THREE PROBLEMS HAUNTING THE WEST

6 September 2025

The root causes of our end of empire and civilisational decline.

The West faces a three-cornered crisis: an economy hollowed out by globalism and consumption, societies strained by mass immigration, and sovereignty eroded through vassalisation and endless foreign wars. 

These are not isolated issues but parts of the same “three-cornered hat” - distinct yet inseparable, and together they define our decline. Strategy begins with diagnosis, and we need to face these three root causes if our strategy for renewal is to succeed.

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Strategic Logic and the Three-Cornered Hat

1. Introduction

• Strategy, in its simplest sense, is how you best use your resources to move from where you are to where you want to be
• That’s all it is. A roadmap. A bridge. A way forward. A program of works.
• Maganomics is one example Maganomics is an attempt at strategy on a grand scale
• But before you can decide where you want to go, you must first know where you are, and diagnose the problems.

Diagnosis before direction: you can’t have strategy without first knowing your condition.

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2. The Three-Cornered Hat

• A good place to start to design the new system is to make a problems / requirements list
• If we do the same with the West today, we can sort our problems into three groups
• It’s like a three-cornered hat: three distinct points, but one hat.

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3. Corner One - Economic Transformation

• We changed our economic model. We opened our markets. The globalists took over
• We outsourced manufacturing and jobs down long supply chains
• In return, we filled our supermarkets with cheap goods
• Instead of production and hard work, we built an economy of consumption and entitlement
• Foreign companies (China) worked for us, their economies became export-led, they lent us their profits so we could keep afloat our hedonistic lifestyle.

We are a consumption economy, living a relative high life on debt, the work of others abroad and subsidies at home.

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4. Corner Two - Mass Immigration

• Globalisation means open borders
• Along with goods and capital, we accepted people - by the plane load, by the boat load
• We lost high-value manufacturing jobs, and gained low-skilled workers, suited to what work was left, the Macdo economy for most
• Wages failed to keep up with inflation. GDP per capita fell. Pressure on housing, health, and welfare mounted. The economy - inflation, employment - began to fail. Inequality and resentment is on the rise. Peoples take to the streets in protest at global injustice and the failures of the state at home
• The state responds by stepping in with heavy boots: curbing speech, restricting assembly, banning some flags, censoring... infringing the liberties we had fought for since Magna Carta.

In the name of public order, freedom is sacrificed.

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5. Corner Three - Loss of Agency, Vassalisation, Imperial Overstretch

• The UK has lost its agency in the world. Sovereignty has been slipping away.
• We escaped the yoke of Brussels, but we have fallen under the wheels of Washington.
• Dependency - on America's middle class export market, on America's NATO defense provision for Europe - brings entanglement: endless forever wars fought for strategic agendas not our own, tythe obligations
• Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, each war drains our treasury, divides our people, and locks us deeper into dependency and the Emoites enemies into misery and death
• Historians call this imperial overstretch: when an empire extends itself militarily beyond its economic and social capacity
• Britain once ruled half the world. Now it joins wars designed in Washington, but paid for in London, Paris, and Berlin.
• A vassal state fights vassal wars, while its own foundations crumble.

Imperial overstretch destroys empires... and their satellites.

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6. Conclusion

• Strategy begins with diagnosis.
• And the diagnosis is stark: economic hollowing, mass immigration, loss of sovereignty.
• Three corners, one hat.
• Until these problems are faced honestly, no strategy - Maganomics or otherwise - can hope to succeed.

Three corners, one hat: economic, social and geopolitical

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