Spengler: 20th Century Losers are Dying Out

Look at the UN population projections,
advises
Spengler, and think about what it means. The nations
that are losing population are the ones that lost the wars of the twentieth century. Ukraine, Russia, Germany.
There is no substitute for collective identity, he warns, of the kind that showed its ugliest side
with Hitler and Stalin. Depopulation begins with the Ibsen woman: “Instead of children, she has soul-conflicts.”
We know all about that, these days, don’t we?