), Blair has never stopped believing in "the Greater Good". He has never stopped believing in the Revolution. (For him, change was and is always good - unless it be some fundamental change of direction, such as that currently being touted by Nigel Farage, etc.) And most importantly of all he has never stopped believing that history will judge him - and acquit him!
Well, now it's all coming to an end anyway. His great project to abolish Britain and incorporate its disintegrated relics into some ultra-centralised "Europe" died a death with Brexit. His genius idea that - far from being a glorified off-shore US missile base - Britain would become "a bridge" (if not a mere stepping-stone) between the new world and the old is also collapsing: as the American Right turns its attention to the West Hemisphere in accordance with a newly beefed-up version of the Monroe Doctrine; as the European mainstream continues to show no interest in investing in the enforcement of international order; and as the American Left shows ever less interest in the Real World - period!
