Steven Bartlett with Konstantin Kisin
A treaty offers little protection if no one will enforce it. This argument about Western decline starts with the gap between legal promises and the power needed to back them.
International law is a shared myth that functioned when it was enforced by a dominant superpower, a dynamic that is now weakening.
Western European nations have diminished their own global relevance by hollowing out manufacturing and outsourcing energy production in pursuit of rapid environmental goals.
Kisin links some young people's interest in socialism to housing unaffordability, inherited public debt, and frustrated career expectations, while noting that U.S. support is concentrated in New York and a few other cities.