As EU considers its place in a post-American West, others wait to see where it settles

Food for 72 hours, cash, a long-wave radio, matches, a first aid kit, and even board games to pass the time. If there was any doubt about how Europe was feeling about its place in today’s turbulent world, the European Commission laid it out in black and white when it urged the citizens of the EU’s 27 members to stockpile a three-day survival kit. “I think the West, in the geopolitical sense, is rapidly falling into pieces,” said Hans Kribbe, co-founder of the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics.

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