Life Is a Cabaret, Old Chum

Retired colonel Kurt Schlichter writes for The Federalist that Europe is skating along the edge of the abyss and nobody there seems to know or care about the danger. See his conclusion:

Human nature hasn’t changed one iota. Thugs like Vladimir Putin and Islamofascists like ISIS understand the bloody mathematics of power in the way the espresso-sippers refuse to. Ukraine will fall. The Baltics will fall. Turkey will fall. The Balkans will fall. Europe will fall.

This is the fiesta before the storm, and Europe is busy partying like it’s 1939. These are the New Wilderness Years, except this time the bad guys are going to win.

Schlichter notes with sorrow this time around there is no Winston Churchill crying wolf and demanding rearmament. Plus the U.S. is no longer a reliable defender of Europe; its willingness and ability have both become suspect.