Widen your perspective to include the opinions of the non-whites. Listen to what the brilliant Indian minister of foreign affairs has to say, what policy the Chinees PM is following and what the BRICS are doing.

All the Russian energy is making it's way now to the East. They are the big winners of the "de-industrialization" , to quote Belgian PM De Croo, of Europe. As the global wealth equilibrium become fairer, poor cities like Berlin will degrade and become the Calcutta of Germany.

Welcome to the birth of the multi-polar world.